HARARE – The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has reverted to the initial draw of the 2012 Mbada Diamonds Cup, paving way for a Dynamos versus FC Platinum semi-final while CAPS United will clash Monomotapa. Statements linked to PSL chief executive Kennedy Ndebele had seemed to suggest a CAPS-Dynamos semi-final pairing with Monomotapa facing FC Platinum…
JOHANNESBURG – The life ban imposed on players and officials implicated in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal have not yet taken effect in South Africa. The PSL says it will only act on those implicated after it has been given the directive to do so by the country’s football governing body, Safa. “We have not been…
HARARE – Mashonaland Eagles return to Mutare to face Manicaland Mountaineers in domestic franchise cricket league this morning. The visit to Mutare comes exactly two weeks after the death of head coach Kevin Curran in the city. The late former national team player, coach and selector succumbed to a heart attack while jogging in the…
LAGOS – The Nigerian navy has seized a foreign-flagged ship carrying arms and ammunition and arrested its 15 mainly Russian crew members. The vessel was intercepted over the weekend by patrol boats, a naval official told AFP news agency. Officials said the boat, belonging to Moscow-based security firm Moran, was carrying rifles and ammunition. Moran…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya was abandoned by her lawyers yesterday as her corruption trial opened at the Harare Magistrates’ Court. Rushwaya, who was fined for wilful default after failing to appear in court on time as she scampered around looking for a lawyer, appeared for trial alone after…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s law enforcement agents have moved a step closer to laying criminal charges against football players and officials found guilty last week of match-fixing, it emerged yesterday. Fresh from being slapped with life and lengthy bans from all football activities, players and officials fingered in the biggest scam ever to rock Zimbabwean…
HARARE – ANZ’s group editor, stanley gama, sensed the asiagate scandal four years ago. NOW In the aftermath of the Asiagate scandal, blood is all over the floor and 15 people have been banned for life while dozens others will receive various forms of punishment. In 2008 when the match fixing scam was in its…
HARARE – Over the weekend I had a fascinating outing as I attended a sculpture exhibition in Domboshawa, dubbed “Without Words in Domboshawa” and what an artistic experience it was. The exhibition, run by Shungu Trust for Deaf Youths is headed by Franz Keck of Little Zim-Art of Africa. It is mounted at the popular…
HARARE – The Constitution Select Committee (Copac)’s second All-Stakeholders conference ended peacefully in Harare yesterday with the parliamentary working group declaring its satisfaction with the outcome. In a joint press statement, Copac co-chairpersons Douglas Mwonzora, Paul Mangwana and Edward Mkhosi praised President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for calling for non-violence. “Copac expresses…
HARARE – Fate has it that regardless of how educated or wise we might be, we get tricked once in a while in life. And most of the time it is an old boys’ trick that knocks us. The Chinhoyi diesel n’anga made fools of government officials, Cabinet ministers and police chiefs by convincing them…
