HARARE – Aspiring junior bodybuilders have must bring their national registration identification documents in order to participate at this weekend’s Ironman contest. The year’s second bodybuilding event will be held at the Odyssey Centre in Kadoma tonight with most of the leading athletes in the country expected to take part in the contest. The contest…
HARARE – Andy Waller, the current Zimbabwe cricket coach, made his Test debut aged 37. Waller played his first Test against England in Bulawayo in December 1996, having made his ODI debut nine years back aged 28 in an away series against New Zealand at Hyderabad. In sharp contrast to Waller, at 27, leg-spinner Graeme…
JOHANNESBURG – The 2014 World Cup currently taking place in Brazil is turning out to have every ingredient of being a historic football fiesta. Plenty of goals, penalties, red cards and shocking results which clearly defy the pecking order, this should a World Cup of its kind. No one could imagine that the likes of…
HARARE – With the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil well underway, the tournament’s youngest stars are battling it out for the Hyundai Young Player Award as the best young player at this year’s tournament, and now fans in the Middle East and Africa can also predict who will take home the prestigious prize. Many…
LONDON – Giorgio Chiellini, the Italian player bitten by Luis Suárez, has called the Uruguayan’s subsequent ban “excessive” and fears it will lead to the player becoming alienated. Fifa has banned Suárez from all “football-related activities” for four months after the clash, ruling the striker out of the rest of the World Cup and the…
LONDON – Brazil aim to make their height advantage count against Chile when the teams meet in a Round of 16 World Cup match tonight according to striker Fred. “I’ve talked to our fullbacks, our wingers: They (the Chileans) are short,” Fred told reporters at Brazil’s training camp in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janeiro. Fred,…
PRETORIA – A psychiatrist who evaluated Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius in the trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, has suffered a heart attack. But this is not expected to delay the trial, which resumes on Monday, the prosecution say. Mr Pistorius is due to complete a 30-day psychiatric assessment on Friday. The…
WASHINGTON DC – President Barack Obama has asked the US Congress to approve $500m (£294m) to train and equip what he described as “moderate” Syrian opposition forces. The funds would help Syrians defend against forces aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, the White House said. The aid would also counter Islamist militants such as the Islamic…
HARARE – We welcome MultiChoice Africa’s intention to reach an agreement with government on the re-opening of GOtv which was abruptly switched off in January following shareholder differences. At the time of the switch off, many Zimbabweans were increasingly warming up to the digital terrestrial television service in which government, represented by Transmedia, owned a…
HARARE – Most of us possess an inherent, but often indefinable, admiration for the powerful in our midst. Until they are incapacitated by a life-threatening illness, we often believe them to be indestructible. So it must have seemed to most of us, mere mortals, when first told of President Robert Mugabe’s illness — presaged by…
