adminHardbody, Tripple B verdict deferred again
By Noel Munzabwa
THE much awaited verdict to Hardbody’s appeal against the docking of 42 points in the Central Soccer League case was yesterday deferred to Monday afternoon.
Former Gweru United player Rolly Jalasi dies
Midlands Correspondent
ZIMBABWE soccer has once again been plunged into mourning following the death of former Gweru United and Bata Power soccer player and later turned soccer referee, Rolly Josephus Jalasi who collapsed and died on Monday at his home.
Cosafa lose Metropolitan sponsorship deal
Harare Bureau
BARELY a week after he was voted back into office, Cosafa president Suketu Patel and his executive have been dealt a big blow with one of their major sponsors, Metropolitan, announcing their withdrawal from funding the Under-20 Championships.
‘Zim athletes failed in 2011’
By Thandiwe Moyo
ZIMBABWEAN athletes did not make much of an impression this year with only one making an impact.
I lied — Nyoni
Court Reporter
Former Fifa and Zifa referee Cosmas Nyoni left the court stunned yesterday when he admitted he had lied at one stage.
Nyoni was dragged to court by suspended Zifa Southern Region chairman Gift Banda on allegations of criminal defamation. Banda is accusing Nyoni of lying against him concerning his involvement in the alleged match-fixing scandal that rocked the Zifa Central Region.
SRC endorses Zifa match-fixing probe
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE country’s supreme sports body, the Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) has endorsed the ongoing investigations by Zifa into match-fixing allegations especially in the central region that has since seen two board members, Gift Banda and Patrick Hokonya being suspended.
Dynamos in sensational scoop
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League champions, Dynamos, had a sensational scoop late on Thursday when they snatched the signature of former Legia Warszawa in the Polish Ekstraklasa league Takesure Chinyama and registered him for the Caf champions league while Motor Action beat the 12 midnight deadline to register 19 players.
Gaddafi killing could be war crime: ICC
New York — The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said on Thursday there are serious suspicions that the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime.
Fight ANC and face the wrath of the ancestors — Zuma
East London — ANC president Jacob Zuma warned party members in the Eastern Cape not to let themselves be influenced by money and other members, to rise against leadership or risk the wrath of the ancestors.
Zuma addressed delegates at the province’s general council at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, where members take stock of the state of the organisation.
The council, which ends today, is attended by 1 353 delegates from the province’s 715 branches.
Egypt protesters clash with police
CAIRO — Egyptian protesters set cars alight and threw stones at military police in Cairo yesterday, witnesses said, after rumours spread that an activist had been detained at a sit-in outside the cabinet office and badly beaten.