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Scottland to be promoted into PSL via the backdoor?
The long-awaited judgment regarding the abandoned Northern Region Division One Soccer League match between Karoi United and Scottland will be released today, following delays primarily caused by the u...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 08:00hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya does not have O-levels?
A potentially massive scandal is brewing in Zimbabwean football, as Prophet Walter Magaya and Gift Banda, a former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) vice president, stand accused of attempting to m...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 16:11hrs | 5524 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2777 | 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 | 167 | by Staff reporter
5-year ban on Dynamos referee for match-fixing
Assistant referee Kudzanai Hiya has been handed a five-year ban and fined 100,000 Swiss francs (approximately US$116,650) after being found guilty of match manipulation and corruption in the Castle La...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:19hrs | 2902 | by Staff reporter
Kenny Ndebele harbours personal grudges against Highlanders?
Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (PSL) chief executive Kennedy Ndebele has reaffirmed the league's commitment to professionalism, transparency, and impartiality in managing the country's top-tier footba...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 14:47hrs | 3532 | by Staff reporter
Bosso fans versus Farai Jere and Mutasa
In an unprecedented move, Highlanders Football Club supporters boycotted their team's 2-0 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) win over ZPC Kariba at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. The protest w...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:19hrs | 2764 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Dembare
HEADS could roll at Dynamos whose leadership is finalising investigations on the age-cheating saga which rocked the club's junior team at the Marvelous Nakamba Foundation Invitational Under-17 footbal...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Munetsi calls out SRC
MIDFIELDER Marshall Munetsi has became the first high-profile footballer in the country to speak out against the recently-imposed Fifa ban, imploring fighting administrators to find common ground for ...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fifa bans Zimbabwe
AFTER months of speculation over Fifa's stance on the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC)'s suspension of the Zifa board in November last year, the world governing body, Fifa, yesterday banned Zimb...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Football, cricket failure reflect badly on SRC
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, I wish to bring to your attention the fact that the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) seems to be doing little to ensure that sports ass...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 7 | by Tawanda Tafirenyika
Politics, corruption send Zimbabwe football to death bed
Zimbabwean football is in the doldrums and analysts have blamed it on political interference, corruption as well as an ever-shrinking economy."In any country, football is judged by the amount ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zifa councillors unfazed by 'suspensions'
THE Zifa congress members, who are pushing for an emergency general meeting (EGM) which could culminate in the dismissal of some board members yesterday said they were unfazed by the suspension of the...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fifa blocks Zifa EGM
FIFA has blocked a Zifa extraordinary congress that had been called by disgruntled members of the association and was scheduled to take place this weekend.The meeting was likely to culminate i...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Defending banned Streak is like trying to defend a rapist'
ZIMBABWE Cricket (ZC) on Tuesday night launched a scathing attack on cricket publication ESPN Cricinfo for an article about Heath Streak and what led him to his eight-year ban for corruption by the In...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Taylor bats into cricket storm
FORMER Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor has revealed that the International Cricket Council is about to "impose a multi-year ban on my international cricketing career" after he allegedly delayed report...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SRC endorses its engineered Zifa EGM
The Sports and Recreation Commission has endorsed a call for a Zifa emergency general meeting (EGM) which could see the football body's mandate revoked over a raft of alleged transgressions.At...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Gumede
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday paid glowing tribute to Highlanders president Ndumiso Gumede, who died on Wednesday afternoon after a short illness.Gumede (76) died at Mpilo Central Hos...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Streak resigns from his rebranded academy
THE Heath Streak Academy has been renamed Zimbabwe Youth Cricket Academy. This follows the resignation of the founder, Streak, the former national team skipper and coach, from the Trust's operations....Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 07:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda dismisses 'match-fixing' allegations
FORMER Zifa vice-president Omega Sibanda has dismissed allegations by the Zifa leadership that he was among the former executive committee members that allegedly destabilised the Warriors camp during ...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Billiat 'threatens' to quit national team
STILL reeling from falling out of the Africa Cup of Nations finals following their disastrous showing, Zimbabwe now have to deal with their star player Khama Billiat's threats to quit international fo...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refs fingered in bribery scam
TWO Zimbabwean referees have been accused of accepting bribes while officiating in an Under-23 Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between a Central and North African country in March this year. ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | | 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 | 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 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Online gambling advertisement is becoming more popular than TV
After lawmakers in many countries prohibited gambling advertising on television, it was pushed into online spaces. And it was precisely in the network where it has become one of the leaders in views, ...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 16:54hrs | | by Agencies
'You all miss Mugabe after your-PFee'
My People,I perfectly understand the fact that all of you are feeling guilty about your premature celebrations following the military ouster of Gushungo around this time last year.In f...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Dr Stop It
Chiyangwa's blow hits many
The blow that hit disqualified Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) aspiring presidential candidate Felton Kamambo has also struck many of those who have been fighting for the removal of Zifa presiden...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:57hrs | | by Michael Kariati
Zifa election fires rage on
THE fires continued to rage in the build-up to ZIFA's December 1 board elections with the association yesterday officially writing to the pair of Felton Kamambo and Gift Banda, rejecting their despera...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa 'bans' Kamambo, Banda
ANY hopes that the pair of Felton Kamambo and Gift Banda had of appealing and overturning their disqualification from the ZIFA election were dashed yesterday, with the association ruling that their lo...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:22hrs | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Bruce Grobbelaar can't tell how many people he killed?
