Columnist / Sharuko
Zifa's biggest witch-hunt
DURING my youthful days in Chakari, we used to have regular visits by some chaps who were called witch-hunters.Their job, we were told, was to flush out witches within our community and we wou...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:37hrs | 183 | by Sharuko
Musona, Billiat on target for their clubs in Belgium, South Africa
KNOWLEDGE MUSONA led a cast of Zimbabwean strikers who were on target for their clubs in the Belgian and South African top-flight leagues at the weekend ahead of the international break which will see...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Norman Mapeza yet to lose a game
IT'S one of domestic football's finest success stories that has gone largely unnoticed — Norman Mapeza and his FC Platinum going for exactly a year without losing a match in the Castle Lager Premier...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Dembare fire Silva
A SHORT but stormy marriage between Dynamos and Paulo Jorge Silva finally came to an end yesterday when the Dembare leadership decided to terminate the clueless Portuguese coach's contract just five m...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Zimbabwean boxer beats Russian challenger
ZIMBABWE'S boxing superstar Charles Manyuchi served yet another notice that he is ready to challenge the globe's best when he powered to his 15th straight win by beating Russia's Dmitry Mikhaylenko la...Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Robson Sharuko and Gilbert Munetsi
Dembare to fire Silva today
PAULO Jorge Silva's disastrous short-term flirtation with Dynamos, where his shocking technical shortcomings have reduced the Glamour Boys into a punching bag, is set to come to an end today when the ...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Dynamos coach to be sacked today
PAULO Jorge Silva's disastrous short-term flirtation with Dynamos, where his shocking technical shortcomings have reduced the Glamour Boys into a punching bag, is set to come to an end today when the ...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 23:22hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Zifa, NetOne set to seal big deal
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa is today expected to tie the loose ends to a sponsorship package, estimated to be around $2 million, which will see NetOne coming on board as the flagship sponsors of t...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:30hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Ellina Mhlanga
Three former SAFA bosses suspended by FIFA
FIFA have banned former South African Football Association chief executive Leslie Sedibe for five years as part of a fresh crackdown on match-fixing that has seen the cancer dominate newspaper headlin...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
SA players implicated in match fixing: Sordid details emerge
THE whistleblower who has laid bare the latest match-fixing scandal to hit Zimbabwe football is armed with damning evidence, including a copy of a $400 000 transaction transferred into a South African...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:14hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Nation Dube implicated
ZIFA have named their former chief executive, Henrietta Rushwaya, as part of a syndicate they claim has been involved in match-fixing in the past six years while the football controlling body have axe...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Eddie Chikamhi
Sir Wicknell buys Warriors 250 pairs of football boots
ZIFA partner Wicknell Chivayo's love affair with Zimbabwe football is turning into an obsession with the businessman – who secured brand new cars for Warriors' coach Callisto Pasuwa and Mighty Warri...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:12hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Sir Wicknell buys Pasuwa a car
ZIFA partner Wicknell Chivayo has moved in quickly to ease some of the tension between the country's football controlling body and Warriors' coach Callisto Pasuwa over a contract for the gaffer by sec...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Petros Kausiyo
Prophet Magaya not running for Zifa Presidency
PROPHET Walter Magaya, who has poured a fortune in donations into ZIFA coffers and is building a 25 000-seater multi-purpose sports stadium in Harare, has dismissed suggestions that he is positioning ...Published: 07 Oct 2015 at 06:21hrs | | by Robson Sharuko and Zvamaida Murirwa
Mushekwi setting Swedish football alight
NYASHA MUSHEKWI is setting Swedish football alight, and could be attracting the attention of the world's major clubs, after becoming the second Zimbabwean footballer to lead the Golden Boot race in a ...Published: 13 May 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Dembare outclassed by Chicken Inn
IT might just have been their first league loss in David Mandigora's second coming but this was a humiliation in their fortress, with champions Dynamos crashing to their worst Premiership defeat at ho...Published: 04 May 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Chidzambwa's life ban by ZIFA has been lifted with immediate effect
SUNDAY Chidzambwa's life ban by ZIFA, for his alleged involvement in the Asiagate match-fixing saga, has been lifted with immediate effect, giving the country's most successful football coach the gree...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 08:39hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
At least Zimbabwe cricket is not as bad as England
IF you thought Zimbabwe's painful elimination from the World Cup was a disaster, then maybe spare a thought for the hapless English - that country which has politicised and poisoned its cricket relat...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 16:08hrs | | by Robson Sharuko in MELBOURNE, Australia
Bosso touch heavens with vintage show
HIGHLANDERS touched the heavens on Saturday, with a vintage second-half show that had champions written all over it, as they cleared one of their toughest hurdles in their bid to end six years of wait...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 04:20hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
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