Founder and former director of Tengenenge Arts Centre Tom Blomefield is no more. He died at the age of 95 in Holland on Wednesday . Born in Johannesburg in 1926 he came to Zimbabwe in 1946 as a tobacco farmer and chrome miner. In 1966, Blomefield opened up his farm as a community of working…
FORMER Zimbabwe and Dynamos striker Edward Sadomba hopes to use the vast knowledge he has accumulated during a glittering career spurning almost two decades to help fight poverty in Zimbabwe. The World Food Programme (WFP) is currently looking for US$130 million in order to help over five million Zimbabweans in need of aid this year…
FORMER cricketer John “Jack” Hardcourt Du Preez passed on yesterday morning at Dandaro in Harare due to a cancer-related ailment, the Daily News can report.He was 77. Du Preez was a natural leg spinner, who horned his bowling skills at a tender age of seven, and went on to play over a hundred First Class…
©️ THE International Olympic Council (IOC) has released a new qualification roadmap for the Tokyo Olympic Games to be held next year giving Zimbabwean athletes renewed hope of making it to the global showpiece. Initially, the Games were supposed to have been staged in Tokyo in July and August this year but had to be…
NEWLY-PROMOTED Whawha have swooped on players with Premiership experience as they look to bolster their squad ahead of the upcoming season, completing loan deals for Lameck Nhamo and Simon Shoko from FC Platinum. The prison wardens won promotion into the Castle Lager Premiership after winning the Zifa Central Region Division One League last year. However,…
Nigel Matongorere SPORTS EDITOR matongoreren@dailynews.co.zw IT IS safe to say that Kaitano Tembo, can have the SuperSport United job for life judging by what the Super Diski club’s boss Stanley Matthews has to say about the Zimbabwean gaffer. Since hanging up his boots in 2006, the former Warriors defender has been part of the…
©️ CASTLE Lager Premiership players have shared some positive words during this current nationwide lockdown adjusting to life indoors while looking for ways to keep themselves fit amidst the coronavirus outbreak. The 2020 season was supposed to have kicked-off last month but the spread of the novel virus made it impossible. With the disease continuing…
©️ ZIMBABWE will play the 2022 Qatar World Cup group stage qualifiers on home soil despite the Confederation of African Football (Caf) condemning local stadia, Sport deputy minister Tino Machakaire has said. Last week, for the second time, Caf inspectors gave an adverse report on the state of the National Sports Stadium in Harare and…
©️ ZIMBABWE will still have to play their home international matches outside the country after the Confederation of African Football (Caf) once more deemed Barbourfields and the National Sports Stadium unfit to host international matches. Caf initially banned Zimbabwe from hosting international matches in February which meant the Warriors had to play all their remaining…
Nigel Matongorere SPORTS EDITOR ©️ THE Warriors are unlikely to play an international game this year due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, judging by what has been happening in Europe in recent weeks. Already, the two back-to-back 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group H qualifiers against Algeria scheduled for last month have been postponed….
