HARARE – Jenny Waggot, the former Zimbabwe tennis ace, is saddened to miss her granddaughter making her debut at Harare Sports Club during next week’s ITF international tennis event. Waggot was a singles junior and senior champion for Zimbabwe, Rhodesia as it was then, on the very same courts of Harare Sports Club her young…
JOHANNESBURG – Having disappointed at the recently ended 2014 World Cup, one would have thought Africa as a federation would take remedial action to put things into perspective. But a glut of recent appointments by most countries of the same old faces from Europe has underscored the mediocrity in which Africa wants to find itself…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Basketball Union is set to pick its final Under-17 teams to compete in the upcoming Cossasa Games when the country’s 10 provincial select sides converge at Queen Elizabeth this weekend. The Confederation of Schools Sport Associations of Southern Africa (Cossasa) games will be staged in Zambia at the end of August….
HARARE – Two people, two bicycles, 1×2 wheel drive vehicle with just two backup crew and the utmost strength and determination of this amazing little team, to complete a 3600km journey along the boundary of Zimbabwe riding approximately 100km a day with the journey taking seven weeks to complete. Very impressive and an incredible challenge…
HARARE – Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu says he is aware of the threat posed by wounded How Mine when the two teams clash in a potentially explosive Castle Premiership derby at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. Going into Sunday’s match, Highlanders are on top of the log standing with 30 points, one above ZPC Kariba and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe junior tennis ace Courtney Lock is the only local player remaining in the ongoing ITF 18 and Under South Central African Junior Circuit after progressing to the semi-final stage here yesterday. Lock outclassed fellow countryman Tadiwa Chinamo 6-3, 6-3. Another Zimbabwe representative in the boys category, Alwyn Mushonga, bowed out of the…
HARARE – Only last month they were one try away from their first World Cup in two decades. Their captain Daniel Hondo took a lot of flak for choosing to go for posts in that 28-10 win over Kenya when an extra try would have automatically secured a direct ticket to England next year for…
HARARE – After 22 long years at the helm, Peter Chingoka finally decided to relinquish power, and the news was greeted with rapturous applause by the majority of cricket fans, who took to the various social networks. Both Facebook and in particular Twitter were bombarded with statements and questions as the excited fans debated, speculated…
HARARE – Just weeks before welcoming the best Test team in the world, Zimbabwe hit a new low yesterday after losing to minnows Afghanistan by 35 runs in the first four-day match which ended at Country Club in Harare. With the trailblazing South Africans — fresh from winning a historic Test series in Sri Lanka…
HARARE – Former Sports minister David Coltart believes Zimbabwe Cricket’s latest slump at the hands of war-torn Afghanistan comes as no surprise and is a culmination of “lack of sound policy” by the sport’s leadership. In a series where the Test playing nation was expected to run over the second-tier side, Zimbabwe found themselves drawing…