Before we reach the match-fixing trials which ruined his reputation, or remember the 13 major trophies he won as Liverpool's goalkeeper in 14 staggering years, we start with war in Africa. Bru...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:43hrs | | 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
Who can rescue MDC Alliance?
ONE of the biggest takeaways from the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling last week against MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's application to have Zanu-PF candidate Emmerson Mnang...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Juju scare at BF as mMysterious package is unearthed
THERE was a juju scare at Barbourfields Stadium home to Highlanders FC, Bulawayo City and Chicken Inn (depending on magnitude of match) when a "package" was found a few metres from the Soweto Stand....Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare in relegation blues
Triangle 3 – 0 DynamosTHINGS keep falling apart for troubled Dynamos who had their skipper Ocean Mushure sent off yesterday as they suffered their first league defeat at the hands of Triangle at...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa cornered
World football governing body, Fifa has ordered the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to hold elections for a new executive committee "as soon as possible".This comes after the Zifa assembl...Published: 09 May 2018 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soccer games now available in sports betting
The Zimbabwean Premier Soccer League (PSL) which has been for a long time been absent from the betting options has recently been added to the betting list in local and South African soccer shops....Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa 'capture' exposed
Former Zifa board member Felton Kamambo has fingered the local football mother body's president Philip Chiyangwa as the architect of the leadership crisis bedevilling the domestic game, after detailin...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:06hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Shun corruption in sports, says Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged the sporting fraternity to shun corruption in all its forms and to uphold high moral ethics, honesty and integrity. Speaking at a reception for nine cricket teams that arr...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda dismiss malicious reports, to open a police case
ZIFA vice-president Omega Sibanda yesterday dismissed as malicious a damning exposé circulating on social media entitled "Findings of political, corruption and maladministration activities in respect...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya's oil runs dry
Shabani 0 - 1 YadahA brace from striker Wellington Taderera inspired Shabanie Mine to a 2-0 win to spoil Dennis Dauda's debut for Yadah FC in a Castle Lager Premiership match yesterday.Str...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 13:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gorowa wanted to kill himself
Former Warriors coach Ian Gorowa contemplated committing suicide after allegations that he was part of a cabal which tried to fix Zimbabwe's 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against Swazi...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa referees' shocker
NOT a week goes by anymore without referees hogging the limelight for all the wrong reasons during Castle Premier Soccer League (PSL) matches.Some of the judgements from officials in recent ma...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Peter Ndlovu and Bruce Grobbelaar made Zimbabwe dare to dream
The following is an extract from Ian Hawkey's article from Issue Nine of the Blizzard, published in June 2013. The Blizzard is a quarterly football journal available from ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 08:52hrs | | by Ian Hawkey
Juju at Dynamos
Zimbabwe's global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.Dynamos Football Club legend M...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Stanely Mushava
Mandla Mpofu takes over at Bulawayo City
BULAWAYO City FC has confirmed Mandla Mpofu as the new head coach, taking over from acting gaffer Try Ncube.Mpofu's elevation comes a month after being appointed as an assistant coach on a...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:17hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Dynamos lose against Guthrie Zhokinyi
Former Dynamos Football Club captain Guthrie Zhokinyi yesterday left the Supreme Court all smiles after a bid by the club to evade paying him a total of $15 000 in outstanding salary arrears and b...Published: 10 Feb 2017 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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