HARARE – Zimbabwe’s junior golfers’ efforts to better the country’s previous standing at the Toyota Junior Golf World Cup in Japan were in vain after they finished last in the 15-nation team event that ended on Friday. Zimbabwe’s Stuart Krog, Justin Kersten, Kieren Vincent and Mbongeni Maphosa were in trouble from the opening round after…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national rugby team put one foot forward in their quest to earn a 2015 World Cup berth after a walloping the hosts Madagascar 22-57 in this coastal city of Antananarivo on Saturday. The Sables outweighed and outmuscled the hosts at the breakdown and scrum time, duly racing to a 22-0 lead…
BULAWAYO – The lack of quality strikers in the local game stuck out like a sore thumb as defending champions Dynamos and hosts Chicken Inn played out a goalless draw in a Castle Premiership encounter here yesterday. And inevitably both sets of coaches cited lack of quality finishing as the major reason behind their respective…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba coach Saul Chaminuka blasted referee Nomore Musundire for showing him a red card in a Castle Premiership match with Chiredzi FC which ended in a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Chaminuka was incensed with Chadya’s decision show a second yellow card to winger Luckmore Makura for diving in the 40th minute. The…
ZVISHAVANE – FC Platinum had a late first half strike from Marshall Mudehwe to thank for their win 1-0 over a determined Bantu Rovers side in Castle Premiership match at Mandava Stadium on Saturday. The result came as a huge relief for the home side’s coach Lloyd Mutasa after consecutive draws against Highlanders, Black Rhinos…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro will look to prove that Makepekepe are genuine title contenders when they take on high-flying Hwange at the Nationals Sports Stadium today. Makepekepe will be hoping to continue with their fine form at home where they have not lost a match this season. United have forced their way…
HARARE – A raft of changes being proposed in the education sector by Primary and Secondary Education minister, Lazarus Dokora, caused chaos. Some support him, while others are seething with anger. Since taking over the ministry last year, Dokora has announced several changes to the education sector, like banning teachers from complementing their low wages…
HARARE – Didymus Mutasa, the Zanu PF administration secretary, says the Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi should name the ministers who worked with him on the Facebook character Baba Jukwa. This comes as detectives yesterday reportedly questioned some staffers in the Social Media Department at Herald House to “verify some information” over the charges preferred…
MUTARE – Alluvial diamond deposits at Marange have run out and companies here have started laying off workers. Chinese diamond mining companies Anjin and Jinan are this week laying-off more than 400 employees arguing that their claims have run out out of diamonds and have no money to crush the hard rock deeper underground to…
MUTARE – Traditional chiefs in Mutare recently, got a battering from villagers who accused them of benefitting from diamond explorations while they continue to wallow in poverty and see their rights trampled upon. Villager after villager accused the local traditional leadership of neglecting them during a “provincial alternative mining indaba of benefiting from diamond operations,…
