ALEXANDRIA – Egypt assistant coach Zaky Abdel-Fattah says the Pharaohs will bank on the experienced pair of Mohamed Aboutrika and Wael Gomaa to add steel to a largely developmental team. The Egyptians continue to rebuild under American coach Bob Bradley and currently lead Group G of their 2014 World Cup qualification pool with six points….
HARARE – Mashonaland East Province retained the NASH National Athletics Championship title for the third year running after coming out tops at this year’s meet at the National Sports Stadium last Friday. Participants competed in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1 500m, the4x100m and 4x400m relay events and while in the field events participants battled for…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Sevens Rugby team kept their dreams alive of becoming an International Rugby Board Sevens core team with an impressive outing in Hong Kong over the past three days beating Tonga 22-19 in the qualifiers final yesterday. The Cheetahs will now head for the London leg of the series where the top…
HARARE – Cracks have emerged in the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with the body’s investigators coming under severe pressure to drop corruption investigations into three ministries accused of underhand dealings. Zacc chairperson, Denford Chirinda, claimed on Sunday that Zacc had made “mistakes” in its attempts to probe offices of Mines and Mining Development minister Obert…
HARARE – MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore yesterday demanded the immediate release of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s officers and prominent human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa arrested last week. Madzore made the call soon after landing at the Harare International Airport from Denmark where he had gone on a national healing programme. He arrived to a…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has alleged that Zanu PF in Mashonaland East Province is secretly removing known MDC supporters from the voters’ roll ahead of watershed general elections this year. The MDC alleges President Robert Mugabe’s party has acquired the voters’ rolls for all the constituencies in the province to strike off…
HARARE – On Friday last week, the world woke up to the shocking news of the demise of Nigerian veteran writer and indeed the granddad of modern African literature, Chinua Achebe. There is no doubt Achebe represented the finest in as far as the literary arts are concerned. He is one man who gave the…
HARARE – Indigenisation minister Savior Kasukuwere said he will meet Barclays Africa Chief Executive Officer Kennedy Bungane about plans by the lender’s local unit to sell a majority stake to black citizens by June. “We will be meeting him on Tuesday to discuss their plans and proposal with regards to the indigenisation compliance,” Kasukuwere said…
ALEXANDRIA – Zimbabwe’s arrival in Egypt for a six-day stay has generated a fair amount of media interest due to the unsettled political conditions in the North African country, but their German coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels says the team feels very safe. The Warriors arrived here in batches on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning with little…
HARARE – Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, has admitted his team were “taught a proper lesson” during their 2-0 Test series defeat against West Indies. Both matches ended inside three days as the Zimbabwe batsmen, in particular, struggled to cope against a vastly more experienced West Indies side. Zimbabwe lost seven out of seven international…
