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Bosso CEO dies
Highlanders Football Club CEO Sihlangu Dlodlo was found dead at his home in Nketa 9, Bulawayo, on Monday evening, leaving the football community in shock. His death was confirmed by close friend Allan...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:34hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat wasn't mentally strong enough to take another season with Kaizer Chiefs
FORMER Kaizer Chiefs star Khama Billiat has revealed why he walked away from the Naturena-based giants.The 34-year-old forward surprisingly left Amakhosi following the conclusion of the 2023-2...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 14:45hrs | 812 | by Staff reporter
Funeral parade for Tshinga Dube at Barbourfields Stadium
Today, Bulawayo will host a send-off funeral service for national hero Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube at Barbourfields Stadium, as the city pays tribute to one of Zimbabwe's most distinguished liberatio...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat's jersey sales smash records
Khama Billiat's jersey sales have set new records in Zimbabwe, generating an impressive R2.1 million for his club, Yadah FC. This extraordinary amount highlights the former Kaizer Chiefs star's consid...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 08:01hrs | 1454 | by Staff reporter
Pitso Mosimane sings Billiat's praises
THREE-TIME CAF Champions League-winning coach Pitso Mosimane has paid homage to his former player Khama Billiat.Billiat, 34, won the Player of the Month honour in the Zimbabwean top-flight for...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 13:52hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs cautious about facing Bosso
Bulawayo Chiefs head coach, Thulani "Thuts" Sibanda, is cautious about facing Highlanders in their derby match at Barbourfields Stadium. The Chiefs, known as Amakhosi Amahle, have recently lost key pl...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 10:24hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Long-distance buses dessert Entumbane rank
Vendors at the Entumbane bus terminus in Bulawayo are experiencing a significant decline in business as many long-distance buses have shifted to other loading points. Pre...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 06:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Katsande selling winter tracksuits
Most Kaizer Chiefs supporters will always remember Willard Katsande. The Zimbabwe legend spent 10 years playing in Amakhosi's midfield. What is he doing these days? He is a spirited hustler across dif...Published: 08 Jun 2024 at 14:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
8 hour blackout in Bulawayo's eastern suburbs
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has announced a scheduled power outage for certain eastern suburbs in Bulawayo on Tuesday.According to a statement issued...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:49hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Kaindu gets licence
FINALLY, he gets his papers. Highlanders have revealed that coach Kelvin Kaindu has secured his work permit.The coach will resume his full duties today, the club's communications officer, Nozi...Published: 18 Feb 2024 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Insimbi ZeZhwane honoured
The upcoming seventh edition of the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards (BAA) goes beyond mere celebration; it serves as a heartfelt tribute. This year, the BAA aims to pay homage to the late members of the tal...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare comes back to BF
The former league champions, Dynamos FC, are once again making their way to the City of Kings and Queens for their Week 23 match against Bulawayo Chiefs, scheduled to take place at Barbourfields Stadi...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 11:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs give up on Billiat
The Zimbabwean dribbling-wizard, who joined Amakhosi from Mamelodi Sundowns, was on the verge of renewing his contract with the club but he has disappeared without trace from the Naturena-based club. ...Published: 01 Aug 2023 at 06:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Bosso coach cries foul over Chirinda
AHEAD of their Week 16 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League tie against equally high riding Manica Diamonds set for Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday, Highlanders head coach, Baltemar Brito yesterda...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Katsande tells Khama Billiat to leave Kaizer Chiefs
KAIZER Chiefs legend Willard Katsande feels the timing is right for his "boy" Khama Billiat and Amakhosi to end their five-year marriage."Khama is my boy and my boy is a good boy. Obviously th...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Warriors players celebrate return to Fifa family
FORMER Warriors and Highlanders FC defender Bruce Kangwa has been watching the unfolding drama between Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) and FIFA concerning the return of Zimbabwe into the interna...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat 'disappears' from Kaizer Chiefs camp
Kaizer Chiefs have confirmed that Khama Billiat has failed to show up for their camp and they have no idea of his whereabouts.Billiat, whose contract with the Soweto giants came to an end last...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 15:28hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Kaizer Chiefs confirm Chivaviro's deal
Despite Richards Bay's assertion that he was their player, Kaizer Chiefs have unveiled former Marumo Gallants striker Ranga Chivaviro as one of their new signings.Chiefs confirmed yesterday th...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat to remain at Kaizer Chiefs
Former Zimbabwe Warriors midfielder Khama Billiat has reportedly agreed to a contract extension at South African giants Kaizer Chiefs.It appears the injury prone Billiat whose future at Chiefs...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 14:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Misfiring Bosso face high flying Chiefs
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders Football Club will host in-form Bulawayo Chiefs in what is anticipated to be an explosive blockbuster Castle Lager Premier Soccer League encounter at Barbourfields Stadium ...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trouble brewing in Zululand
After riding out a succession storm which rocked the nation following the death of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini in 2021, serious trouble is brewing in South Africa's most powerful monarchy as new Zul...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Chiefs to build on Dembare win
IT was a weekend of firsts for Bulawayo Chiefs Football Club who registered their first win of the 2023 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season, recording their first win against giants Dynamos in H...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare supporters unhappy
A BRACE fired by debutant Calvin "Kung-Fu Panda" Chigonero, a goal plus two assists against Dynamos by Mthokozisi Msebe and axing of Green Fuel coaches are some of the major weekend Castle Lager Premi...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chicken Inn win Hadebe dispute against Kaizer Chiefs
