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Asiagate 2.1. Harare select in dismal loss to Burkina Faso in friendly match
Burkina Faso secured a 2-0 victory over Zimbabwe's Warriors in a friendly match played on Friday evening at the Stade El Bachir Mohammedia Stadium in Morocco.The selection of players reminds most ...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:41hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Scottland FC players to get US$10,000 if promoted to PSL
Players of Scottland Football Club have been promised a lucrative US$10,000 each if they secure the Northern Region Soccer League (NRSL) championship ahead of current table leaders, MWOS. Club preside...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Can Peter Ndlovu breathe fresh air to the embattled ZIFA?
A plethora of possible contenders are vying for the controversial post of head of Zimbabwean football as the elections to select a Zifa boss approach.Some supporters are supporting former foot...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 5704 | by Leonard Koni
7-0 win exposes Zanu-PF legislator's club Scottland
Scottland FC, a club owned by ZANU-PF legislator Pedzai Scott Sakupwanya, is under scrutiny following allegations of match-fixing in the wake of their emphatic 7-0 win over Norton Community FC. The vi...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:08hrs | 2783 | by Staff reporter
Match fixing fears overshadow thrilling Northern Region Soccer League race
The tension is palpable, and the stakes have never been higher as MWOS FC and Scottland FC find themselves locked in a fierce battle for promotion to the top-flight league in the Northern Region Socce...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:42hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa connections spared Rushwaya jail
A FORTNIGHT ago, we boldly declared "Rushwaya exhausts nine lives" in one of our headlines. How wrong we were!At the time, it seemed the chickens had finally come home to roost for Henrietta R...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak, the Matabele Warrior
A sheepish, charming young man with a broad smile when he strode in the national cricket team many eons ago the departed Heath Streak was fondly remembered in Zimbabwe cricket circles, and greatly wor...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya: A dramatic life of scandal
WHEN Henrietta Rushwaya was arrested at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in October 2020 while allegedly trying to smuggle 6 kilogrammes of gold to Dubai, many Zimbabweans believed the case was...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pay our soccer referees well
Referees are the nucleus of the game. Our football needs their services as much as we need the air to breath. The plight of referees in Zimbabwe is something not to ignore.I am penning this ar...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 14:50hrs | 14 | by Leonard Koni
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
Ndebele scoffs at suspension
SEASONED football administrator Kennedy Ndebele has scoffed at his suspension by suspended Zifa board members, saying he is unmoved by "feeble" things.The iced Zifa board dished out suspension...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIFA head for and SRC induced implosion?
ZIFA is headed for an implosion after members of the association's Congress yesterday called for an extra-ordinary general meeting to revoke the mandate of the suspended ZIFA board. The crucia...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Ndumiso Gumede dies
RESPECTED veteran football administrator Ndumiso Gumede has died.He was 76.The ex-Zifa president passed away in Bulawayo from suspected hypertension problems.His death comes ba...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 19:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak apologises
ZIMBABWE cricket legend, Heath Streak has apologised for his involvement with a shadowy character that resulted in the International Cricket Council slapping him with an eight-year ban from all cricke...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwanjale regrets not winning any league title
FORMER Zimbabwe senior national team captain, Method Mwanjale, who announced his retirement from playing football last week, has only one regret throughout his career, that is not winning the league t...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sanction Auxillia Mnangagwa and Freeze her foreign bank accounts
The first family must command respect, not demand it. This, they should do through leading by example. "Julius Caesar's wife must be above suspicion". The first lady should not be seen throwing her we...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Fifa begins probe on match fixing claims raised by top Zimbabwean ref
WORLD football governing body Fifa have begun formal investigations on the match fixing allegations raised by top referee Allen Basvi in which he accuses a member of the Zifa Refereess Committee of us...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa says Mnangagwa is clean on corruption
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa has come to the defence of President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is under fire for failing to deal with his corrupt cronies.At a media briefing Tuesday, Mliswa said the "peop...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Match fixing scandal rocks Zifa Southern Region
A CHAMPIONSHIP chasing Zifa Southern Region Division One club has been caught in a match fixing scam after its runner was nabbed trying to bribe four players from a team they were suppose to play over...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa survives Cosafa ouster
Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) has rejected Zifa's bid to recall Philip Chiyangwa from his position as the president of the regional football body.Chiyangwa is Cosa...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Afcon tourney too strong for Cosafa teams
The Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) which is being held in Egypt has proven to be a mammoth for the teams that hail from the southern region of the continent.Out of the five countries that left ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Daniel Itai
Warriors in match fixing scandal?
