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Bongani Mafu bags $200,000 from Ngezi Platinum
Premier Soccer League champions Ngezi Platinum Stars have been ordered by FIFA to pay former coach Bongani Mafu close to US$200,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal. The platinum miners face a dea...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:00hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Cosmas Zulu challenges Bosso intellectuals
FORTY years down the line at Highlanders FC, Cosmas Zulu has become a voice that the family cannot ignore and claims he is what he is because of the Black and White tide of Zimbabwe soccer.Zul...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 05:19hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Huge send-off for Gumede
SCORES of people thronged rural Inyathi in Bubi district today to pay their final respects to Highlanders president and veteran football administrator Ndumiso Gumede who was laid to rest at the family...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bobby Clark speaks on Bosso
FORMER Highlanders head coach Bobby Clark was delighted to hear about Bosso's 1-0 win over TelOne on Sunday. "Highlanders still means a lot to me," he says from his home near Aberdeen, Scotland....Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:55hrs | 11 | by Stephen Walsh
PSL unveils 2019 calendar
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has unveiled the 2019 calendar where the season has been scheduled to kick-off on March 30.Most clubs have ramped up their pre-season preparations and they will...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsano, Akbay reunite at Ngezi
NGEZI Platinum have appointed veteran coaches Cosmas "Tsano" Zulu and Tendai Chikuni as assistants to Erol Akbay, a Dutchman.The Dutchman was appointed the team's coach last month, with a mand...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players come to team mate's rescue
THE phrase 'in sickness and in health' is part of a signature vow that couples make before tying the knot but whether the bride and groom stick to that promise or not is always a story for another day...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Chelsea Shield players named
BULAWAYO's finest 15 footballers – unattached to professional clubs – have been named to represent the city in the search for the player who will make it into the Shield-Chelsea Africa XI squad. ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Ariel comes full circle at Bosso
MADINDA Ndlovu was in his first stint as Highlanders head coach when goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda made his senior bow for the Bulawayo football giants in 2009 after graduating from the team's development ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso to announce coach shortlist
FADING Bulawayo giants Highlanders will announce coaches shortlisted for interviews to take over from Dutchman Erol Akbay on Monday.Akbay's disastrous second season in charge of Bosso ends in ...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Modern Ngwenya justifies his meeting with Chiyangwa
HIGHLANDERS acting chairman Modern Ngwenya says there is nothing amiss about his meeting with Zimbabwe Football Association president Philip Chiyangwa whom he met in Harare last Tuesday after the much...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bosso legends speak on club crisis
Former Highlanders players believe that only unity of purpose between coach Erol Akbay and the club executive can stop the malaise currently prevailing at the Bulawayo giants.Bosso are in turm...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso board, executive, technical team and players a bunch of mercenaries
Good morning Mthwakazi Omuhle Lina ondlela zimhlophe according to my watch it is 02:53 am and the happenings at Highlanders have forced me to pick a pen and paper and write this article.My hea...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 11:31hrs | 5 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Amini Soma quits
AMINI Soma-Phiri yesterday resigned as Highlanders' assistant coach amid tensions and allegations of sabotage raised by head coach Erol Akbay on Monday.In a letter submitted to the club on Mon...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders were lucky to leave Barbourfields with a point
HARARE City coach Philani "Beefy" Ncube says Highlanders were lucky to leave Barbourfields with a point after the two teams played a goalless draw."We should have destroyed them but I just fee...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 13:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Philani Ncube mocks Highlanders after draw
Harare City coach Philani Ncube said that Highlanders lacked the mental physic when demoted goalkeepers' coach Cosmas Zulu is not on the bench.Ncube made the remarks after watching his side co...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso survive Harare City onslaught
Highlanders 0-0 Harare CityVISITING Harare City were unlucky to return to the capital with a point following a superb performance against a lacklustre Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer ...Published: 07 Aug 2017 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Soma-Phiri, Cosmas Zulu hearing team set
