HARARE – World Navi Northern Region Soccer League Division One log leaders Flame Lily continued with their good start to the season after beating Lake Harvest 1-0 over the weekend. The prison services outfit is yet to taste a defeat this campaign after three weeks of action. Flame Lily, who were runners’ up last season,…
BULAWAYO – Lizwe Sweswe’s Tsholotsho are perched on top of the Southern Region Division One log after three weeks of action in the 2014 season. Iziqholo Zezhwane are tied on seven points with second-placed Technosphere and third-placed Plumtree Chiefs but sit at the summit courtesy of a superior goal difference. Tsholotsho dismissed newcomers Trumus 2-0…
HARARE – Grandmaster Sergey Kasparov of Belarus won the tightly-contested 2014 Zimbabwe Easter Open Fide Rated A Section which ended on Monday in Harare. Kasparov, who narrowly avoided a defeat from Mozambican Candidate Master Persson Abrantes in the second round, had to fight a bruising battle to accumulate a total 5.5 points out of a…
ZVISHAVANE – He is nicknamed “Zizou” after the legendary France and Real Madrid midfielder Zinedine Zidane but Godfrey Murwira bends it like David Beckham. Murwira was the toast of Zvishavane on Sunday when he single-handedly propelled Shabanie Mine to a 2-0 win over Black Rhinos at Maglas Stadium in a Castle Premiership match. The fullback…
LONDON – The last thing Real Madrid wanted was another Champions League semifinal clash against Bayern Munich and tonight they will need to get the better of a familiar foe who very much appears to have their number. Pep Guardiola, whose Bayern side play their last four, first leg at the Bernabeu, was appointed as…
LONDON – Chelsea have the upper hand ahead of next week’s Champions League semifinal, second leg after holding Atletico Madrid to a frustrating 0-0 draw in Tuesday’s first leg, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. Through to the last four of Europe’s elite club competition for the first time in 40 years, La Liga leaders Atletico…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe may not contest the next election, saying he might appoint a successor just before the 2018 presidential election. Mugabe told Ghanaian-born British film-maker Roy Agyemang in a BBC documentary aired over the weekend dubbed “Robert Mugabe @ 90”, that the people would have to decide his successor although he had…
HARARE – The representative body for Zimbabwe’s cricket players has slammed the local game’s governing body for misleading the International Cricket Council (ICC) and presenting false information about players’ earnings. Two months ago, the Zimbabwe Professionals Cricketers Association (ZPCA) – which had earlier successfully lobbied for payment of outstanding dues owed to players and other…
BULAWAYO – Defending champions Dynamos capitalised on a moment of madness by Bantu Rovers keeper Brighton Chipula and staged a memorable comeback that saw them turn the tables on Castle Premiership returnees with a 3-1 win. Tshintsha Guluva had looked poised to register an upset against DeMbare after taking an early lead through skipper Nqobizitha…
BENTIU – Hundreds of people were killed because of their ethnicity after South Sudan rebels seized the oil hub of Bentiu last week, the UN has said. They were targeted at a mosque, a church and a hospital, the UN Mission in South Sudan said in a statement. It added that hate speech was broadcast…
