PRETORIA – Police have concluded their investigation of murder-accused Oscar Pistorius, as the State prepares to serve the indictment on him. The athlete shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria East home on Valentine’s Day this year and is currently out on R1 million bail. Pistorius claims he mistook Steenkamp for an…
HARARE – CAPS United are hoping to cash in on Malawian prodigy Gerald ‘Papa’ Phiri Jnr, who they have sent out on trials in Poland after just three appearances for the Green Machine. The Harare giants, who paid Mighty Wanderers $20 000 for the services of the highly-rated attacking midfielder in June on a four-year…
ZVISHAVANE – Three goals in a space of five minutes, two of them of pure quality, were the highlight of this entertaining 2-2 draw between FC Platinum and CAPS United in a Castle Premiership match at Mandava Stadium yesterday. Platinum broke the deadlock through a 14th minute penalty by Charles Sibanda before Tapiwa Khumbuyani equalised…
BULAWAYO – How Mine rallied back from a goal down to collect maximum points against city neighbours Chicken Inn with a 2-1 victory in a drab Castle Premiership encounter at Luveve Stadium on Wednesday. A strike from super substitute Timothy January and a penalty conversion by set piece specialist Menard Mupera cancelled out Tendai Ndoro’s…
HARARE – Hwange ended their three-game winless streak by defeating Monomotapa 3-0 in a one-sided Castle Premiership match at Rufaro Stadium on Wednesday. Goals from Farayi Vimisayi, Richard Jongwe and Gilbert Zulu were enough to earn the coalminers their fifth win of the season from 19 matches. Hwange moved to 11th place on the log…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) yesterday unsuccessfully tried to bloke the Castle Premiership from going ahead with its mid-week fixtures programme. Zifa had tried to arm-twist the PSL to postpone all league matches to allow the national football sufficient team time to prepare for Sunday’s rescheduled Championship of African National (Chan) final qualifier…
BULAWAYO – Southern Region Division One promotion hopefuls Bulawayo Chiefs maintained their five point lead at the summit of the log after a 2-0 away victory over New West in a midweek encounter at Portuguese Sports Club on Wednesday. The win took Chiefs’ points tally to 43 from 19 matches and the AmaKhosi seem to…
HARARE – It’s a feat she will live to remember, but one which she is sure cannot be repeated. Helen Costa claimed the Ms Musclemania Figure in the ladies category, beating four other contestants on Saturday night at Ochi City. The line-up was not an ordinary one as it comprised of last year’s runner up…
HARARE – Zimbabweans are demanding an explanation amid indications citizens’ electronic communications have been placed under surveillance by the country’s spy agency. The remarks were in response to a report in a State weekly newspaper on Sunday suggesting Elizabeth Macheka, the wife of the outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had an inappropriate relationship with her…
HARARE – Wananchi, we live in extremely difficult times. Each day is its own monster, it’s own master and as I say tomorrow is another country. Today the Glen View 29 are no more. They are now the Glen View 28. Rebecca Mafukeni has vacated these shores. Gone to be seen no more, taken away…
