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Zimbabwean Minister of Sports hotly tipped for top IOC seat
Zimbabwean Minister of Sport, Kirsty Coventry, is strongly tipped to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after the current president, Thomas Bach, announced he would...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 13:13hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Olympian Cyprianos comes home
Bulawayo's Stingrays Swimming Academy has organized a welcome ceremony for Denilson Cyprianos, the Zimbabwean swimmer who competed in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Cyprianos, who finished six...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 14:04hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Cyprianos sets new national record
Swimmer Denilson Cyprianos made his debut appearance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this morning, setting a new personal best and a national record in the men's 200m backstroke at the Paris La Defens...Published: 04 Aug 2024 at 13:52hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo boy sets new national record at the Olympics
Swimmer Denilson Cyprianos made his debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this morning, setting both a new personal best and a national record in the men's 200m backstroke at the Paris La Défense Are...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 07:08hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Khanyisile Mzizi makes waves in the US
ZIMBABWEAN hockey player Khanyisile Mzizi who is with the University of Lynchburg continues to make waves in the United States of America (USA) where she recently earned second-team All-America awards...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC re-opens public pools
THE Bulawayo City council (BCC) has reopened all municipal swimming pools to the public for the 2023-2024 swimming season.In a statement Bulawayo town clerk Mr Christopher Dube said the pools ...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister joins world's swimming immortals
The inaugural class of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1965 held a special place in the annals of aquatic sports history. It was a star-studded lineup featuring luminaries like Johnny Weiss...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 20:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe minister to be inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame
Finally, the long-awaited moment has arrived.Tonight, Zimbabwe's very own Kirsty Coventry will take her place among the legends of international swimming as she is officially inducted into the...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teen swimming sensation Katai accepted to join Princeton University
ZIMBABWEAN Olympian Donata Katai is set to continue her promising swimming career in the US after securing a scholarship with Princeton University.Princeton women's swimming and diving team, w...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Icy Water, a warm heart (and sharks): Russell's doing it ForAfrika
Zimbabwean-born Russell Raath, now a successful corporate team coach in the United States, wanted to do something impactful for the continent of his birth. But what?Running was never his thing...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 13 | by Ayanda Siswana
Zimbabwean teen swept away at sea resort while swimming on Xmas Day
A ZIMBABWEAN teenager was swept away to sea on Christmas Day while swimming at a South African resort in the Eastern Cape.The 14-year-old has not yet been identified.Local reports indi...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Joe Biden receives warm welcome from Congress, for now!
United States President Joseph Biden has a unique advantage over his rivals. He believes in nothing. He will say whatever is needed at the time as long as he stays in power. The proof of his methodolo...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwean minister honoured in United States
FIVE years after retiring from swimming, Zimbabwe's swimming icon Kirsty Coventry is still being regarded as one of the greatest swimmers to compete at university level in the United States.Co...Published: 12 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Teachers fear violent school gangs
TEACHERS at Msiteli High School in Mpopoma suburb say they are living in fear of violent pupils gangs as some of them bring dangerous weapons to school to scare other learners.Two weeks ago, t...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Makusha
SPRINTER Ngoni Makusha's journey at the Tokyo Olympics ended in disappointing fashion after he finished 7th in heat 6 of the men's 100m race in a disappointing time of 10.43 seconds yesterday....Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Katai back from Olympics
TEENAGE swimmer Donata Katai has arrived back home after giving a good account of herself at the ongoing 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.The 17-year old arrived at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Inte...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Bulawayo swimmers get US scholarships
STINGRAYS Swimming Academy from Bulawayo is on cloud nine after three of its senior swimmers were awarded scholarships to study in the United States of America.The Kumalo-based academy, which ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Katai sets new personal record
ZIMBABWE's swimming starlet Donata Katai might have failed to reach the semifinals, but showed why many believe she is destined for greatness after clocking a new personal best time in the heats of th...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean teen swimmer qualifies for next round at Olympic games
ZIMBABWE teen swimming sensation Donata Katai showed her potential to become one of the best swimmers in the world in the future after clocking a new personal best time in the heats of the women's 100...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry elected as IOC full member
AFTER serving as a member of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes, Commission since 2013 and a member of its executive board since 2018, Zimbabwe's Sports minister and twotime Olympic ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tokyo Olympics: Purcell-Gilpin storms into rowing quarter-finals
ZIMBABWEAN rower Peter Purcell-Gilpin made the most of the second chance he got at the Tokyo Olympics after he comfortably stormed into the quarter-finals of the men single scull competition through t...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies Team Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied Team Zimbabwe competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and said he is proud to see young swimmer Donata Katai leading as one of the flag bearers at the world's biggest...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean swimmers in SA for trials
PROMISING swimmer, Donata Katai, says she is motivated by the support she has been getting. She left the country yesterday for the South Africa Olympic trials that get underway tomorrow in Port ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel earmarked for Goodwill Ambassador post
EVANGELICAL preacher, Prophet Uebert Angel, will be appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Zimbabwe contrary to widespread reports that he has been appointed to serve as an envoy in one of the coun...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister named African Female Swimmer of the Millennium
FOUR years after calling time on her competitive days, Zimbabwe's swimming icon Kirsty Coventry's exploits in the pool continue to follow her after she was named the African Female Swimmer of the Mill...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sports stars shine amid Covid-19 pandemic
THE outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of the year did cast its dark shadow over the 2020 sporting season.Some sport codes lost at least four months while others resumed...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman commits suicide?
