LUSAKA – The Zimbabwe national football team begin their Cosafa Cup defence Saturday afternoon when they face Malawi in the first quarterfinal match at Nkoloma Stadium in Zambia. The Warriors are four-time winners of the Cosafa Cup and are defending champions of the tournament, which is back after a three-year forced sabbatical due to lack…
BULAWAYO – The Southern Region Division One League takes a breather this weekend to make way for the Machache Meats Tournament which is now in the quarterfinal stage. Former Premiership side Quelaton will play police outfit Black Boots on Saturday at Luveve Stadium in the only encounter that will be played in Bulawayo. Quelaton booked…
BULAWAYO – Chicken Inn will be out to complete a double over their more illustrious city neighbours Highlanders when the two teams clash in a Castle Premiership reverse fixture at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. The Gamecocks beat Bosso 1-0 in the first half of the season through a Kudakwashe Mahachi strike and their head coach…
POLOKWANE – The Zimbabwe schools’ rugby team’s impressive run at the ongoing 2013 Coca-Cola Craven Week can be attributed to the form of mercurial fullback Brendon Mandivenga. The Peterhouse College rugby star has been in impressive form for the Young Sables here in Polokwane starring in both wins over Griquas and Limpopo Blue Bulls. Mandivenga,…
HARARE – Dynamos star defender Patson Jaure has challenged his teammates to look within themselves and provide a quick response when they host Buffaloes in a Castle Premiership tie at Rufaro on Sunday. The Glamour Boys are short on confidence after having lost 1-0 to league debutants How Mine last weekend in a tension-filled match…
HARARE – The new look Zimbabwe national rugby team stunned Madagascar 18-38 in front of a 40 000-strong home crowd in Antananarivo on Wednesday in the Africa Cup opening match. The ill-tempered match almost ended in tragedy when Sables front rower Simba Mandioma had a piece of his ear bitten off by a Malagasy player…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national football team will leave for Zambia Thursday morning for the Cosafa Cup aboard a chartered plane, Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) confirmed last night. Coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels and his squad had been scheduled to endure a six-hour drive to Lusaka but they were given a morale booster after it emerged that…
HARARE – Zimbabwe national football team utility player Hardlife Zvirekwi has urged his teammates to use their 2014 World Cup disappointment as motivation ahead of the Cosafa Cup. The Warriors begin their defence of the title they won in 2009, when they clash in the quarterfinals against the Flames of Malawi this Saturday at Nkoloma…
MADAGASCAR – Zimbabwe can once again be a great rugby-playing nation. We have the talent, the passion and determination to make it happen. Unfortunately, like many institutions in the country, rugby has suffered from the ongoing instability in our social, political and economic environment. Currently our clubs and the union are run on shoe-string budgets…
HARARE – Judo Association of Zimbabwe (Jaz) took the first step in its next four-year long term athlete development plan by winning two bronze medals in the South African Open Judo Championships held last weekend in Port Elizabeth. Zimbabwe won their medals through Liberty Arufandika in the Under-60kg division and Tatenda Guta Under-90kg. Arufandika fought…
