adminDzumbunu asked to stay on as Zim Saints boss
By Lovemore Dube
FELIX Dzumbunu, who announced that he was stepping down as Zimbabwe Saints chairman a fortnight ago, was on Sunday asked to stay on but on an interim basis at the troubled club. A substantive executive is expected to be put in place in two
Athletes put up good show in Mat South cross-country champs
By Mbonisi Mabhena
MATABELELAND South athletes gave a good account of themselves at the provincial cross-country championships held at Phelandaba Stadium in Gwanda last weekend. The competition was open to schools and athletics clubs and a total of eight
Mat North Div Two league in 20 team poser
Sports Reporter
THE Zifa Matabeleland North Division Two League will have 20 teams this season, a development which has brought headaches for management. “A total of 20 teams is too much for any one league. Fifa has been calling for a league of 16
Schools to hold inter-house athletics
Sports Reporter
MOST schools across Bulawayo will this week hold their field and track inter-house athletics competitions as they gear up for the inter-zonal competitions set for next month at the National University of Science and Technology. Milton High School sports
Project FC hunt for sponsor
By Lovemore Dube recently in Hwange
RECENTLY-promoted Zifa Southern Region Division One side Project FC are in the hunt for a sponsor and partners to help them in their maiden campaign in the league. The club spokesman Soroby Chishuma said at the weekend that preparations
Six more teams join darts association
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
IN a show of confidence in the Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Darts Association, six more teams have joined the league, bringing the number to 21 for the coming season. This could leave the organisers with no option but to consider a second
Batsman Dean Brownlie sustains fractured finger
Dunedin – Dean Brownlie, the New Zealand batsman, has been diagnosed with a fractured finger and is likely to miss the rest of the limited-overs series against Zimbabwe. Brownlie, who made his one-day debut in the first ODI against Zimbabwe in Dunedin, sustained the injury while fielding in the second match in Whangarei on Monday. The New Zealand physio, Paul Close, said
FIFPro hails soccer players’ union
Harare Bureau
Minister of Media, Information and Publicity Webster Shamu yesterday met visiting members of the International Federation of Professional Footballers who are in the country to assess progress made by the Footballers Union of Zimbabwe in
10 killed in SA accident
From Mashudu Netsianda in Beitbridge
TEN people, all believed to be Zimbabweans, were killed while 16 others were injured when a minibus they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck along the N1 North highway outside Makhado in Limpopo
Police struggle to arrest ‘rapist’ inyanga
By Temba Dube
IN a chilling abuse of “supernatural power”, a Lupane traditional healer allegedly habitually raped his daughter with the knowledge of his wife and villagers after threatening to unleash goblins on whoever intervened.
Even the police allegedly had to call for reinforcements to arrest the inyanga when he threatened to bewitch anyone who dared touch him.
The man, his daughter and wife (names withheld to protect the girl) reportedly do not have birth certificates or any other identity particulars.