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and Stingrays Swimming Club coach Eddie Cyprianos has died.Information surrounding his death remain sketchy, but his body was reportedly found in the Matobo area...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry salutes new pool queen Mikayla
YOUTH, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has saluted child sensation Mikayla Makwabarara and backed her to grow into a world-class swimmer.This comes as Makwabarara broke the...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gringo lashes out at govt
ARTISTES have been known for moralising at the expense of reality through their creative work, setting the agenda in national discourse, but popular yesteryear actor Lazarus "Gringo" Boora has decided...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lupane East By-election: A deceptive delineation of the narrow, gorged and mountainous pathway to democracy in Zimbabwe
The recently held parliamentary and council by-elections in Lupane East, Ward 23 Nkayi South and Ward 22 Bubi constituencies respectively, on the 3rd of August 2019, and many others before, are a dece...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 10:19hrs | | by Nhlanhla Moses
PHOTOS: Maps Maponyane goes bungee jumping while on vacation in Zimbabwe
Maps Maponyane crossed another item off his bucket list when he went bungee jumping while on vacation in Zimbabwe. The presenter shared a video of himself taking the plunge asking fans if it i...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by channel24
Death robs Zimbabwe sport
This year has not been so kind to the Zimbabwean sporting fraternity after three of the country's arguably biggest luminaries took their last breaths.Former Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) president Paul...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 17:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Kirsty Coventry
Artists in Zimbabwe have shared their displeasure at the slow process that the Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation is taking to avail the budget to the Arts sector and avail a strategic plan...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 13:36hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why Mnangagwa's been wooing Zimbabwe's white sports heroes
Sport in general, and particularly gifted sports people, have been known to rouse feelings of national unity. In the process, they instil a sense of patriotism and pride in their countries. Good examp...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Tapiwa Chagonda, University of Johannesburg
Mpopoma, Luveve swimming pools re-open after 15 years
THE Mpopoma and Luveve Bulawayo City Council-run swimming pools re-opened on 1 October after being closed for 15 years.This was much to the joy of school going children who have been thronging...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC re-opens swimming pools
In notices advertised in daily papers, City of Bulawayo wrote: "Notice is hereby given that Mpopoma, Luveve and North End Swimming Pools will officially open to the public on Monday, 1 October 2018....Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 13:10hrs | | by Sithabile Mafu
Chamisa about to sell out to Mnangagwa?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new charm offensive to woo his rival by creating a formal "office of the leader of the opposition" leaves MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa navigating potentially the m...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Bruce Grobbelaar eyes political career in Zimbabwe
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe and Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce "Jungleman" Grobbelaar has set his sights on a political career as he looks to open a new chapter in his life after stepping down from his role...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 09:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono at it again: Should apologize to the women of Zimbabwe
After technically plagiarizing the 'Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant', Hopewell Chin'ono is at it again. He abused and underrated all women of Zimbabwe some few days ago when one media published his piece...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:47hrs | | by Don Chigumba
Kirsty Coventry pregnant
Swimming legend Kirsty Coventry yesterday announced that she was pregnant, ending an eventful week in which she became the first ever former Zimbabwean professional sportsperson to be appointed the co...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coventry 'a mere swimmer'?
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so says Murphy's law.Well, Murphy's law seems to following — nay, stalking — losing MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa.If ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by CONWAY TUTANI
'Mudhidhi' comments haunt Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has been slammed for derogatory and sexist comments he made about Olympic Gold medalist Kirsty Coventry's appointment as Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Minis...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seeks return to dollar as new govt sworn in
Zimbabwe's newly sworn-in finance minister on Monday said he planned to reintroduce the Zimbabwe dollar and accelerate plans to repay the country's debt, in a bid to revive the battered economy....Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by AFP
Chamisa's use of mudhidhi word not a crime
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa holds new sports minister Kirsty Coventry in high regard for "her lifetime of sacrifice in raising the Zimbabwe flag", the opposition leader's spokesman has insisted...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 12:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
VIDEO: Chamisa calls Kirsty Coventry mudhidhi
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa dismissed the new cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying it was needlessly too big and just as illegitimate as its principal.The opposition...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Axed ministers speak out
Some Zanu-PF heavyweights left out of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet yesterday said they had accepted their fate and were not bitter.Former Energy minister Simon Khaya Moyo said he...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has potential to turn around the economy
Our people rarely agree politically but they appear to have over the figures that President Mnangagwa appointed into his Cabinet yesterday. He brought in new faces and a few surprises, youths, added m...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:21hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 6 | by Lloyd Msipa
Kirsty Coventry named Zimbabwe's sport minister
Kirsty Coventry, a former Olympic champion and a current member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC's) executive board, has been appointed minister of sport in Zimbabwe.The 34-year-old...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:31hrs | | by AP
It's checkmate for Grace Mugabe
Government has invoked legal measures to protect the Mazowe Dam from a takeover by former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe, who has targeted the picturesque area 30km from Harare for inclusion in her spraw...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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