MUTARE – Woeful Highlanders missed a chance to go back to the top of the Castle Lager Premiership log when they were held to a goalless draw by struggling Mutare City Rovers yesterday. A win for Erol Akbay’s side would have seen them climb to the summit of the log with 29 points but now…
BULAWAYO – Dynamos’ five-game winning run finally came to an end when the Harare giants drew away to How Mine in a Castle Lager Premiership match yesterday. Lloyd Mutasa’s men had accounted for the scalps of Chapungu, Ngezi Platinum, Harare City, Bulawayo City and Border Strikers to force their way back into the top four…
DURBAN – By his own admission, it has not been an easy 72 days in office for Zimbabwe Rugby Union president Nyararai Sibanda. Not that he expected any different having assumed the reigns of a union short on resources, lacking structures to nurture junior rugby, no reward system for its national players and pulling power to retain…
HARARE – Northern Region Division One side Herentals FC coach Kumbirai Mutiwekuziva believes his side is still firmly in the promotion race despite trailing log leaders Black Rhinos by 10 points. Herentals, who are in their second season in the country’s second tier league after acquiring the franchise of the now defunct Bindura United, currently…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s quest to stay in the Davis Cup Euro/Africa Zone Group II begins when their play-off match against Georgia begins today at the Mziuri Tennis Club in Tbilisi. The clash will kick off with a match between Zimbabwe’s top seed Benjamin Lock against Georgia’s second seed George Tsivadze. The second match of the…
HARARE – Hordes of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s supporters thronged the MDC headquarters in central Harare yesterday, bringing business to a standstill along Nelson Mandela Avenue and disrupting traffic flow in the area as they welcomed him back to work following his illness-induced absence of the past few weeks. And such was the commotion and…
HARARE – As president Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF continue to feel the heat from angry protesters who want the rot devouring the country arrested, former senior Cabinet minister and ruling party stalwart, Didymus Mutasa, says mounting public agitation for change could force the nonagenarian out of power before the 2018 national elections. Mutasa, 81,…
HARARE – “Endgame” is the phrase political pundits are using to describe a deepening stand-off between angry, long-suffering citizens and President Robert Mugabe’s government. So far, the fuming citizens have not been strong enough to bring down the government, which claims it has a mandate from the heavily disputed 2013 election to rule until 2018….
BULAWAYO – Human rights lawyers here have gone an extra mile to fundraise for some of the 85 protesters who were picked up by police following last week’s nationwide stay-away. Magistrate Evelyn Mashavakuwe on Monday granted 85 protestors $80 bail each, an amount which lawyers representing them described as too high considering that most of…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Students’ Union (Zinasu) has criticised the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)’s decision to hike tuition fees starting next semester. In a statement, Zinasu spokesperson Zivai Mhetu, said the decision to increase fees from $400 to $450 was “unacceptable”. “Why raise school fees when there has been no upsurge in the price…
