BULAWAYO – CAPS United suffered a major blow in their quest to dislodge FC Platinum from the top of the Castle Premier League after being thumped 3-1 by Bulawayo City at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday. After holding Dynamos to a 1-1 draw last week, Bulawayo City, who are without a permanent coach following the suspension of…
HARARE – Dynamos assistant coach Murape Murape has told his players to put their recent struggles behind them as they prepare to face Harare City in a Castle Premiership match today at Rufaro Stadium. The Glamour Boys have failed to garner maximum points in their previous six matches, drawing five while losing to lowly Border…
MUTARE – Mutare City Rovers rallied from behind to edge past visiting Hwange 2-1 in a tense Castle Lager Premier Soccer encounter here yesterday. Falling behind to a Gilbert Zulu strike in the 58th minute Rovers levelled the scores through a Kudakwashe Gurure penalty in the 86th minute before Elisha Mhaka bundled in the winner…
HARARE – The Stanbic Bank sponsored Stragglers Junior Cricket tournament gets underway tomorrow with over 400 under 12 cricketers expected to participate at the games to be hosted by Hartmann House and St George’s College in Harare. The tournament which is an annual event seeks to nurture talent at a tender age while at the…
HARARE – At first glance, it looks like an arid waste ground than a football pitch. It’s one of the scariest and dangerous surfaces to play such a physical sport, especially the kind of fearsome battles camouflaged as social football matches often witnessed here. It’s a potential source for some of the nastiest injuries in…
JOHANNESBURG – If there is one thing Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa has been credited for, it is rise of Zimbabwe football on the international arena. Not that most of the good fortunes of the game is purely because of his ascendancy into power. Yes, the businessman has played his part in stabilising the ship but…
HARARE – If things had gone to plan for Cuthbert Nyasango, the Rio Olympic Games might have witnessed the rivalry of a husband and wife. It would have been a rare treat to have a couple represent Zimbabwe at the quadrennial global sporting extravaganza. Cuthbert and his wife Faith have maintained a constant presence on…
HARARE – Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) leader, Walter Magaya, yesterday appeared before Harare Provincial Magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe after a Harare woman (name withheld) filed rape charges against the young and charismatic preacher. Magaya, who spent Friday night at Rhodesville Police Station in the capital, was released on $2 000 bail with stringent reporting…
HARARE – Some sneer at his face on posters plastered on trees, security walls and other buildings, while others go as far as using the F-word against him — yet some revere him as a hero who liberated Zimbabwe from the British colonial rule. Once a colossus who was revered and feared by his rather…
HARARE – A respected Zimbabwean civic leader has warned that the mooted formation of a grand coalition against President Robert Mugabe could be difficult to achieve because opposition parties still have differences among themselves. Former Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition executive director McDonald Lewanika — now a Phd candidate in politics and governance at the London…
