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Luphahla to take charge against ZPC
HIGHLANDERS are adamant that caretaker coach Joel Luphahla will bark instructions from the bench when they face ZPC Kariba in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match at Nyamhunga Stadium tomorrow d...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 55 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro Stadium refurb gathers momentum
HARARE City Council officials flew into South Africa this week on a stadium benchmarking tour as preparations for the refurbishment of Rufaro Stadium into a world-class facility gather momentum....Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Serbian eyes Bosso job
A SERBIAN national based in South Africa, Heric Vladislav, registered interest the vacant Highlanders coaching job after he submitted his curriculum vitae.Vladislav (55) has been adviser at DS...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:40hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son in-law's hubris killing local football
THE Zimbabwe national football team, the Warriors, will miss the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers because the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) simply cannot swallow its pride and ad...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to be barred from 2022 COSAFA Cup due to Mnangagwa's son in-law's interference
THE Warriors have been barred from participating at this year's COSAFA Cup following confirmation by the Southern regional football body that Zimbabwe will not be eligible due to its suspension from i...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:37hrs | 1945 | by Staff reporter
De Jongh to bounce back at Highlanders?
DUTCHMAN Hendrikus Pieter de Jongh's resignation as Somalia national team coach has fuelled speculation that he could be on his way back to Highlanders, who are on the prowl for a new coach.De...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:24hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law takes Warriors out of Afcon 2023
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has taken the Zimbabwe Warriors out of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers claiming it had no money to host home matches in neighbouring countr...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:23hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe self-destruct against Namibia
Visiting Namibia hit back at their hosts Zimbabwe to square the five match T-20 cricket series following a six-wicket in at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday.It was quite some nerve wre...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Musona gap difficult to fill, says Nyandoro
Former Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Esrom Nyandoro feels the retirement of Knowledge Musona from the Warriors has created a huge gap that will prove hard to fill.Nyandoro, who was part of the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:42hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law extinguishes Warriors' Afcon dream
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) has emphatically declared the country's participation in the 2023 Afcon qualifiers is not a priority as the window of opportunity opened by Caf slams shut th...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:21hrs | 1600 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos fined US$2,000 for stadium skirmishes
DYNAMOS Football Club have been fined US$4 000 while their team manager Richard Chihoro was slapped with a US$2 000 fine for disturbances which occurred when DeMbare played Bulawayo Chiefs in a Castle...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:31hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Good riddance as Chiyangwa ends COSAFA tenure
PHILIP CHIYANGWA's reign as COSAFA president officially ended yesterday with the Southern African football body paying tribute to the businessman for overseeing a successful tenure.Chiyangwa w...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:29hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Zifa lining foreign coach
FORMER Botswana coach Adel Amrouche could be the next Warriors coach to take charge of the team's 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying campaign which begins early next month.Zimbabwe ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:46hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Bosso eye Soma-Phiri for interim coach
AMINI Soma-Phiri might bounce back as Highlanders' interim coach as the club continues their search for a substantive gaffer following the sacking of Mandla Mpofu, impeccable sources said.In 2...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:56hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law approaches CAS of Fifa ban
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) is reportedly filing an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against Fifa's decision to ban Zimbabwe from international competitions, paving ...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1383 | by Staff reporter
Zifa running out of time to convince Fifa to lift suspension
ZIFA has one week left to convince Fifa to lift the country's suspension and allow the Warriors to participate in the 2023 Afcon qualifiers.Caf gave Zimbabwe up to next Thursday to get the sus...Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Musona retires from Zifa football
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona has announced his retirement from international football at the age of 31.The Saudi Arabia-based forward confirmed his retirement in a statement on Thursday, ...Published: 19 May 2022 at 19:02hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Jere defends PSL suspension
PREMIER Soccer League (PSL) chairperson Farai Jere has defended his decision to suspend football action for a week following ugly scenes of violence which caused the abandonment of the tempestuous lea...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
PSL suspends games over Dembare hooliganism
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has indefinitely suspended its programme as it seeks a lasting solution to acts of hooliganism that are tainting the image of local football.The biggest match i...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Bosso summoned over abandoned match
HIGHLANDERS have been summoned to appear before a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee on Tuesday following scenes of violence and hooliganism that led to the abandonment of their away l...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade fizzles out deplorably
HIGH-PROFILE corruption cases from as far back as 2017 are yet to be finalised, almost five years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to decisively tackle graft.The development also de...Published: 03 May 2022 at 16:08hrs | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son in-law's move, an exercise in futility
THE much-hyped Zifa extraordinary general meeting (EGM) was held in Harare last Saturday with assembly members voting for the dismissal of the Felton Kamambo-led board.The same resolution also...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:22hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
'Account for US$1m Warriors Afcon purse'
THE ongoing Zifa boardroom wrangle has sucked in top government officials with revelations that a Cabinet minister could have helped himself to over US$1 million meant for bonuses and allowances for W...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Tembo's eyes on Warriors
FORMER Dynamos defender, Kaitano Tembo, who was recently sacked by SuperSport in South Africa, has his eyes only on the Warriors job and will not make a "step back" by taking up a job in the Castle La...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:52hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Stupid ZIFA conspirators vote to oust Kamambo - but plan needs FIFA backing
ZIFA councillors on Saturday voted to remove ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and two other members of his board - Philemon Machana and Bryton Malandule.The decision will, however, require ratifi...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:20hrs | 1453 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son-in law must not drag ZImbabwe football to the gutter
