HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Under-17 rugby team got their Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week off to a losing start after going down 24-17 to Griquas yesterday at the Izak Steyl Stadium in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Among the try scorers for the Jack Charsley-captained side were Jeff Makoni and Antoni Ciampi. A conversion from Campbill Nyakudya and a…
HARARE – Tenniss Zimbabwe (TZ) has intensified preparations for the forthcoming Euro-Africa Zone Group II Davis Cup play-offs against Moldova set for Harare Sports Club next week. In March, Zimbabwe suffered a humiliating 4-1 defeat at the hands of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Preparations are going on well; our players are participating in various tournaments,” TZ…
MUTARE – At least 500 athletes are expected to compete in Sunday’s Tanganda Half Marathon, Manicaland Athletics Board (MAB) chairperson Joshua Matume has said. Over 300 athletes took part in last year’s edition of the annual contest which MAB partners with principal sponsors — Tanganda Tea Company to organise. Matume said preparations for the race,…
HARARE – Tongogara are back on top of the Zifa Central Region Division One League table courtesy of a 3-0 victory over Sable Chemicals over the weekend. After 12 rounds of action, the former top flight side now lead the log standings with 27 points while second-placed ZPC Munyati trail on goal difference. ZPC Munyati…
HARARE – St John’s College student Kieran Vincent continued his fine run to clinch the Chapman Grand Slam 2015 at the Chapman Golf Club over the weekend. Vincent shot a total of 219 in a 54 hole tournament that attracted a strong field of the country’s amateur golfers. Behind Vincent was a three-way tie among…
HARARE – As ugly succession wars continue to disembowel President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party, insiders say the party’s faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa now has the competing group made up of ambitious Young Turks on the ropes. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the Mnangagwa faction was now “incontrovertibly on top…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, a serial traveller now dubbed “Visiting Leader” by some of his political detractors, is expected to embark on another long overseas sojourn this week — this time to the United States for a summit on Ebola — as the nonagenarian continues to break national flying records in terms of total…
ATHENS – Greece’s outspoken finance minister has resigned, hours after voters backed his call to reject creditors’ demands for more austerity in a referendum. Yanis Varoufakis said it was felt his departure would be helpful in finding a solution to the country’s debt crisis. Eurozone finance ministers, with whom he repeatedly clashed, had wanted him…
HARARE – Poor officiating hogged the limelight once again when CAPS United beat log leaders Chicken Inn 2-0 in a Castle Lager Premiership match here yesterday. Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas could barely contain his anger after referee Jimmy Makwanda put up a controversial display that put a dent to his team’s charge at the…
HWANGE – Defending champions Dynamos had to come from behind to collect a point away to Hwange at the Colliery yesterday. The coalminers were first to get on the score board through defender Munyaradzi Mungadze 10 minutes into the match. DeMbare equalised six minutes after the break through forward Dominic Chungwa but could not find…
