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Looted funds financing Scottland FC
New players in Zimbabwean football are making waves with huge sponsorship deals, with Scottland Football Club, the Premier Soccer League's latest addition, at the center of attention. Controversial bu...Published: 19 hrs ago | 738 | 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 | 191 | by Staff reporter
Nqobile Magwizi meets ZIFA Central Region councillors
Aspiring Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president, Nqobile Magwizi, took an important step in his election campaign over the weekend by meeting with the ZIFA Central Region councillors. The meet...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:13hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya plans bigger and better Heart Women Soccer League
As the curtains fell on the Heart Women Soccer League season this past weekend, title sponsor Walter Magaya has set his sights on an even bigger and better competition for next year. The businessman, ...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 07:01hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
City Link launches bursary for 60 primary school pupils
City Link Coaches has introduced a bursary program to support the educational needs of 60 primary school pupils in Bulawayo, covering tuition fees and other academic necessities.The announceme...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 07:01hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei denies interest in Kwekwe United takeover
Prominent businessman Kuda Tagwirei has dismissed rumors suggesting he is considering a takeover of Kwekwe United Football Club, the newly promoted Premier Soccer League (PSL) side.Speaking to...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 20:13hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo woman loses US$5 730 trying to secure UK sponsorship
Mnangagwa returns home with his bloated delegation of 238 peoplePresident Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned from Baku, Azerbaijan, where he attended the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nati...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:45hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo woman loses US$5 730 trying to secure UK sponsorship
Two women, Nokuthula Sibanda and Nothando Ndlovu, have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a woman of US$5,730 by falsely promising to secure a UK sponsorship certificate for her daughter.T...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 13:44hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
UK, Ireland healthcare carers hopefuls lose thousands to scammers
POPULAR Bulawayo mental health activist and founder of a mental health organisation, Win Over Addiction and Trauma (WOTA), Witness Bongani Mguni, has reportedly gone into hiding after allegedly defrau...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 10:06hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Can Peter Ndlovu breathe fresh air to the embattled ZIFA?
A plethora of possible contenders are vying for the controversial post of head of Zimbabwean football as the elections to select a Zifa boss approach.Some supporters are supporting former foot...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 12:25hrs | 5695 | by Leonard Koni
War vets faction defied High Court order
A faction of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has defied a High Court order by holding an elective congress over the weekend, resulting in the appointment of new lead...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:13hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya pays homage to Mpandare
Yadah FC owner and Heart Women Soccer League sponsor Walter Magaya has expressed his heartfelt gratitude to former Warriors manager Wellington Mpandare, crediting him for playing a pivotal role in his...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:42hrs | 2870 | 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 | 171 | by Staff reporter
Khama Billiat's jersey sales smash records
Khama Billiat's jersey sales have set new records in Zimbabwe, generating an impressive R2.1 million for his club, Yadah FC. This extraordinary amount highlights the former Kaizer Chiefs star's consid...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 08:01hrs | 1455 | by Staff reporter
Warriors coach torches widespread social media debate
Less than a week after promising to select his squad based on merit, Zimbabwe's Warriors coach, Michael Nees, has sparked debate by including players who have not been active at club level in his 23-m...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:03hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Pedzisai Sakupwanya linked company captures Warriors kit sponsorship
BETTERBRANDS Gold has become the official kit sponsor for the Warriors AFCON Qualification Campaign through a deal, valued at $80 000.Announcing the sponsorship deal on X, ZIFA said the deal w...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 12:45hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya unveils sponsorship for Women Super League
Walter Magaya, founder of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries and owner of Yadah FC, is set to unveil a significant sponsorship deal of US$320,000 for the Women’s Football Super League. The...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 07:55hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to officiate at Investment Forum
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is preparing to host the Investment Forum next Monday, attracting key stakeholders and policymakers from across Africa. The forum, held in collaboration with the ...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:38hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Dembare battle to contain crisis
DYNAMOS management are fighting with their back to the wall to save the situation at their club after the players refused to take to the training pitch for the fourth day running yesterday in a crisis...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:58hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos players demanding overdue bonuses, signing-on fees
Dynamos FC management is striving to resolve a crisis after players boycotted training for the fourth consecutive day, jeopardizing their upcoming match against rivals Highlanders. The players are dem...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos in turmoil
Dynamos are in turmoil as their players' strike continues into its third day, jeopardizing preparations for their upcoming Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against Highlanders at Rufaro Stadiu...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
UK-based Zimbabwean in Certificate of Sponsorship storm
A Zimbabwean woman residing in the United Kingdom has found herself embroiled in controversy, facing accusations of defrauding numerous Zimbabweans by falsely promising to secure their entry into the ...Published: 25 May 2024 at 12:52hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda challenge Bosso, Dembare
SAKUNDA Holdings has challenged Dynamos and Highlanders to win titles after the energy giant yesterday presented the two teams with their 2024 season kit.The country's two most supported clubs...Published: 12 Apr 2024 at 09:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK Certificate of Sponsorship agent up for fraud
A SUSPECTED bogus United Kingdom Certificate of Sponsorship agent was yesterday dragged to the Harare Magistrates' Courts for allegedly defrauding a client of US$5 100 after promising to facilitate th...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chikwata bounce back to Division One
FORMER topflight teams, Zimbabwe Saints and Bulawayo City will be among clubs that will participate in the Zifa Southern Region Division One league this year.Zimbabwe Saints who were chucked o...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints his top prosecutor as new ZACC boss
President Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Michael Reza as the new Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairperson while former Deputy Minister Ms Fungayi Jessie Majome is now the Zimbabwe Human Righ...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Players division rocks Dembare
According to a report by New Zimbabwe.com, Dynamos camp is facing internal discord among its players. An insider revealed that this division stems from perceived favoritism in the treatment of...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK tightens home care workers' visa regime
Some Zimbabwean home care workers based in the United Kingdom are facing tough times as it has become increasingly difficult to renew their immigration permits. Grosvenor Healthcare, the UK's ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa niece's legacy woes haunt ZBC
THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) is grappling with serious management challenges linked to Helliate Rushwaya - the newly appointed board chair - during her tenure as the acting chief execut...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda remain Bosso principal sponsors
HIGHLANDERS on Friday evening got the much-needed financial boost to wage a serious challenge for honours in Zimbabwe football when BetterBrands stepped up as co-sponsors of the football giants....Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders secure partnership with Pedzai 'Scot' Sakupwanya
HIGHLANDERS have partnered Better Brands ahead of the start of the new season, in a move that is set to ease the club's financial burden.Better Brands is owned by businessman and Mabvuku-Tafar...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP to sponsor Bosso?
