HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) says the federation is on the verge of securing friendly matches for the Under-23 side ahead of the African Youth Championship Qualifiers later this year. “Like we said in 2014, we want to have a vibrant squad so we are going to subject the players to a number…
HARARE – Two of Zimbabwe’s brightest cricket prospects, Nick Welch and Ed Byrom, have secured scholarships in England, national Under-19 coach Walter Chawaguta revealed yesterday. Chawaguta was explaining his side’s recent poor showing at the Cubs Week tournament in South Africa recently, where the Zimbabwean teenagers won just one out of four games, saying the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Cycling Federation is ready to take part in this year’s edition of Africa Road Cycling Championships to be held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, next month. “We are ready and it is really exciting that Cycling Zimbabwe is able to put together a team of nine members,” the federation’s president Andrew Donaldson…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s basketball teams are optimistic of prevailing at the All-Africa Games and Afro-Basketball qualifying tournaments that takes place in Bulawayo next month. The 2014 Afro-Basketball qualifiers bring together South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Angola and the host nation. Only two teams qualify for the Afro Basketball and the All-Africa Games. Basketball Union of Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Eliah Zvimba has been removed as representative of Zimbabwe’s cricket players due to an “unholy alliance” with the international umbrella body Fica. Zvimba has been in the news in recent years following running battles with Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) over player welfare issues. In a press release yesterday, sent to media by ZC media…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s number one tennis player Takanyi Garanganga is ecstatic to have received honourable mention in the 2014 Davis Cup MVP Awards. Garanganga led Zimbabwe to promotion from Africa Zone Group III, winning all three singles rubbers and the only doubles rubber he contested. That feat has not gone unnoticed, after he was the…
HARARE – Lewis Chitengwa, whose career was cruelly cut at its prime has been post-humously honoured for his extraordinary contribution to golf following his induction into Mercedes-Benz Southern African Golf Hall of Fame. The Zimbabwean golf fratenity was plunged into mourning in July 2001, when Chitengwa passed on suddenly at the University of Alberta Hospital…
HARARE – Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries founder Walter Magaya has shown interest in securing a place in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) for his division one club Gunners. The Daily News is reliably informed that PHD is currently engaged in negotiations to buy the franchise of one of the newly-promoted clubs as the…
HARARE – New Dynamos goalkeeper Tonderai Mateyaunga says he gotten over the disappointment of losing the Castle Premiership title on the last day with ZPC Kariba last season. The DC Academy graduate, who spent last season with ZPC, was among the five new acquisitions paraded by the record Zimbabwe champions last Friday. The 22- year-old,…
HARARE – After a disappointing week in week he was left out of Zimbabwe’s 2015 Cricket World Cup squad, Vusi Sibanda answered critics the best way he knows how by scoring runs. The 31-year-old was in outstanding form as he scored a blistering 99 off 101 to help Zimbabwe A beat Canada by seven wickets…
