HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa bemoaned his team’s profligacy in front of goal despite collecting maximum points with a 1-0 win over Triangle here yesterday. Tichaona Mabvuara scored the only goal of the match in the 29th minute on a day where DeMbare strikers Patrick Khumbula and Simba Sithole took turns to miss glorious…
BULAWAYO – A draw 1-1 was the fairest result in the Castle Premiership encounter between hosts Highlanders and visiting FC Platinum at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday. Despite the draw Bosso remain on top of the log standing with 20 points, one point ahead of Hwange and Dynamos. FC Platinum were the first to score through Donald…
NKOLOMA – Zambia’s national women’s football team pinned the final nail in the Zimbabwean football coffin after knocking out the Mighty Warriors from the African Women Championships (ACW) final qualifying round at Nkoloma Stadium yesterday. Shepolopolo booked their place at the ACW finals to be hosted by Namibia in October after beating Zimbabwe 2 –…
ZVISHAVANE – Daniel Chakupe was once again the hero for Shabanie Mine after he scored a late equaliser to salvage a 1-1 draw against an impressive Chicken Inn at Maglas Stadium yesterday. Shabanie shook off the effects of not training for the better part of the week with a spirited comeback late in the second…
HARARE – Harare Sports Club team manager Blessing Chiutare has urged his charges to keep the momentum going and not get ahead of themselves after they claimed the scalp defending National Rugby League champions Old Hararians on Saturday. Sports Club needed a spirited comeback to extend their NRL unbeaten run to seven games with a…
HARARE – Not many bookmakers made four-year-old filly Equina their favourite to win the OK Grand Challenge on Saturday ahead of 17 other top rated horses. After all, her win in the Castle Tankard last month, that made her the first young female horse in 16 years to win Africa’s oldest race, had come at…
HARARE – Former log leaders in the World Navi Northern Region soccer league Mushowani succumbed to a second straight defeat after going down 1-0 to Gunners on Saturday. Just a week after slumping to their first defeat of the season when they were defeated 3-1 by newcomers Karoi United last week, they found the going…
PARIS – At the French Open, there’s just no one better than Rafael Nadal. The “King of Clay” proved that again on Sunday, winning the title at Roland Garros for the ninth time, and the fifth time in a row, by beating Novak Djokovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 in the final. Nadal improved his record…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday racheted up his withering and unexpected tirade against the minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Jonathan Moyo. Speaking at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, at the burial of former Cabinet minister Nathan Shamuyarira, Mugabe said Zanu PF had been infested by weevils which should be taken care…
JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma was admitted to hospital for tests yesterday, the presidency said. “President Jacob Zuma has today, June 7, 2014, been admitted to hospital for tests,” his spokesperson Mac Maharaj said in a statement. “Yesterday, President Zuma was advised to rest following a demanding election and transition programme to the new administration.”…