HIGHLANDERS are set to receive a major boost ahead of their first big Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match of the season following a sponsorship deal between the club and Better Brands to be unvei...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 05:11hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons make major medical breakthrough
Three Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons on Tuesday teamed up with a colleague from Spain and successfully carried out an extensive uniportal video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), the first of its k...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Bosso enraged after PSL chair deliberately tampered with the fixtures
TRADITIONAL football giants, Dynamos and Highlanders are frothing with anger after Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairman Farai Jere admitted to having fixed their season's opening games and coming shor...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 15:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos, Highlanders condemns Zanu-PF MP over 'inflammatory' statement
Dynamos and Highlanders have issued a joint statement this Friday, 23 February condemning remarks made by Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairman, Farai Jere, which they described as "inflammatory"....Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 15:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Bosso part way with kit sponsors
HIGHLANDERS kit sponsors for the past three years, On the Ball (OTB), through the Looks brand, sold over 5 000 replica jerseys and have revealed that they part ways with the Bulawayo giants extremely ...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa
A CARE company serving NHS patients has been charging migrant workers from Africa thousands of pounds to work in the United Kingdom when the cost of a visa is only a few hundred pounds, The Guardian h...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fast growing Zimbabwe diaspora spurs demand for funeral plans
In December 2023, Mavis Clinic Manyonga travelled to the Republic of Ireland from Zimbabwe, looking forward to spending the Christmas holidays with her daughter, Valerie Munashe Makuwe, a nurse in tow...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 18:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Scammed by Zimbabweans in the diaspora, job seekers lose fortunes
ARMED with a smartphone, a lone vigilante confronts an alleged scammer in Birmingham, United Kingdom clicks "record" on the device and demands that the woman pays back thousands of British pounds that...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
51 counts of fraud couple on the run
SENSING a high possibility of being locked up in jail, a couple that was facing 51 counts of fraud has allegedly fled and Bulawayo police have spread a dragnet to arrest them.Melusi Ndlovu (36...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos on the verge of renewing its sponsorship contract with Sakunda
Dynamos is on the verge of renewing its sponsorship contract with principal backers Sakunda Holdings. The previous sponsorship agreement with Sakunda Holdings expired last year, concluding a three-yea...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 04:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Deportation risk for Zimbabweans as UK care sector sponsors lose licenses
Several Zimbabwean nationals who went to the United Kingdom (UK) to work in the care sector are facing the risk of deportation because their sponsors have lost their licenses. Since November 2023, abo...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:50hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Rising sudden death cases among newly arrived diasporans - medical expert speaks
MICHAEL Mawema had barely been in the United Kingdom (UK) for two months when he died suddenly in December last year, explained a GoFundMe appeal launched to raise funds for repatriation of his body t...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare on bended knees
HIGHLANDERS and Dynamos have been making frantic efforts to persuade petroleum giants Sakunda Holdings to sign another sponsorship contract with the two Premier Soccer League sides with the current de...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 16:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Financial woes bite Bosso
DEFENDER Andrew Mbeba wants to stay with Highlanders beyond his deal that expires in ten days, but that all hinges on the club paying what they owe him and offer a more lucrative deal this time around...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Tears of Zimbabwean single mothers in the UK
SOME Zimbabwean single mothers based in the United Kingdom (UK), struggling to secure visas for their children to join them abroad, were dealt a severe blow following the introduction of tough immigra...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PUMA dumps Israel national soccer team sponsorship deal
Sportswear giant Puma has announced its decision to terminate its sponsorship deal with the Israeli Football Association (IFA) in 2024. Contrary to speculation, Puma asserts that the decision is not l...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 13:35hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Swindlers cash in on UK's certificates of sponsorship
FOR close to two years, Maud Kwembeya (33) - of Zimunya in Mutare - has been harbouring thoughts of one day migrating to the United Kingdom (UK) in search of greener pastures.A vastly experien...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:33hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabwe's health care workers are doing to get UK jobs
When Kundai graduated with a master's degree from a local university, she did not imagine staying unemployed for five years. Even more unexpected was the fact that her path to forging a career as a he...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:10hrs | 12 | by Evidence Chenjerai
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