THE Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe is feeling let down by the Gerald Mlotshwa-chaired Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) in his bid to have Zimbabwe readmitted i...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:52hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
'Warriors Afcon chances slim'
FORMER South Africa national team coach Gordon Igesund has ruled out Zimbabwe's chances of qualifying for next year's Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals in Ivory Coast after finding themselves in a ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:39hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Warriors date Bafana again
FORMER Warriors coach, Sunday Chidzambwa, believes the senior national football team have been drawn in a fair Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group that has Morocco, South Africa and Liberia....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:03hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Uhuru Cup cautions won't carry over to PSL
THE red card shown to Dynamos' utility player Shadreck Nyahwa by referee Arnold Ncube in the Independence Cup final against Highlanders at Barbourfields Stadium on Monday will not have any effect in P...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:02hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Malandule sexual harassment case stalls
THE sexual harassment charges case against suspended Zifa board member and chairperson of the Referees Committee, Bryton Malandule is dragging with the alleged victim allegedly reluctant to report to ...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:57hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors included in draw for Afcon 2023 qualifiers
ZIMBABWE has been given a chance to participate in the qualifiers for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers despite the country's suspension by world governing body Fifa after it was inclu...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 17:55hrs | 992 | by Staff reporter
Bosso coach disappointed
HIGHLANDERS head coach Mandla Mpofu insists the incentives promised to the players by principal sponsor Sakunda Holdings ahead of their Castle Lager Premier Soccer League tie with Cranborne Bullets at...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:29hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to miss out on AFCON draw
THE 2023 Africa Cup of Nations draw will be held next week and Zimbabwe's Warriors will not be part of the teams that will go into the hat as the country continues to pay the price for poor administra...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Fabisch, Chunga fallout...Bunjira's book tells it all
FORMER Warriors striker and Caps United legend Alois Bunjira has revealed how Moses Chunga's senior national team career was ended spectacularly by Rahman Gumbo in a book that he is set publish before...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints in coach drama
WHEN Zimbabwe Saints announced that it would be playing in the Zifa Southern Region Division One league two years ago, there was some belief that perhaps there'd be a turnaround at one of the country'...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:41hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for suspended ZIFA trio
THE suspended ZIFA board members, led by Felton Kamambo, have been summoned by disgruntled ZIFA councillors to be part of the highly-anticipated special Extraordinary General Meeting that is expected ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo's Zifa board is the best, says Omega Sibanda
FORMER Zifa vice-president and Member of Parliament Omega Sibanda ranks the suspended Zifa board led by Felton Kamambo as the best to have taken charge of local football, and says their banishment is ...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Ref Ndazi bashed in Binga
ZIFA Southern Region Division One side Binga Pirates will be summoned to appear before a disciplinary hearing after the team's fans assaulted referee Hardly Ndazi accusing him of bias in a home match ...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law not bothered about Zifa suspension
THE Sports and Recreation Commission have said they are not in a hurry to lift the suspension of the ZIFA board as a condition for reinstatement of Zimbabwe's membership by FIFA and will only do so on...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:44hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Zifa clear unqualified Mwaruwari to coach in PSL
FORMER Warriors skipper Benjani Mwaruwari has been cleared by Zifa to head Ngezi Platinum Stars' technical department following his appointment by the club this week.Mwaruwari does not hold th...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:03hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Chauya Chikwata's comeback not going as planned
IT was a comeback that was celebrated as a major stepping stone to getting Zimbabwe Saints back into mainstream football, but the situation on the ground speaks otherwise.After years in the fo...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:37hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Fifa ratifies Zimbabwe suspension
THE world football governing body on Thursday ratified Zimbabwe's indefinite suspension from international football during the Fifa Congress in Doha, Qatar.Other countries who were also suspen...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:09hrs | 1428 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso 90 squad on right track'
BOSSO 90 coach Melusi ‘Mabaleka' Sibanda believes his teenage charges are on the right track and will soon surprise seasoned campaigners in the Zifa Southern Region Division One League.Siban...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:47hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks Kamambo's Fifa trip
SUSPENDED Zifa president Felton Kamambo and Philimon Machana's bid to travel to Doha, Qatar, for the Fifa congress next week has hit a brickwall after Harare magistrate Stanford Mambanje dismissed an ...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:28hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens firm chokehold on Jonathan Moyo
FORMER cabinet minister, MP and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo, who escaped by death by a whisker when the army stormed his home and that of a friend guns blazing during the 2017 military coup...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:39hrs | 7685 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda Holding's Rufaro lease take shape
SAKUNDA Holdings have started conducting feasibility studies on Rufaro Stadium with the energy giants yesterday visiting the facility together with officials from the City of Harare.The energy...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Bosso appoint new CEO, ropes in Luphahla
PREMIERSHIP football giants Highlanders have confirmed Ronald Moyo as substantive chief executive officer, taking over from Nhlanhla Dube, whose contract expired in December last year.Accordin...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 05:30hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Marriot's ownership claim to dominate Dembare indaba
THE 51 percent share ownership claim by Dynamos board chairman Bernard Marriot is likely to dominate discussion when the newly-assembled Dynamos board of trustees convene their first meeting in Harare...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | 96 | by Staf reporter
Kamambo loses discharge application
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Felton Kamambo, yesterday indicated that he might appeal against the decision by Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande to dismiss his ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand Kamambo return
Members of Parliament yesterday implored the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to reinstate the suspended Zifa board to save careers of footballers, who stand to be affected by the suspension of ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:47hrs | 3183 | by Staff reporter
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