March 2015

HARARE – The ever-blundering Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) administration shortcomings were exposed once again after they failed to send a representative to a key Caf seminar in Cairo, Egypt. Caf on Sunday began hosting a three-day workshop on Club Licensing which ends today but sadly there was no participant from Zimbabwe. A statement on the…

HARARE – Mamelodi Sundowns winger Kuda Mahachi is expected to join the Young Warriors’ camp for Sunday’s 2015 All-Africa Games qualifier against Cameroon at Rufaro Stadium. The Young Warriors went into camp at Chikurubi last week and Mahachi was included in the provisional squad but there were doubts over his availability after his club reportedly…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s participation in this year’s Cricket World Cup was never going to really turn many heads for the simple reason that too many events off the field hampered the much-needed progress that coach Dav Whatmore wanted and expected from his team. In all fairness, he really wasn’t given much time to work with…

HARARE – For the fourth time in his career Brendon de Jonge held the 36-hole lead but still failed to win the first US PGA crown of his career. He eventually finished a disappointing 33rd on one-under-par 283 some nine strokes off the pace at the end of the $5,9 million Valspar Championship in Florida…

HARARE – Rising youngster Emmanuel Bako reaffirmed his growing status as one of the hottest riders on the local scene after winning his respective classes in the Bogwheelers Motocross Championships over the weekend. The Heritage Primary School, Grade Three student, was unmatched in the 50cc A class and 65 cc B class coming first overall,…

HARARE – South Africa have confirmed their participation for the Schweppes Water Troutbeck ATU Triathlon African Cup where at least 120 athletes from some of Africa’s road cycling powerhouses will battle for honours. The international event set for March 28 will be held in the resort town of Nyanga. It will run concurrently with the…

HARARE – Zimbabwe Golf Association (ZGA) has named a provisional squad to represent the country at the forthcoming Africa Zone VI Golf Championship set for Uganda in April. The continental event will be hosted at the par-72 Uganda Golf Club (UGC) Kitante course and Zimbabwe’s team is made up of 10 leading amateurs on the…

HARARE – Africa is shocked at how a country as rich as Zimbabwe is failing to settle a $67 000 debt that has seen the national team expelled from the 2018 World Cup and dimmed the future of the country’s fledgling stars. Some have laid the blame on the Cuthbert Dube-led Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa)…

HARARE – So Zifa finally decided to score an own goal on themselves by having us expelled from the Fifa World Cup 2018. Our hopes have been shattered, our dreams stolen from us and our future emasculated by a Zifa secretariat run by one Jonathan Mashingaidze. Mashingaidze, stands accused of sleeping on the wheel and…