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No to vote-buying in PSL elections
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) will on July 25 elect a new chairman to replace Farai Jere, who stepped down earlier this year to pursue the ZIFA presidency. The upcoming election has been widely prai...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 12:31hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Losers withdraw appeal against Zifa's Magwizi
Former Premier Soccer League chairperson Twine Phiri and ex-ZIFA financial director Phillemon Machana have withdrawn their appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), effectively clearing the ...Published: 12 Feb 2025 at 20:03hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo trying to bribe losing ZIFA candidates?
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has offered a "private settlement" to appease losing candidates in the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidential election, dismissing allegations that his financia...Published: 02 Feb 2025 at 18:57hrs | 4011 | by Staff reporter
Lincoln Mutasa admits fault in former players' election defeats
Outgoing ZIFA Normalization Committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa has admitted that the body he led is partly to blame for the disappointing defeat of all former players in the recent ZIFA elections. S...Published: 29 Jan 2025 at 08:51hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo in Zifa Presidential race vote manipulation scandal
Controversial millionaire businessman Wicknell Chivayo has been accused of attempting to manipulate Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections after he promised to buy brand-new vehicles for all 7...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 16:16hrs | 2449 | by Staff reporter
Makwinji fails to vote for himself as Nqobile is elected ZIFA President
Nqobile Magwizi has clinched the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency in a landslide victory, securing 61 out of 77 votes (80%) during an election overshadowed by allegations of vote-buying...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 15:26hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Magwizi wins ZIFA presidency, by far
Nqobile Magwizi has been unanimously voted and confirmed as president-elect for the Zimbabwe Football Association after garnering 61 out of the 78 votes during the ongoing polls.The officials ...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 13:26hrs | 1155 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Prophet Magaya fails to produce O' levels proof
Controversial self-proclaimed prophet and football club owner Walter Magaya has failed in his court bid to halt the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidential elections, scheduled for January 2...Published: 24 Jan 2025 at 05:41hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya fights O' Level demand
ZIFA presidential aspirant Walter Magaya has officially lodged a challenge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), disputing the demand for an O' Level certificate for candidates vying for the as...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:38hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Magaya versus Zifa legal drama deferred
Legal drama unfolded yesterday as lawyers for Prophet Walter Magaya, disqualified ZIFA presidential aspirant and Yadah Stars president, argued for his inclusion on the final list of candidates for the...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 05:46hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zifa elections face first hurdle
The upcoming Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board elections on January 25 are facing significant legal challenges as two High Court cases and a pending decision at the Court of Arbitration for S...Published: 14 Jan 2025 at 14:15hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri warns dummy ZIFA presidential candidates, launches own manifesto
Zimbabwe Football Association presidential hopeful, Twine Phiri has warned all dummy candidates allegedly targeting to spoil the race in reviving the country's football fraternity during the forthcomi...Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:26hrs | 1216 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Farai Jere's O-Level certificate bears the name Farai Mutimbo
The ZIFA Electoral Committee, chaired by Lincoln Mutasa, has reaffirmed its commitment to adhering strictly to the rules and regulations set by the ZIFA Congress, as the field for the association's pr...Published: 25 Dec 2024 at 08:17hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa claims ZIFA Ethics Committee compromised, to appeal
The Zimbabwe Football Association presidential hopeful, Temba Mliswa, who did not meet the eligibility criteria this Monday alleges that the country's football governing body is compromised and too co...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 12:58hrs | 1038 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Hooray! Farai Jere fails eligibility test
Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairperson Farai Jere's ambition to ascend to the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) presidency has hit a dead end after he failed the eligibility vetting process. The Z...Published: 24 Dec 2024 at 11:50hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
Mudslinging, namedropping intensify ahead of ZIFA polls
The race for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency has intensified, with candidates raising objections against rivals as the vetting of their credentials continues. The elections, set fo...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 15:43hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Infrastructure development takes centre stage at Zifa polls
In just eight days, the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Electoral Committee will reveal the names of candidates who have passed the integrity test for the upcoming ZIFA board elections. Among the...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:10hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zifa candidates undergo vetting
With the deadline for the submission of nomination papers for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections having passed on Wednesday, the electoral committee has now begun the critical task of ...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:35hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
8 file papers for Zifa presidency, Prophet Magaya missing
At least eight candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) presidency, with nominations set to close this Wednesday. The much-anticipated elections wil...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:28hrs | 2971 | by Staff reporter
We need Zacc in the Zifa elections
With the 2024 soccer season gone, the Zifa elections are dominating headlines everywhere with all sorts of names being thrown around as possible successors to Felton Kamambo.Since nominations ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:26hrs | 46 | by Michael Kariati
ZIFA elections trigger controversy
With the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections looming, the race to elect a new president, vice presidents, and committee members has taken a dramatic turn, mired in allegations of corruption...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 11:34hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
9 vie for Zifa top post
As the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) prepares for its presidential election on January 25, at least nine candidates have formally expressed their interest in running for the coveted position....Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 06:56hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
Benza rules himself out of ZIFA Presidential race
Herentals FC owner, Innocent Benza, has officially ruled himself out of the race for the ZIFA presidency ahead of elections scheduled for January. Despite receiving numerous calls from stakeholders ur...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:13hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Zifa tells ex-footballers to 'go back to school'
Former Mighty Warriors coach Rosemary Mugadza has called on former footballers aspiring to lead the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to pursue education if they want to qualify for top positions w...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:12hrs | 1818 | by Staff reporter
Jostling for top Zifa posts starts
While the date for the upcoming ZIFA elections is yet to be set, lobbying for votes is already in full swing. Bulawayo-based members of the ZIFA voting cluster met with two prospective presidential ca...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:43hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe football fraternity divided over 5 O' Levels clause
Zimbabwe's football community finds itself divided ahead of the crucial ZIFA elections scheduled for January 2025. With the Lincoln Mutasa-led Normalisation Committee's term expiring at the start of t...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 17:42hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe football practitioners must self-introspect'
TWINE Phiri the former Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League chairman, has demanded that all football practitioners do a self-introspection of themselves as the league celebrates 30 years and the country 60 ...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Lovemore Dube
Befitting send-off for Mugabe
CAPS United legend Joe "Kode" Mugabe, who died early last month, received a huge send-off at a service held at Raylton Sports Club ahead of his burial at Glen Forest Cemetery in Harare yesterday....Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa could bounce back at Zifa
FORMER Zifa president and property magnate Phillip Chiyangwa could make a spectacular return to 53 Livingstone Way if an audacious plan by some councillors to bring him back succeeds.Chiyangwa...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mhlauri opens up on coaching career, poultry business
GROWING up and playing football in the grubby streets of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo, all Charles Mhlauri wanted to do was to be a footballer of note.It didn't therefore come as a ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jere orchestrating Kenny Ndebele ouster plot?
