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Kennedy Ndebele aims to revive Zimbabwean football
Kennedy Ndebele, a candidate for the ZIFA vice-presidency, has pledged to use his extensive experience and passion for football to rejuvenate the sport in Zimbabwe. As the January 25 elections approac...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:08hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
BCC waives Bosso's $890 Stadium hire fee shortfall
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has agreed to waive a US$890.11 shortfall in stadium hire fees owed by Highlanders FC. This decision follows the club's request for leniency after an unprecedented supp...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:30hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt plans to build new stadium in Mt Hampden
In a bid to address the country's long-standing sports infrastructure challenges, Zimbabwe's Cabinet has approved a plan to invite private sector investment for the development, refurbishment, and mai...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 08:06hrs | 16378 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to regulate private security industry
Cabinet has approved the Principles of the Private Investigators and Security Guards (Control) Bill, which aims to regulate and license individuals and companies providing security services in Zimbabw...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gifts Warriors US$6,500 bonus each for AFCON qualification
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed the Zimbabwe national football team's qualification for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as a historic achievement, describing it as a "milestone sporting...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:40hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors get US$1 million for 2025 AFCON finals campaign
The Zimbabwe senior men's national football team, the Warriors, is set to receive a financial boost from the government ahead of their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign in Morocco. Finance M...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 07:19hrs | 3967 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa Stadium to be built in Mt Hampden?
In a bid to tackle the country's ongoing stadium crisis, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Recreation has recommended the construction of a new stadium in Mt Hampden, located j...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:13hrs | 11343 | by Staff reporter
Its a do or die encounter
All the roads will be leading to South Africa Johannesburg at Orlando Stadium, where the Brave Warriors of Namibia will be battling it out with the Warriors of Zimbabwe in their Africa Cup of Nations ...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 17:10hrs | 344 | by Leonard Koni
Slow-pace BF upgrades frustrate councillors
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Councillors have expressed concern over the slow pace of upgrading Barbourfields Stadium to meet international standards to host international games.According t...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:50hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Overhaul the Ministry of Sport
Do we still have the Minister of Sports in Zimbabwe? Surely this is the right time to start making some serious inroads and decisions on how they should run the most beautiful game of football in the ...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 15:37hrs | 1294 | by Leonard Koni
Homeless Dembare return to BF for 'home' fixture
Homeless Harare giants Dynamos return to Barbourfields stadium in Bulawayo this weekend for their home fixture against Hwange.Dynamos have once again been forced to use Barbourfields stadium i...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 17:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields or Heart Stadium for Dynamos 'home' games?
BARRING last minute improvements on stadia condemned as unfit to host Premier Soccer League games, giants Dynamos have the option to taking trips to Bulawayo, again, to play "home" games at Barbourfie...Published: 02 Mar 2024 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stadia crisis forces Zimbabwe PSL to delay 2024 season kick-off
The Premier Soccer League has rescheduled the start of the 2024 league season to March 9th.Initially planned for March 2nd, the commencement of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League has been ...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gatekeepers in Ministry of Sports and Arts stiffle growth and innovation
In the pursuit of progress and development, it is disheartening to witness how gatekeepers within the Ministry of Sports and Arts are hindering the growth of the arts sector. These departments, intend...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 12:43hrs | 2 | by Farai Mazango
Zimbabwe Cricket to upgrade local stadia
Zimbabwe Cricket intends to modernize local cricket stadiums to meet contemporary standards. Presently, there are three venues capable of hosting international games: Harare Sports Club, Queens Sports...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 04:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro Stadium ready to host CAPS-Dynamos clash
CAPS United and Dynamos will kick off the momentum for the 2024 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season on Sunday, February 11th, as they clash at Rufaro Stadium in the Harare Mayor's Charity Cup....Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mafume's Charity Cup to re-open CAF condemned Rufaro Stadium
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared a charity match between Dynamos and Caps United as the official reopening event for Rufaro Stadium, nearly five years after its closure. The match is scheduled f...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zifa snub Mnangagwa
THE Zifa Normalisation Committee might have shot themselves in the foot after failing to attend the commissioning of Heart Stadium by President Emerson Mnangagwa yesterday.Hundreds of people i...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:07hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zifa in embarrassing friendly U-turn
The Zifa Normalisation Committee has faced an embarrassing reversal of its decision, officially canceling a proposed friendly match against neighboring Botswana, which they had announced just 24 hours...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders issue apology
Highlanders have issued an impassioned apology to the Zimbabwean football family over crowd skirmishes that rocked the club's high profile premiership fixture with archrivals Dynamos just 33 minutes i...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 15:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors off to Botswana
The Warriors are likely to host Nigeria in Botswana for their 2026 World Cup home qualifier after Zifa Normalisation Committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa yesterday had "positive engagements" with Bots...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Yadah FC constructs Swansea Stadium lookalike
AT a time when there is a crisis of football stadia in the country, local premiership side Yadah Football Club has embarked on an audacious project to replicate the Swansea Stadium with a 40 000-seate...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:28hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reportedly eager to cut official Rufaro opening ribbon
ANTI-Riot police officers were Thursday ordered to stop Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume's commissioning of Rufaro Stadium, with unconfirmed reports indicating President Emmerson Mnangagwa was planning on do...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 19:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Dembare eye better fortunes at BF
CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League title-chasing Dynamos will seek better fortunes when they return to Barbourfields Stadium to host pass masters Yadah in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match on...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare doesn't have a football stadium good for PSL
PSL chief executive Kenny Ndebele expressed concern that the few stadia which are being used at the moment may suffer from over use which makes it vital for renovations at Rufaro to be completed....Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 14:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's Sakunda roped in for NSS renovations
GOVERNMENT have taken a giant step towards the upgrading of the National Sports Stadium after partnering energy giants Sakunda Holdings for the project.The imposing facility, just like all oth...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:13hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Dembare target ex-Caps star
DYNAMOS are desperately looking to sign a striker in the current player transfer window with their coach Herbert Maruwa yesterday revealing his club will not give up in their search for a proven goal ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry confident Warriors will play at home
Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation minister Kirsty Coventry is confident that the senior national team, the Warriors, will play their matches in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers at home following the ...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos relocates to BF, Chiwenga angry about it
GOVERNMENT has decried Harare City Council's failure and ineptitude that has seen them failing to maintain football stadia, particularly the ceremonial home of Zimbabwean football-Rufaro Stadium, resu...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 20:42hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos in controversial win
Dynamos needed two late penalties to come from behind and beat Black Rhinos at Bata Stadium for their second consecutive win.After a goalless opening half, DeMbare went behind in the 55th minu...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff reporters
Bosso bank on BF comforts
HIGHLANDERS will hope to take advantage of their intimate knowledge of every blade of grass at Barbourfields Stadium as well as their loyal followers when they clash with Caps United in a Castle Lager...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$110 000 to explore waste recycling in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s water and sanitation programme got a major boost after it secured about US$110 000 from a Dutch entity, Vitens Evides International (VIE), to conduct a one-year feasibili...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
PSL suspend matches
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has temporarily suspended matches to allow work to be done on various football stadiums around the country. Chief amongst the main reasons for the suspension is...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia!
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989, at the age of 16 years, this is probably the most painful, frank and heartfelt piece I have ever authored....Published: 19 May 2023 at 14:04hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dembare fans protest
DYNAMOS supporters are a hard lot to please.The same supporters, who extolled the team last week following the Derby win over CAPS United, were singing a different tune yesterday.A big...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will never be genuinely revered by Zimbabweans!
It was so beautiful watching the final part of the coronation of the new British monarch, King Charles III, this afternoon.Although I m...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
BCC reveals BF's capacity
AS debate surrounding the carrying capacity of the country's soccer stadia continues, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has revealed that the city's largest stadium, Barbourfields carries just under 23 ...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
PSL backtracks on alcohol sale at matches
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has issued a warning against consumption of alcohol in stadia barely a month after resolving to allow its sale at matches this season.Last weekend's Harare derb...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Take the game of football seriously
Zimbabwe celebrated its 43rd years of self rule and independence and this year's national celebrations were held for the first time in Mashonaland Central Province Mt Darwin.Forty three years ...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 23:12hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Hwange FC forced to find new home in Bulawayo
FOR the first time, Hwange FC will not play home matches at the Colliery Stadium.Founded in 1940, Hwange FC is not just a football team to the people of the coal mining town in Matabeleland No...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sub-standard stadia a Zimbabwe challenge
Football action gets underway this weekend in the country with the Premier Soccer League action programme kicking off. We are aware that teams have been preparing for the league programme and th...Published: 18 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Stadia crisis hits Harare
THE Premier Soccer League has been forced to cram four matches at the National Sports Stadium (NSS) in three days as the eagerly-awaited 2023 soccer season kicks off this weekend.There is a St...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stadia crisis looms in Zimbabwe
One of the ceremonial homes of football in the country Rufaro Stadium remains banned from use despite promises by the City of Harare that the facility will be fully upgraded by the start of the season...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains stuck in football wilderness
ON February 24, 2022, Fifa took the decision to suspend Zimbabwe from international football because of government interference in the running of the game.This was after the country's sports r...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Fire Minister Kirsty Coventry
I am not sounding like a racist but whoever thought that introducing Kirsty Coventry to take charge of the Ministry of Sport just because she excelled well in winning swimming awards needs their brain...Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 22:44hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Beyond Beijing's 'gift' to Zimbabwe
On November 23, 2022, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa gave the state of the nation address at the new iconographic parliament building that was designed, funded, built and "donated" by C...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:12hrs | 2 | by Gorden Moyo
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa dangle Super 8 Cup sweetener
ZIFA Northern Region Soccer League and its sponsors have gone out of their way to woo spectators to the Axis Solutions Super 8 Cup final between Simba Bhora and Golden Eagles on October 22.Alt...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
When a govt needs media to help highlight its achievements then it has nothing to show!
When I was still a young lad, there was a television advertisement that I used to enjoy a lot.If my memory serves me right, it was by the now comatose state-run Cold Storage Commission (CSC) -...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:37hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bosso fine harsh
HIGHLANDERS' followers feel the US$6 000 fine imposed on the club for the abandoned Castle Lager Premier Soccer league match against FC Platinum is harsh, but necessary to deter fans from hooliganism,...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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