Juventus’ Pogba Banned For Four Years For Doping

Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned from football for four years for a doping offence. France international Pogba, 30, was randomly tested after Juventus’ first match of the season on 20 August. BBC Sport has been told Pogba is likely to appeal against Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal’s (Nado) decision. …

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El Nino To Decrease By May: Masuka

Lands, Fisheries, Wildlife and Resource Development Minister Anxious Jongwe Masuka says El Nino spell currently being experienced in the country will decrease by May this year giving way to a neutral phase. He was speaking Wednesday at a media briefing soon after his meeting with Bulawayo Technical Committee on Improving …

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Karikoga Kaseke Dies

Former Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Chief Executive Officer Cde Karikoga Kaseke has died. His wife, Mrs Irene Kaseke confirmed that Cde Kaseke died at a local hospital in Harare where he was admitted following deterioration in his health. Cde Kaseke suffered a stroke in 2018 which forced him to retire …

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Has Chamisa Led Zimbabwe’s Main Opposition astray?

On January 25, exactly two years and three days after Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was launched, its leader Nelson Chamisa quit, leaving the party in turmoil. In a 13-page statement, the 46-year-old lawyer and clergyman listed a litany of reasons why he was taking …

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Legal Hurdles Surround Bid For Mnangagwa Third Term

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of presidential term limits, albeit cumbersome and requiring a referendum, cannot benefit the incumbent. Mnangagwa’s pushing for a third term was supposedly …

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Sanyatwe Kicks Out 3 Army Generals Embroiled In Multi-Million Dollar Housing Scandal

The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country’s army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dollar hard currency housing corruption scandal, in an unprecedented action against venality, security sources told The NewsHawks. The high-level sources said …

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Currency Board, Gold Linked Currency For Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is working on new measures to stabilise its local currency including linking the exchange rate to hard assets such as gold and creating a currency board, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Monday. The Zimbabwean dollar has fallen about 40 percent since the start of the year, hurt by …

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