Pagels recalls Mapemba

Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
MOROKA Swallows defender, Gilbert Mapemba, has been recalled to the Warriors for their World Cup qualifying assignment against Egypt, albeit on a standby basis, as interim national coach Klaus Dieter Pagels continues to grapple with forced changes to the side that will travel to Alexandria.

Makanaky — A hero remembered

From Noel Munzabwa in   MBABANE, Swaziland
TODAY marks 14 years since Benjamin “Makanaky” Nkonjera died at Princess Margaret Memorial Clinic in Bulawayo.
That the Warriors will play Egypt in a World Cup qualifier this month will bring back a flood of memories of the days when Nkonjera dominated the

Zimbabwe to host COSSASA Games

Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter
THE National Association of Secondary Schools Heads and the National Association of Primary Schools Heads will next week meet in the capital to map the way forward in their preparations for the Confederation of Schools Sports Association of Southern Africa Athletics championships set for May.

International coaches to tour Zim

Sports Reporters
INTERNATIONAL coaches are expected to arrive in the country to conduct some coaching clinics for Zimbabwean gymnasts and their trainers.
Fink Hardy of Canada and Derick Scholtz of Switzerland both work for the Federation of International Gymnastics and are scheduled to arrive on March

Dereck Chisora regains British boxing licence

LONDON. — Dereck Chisora has regained his British Boxing Board of Control licence a year after it was withdrawn following his behaviour in Germany last February.

Zim squander bright start

BRIDGETOWN — For a side playing its first Test in over a year, Zimbabwe began promisingly in the morning against searing pace bowling but completely lost their way after lunch, a solid 100 for 2 turning into 211 all out. Having battled hard against the onslaught from Kemar Roach and Tino

Whistling at cops lands man in jail

A builder who whistled in the face of police officers during a Hong Kong protest march was jailed for six weeks. Ki Chun-kei insisted that the whistling was nothing more than drunken antics, and claimed he did not know the policemen were so close when he did it.

Israeli teens hurt by teachers’ name-calling

Students at an Israeli high school were in an uproar on Monday after a teacher mistakenly sent them an internal e-mail that spelled out what faculty members really thought about them.

Gascoigne thought Calpol would get him drunk

Troubled England football legend Paul Gascoigne drank dozens of bottles of children’s medicine Calpol in a desperate bid to get drunk, he admitted.
The alcoholic 45-year-old has admitted that he became hooked on the pink liquid because he wrongly thought it would get him drunk.

Shark wrestler sacked because he was on sick leave

The footage of Paul Marshallsea grabbing the shark’s tail as it swam towards paddling children was broadcast around the world and he was hailed a hero. But as a result he is facing a life on benefits in one of the country’s worst unemployment blackspots of Merthyr Tydfil, in the South Wales

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