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Authorities unleash sweeping crackdown on forex market
IN a renewed bid to contain the runaway foreign exchange rate - now trading at double the official rate around US$1: ZW$170 - the government has launched a fierce crackdown on currency traders in a mu...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA come out guns blazing
THE ZIFA board have come out with guns blazing, accusing the Sports and Recreation of angling for the dissolution of their leadership, and saying the suspension of chief executive, Joseph Mamutse, wil...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
FIFA slap ex-Zifa official with life ban
Former ZIFA official Jonathan Musavengana has been handed a life ban from all football activities over his involvement in bribery and corruption.Musavengana worked as Zifa programmes officer i...Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Blow for Chiyangwa
A Harare magistrate yesterday delivered a hammer blow to the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and its president Philip Chiyangwa - when she set free the association's former chief executive He...Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 14:35hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Whistle-blower exposes Benjani, Rushwaya romantic affair
Former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya was reportedly in a romantic relationship with former Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari, the court heard yesterday.This was said by Leeroy K...Published: 19 Oct 2016 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo pledges to give Warriors $250 000 to qualify for Gabon
ZIFA benefactor Wicknell Chivayo, charmed by the Warriors' destruction of Swaziland in a 2017 Nations Cup qualifier, has showered the squad with Samsung Galaxy S7 phones and dangled a massive $250 000...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Petros Kausiyo
Arubi not bothered about Limpopogate
WARRIORS' goalkeeper Washington Arubi, who has been sucked into the match-fixing scandal following allegations that he received dirty money, says he is not bothered by the allegations and is rather fo...Published: 25 Mar 2016 at 11:49hrs | | by Grace Chingoma
Fifa disown Rushwaya
WORLD football governing body Fifa says it never contracted chief trans-Limpopo match-fixing accused Henrietta Rushwaya to penetrate the betting underworld.Rushwaya had claimed that her involv...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 05:56hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Fingered SA-based Zim players rubbish match-fixing claims
THE facts around the Zimbabwean football match-fixing scandal, which has spilled over into South Africa's Premier Soccer League, grow murkier, with a crop of fresh allegations against local players....Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA authorities meet in Cape Town today over match fixing
MORE graphic details of the match-fixing scandal that exploded last week, are expected to emerge today after an emergency high-powered joint meeting of Zimbabwean and South African government and foot...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:31hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Anti-corruption consultant: My story
THE sporting world is facing an unprecedented crisis. Thanks to globalisation - a phenomenon never previously seen - the sports gambling markets and organised crime have turned football into a cash co...Published: 15 Mar 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Terry Steans
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
Rushwaya fixing extended to South Africa
A MEMBER of a shadowy Asian betting syndicate, which plotted to fix matches in the South African Premiership and is accused by ZIFA of trying to manipulate Zimbabwe's 2017 Nations Cup qualifiers again...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Robson Sharuko
Adidas SA disowns Kasinauyo
ADIDAS South Africa say they no longer have a relationship with suspended Zifa board member for development Edzai Kasinauyo. The former Warriors midfielder, who was suspended on Tuesday together with ...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:29hrs | | by Phineas Mukwazo
Rushwaya admits meeting fixers
EMBATTLED former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya has confirmed being in communication with an Asian match-fixer, while Ian Gorowa has challenged those accusing him of corruption to report him ...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Makomborero Mutimukulu
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
Kasinauyo fights back
LAWYERS representing Edzai Kasinauyo have demanded that ZIFA furnish them with the evidence they used to implicate him, in the match-fixing scandal rocking Zimbabwe football, by 11am today or face an ...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 05:52hrs | | by Sports Reporter
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
Zifa to review Asiagate bans
AS part of fulfilling his campaign promise, Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa's executive will review the Asiagate bans at their next meeting.The bans to several players and individuals were im...Published: 04 Jan 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Match-fixer arrested again
SINGAPORE - A Singaporean accused of leading the world's largest football match-fixing syndicate was rearrested in the city-state on Tuesday about a week after he was freed by the country's highest co...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 22:54hrs | | by AFP
Bafana Bafana, Warriors 2010 match investigated by FIFA
Johannesburg - Match-fixing involving Bafana Bafana probably pre-dates the friendlies leading into the 2010 FIFA World Cup, former FIFA investigator Terry Steans said.Steans was commissioned b...Published: 02 Jun 2014 at 11:28hrs | | by Sapa
Zifa offers Ian Gorowa a long term contract
IN a show of confidence Zifa has offered the Zimbabwe Warriors coach Ian 'Dibango' Gorowa a long term contract whose details will be made public soon. Gorowa took over the reigns as the national team...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 05:13hrs | | by Sports reporter
Rushwaya not yet off the hook, as Zifa decides to appeal acquittal
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) will this week file an appeal with the High Court against the acquittal of their former chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya, who was facing nine co...Published: 15 Sep 2013 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Asiagate scandal saga lesson for Zifa
ZIFA have drawn a number of lessons from the Asiagate scandal which they hope will help curb incidences of match-fixing.This was said by Zifa president Cuthbert Dube on Wednesday in a telephon...Published: 02 Aug 2013 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zifa president clashes with Fifa over Asiagate
Zifa president Cuthbert Dube has vowed to get Asiagate match-fixing suspects arrested even if they are cleared of any wrongdoing by Fifa.A defiant Dube said Zifa would engage Zimbabwe's law-en...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 13:23hrs | | by Sports reporter
Asiagate to benefit other nations says Gumede
ZIFA vice-president Ndumiso Gumede believes that Zimbabwe's experience with the Asiagate scam will benefit fellow African associations in their bid to avert and combat match-fixing which is threatenin...Published: 29 Aug 2012 at 04:28hrs | | by Sports reporter
Jailed match-fixer tried to get Zim citizenship
JAILED serial soccer matches' fixer Singaporean Wilson Raj Perumal last year sought to acquire a Zimbabwean passport in a bid to disguise himself as he faced the wrath of the law in many countries....Published: 04 Jul 2012 at 07:33hrs | | by Sports reporter
Rushwaya to institute legal action over fixing claims
Henrietta Rushwaya, former Zifa chief executive officer, has came out guns blazing, refuting allegations that she was behind the Warriors' dismal performance in the last two 2014 World Cup qualifiers...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 06:06hrs | | by Sports Reporter
We will never trust the 'iron lady' with our balls again
When Henrietta Rushwaya was appointed ZIFA CEO, Zimbabweans hoped a woman running the country's football-governing body would bring sanity, stability to the beautiful game as well as champion the caus...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 15:32hrs | | by Anonymous
Fifa unlikely to pardon Zim match fixers
Fifa is unlikely to pardon Zimbabwean players and the countrys football administrators that were allegedly involved in match-fixing.There was hope among alleged match-fixers when Fifa, after ...Published: 19 Jan 2012 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
No amnesty for Asiagate match-fixers
FIFA head of security Chris Eaton has declared that there won't be any amnesty for individuals who were involved in match-fixing, effectively throwing the future of a number of Zimbabwe internationals...Published: 25 Sep 2011 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
World game: the tentacles of corruption
While the local Asiagate probe is still to make much headway against the background of the sincerity of the report being questioned and a host of denials also being issued against it, the match-fixing...Published: 20 Jul 2011 at 08:33hrs | | by Asiagate
Zim players 'match-fixers' future looks bleak
The future of Zimbabwean players accused of match-fixing while on tours in Asia during 2008 and 2009 continues to look bleak following revelations that a Fifa anti-corruption team will next week refer...Published: 01 Jul 2011 at 15:15hrs | | by Mxolisi Ncube
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