HARARE – Dynamos have completed the signing of Zimbabwe youth international striker Thomas Kadyaridzire on a three-year deal from Zifa Harare Division Three side Total Academy. Kadyaridzire, who turns 18, this June, will now begin training with the Glamour Boys’ first team straight away but his manager Gibson Mahachi has warned not to expect too…
HARARE – Rugby was not his first chosen sport, but at 22, Brighton Chivandire was already earning his third test cap for Zimbabwe against Wales. The powerful lock went on to earn 55 tests for the Sables, five for Zimbabwe Under-23 as well as playing in several Goshawks and President’s XV games. Chivandire, remarkably, did…
JOHANNESBURG – News coming out of Zimbabwe that the government intends disbanding the elected football body led by Cuthbert Dube only goes to show how the country’s ruling elite have lost touch with the reality and events on the globe. One Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga is reported to have told the Zimbabwean Parliament that the government was…
HARARE – As pressure mounts on Zifa boss Cuthbert Dube, former chairman Trevor Carelse-Juul has emerged as favourite to land the job in the post-Dube era. Dube was left on the brink this week after Government announced plans to sack him and his entire executive on charges of gross incompetence. The Zifa boss has come…
HARARE – World football governing body Fifa is “assessing” the situation in Zimbabwe following recent threats by the Government to dissolve the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board led by the embattled president Cuthbert Dube. On Wednesday, deputy Sports minister Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga told parliamentarians that Government was on the verge of sacking Dube and his entire…
HARARE – One of the most sought-after young footballers in the English lower leagues, midfielder Tendayi Mudarikwa, has been setting League One alight with a string of impressive performances. Darikwa, who has Zimbabwean parents but has never been to the land of his origin, has excelled in recent games in the third tier of the…
HARARE – It is now just a question of when rather than if Zifa president Cuthbert Dube is booted out of office, Deputy Sports Minister Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga told reporters yesterday. Kanengoni-Malinga, who has in recent days abandoned Government’s quiet diplomacy over the embattled football governing body, followed up her similar remarks in Parliament on Wednesday…
HARARE – Cara Black and her Colombian partner yesterday bowed out of the Australian Open mixed doubles competition after going down in the quarter-finals. Juan Cabal and Black were dismissed in the last-eight match by third seeds Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor in straight sets 2-6 3-6. Mladenovic of France and Nestor of Canada fired…
HARARE – The next three weeks will provide an opportunity for new Zimbabwe cricket coach Dav Whatmore to continue ticking the right boxes ahead of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The Zimbabwean side flew out to New Zealand on Wednesday two weeks before the tournament proper begins –ample time to acclimatise to…
HARARE – Deputy Sports Minister Tabetha Kanengoni-Malinga revealed arrangements are still being made for the World Boxing Championship (WBC) and African Welterweight champion, Charles Manyuchi, to meet President Robert Mugabe. Manyuchi had requested to meet with the president after he defended his World Boxing Council international welterweight last year after beating Devis Caceres of Colombia…
