HARARE – Dynamos’ stranglehold on the Soccer Star of the Year award is under threat with ZPC Kariba defender Dennis Dauda tipped for this this years’ award. For the past three years, the Glamour Boys have provided the country’s finest footballer of the season, having lifted the Castle Premiership title during that period. Washington Arubi,…
JOHANNESBURG – Natalie Thain, a New Zealand business woman and former Zimbabwean swimmer, has taken over as the new board director at the Crusaders. Crusaders chairman Murray Ellis has stepped down from the Crusaders board and is retiring after fifteen years on the board and seven as chairman. He said he continued to be passionate…
HARARE – More than 200 junior tennis players from across the country will converge at Harare Sports Club today for the second edition of Select Healthcare junior tennis tournament. Bankrolled by Select Healthcare Private Limited, the tournament ends on Sunday with winners set to walk away with trophies, shields, certificates and medals. Farai Tapfuma, the…
HARARE – Harare City have adopted a European model of coaching, an approach the Sunshine Boys feel will not only lift the standards of football at the club but the country in general. City yesterday unveiled a “star-studded” technical bench based on strong youth development, feeding into the first team. In the first team, new…
JOHANNESBURG – If Phillip Hughes was fatally unlucky to be killed by a single blow of a cricket ball, then Mark Vermeulen is fortunate to still be alive. The Zimbabwe batsman was struck on the head on three different occasions during his career, twice sustaining a fractured skull. The consequences included depression, temporary insanity, an…
HARARE – Former CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro, who have been heavily linked with a move to succeed Calisto Pasuwa at Dynamos, is set to be unveiled as the Harare coach today. Mangwiro, together with his United assistants, Mike Madzivanyika and Richard Tswatswa, will replace the Masimba Dinyero-led technical bench which saved City from the…
HARARE – Highlanders have been ordered to pay former midfielder Masimba Mambare $10 000 in outstanding signing-on fees by a Bulawayo independent labour arbitrator. Mambare and Bosso were embroiled in the legal dispute since the midfielder moved to the Bulawayo giants’ arch-rivals Dynamos at the beginning of this year under the Bosman ruling. The former…
HARARE – CAPS United have been in the headlines for “helping” Dynamos win their fourth straight league title in succession. Many theories have been thrown around to explain why CAPS have become Dynamos’ friend in need. The first theory says that Taurai Mangwiro, who coached CAPS United before his resignation last Friday, had Dynamos links…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s swimming team concluded the 12th Fina Swimming World Championships in Doha yesterday after recording some commendable times, and are now hoping to carry their form into the African Union Sports Commission (AUSC) Region 5 Youth Games. The six swimmers were expected to arrive in Harare from Doha yesterday and will proceed to…
HARARE – Annual National Sports Awards (Ansa) nominee Patrick Mukondiwa will miss the ceremony next week as he will be attending a World Boxing Council (WBC) convention in Las Vegas, United States. Mukondiwa, who was nominated for the award of Technical Official of the Year, will battle it out for the gong with Rick Fulton…
