HARARE – South Africa’s Under-23 team has already gone into camp as they begin preparations for a 2016 Olympic Games qualifier against Zimbabwe on July 19 at Rufaro Stadium. The winner of the two-legged tie will compete at the African Under-23 Championships taking place in Dakar, Senegal from November 28 to December 15. The top…
HARARE – The Indian cricket team arrived in the country yesterday evening with experienced off-spinner, Harbhajan Singh declaring that it “will be a good series.” Zimbabwe will host India in three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 encounters beginning this Friday at Harare Sports Club. “I’m happy to be in Zimbabwe,” Singh told the Daily…
HARARE – Zifa president Cuthbert Dube and CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze are the cancer destroying the local game a commission of inquiry into the state of football was told yesterday. The inquest was initiated by the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) after Zifa suspended vice president Omega Sibanda, board member Bernard Gwarada and 12 councillors last…
MUTARE – At least 500 athletes are expected to compete in Sunday’s Tanganda Half Marathon, Manicaland Athletics Board (MAB) chairperson Joshua Matume has said. Over 300 athletes took part in last year’s edition of the annual contest which MAB partners with principal sponsors — Tanganda Tea Company to organise. Matume said preparations for the race,…
HARARE – Tenniss Zimbabwe (TZ) has intensified preparations for the forthcoming Euro-Africa Zone Group II Davis Cup play-offs against Moldova set for Harare Sports Club next week. In March, Zimbabwe suffered a humiliating 4-1 defeat at the hands of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Preparations are going on well; our players are participating in various tournaments,” TZ…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Under-17 rugby team got their Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week off to a losing start after going down 24-17 to Griquas yesterday at the Izak Steyl Stadium in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Among the try scorers for the Jack Charsley-captained side were Jeff Makoni and Antoni Ciampi. A conversion from Campbill Nyakudya and a…
HARARE – A roller coaster of emotions greeted Norman Mukondiwa’s return to the Sables fold after two years in the wilderness. The 33-year-old loose forward was making a return to the Zimbabwe rugby side two years after he was deemed surplus to requirements by former coach Brendan Dawson. Such was his sensation that the powerfully…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba coach Sunday Chidzambwa says there is no need to panic despite watching his charges slips to their second straight defeat against struggling Tsholotsho over the weekend. Instead, Chidzambwa lamented his team’s inability to finish off chances and has demanded an improvement in front of goal from his players. The former Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Givemore Makoni will chair the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) selection panel meeting this afternoon to choose the squad to face India in a home series that begins on Friday at Harare Sports Club. The outgoing convener of selectors will superintend the selection panel which comprises Zimbabwe coach Dav Whatmore, bowling coach Douglas Hondo and…
HARARE – The progress CAPS United have made since Harare businessman Farai Jere assumed control of the country’s third largest football team in May has been nothing short of remarkable. Due to the country’s declining economy, financing the club’s day-to-day operations had become a huge burden on former majority shareholder Twine Phiri. As a result…