BULAWAYO lawyer Zibusiso Ncube will head an independent disciplinary tribunal to hear charges against suspended Highlanders' assistant coach Amini Soma-Phiri and goalkeepers' coach Cosmas "Tsano" Zulu...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Akbay working without assistant coaches
HIGHLANDERS' first team players are training in two groups, with coach Erol Akbay saying working without assistant coaches is "uncomfortable".The Bulawayo giants suspended assistant coach Amin...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho wins Orap Zenzele Chevrolet Cup
TSHOLOTSHO High School are the winners of this year's Orap Zenzele Chevrolet Champions Cup Under-20 boys section after they overpowered Mosi-oa-tunya High 4-2 on penalties in the final of the football...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 11:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
14 schools will battle it out in this year's Orap-Zenzele Chevrolet soccer tourney
Fourteen schools will battle it out in this year's Orap-Zenzele, Chevrolet champions soccer cup at Gifford High School in Bulawayo with hopes the event will unearth talent from remote areas.Sc...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 19:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bosso pays coaches
HIGHLANDERS have paid part of outstanding salaries owed to its coaches with the club pledging to settle the difference by the end of June, B-Metro Sport reported.Bosso coaches endured three mo...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso coach faces eviction
HIGHLANDERS coach Erol Akbay faces eviction from his upmarket apartment at the Ascot Shopping Centre after the club failed to pay rentals for two months, B-Metro Sport reported.The apartment i...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 11:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso unfazed by Mutuma's tainted past
Premier Soccer League football giants, Highlanders, are unfazed by new signing Roderick Mutuma's tainted disciplinary record.The former Dynamos striker signed for Highlanders this week aft...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rodrick Mutuma signs for Highlanders
Talented but controversial striker Rodrick Mutuma is finally a Highlanders FC player.Bulawayo24.com has learnt that the former Dynamos striker sealed the deal a few hours ago with Highlanders ...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 18:54hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Mutuma turns to God
Former Dynamos forward and Highlanderss trialist, Rodreck Mutuma has turned to God.The forward has not wasted any time in trying to convince Highlanders bosses that he is no longer a bad b...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I will deal with Mutuma behaviour,' says Bosso coach
HIGHLANDERS' Erol Akbay-led technical department is said to be in agreement on signing former Dynamos striker Roderick Mutuma with the Dutch gaffer promising to deal with the player's alleged some...Published: 12 Feb 2017 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso to go for a week-long training camp in South Africa
HIGHLANDERS are unlikely to play a friendly match against any top South African club when they embark on a pre-season camp in the neighbouring country whose league resumes on Friday.In his...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 Bosso senior players face the axe
FOUR senior Highlanders FC players could be on their way out of Bosso as the club concludes the signing of players for the 2017 Premier Soccer League campaign.All but one player recommende...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eric Mudzingwa in SA for trial stint
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders kicked off their pre-season training programme yesterday minus veteran utility player, Eric Mudzingwa, who is away in South Africa for a trial stint at Premiership outf...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Akbay, Mudzingwa miss Highlanders first pre-season training
Highlanders FC began pre-season training on Tuesday without head coach Erol Akbay and long standing vice captain Eric Mudzingwa.Veteran coach Cosmas Zulu conducted the session at Barbour...Published: 18 Jan 2017 at 06:02hrs | | by Alice Dube
Bosso donates groceries worth $100
HIGHLANDERS Football Club has donated groceries to a Bulawayo family that lost a granny and her granddaughter in a freak accident on Friday.Sineta Agnes Ncube (71) and her 13-year-old granddau...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:28hrs | | by Bianca Mlilo
Bosso coaches worried about security of their jobs
THE Highlanders technical department is worried about the security of their jobs in the face of a six-match winless run that has seen the Bulawayo giants dropping off the title radar.Bosso las...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Raymond Jaravaza
Chicken Inn, Bosso clash
CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League leaders Highlanders face another test when they date defending champions Chicken Inn at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow.Chicken Inn will be at home and will b...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | 2 | by Ricky Zililo
