HARARE – Fifty two-year-old Day Muyambo rolled back the years to deny Ryan Cairns a sixth professional title inside 12 months with a dramatic one stroke victory at the Golden Pilsener Harare Open at Chapman Golf Club yesterday. Muyambo carded 70 to finish with a gross total score of six-under-par 210 to walk away with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe leading triathlete Chris Felgate is looking for a podium finish during his last International race at Troutbeck next weekend. The annual Troutbeck African Triathlon championship will be Felgate’s last International event before he finally calls it quits at the BSG tri- series race in South Africa on December 2. “Troutbeck will be…
HARARE – Chipinge-born defender Blessing Zabula has become a key fixture in the Makepekepe rear guard since the mid-season departure of former coach Irishman Sean Connor. The Irishman’s successor, Taurai Mangwiro, immediately handed Zabula a first team jersey. The all-action defender hasn’t disappointed in central defence where he has partnered former Monomotapa captain Tawanda Munyanduri….
HARARE – FC Platinum are on a mission to end Monomotapa’s dominance over them when the two sides clash in the Mbada Diamonds Cup semifinal at Mutare’s Sakubva Stadium this afternoon. Monomotapa completed a league double over the Zvishavane side this season. In June, the 2008 Zimbabwe champions beat Platinum 2-0 in Harare before humiliating…
HARARE – Dynamos this week wrote to the Premier Soccer League (PSL) expressing concern over the use of Bulawayo’s Barbourfields Stadium for their Mbada Diamonds Cup semifinal clash with CAPS United tomorrow. The title holders finally agreed to play in the city after receiving a security guarantee from the league chiefs. “The choice of venue…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has named four new caps, all from Matabeleland Warriors, in the starting team to face Namibia in today’s Windhoek Lager Tri-Nation Series opener at Hage Geingob National Rugby Stadium in Windhoek. All four debutants are in the forwards with flankers Biselele Tshamala and Lucky Tshuma completing a new-look loose trio with Old…
BRAZZAVILLE – Ministers of sport in Africa meet in Brazzaville, Congo, to consider recommendations to reconfigure the management of sport on the continent including the organisation of the All-Africa Games. The ministers will meet in an extraordinary general assembly of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) today. The SCSA, formed in 1966, is…
HARARE – Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) director general Charles Nhemachena was elected into the executive Committee of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (CSCSA) on Wednesday in Maseru, Lesotho. Nhemachena is now the chairperson of CSCA’s Zone Six finance and marketing commission. The new Zone Six chairperson is Namibian Vetumbuavi Veii with…
JOHANNESBURG – Former Dynamos striker Takesure Chinyama’s beautifully- curled effort helped South African champions Orlando Pirates beat struggling Sundowns 3-1 at the Loftus Versfield Stadium on Wednesday night in an Absa Premiership match. Sundowns got off to a brighter start right from the whistle where they immediately threatened at goal with a Teko Modise free-kick…
HARARE – Heinrich Vos, a former Mr Universe and reigning South African champion, will lead an all-star cast of bodybuilders set to descend on the Zimbabwean capital next Saturday for the highly-anticipated All-Africa Olympia. Nicknamed “The Fox” Vos, alongside fellow countrymen Shameen Adams and Vusimuzi Njisane will be part of a star-studded list for Africa’s…