PREMIER Soccer League supremo Farai Jere has rubbished social media reports that he is orchestrating the ouster of the league's chief executive officer Kennedy Ndebele and replace him with his close a...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Twine Phiri acquitted
FORMER Premier Soccer League chairman, Twine Phiri, who was recently accused of defaulting paying his ex-wife maintenance backdated to 2014, was yesterday acquitted of the charges by a Harare magistra...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 10:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri chides 'ungrateful' former wife
FORMER Premier Soccer League chairman Twine Phiri, who is shuttling between his home and court an average of three times a week over a maintenance default charge backdated to 2014 yesterday hit back a...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri on the run
FORMER football administrator Twine Ibrahim Phiri, 49, has been declared a fugitive after a Harare magistrate issued him with a warrant of arrest for failing to turn up for trial in a maintenance case...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSL ends SuperSport broadcasting deal
AFTER ending their maiden broadcasting deal with SuperSport International last December, the Premier Soccer League have begun the search for a new partner to beam the top-flight for the next fiv...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa bars Bosso elections
Zifa have barred Highlanders from holding its scheduled elections slated for the first week of February, as the governing body is still yet to deal with the suspension of Bosso chairman Peter Dube....Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chiyangwa's world crumbles
When it rains, it pours. The old adage rings true in the case of Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa after the association's former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze came out guns blazing, accusing th...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri convicted
A Harare magistrate yesterday convicted former Premier Soccer League club, Caps United president Twine Phiri who had defaulted paying more $6 000 maintenance fees to ex-wife for the upkeep of his thre...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri spared jail
FORMER CAPS United boss Twine Phiri was yesterday spared jail again for failing to pay maintenance for the upkeep of his children.Phiri was slapped with a wholly suspended 10-month jail term a...Published: 29 Aug 2017 at 17:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri on the run over maintenance
PREMIER Soccer League club Caps United's former president and ex-top-flight chairperson, Twine Phiri, was on Friday last week issued with a warrant of arrest after disappearing from the Harare Magistr...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri arrested
FORMER CAPS United Football Club owner Twine Phiri was yesterday arrested seconds after gaining his freedom. Phiri was placed in custody by Harare magistrate Anne Ndiraya where he had appeared...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 19:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Twine Phiri jailed for defaulting on maintenance fees
former Caps United owner Twine Phiri was yesterday sentenced to four months in prison for defaulting on close to $5 000 in maintenance fees. Harare magistrate Miss Joy Chikodzore suspended the sen...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa marks self 10/10
When Zifa president Phillip Chiyangwa gives himself a 10/10 mark after a year in local football's highest office, the temptation is to laugh and wait for a more serious response. That serious resp...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa pushes for Dube's arrest
Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is pushing for the arrest of former president Cuthbert Dube following his failure to provide written response on how his former executive ended up accruing a d...Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa administration is demonic and vindictive - Caps United
Suspended Caps United board member Lewis Uriri by Zifa has hit back saying he 'refuse to bow to the illegitimate of a demonic administration'.The Philip Chiyangwa led Zifa suspended Uriri accu...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 10:27hrs | 1 | by Alice Dube
Mugabe's nephew has to be stopped
Around this time last year, we warned that putting Mugabe's nephew, Phillip Chiyangwa, at the helm of Zimbabwean football would spell doom for the local game and the flamboyant businessman has so ...Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIFA debt worry Chiyangwa, turn guns in previous administration
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has upped his fight as he has turned his guns on the previous administration regarding the debt they left.When campaigning to be president, Chiyangwa promised t...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 06:38hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Chiyangwa purges Bosso linked executives from Zifa
THE Premier Soccer League was last night plunged into a leadership crisis following ZIFA's move to suspend the top-flight body's chairman Peter Dube as the relegation- promotion dispute between th...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa chairs first Zifa assembly
PHILIP Chiyangwa presides over the Zifa assembly for the first time tomorrow, six months after taking over local football's top seat. The match-fixing scandal that rocked Zifa ahead of the 201...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Ricky Zililo
Who is Supersport faceless negotiator?
WHEN the giant sports broadcaster Supersport came to Zimbabwe in 2012, everyone across board was excited about the whole deal and remained positive that a new dawn had come to our football. A dawn tha...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:52hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
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