Bosso, Bulawayo City battle for bragging rights
BRAGGING rights will take centre stage compared to technical prowess when Highlanders take on new boys Bulawayo City in Sunday's derby at Barbourfields Stadium.Speaking at the club's weekly pr...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:23hrs | | by Raymond Jaravaza
'Amini Soma-Phiri did not read and understand his contract'
HIGHLANDERS have clarified that assistant coach Amini Soma-Phiri is third in the club's technical team set up and reports to technical director Cosmas Zulu and head coach Erol Akbay....Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 08:21hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Bosso mull axing coach or technical director
THE Highlanders' executive has had enough of the volatile relationship between assistant coach Amini Soma-Phiri and technical director Cosmas Zulu and is contemplating severing ties with one of them....Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
Bosso technical set-up squabble over Under-20 players
CRACKS have emerged in the Highlanders technical set-up with technical advisor Cosmas Zulu and assistant coach Amini Soma-Phiri squabbling over the choice of Under-20 players to fill the club's junior...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 05:51hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
Dutchman promises Bosso revolution
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders have been long known for their love for foreign coaches and the club leads the pack when it comes to engaging them.Some of them - like the late Eddie May - did extr...Published: 28 Feb 2016 at 17:43hrs | | by Sports reporter
Bosso's Akbay not yet on duty
NEW Highlanders head coach Erol Akbay officially starts work on Monday. He will not be on the bench when the Bulawayo giants take part in a four-team football festival scheduled for Barbourfields Stad...Published: 18 Feb 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Bukhosi Mangena
Bosso's 'Elroy Akbay' in town
HIGHLANDERS FC new coach Elroy Akbay arrived in Bulawayo today and was quickly unveiled to the media.Dutchman Elroy Akbay Elroy Akbay was also taken to Barbourfields Stadium where the players ...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 14:02hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Bosso too broke to buy players
HIGHLANDERS' chairman Peter Dube is confident that his club will be more competitive in the 2016 season despite their failure to sign big name players during the present transfer window.The Bu...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:54hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
2016 Premiership dates set
THE 2016 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season is due to kick-off in the last week of March or first week of April as the league tries to accommodate a number of international and sanctioned pre-s...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Bosso boost junior teams
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders will hold trials to beef up their junior squads this week as the club moves to revive and strengthen its once mighty junior policy.The trials are targeting Under-14...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Sports reporter
Amini Soma-Phiri 'refuses' to commit to Highlanders
HIGHLANDERS' interim coach Amini Soma-Phiri met with the club's chief executive officer Ndumiso Gumede yesterday after missing the first day of pre-season training on Tuesday, but his availability to ...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Geophrey Sifani
Amini Sima-Phiri ditches Bosso?
HIGHLANDERS started their pre-season training at Barbourfields Stadium's B arena yesterday without Amini Soma-Phiri, whose deal as interim head coach expired on December 31.The club's chief ex...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Geophrey Sifani
Highlanders over the moon
CHICKEN Inn captain Danny "Deco" Phiri was not amused with yesterday's Easycall Cup defeat to Highlanders at Barbourfields Stadium, saying his team played below par.The Gamecocks' captain, who...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 05:24hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
Give Amini Soma-Phiri the job
BIG clubs should always end every season with silverware for them to be considered successful. Highlanders finally reasserted their status as one of the big boys of domestic football by edging...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 05:23hrs | | by Dingilizwe Ntuli
Bosso dumps Dembare out of Easy cup
Highlanders 2 - 1 DynamosNINE years after they last beat the old enemy, Highlanders finally found a way to overcome Dynamos in a competitive game when they powered their way into the Easycal...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 06:08hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
Joey Antipas expresses desire to coach Highlanders FC
AFTER winning the Castle Premier Soccer League championship with two relatively small clubs, Motor Action and Chicken Inn, coach Joey Antipas yesterday revealed his desire to coach floundering Bulaway...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
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