HARARE – For the second year running, Monte Cassino Girls High, a Catholic boarding school in Mashonaland East, has emerged as the best school at ‘‘O’’ Level in the country, yet again recording an amazing 100 percent pass rate in 2014. According to national pass rate statistics availed by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec)…
HARARE – Poor planning by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is likely to hamper the national Under-23 side quest to qualify for this year’s African Championships and the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Young Warriors are scheduled to take on Swaziland next week in the first leg of the African Championships to be staged in Democratic…
HARARE – Half centuries by Zimbabwe Under-19’s Adam Keefe and William Mashinge were in vain as the side lost their second one day match against Namibia Under-19 by 40 runs yesterday. With yesterday’s win at Old Hararians Sports Cub, the visitors have now levelled the three-match series 1-1 after losing the first match on Sunday…
HARARE – Flame Lily coach Nesbert “Yabo” Saruchera says he will retain the bulk of the squad that won the 2014 World Navi Northern Region Division One title in the Castle Premiership. Saruchera’s charges won the second-tier division ahead of second-placed Gunners and third-placed Mushowani. With their triumph, the Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Service (ZPCS) side…
HARARE – Tonderayi Masunga shot a one-under-par 143 to be crowned champion of the annual Julius Robinson Trophy at Wingate Golf Club at the weekend. Playing off a handicap of 1, Masunda thrust himself in the driver’s seat of the 36-hole tournament with a fiery start that saw him sign for a first round four-under-par…
HARARE – Dynamos chairman Kenny Mubaiwa has revealed that contract negotiations with striker Roderick Mutuma and midfielder Tafadzwa Rusike are likely to yield nothing. The Glamour Boys and the two players have been deadlocked in meetings with the players’ representative Edzai Kasinauyo since the start of the year. The negotiations have, however, not reached any…
HARARE – Zimbabwe rising female tennis player, Rufaro Chirewa maintained her impressive record in international tournaments after finishing second in the doubles of the just ended Nairobi International Junior Championships IV in Kenya. The 17-year-old former Chisipite Senior School student partnered with Poland’s Karolina Silwanowicz as they reached the final before going down to Belgium’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe junior cyclists face a daunting task to leave a mark at the Confederation of African Cycling (Cac) Road Championships that will host 30 African nations in Pietermaritzburg and Wartburg this week. The event carries the significance of Olympic qualification points with the top five ranked African countries securing two Rio 2016 berths….
HARARE – Ryan Cairns fired a final round 72 yesterday to finish 66th at the Oates Victorian Open at the Thirteenth Beach Golf Links, in Australia. Cairns finished with a gross score of 10-over-par 298 following rounds of 69, 72, 85 and 72. The 30-year-old Zimbabwean was 26 strokes behind eventual winner Richard Green of…
HARARE – Itai (not her real name) was walking along Tsoka Road in Zengeza 1, Chitungwiza when a plastic bag thrown from a house adjacent hit her. The missile landed squarely on her nose, bursting immediately and splashing her with the putrid stench of rotting sadza. She had nothing with which to wipe her face…
