HARARE – The Zimbabwe Schools Hockey Association successfully held trials at Khumalo hockey stadium in Bulawayo to select the Under-19 boys team to travel to Singapore and Malaysia in August. The Under-19s will join the Under-17 team, which has already started their preparations. The teams will play the Singapore Under-18 team and are also set…
JOHANNESBURG – The South African Football Association (Safa) yesterday dismissed claims by Nigerian media houses that Stephen Keshi would take over as Bafana Bafana coach. “Safa has never released a list of candidates that are on the short-list for the Bafana Bafana job,” Safa spokesman Dominic Chimhavi said. “Keshi’s name is part of a list…
LONDON – You dream for years, you travel thousands of kilometres, you spend a fortune – and then you end up watching your humiliated team play a totally meaningless World Cup game. So how does it feel for fans of eliminated England gathering in Belo Horizonte for their last match tonight? “It’s obviously not ideal,…
LONDON – Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara has told his country’s footballers he will double their World Cup win bonuses if they beat Greece. The Elephants can guarantee their place in the knock-out stages with a victory over the 2004 European champions in Fortaleza tonight. Currently they are due 16 million CFA francs ($24 400,…
LONDON – Fresh match-fixing claims are set to cast a shadow over the World Cup in the wake of allegations that officials connected to the Ghanaian FA were prepared to rig international friendly matches. As part of a joint investigation with Channel 4’s Dispatches, the Daily Telegraph filmed a registered Fifa agent, Christopher Forsythe and…
LONDON – Four-time champions Italy admitted they are struggling with the weather conditions ahead of their clash with Uruguay in Natal tonight where they will try to avoid being eliminated in the first round at successive World Cups. A win for the South Americans would send Cesare Prandelli’s side crashing out at the first hurdle,…
CAIRO – A court in Cairo convicted Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of spreading false news and supporting the now banned Islamist group. The trio had denied the charges. Eleven defendants tried in absentia, including three foreign journalists, received 10-year sentences. The trial has caused an international outcry amid claims it was politicised….
KHARTOUM – A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her religious faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced to hang for apostasy in…
HARARE – Jostling for positions has intensified in the MDC as the party embarks on a restructuring exercise ahead of its main congress in October with lower structure congresses set to begin next week. The lower level structure congresses — a prelude to the main congress — will begin at branch level to fill voids…
HARARE – Raising taxes on tobacco is the most effective way to reduce use of the drug and save lives, a World Health Organisation (WHO) representative has said. David Okello, WHO representative to Zimbabwe, said high prices are particularly effective in discouraging young people, who often have more limited incomes, from taking up smoking. Okello…