IN a protracted monetary benefits dispute between Castle Lager Premier Soccer League former champions Chicken Inn and South Africa's DStv Premiership side Kaizer Chiefs over the 2019 transfer of Zimba...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Highlanders recall Reward Muza
HIGHLANDERS Football Club have recalled goalkeeper Reward Muza from his six-month long loan to relegated Bulawayo City.Muza joined Amakhosi in July last year and immediately wrestled the start...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
AbakwaMzilikazi embraced and hailed by Amakhosi in S.A
AbakwaMzilikazi over the weekend hosted a successful glamorous end of the year Gathering together with traditional leaders from across Kwazulu Natal and KwaNdebele in Mpumalanga South Africa (SA). The...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 17:01hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo Chiefs in Chibuku Super Cup final
BULAWAYO Chiefs and Herentals wrote their own piece of history by booking their first appearance in the final of the Chibuku Super Cup to be played on November 19 at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo....Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City coach attacks players
BULAWAYO City Football Club head coach, Farai Tawarechera was left with no option but to seemingly call his players "fools" for engaging in industrial action ahead of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
The changing landscape of Makokoba suburb
MAKOKOBA, the oldest township and the first black African suburb in the City of Queens and Kings was named after the actions of one Mr Fallon, the native commissioner at the time, who used to walk aro...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga national hero status snub sparks Parly debate
GOVERNMENT's failure to bestow national hero status on late arts icon Continue-loving (Cont) Mhlanga was Thursday questioned in Parliament, with legislator Sipho Mokone claiming the snub had angered t...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis cripples Bulawayo hospitals, clinics
AN acute water crisis is threatening operations at Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) which are the city's major public hospitals as they are going for several days without run...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Pipe burst plunges Makokoba into water crisis
RESIDENTS in eight suburbs in Bulawayo have been plunged into a new water crisis following a pipe burst, which resulted in a big section of Masotsha Ndlovu Road near Amakhosi Cultural Centre caving in...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National hero Cont Mhlanga buried on ancestral lands
THE urban and rural worlds collided yesterday in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province as villagers, artistes and high-profile dignitaries from various fields came to bid a spectacular farewell...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exhibited traits of tribalism on Cont Mhlanga's national hero status
Observers have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of exhibiting traits of tribalism by failing to accord national hero status to the late legendary Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director ...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
POETRY: Cont Mhlanga, The Legend
Cont Mhlanga, a fine fount of knowhow, Words, words are not adequate to describe howYou lived and touched the lives of many a soul, May your lovely legacy of ...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:21hrs | 6 | by Ndaba Sibanda
Rasta to paint Cont Mhlanga
SOUTH Africa-based, Zimbabwean visual artiste painter, Rasta the artiste, is in Bulawayo to honour the late arts legend Cont Mhlanga.The Pumula East born Rasta, real name Lebani Sirenje, arriv...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribute to arts legend Cont Mhlanga
On my on behalf and that of my organisation, Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme (RLRDP), I convey my sincere condolences to Mrs Mhlanga, family and the arts fraternity in Zimbabwe on ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Dr Obadiah Thembani Moyo
National Hero Cont Mhlanga memorial set for tomorrow
THE memorial service for the late arts doyen Cont Mhlanga will be held tomorrow at the Amphitheatre in Bulawayo, before a drive through the city in his honour ahead of his burial in Lupane, Matabelela...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Cont
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2,5 million for funeral expenses.This was revealed by Bulawayo Minister of Stat...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi Community Parliament: Condolence message to the Mhlanga family
The entire Nkayi Community Parliament is deeply sorry and saddened by the untimely passing on of our cultural and arts doyen, Mr Continueloving Mhlanga, p...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 22:14hrs | 14 | by Nhlanhla Moses Ncube
National hero Cont Mhlanga gets State assisted funeral
President Mnangagwa has accorded the late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2.5 million.This was announced by Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Cont Mhlanga dies
Zimbabwean playwright, film-maker and theatre director who is also the founder of Amakhosi Theatre Productions Company Cont Mdladla Mhlanga has died....Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 10:25hrs | 8 | by Ndou Paul
Brito expects tough battle against relegation candidates Tenax
DESPITE their opponents Tenax languishing on the wrong end of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League log standings, Highlanders coach Baltemar Brito is anticipating a tough battle this afternoon when ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joel Ngodzo still Bosso player
HIGHLANDERS have insisted that Joel Ngodzo is still their player following reports that the club has gotten rid of the midfielder.Ngodzo was reportedly on his way to Bulawayo City on loan as B...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwaruwari's Ngezi Platinum return to winning ways
Bulawayo City 0 - 3 Ngezi Platinum StarsNGEZI Platinum Stars coach, Benjani Mwaruwari was a relieved man after his team returned to winning ways in the Castle Lager Premier League with a res...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major road rehab projects begin in Bulawayo
A massive rehabilitation of critical roads is set to begin in Bulawayo under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2), as the Government presses ahead with efforts to improve roads ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police operation targets buses
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched an operation targeting long distance buses using illegal pick-up points, impounding the vehicles and arresting both drivers and passengers.The operation starte...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beefy makes match fixing claims after loss to FC Platinum
Bulawayo City 0 - 2 FC PlatinumBULAWAYO City coach, Philani "Beefy" Ncube accused his players of engaging in match fixing after they conceded two soft goals to lose to FC Platinum in a Castle Lage...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
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