HARARE – Tonderai Masunga leads the Zimbabwe Golf Association (ZGA) Order of Merit following his recent victory at the Julius Robinson tournament at Wingate Golf Club at the beginning of February. Masunga, who captained the national team to victory at the inaugural Africa Golf Confederation President’s Cup in Zambia last year, shot one-under-par 143 to…
HARARE – Scott Vincent continued his thrilling run of form after his opening round 5-under-par 67 saw him hold the individual lead at the Puerto Rico Classic in Puerto Rico over the weekend. Vincent fired seven birdies and two bogeys in the first round to see him take a two-stroke lead on three players. Hot…
HARARE – CAPS United got themselves pre-season bragging rights over arch-rivals Dynamos yesterday, but new gaffer, Mark Harrison conceded he still has a lot of work to do. The Green Machine needed a penalty shoot-out to beat bitter rivals Dynamos in a pre-season challenge match organised by the Chinese Federation of Zimbabwe (CFZ) at Rufaro…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreational Commission (SRC) has ruled out reducing the contentious six percent levied on football clubs arguing it is the one sustaining their operations. Local teams were praying for a relief through reductions from the SRC which levies football clubs and other sports disciplines. SRC, board member Dave Ellman-Brown said they…
HARARE – Nkululeko Sibanda — businessman and owner of Zifa second-tier football side Twalumba FC — has died after a short illness. The former Black Mambas sponsor, who is also husband to Zifa board member — Miriam Sibanda — died at Parirenyatwa Hospital on Saturday evening where he had been taken ill, according to the…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has added his voice to those of other prominent Zanu PF figures who have fingered President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace as the lynchpin of the ongoing brutal purges of party officials perceived to be close to former Vice President Joice Mujuru. In an unusually forthright interview with State media…
HARARE – Ministries, businessmen and State media have gone into a mega bootlicking frenzy, praising President Robert Mugabe who turned 91 on Saturday. As a result, analysts said it now appeared treacherous for people associated with the government to ignore the president’s birthday — judging by the spectacle involving obsequious bigwigs over the past few…
HARARE – Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda says he will probe the abuse and harassment of journalists by some overzealous officials, who last week forced media practitioners to switch off their phones and cameras during a parliamentary session. What irked journalists and opposition MPs was the fact that the same event was being broadcast live…
HARARE – Cabinet ministers and their deputies trooped to the Senate on Thursday in the wake of a demonstration by opposition party legislators against their absence. Chen Chimutengwende, Senate deputy president, had to thank the ministers who came to the Upper House. “I would like to welcome the ministers who are here present and so…
LOS ANGELES – “Birdman,” the 21st Century Fox Inc. feature about a washed-up film superhero trying to stage a comeback, won the Oscar for best picture, Hollywood’s highest honor. Its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, also won. “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” collected four awards in all, including best original screenplay. The film stars…
