BULAWAYO – Elijah Mabhunu managed to win the third edition of the Old Mutual Nkulumane 10km Fun Run in a time of 29:50:23. In the ladies category, 27-year-old Olivia Chitate made it three in a row when she won the race in a time of 33:40:71. The two athletes were rewarded $1 000 each for…
HARARE – Dav Whatmore, the Zimbabwe cricket team coach, says limited overs captain Elton Chigumbura’s batting was a revelation in the just ended tour of Pakistan. Zimbabwe were whitewashed by the South Asian country; losing both the Twenty20 and One Day Internationals matches. The locals became only the first Test-playing nation to visit Pakistan after…
HARARE – Graystone Stud bred Yer-Maan lived up to pre-race expectations after producing a top ride to land the 2015 OK Grand Challenge main race over 1 800m here yesterday. With champion jockey Quinton Riddle holding the straps the six-year-old gelding rediscovered the form that saw him win the Castle Tankard last month to clinch…
HARARE – Kevin Derere hopes to become the first black-Zimbabwean jockey to win the OK Grand Challenge since Nkululelo Sibanda rode Century Star to victory in 2008. Derere will lead Thriller In Manila into the starting gate for the 27th edition of the OK Grand Challenge that will be run over 1 800 metres at…
HARARE – Drag racing looks set to continue its dominance on the local motorsport scene after another spectacular show on Sunday at the second round of the Telecel 2015 Drag Racing Series held at Donnybrook Raceway. Three thousand five hundred plus fans thronged the venue to watch the 60 competitors battle it out on the…
HARARE – The cheeky Nigerian journalists who recently embarrassed President Robert Mugabe when he attended the inauguration of that country’s new leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, say the nonagenarian was “fast asleep” just before they accosted him so he looked confused. In a hard-hitting posting on Facebook last week by Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara…
HARARE – Despite having been arrested several times and his supporters being subjected to brutal attacks by Zanu PF apparatchiks ahead of Wednesday’s by-elections that are being boycotted by the country’s main opposition, Temba Mliswa is confident that he will regain the hotly-contested Hurungwe West seat. In a statement yesterday, the garrulous former Zanu PF…
HARARE – As succession politics play out in Zanu PF, vultures and newcomers in the party are smelling blood and continue to eliminate each other through the party’s politburo expulsions and suspensions. So far, Zanu PF has reportedly suspended 141 officials and expelled several others accusing them of clandestine activities to illegally remove President Robert…
HARARE – Webster Shamu’s recent three-year suspension from Zanu PF should serve as a warning to those who have built their political careers through bootlicking. Until the contentious Zanu PF congress last December that brutally purged many perceived loyalists of former Vice President Joice Mujuru, Shamu was the undoubted master bootlicker in the ruling party….
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s statement last week, in which she savaged President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu PF and also apologised to Zimbabweans for mistakes that she and her erstwhile colleagues in the ruling party had made since 1980, has put the cat among the pigeons within the ranks of her Zanu PF…