A French publication has reported that the Democratic Republic of Congo is being investigated for a case of possible match fixing in their game against Zimbabwe in the Afcon finals on Sunday. ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 17:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe agent gets Fifa life ban
Fifa yesterday handed a life ban to player agent Kudzanai Shaba for his alleged involvement in Asian betting syndicates linked to match-fixing.Shaba, who was in 2012 named in a Zifa report as ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe agent gets Fifa life ban
Fifa yesterday handed a life ban to player agent Kudzanai Shaba for his alleged involvement in Asian betting syndicates linked to match-fixing.Shaba, who was in 2012 named in a Zifa report as ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Musona, Nakamba clubs raided for 'match-fixing'
THE Warriors' duo of Knowledge Musona and Marvelous Nakamba's Belgian sides Anderlecht and Cercle Brugge have been raided by law enforcement agents over allegations of match fixing and private corrupt...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar to meet Mnangagwa
Former Warriors goalkeeper and coach Bruce Grobbelaar has revealed he is eyeing a role in Zimbabwe's sports industry ahead of his trip to the country next month where he expects to meet President Emme...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya dragged to court
A GROUP of miners under the banner Zvishavane-Mberengwa Miners' Association (ZMMA) has taken former Zifa chief executive officer Ms Henrietta Rushwaya to court for defying a court order by masqueradin...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Streak sacking shocks cricket fraternity
HEATH Streak sacrificed On a Good Friday… But Whose Sins is He Being Fired for?This was a tweet by one Master Eli after Zimbabwe Cricket announced that they had sacked the former Zimbabwe ca...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Asiagate haunts Zifa
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to pay a collective amount of $600 000 to a committee that investigated the match-fixing deals that came to be known as the Asiagate...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar ready to assist Warriors
AFTER spending 11 years in exile, former Zimbabwe and Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce "Jungleman" Grobbelaar says he is happy to set his foot on Zimbabwean soil again and has set his sight on helping the c...Published: 18 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede refutes old people's home stay reports
FORMER Highlanders and veteran football administrator Ndumiso Gumede (71) has cleared the air on rumours circulating in Bulawayo that he is now a resident of an Old People's Home.Ironica...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Lunch with Edzai Kasinauto
THE late Edzai Kasinauyo had plans to set up a foundation and believed his persecution over the Limpopogate match fixing scandal was a sign that God was preparing him for bigger assignments.As...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Dynamos goal against Bosso fake'
FLAMBOYANT Harare businessman and socialite Wicknell Chivayo has described Dynamos' 40th minute equalising "goal" against Highlanders in the Battle of Zimbabwe last Sunday as "fake" and also took a sw...Published: 20 May 2017 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Back to school for Highlanders players
HIGHLANDERS players temporarily abandoned their boots to attend lectures on the laws of the game, match fixing and how to prepare for life after football last Friday.The lessons were c...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Match fixing scandal, sanctions lifted
HIGHLANDERS chairman Peter Dube and Bulawayo City assistant coach Farai Mujokoro were the odd ones out when ZIFA announced the lifting of suspensions to six individuals who were sanctioned by the asso...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 09:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We don't need a foreign coach
To my fellow country men, soccer fans and analysts, to say that the warriors shamed us is an understatement. And for Sunday Chidzambwa to suggest we hire a foreign coach is an embarrassment bordering ...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 20:18hrs | | by Matigari Muchaneta
Bulawayo hosts out of contract players training camp
A training camp for premiership out of contract players is underway at the Heath Streak Cricket Academy.The camp organised by Footballers Union of Zimbabwe (FUZ) has attracted over 60 play...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya, Kasinauyo and Dube cleared of match-fixing
Former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya, axed board member Edzai Kasinauyo and fired Warriors assistant coach Nation Dube were yesterday cleared of match-fixing by the magistrates' court....Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders launch title race final push
Highlanders would seek to quickly forget its Chibuku Super Cup elimination and thrive to collect maximum points on Saturday.Highlanders face Tsholotsho in a league match at Barbourfields....Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Nothing unusual about Dynamos players leaked conversation - Board secretary
Dynamos board secretary, Mthokozisi Nkosi has said the club is not worried about the players leaked conversation saying they were merely venting their frustrations.On Sunday Dynamos easily sur...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Bosso praises DeMbare, rules out match fixing
Highlanders' goalkeeper's coach and technical advisor Cosmos Zulu has ruled out match fixing claims in a match involving rivals Dynamos and Caps United.Dynamos blew a three nil lead with five ...Published: 18 Oct 2016 at 07:35hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Dynamos players 'sold game' coach Mutasa says
Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa has suggested that his troops had a hidden agenda as they easily surrendered a three nil scoreline.Dynamos spectacularly but suspiciously collapsed on Sunday with on...Published: 17 Oct 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Match fixing claims shadow Harare derby thriller
Highlanders FC supporters and neutral football followers have raised a match fixing flag in a match pitting Caps United and Dynamos today.Dynamos raced to a three nil lead and all pointed to f...Published: 16 Oct 2016 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
Now this is sickening and disgusting - 'No to Tribalism in football'
I tried hard to ignore this but something tells me we can't ignore this.This is part of what was happening on Sunday at Emagumeni Barboufields Stadium during a League match between Highlanders...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 13:17hrs | 6 | by Ramsley Knight
Fifa, Zifa clash looms
FIFA yesterday said the participation of the Zifa presidium in the national association's sub-committees will hinder their oversight roles and is contrary to the world football governing body's best p...Published: 25 Aug 2016 at 08:07hrs | 19 | by Ngqwele Dube
Chiyangwa blames referees for violence
ZIFA president and referees committee chairman Philip Chiyangwa has blamed poor officiating for violence that has erupted at football matches in recent months. Chiyangwa said he will hold a meetin...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:18hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Former Zifa senior official faces Fifa life ban for match fixing
FORMER Zifa programmes officer Jonathan Musavengana faces a worldwide life ban from all football related activities following a recommendation by the Fifa Ethics Committee’s investigatory chambe...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 18:34hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Bulawayo City submits match-fixing report
BULAWAYO City FC and Border Strikers yesterday submitted to the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League reports on match-fixing allegations levelled against the former's technical team.City suspend...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Ricky Zililo
Bulawayo City officials appear in court for match-fixing
Bulawayo City assistant coach Farai Mujokoro and kit manager, Gift Mvala, appeared at the Beitbridge magistrate court yesterday following their arrest in a case of alleged match-fixing.The...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City 'match fixing' WhatsApp message leaked
Below is the alleged WhatsApp conversation between Border Strikers Tresurer goalkeeper (Asant'e) and Bulawayo City assistant coach Farai Mujokoro....Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 20:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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