HARARE – Sensei Samson Muripo has hailed So-Kyokushin fighter Tangai Mhlanga for defying odds to be crowned the African Champion in Johannesburg on Saturday. Mhlanga proved a force to reckon with at the inaugural WFKO Championships, winning the Championship belt that came with it an all-expensive-paid for trip to Russia to compete in the World…
HARARE – Zimbabwean teenage tennis ace Tadiwa Chinhamo was in scintillating form at the 7th Fujairah International Tennis Championship at the United Arab Emirates, where he won gold in both his singles and doubles events. Partnered by Syrian Karim Allaf, Chinamo won a gold medal for the under-18 doubles competition after defeating the South Africans…
HARARE – Castle Premiership champions Dynamos have now appointed former midfielder Naison Muchekela to be David Mandigora’s second assistants judging by recent events. Earlier reports had suggested that former Dynamos captain Murape Murape, who ended his playing career last season, had been earmarked to be one of Mandigora’s assistants together with Tonderai Ndiraya. But yesterday…
HARARE – Tatenda Mapingire did not celebrate with any vigour when he helped Flame Lily win promotion into the Castle Premiership for the 2015 season. The Zimbabwe Prisons Correctional Service (ZPCS) side won the World Navi Northern Region Division One League when they beat ZRP FC 2-0 in the last match of the 2014 season….
HARARE – Some 14 years after his Test debut, Hamilton Masakadza is pretty chuffed to be in the Zimbabwe 15-man squad for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Masakadza had a meteoric rise to stardom as a 17-year-old when he scored a Test century on his Zimbabwe debut against the West Indies at Harare Sports Club…
HARARE – New Zimbabwe cricket team fielding coach Walter Chawaguta believes ‘saving every run’ is the key if the country is to realise its dream of making it into the knockout stage of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Once lauded as one of the best fielding sides in international cricket, Zimbabwe have fallen down the…
HARARE – After a four-year relationship that has spawned rumour in Manicaland, wedding bells are finally tolling for Higher and Tertiary Education minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Pentecostal preacher Bishop Anthony Kashiri. The lovebirds, who first met in church, will tie the knot in Mutare “soon”, at a private ceremony that close relatives have described as…
HARARE – Zora musician Leonard Karikoga Zhakata, whose songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy claimed first and second positions respectively on the Coca-Cola Top 50, is feeling like the proverbial phoenix. The Rusape-born musician says the victory, which earned him $2 000 in prize money, has given him the liberty to dream again. The Mugove…
HARARE – After making a name for himself as a drummer in Zimbabwe and in other parts of the world, Blessing ‘Bled’ Chimanga’s new mission is to prove that he is equally talented as a vocalist. The diminutive Chimanga, who has played drums for top musicians like Dudu Manhenga, Hope Masike, Eric Wainaina (Kenya), Ray…
HARARE – Zambians have mounted a demonstration against President Robert Mugabe after the nonagenarian flew to Lusaka on Friday for the expected inauguration of the country’s new president, although counting of votes was still in progress last night. Edgar Lungu, who enjoys a close relationship with Mugabe and who belongs to the late Michael Sata’s…
