Category: Sports

VICTORIA Falls has the potential to build a strong base for junior sports across all disciplines and promote sport tourism if relevant stakeholders invest in sporting activities. While the city is the country’s tourism capital, it is probably the only city in the country that has never had a team competing in any elite league […]

HARARE City Council might have lost a huge opportunity to own a modern football stadium after the municipality turned down a private investor’s offer to renovate, and maintain Rufaro, in exchange for naming rights. The Mbare facility has been crying out for a major facelift, which the council has over the years, failed to deliver. […]

LONDON (Sky Sports) – Zimbabwe-born British boxer, Derek Chisora, has teamed up with new trainer, Buddy McGirt, ahead of next month’s crucial heavyweight clash against Joseph Parker. Chisora faces former WBO champion Parker on May 1 and respected American McGirt will now oversee the British contender’s preparations. Announcing his trainer on social media, Chisora wrote: […]

At 35, Katsande is said to be one of the players Chiefs will be letting go at the end of the season. Willard Katsande could be headed back to where his South African journey began in June. Phakaaathi has heard that the Amakhosi midfielder is on the wanted list at Stellenbosch who are closely monitoring […]

The National Darts Association of Zimbabwe says while it has been given the green light to resume competitions, it will not hurriedly start the season before ensuring all necessary health protocols and guidelines are in place. Darts has been in limbo since last year like all sport codes after the country went into various phases […]

LEGENDARY striker Wilfred ‘Silver Fox’ Mugeyi believes stress might be one of the reasons Kaizer Chiefs and Zimbabwe star Khama Billiat is forever injured. The 30-year-old was forced to pull out of the Warriors squad that just qualified for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations finals due to the bad injury he suffered against Stellenbosch […]

Wellington Mpandare THE Warriors’ technical team is praying that none of the foreign-based that confirmed availability for Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers duty don’t pick up injuries while playing for their clubs. Eight players have already been ruled out for the penultimate away Afcon qualifier against Botswana on March 25 as well as the […]

ZIMBABWE coasted to a 10-wicket victory against Afghanistan in the first Test yesterday on the back of a Sean Williams century and a terrific all-round bowling performance. The victory was Zimbabwe’s 13th in Test history; their last Test win came in 2018 against Bangladesh, and the foundations were laid by their captain, Williams, who scored […]

ZIMBABWE Rugby Union president, Aaron Jani, has been elevated to chair the Performance sub-committee, which works with all the top-tier nations, in Rugby Africa. The Performance sub-committee, basically, has the nations competing for the right to represent Africa in the 2023 World Cup Rugby. Jani, who was recently appointed the Rugby Africa’s rugby committee academy […]

TOKYO 2020 is to decide on the attendance of international spectators at the Olympic and Paralympic Games by the end of March. The issue was at the top of the agenda during a five-party meeting today between the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese Government, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). […]