HARARE – Aspiring Fifa presidents will address the Cosafa Annual general Meeting in Johannesburg on December 19. The 14 members of Cosafa Angola, Botswana, the Comoros Islands, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, the Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe will be meeting to set the path for the organisation for the coming 12…
HARARE – NetOne chief executive Reward Kangai says his company will not tolerate football hooligans after the chaotic scenes witnessed last week at Barbourfields Stadium during the EasyCall Cup semi-finals. The cellular service provider pumps in over $500 000 into the competition and they were not impressed by rowdy CAPS United fans, who assaulted Chicken…
HARARE – Premier Soccer League chief executive Kenny Ndebele yesterday insisted the directive by Zifa to have the league hold fresh elections to choose a new chairperson is not in tandem with their constitution. Zifa board led by newly-elected president Philip Chiyangwa on Tuesday had ordered the PSL to hold elections since Twine Phiri was…
HARARE – A few people have asked the rather large question: Why does Philip Chiyangwa want to lead the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa)? Wouldn’t he rather lead Zanu PF? Others have asked the question: Why would anyone want to be led by Chiyangwa, rather than by Idi Amin or even Adolf Hitler? A few pundits…
HARARE – CAPS United insist there is no need for the Premier Soccer League to elect a new chairperson since Twine Phiri remains their representative on the league’s board of governors. Makepekepe board chairperson Lewis Uriri yesterday wrote to PSL chief executive officer Kenny Ndebele conveying his club’s position. [GoogleAd] The Harare club were forced…
HARARE – Barbourfields Stadium will host the 2015 NetOne Easycall Cup final between Highlanders and Chicken Inn on Sunday, the Premier Soccer League confirmed yesterday. The match will be broadcast live on SuperSport. [GoogleAd] Sunday’s final between Highlanders and newly-crowned league champions Chicken Inn will be the first time since 2013 that two clubs from…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa yesterday came out from his first board meeting announcing he will be going on leave while revealing the association’s resolutions to engage KPMG to conduct a forensic audit. Chiyangwa received an overwhelming seal of approval from the Zifa councillors following a landslide victory that catapulted him to succeed…
HARARE – Freddy Mkwesha, a Dynamos legend and founding member, who became one of the finest footballers to grace the scene in pre-independent Zimbabwe, died yesterday at Harare Central Hospital after a battle with diabetes. He was 74. Mourners are gathered at 6815 Glen Norah A Flats in Harare. [GoogleAd] Mkwesha, who was there in…
HARARE – A five-decade friendship between two of pre-independent Zimbabwe’s greatest footballers came to an end yesterday when the angel of death claimed the life of Freddy Mkwesha, leaving George Shaya’s wife fearing for her husband’s health. Shaya was inconsolable yesterday as he arrived in the high density suburb of Glen Norah A to pay…
HARARE – I have triumphed in a national election that was more vicious, gruelling, bitter, most personalised, in the shortest electioneering period and above all employing the full arsenal of traditional media and multi-media stratagems in ways that have never been seen before in Africa. This election had more intrigue, subterfuge, and drama than the…
