adminMlambo Ngcuka gets UN post
UNITED NATIONS. – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former deputy president of South Africa and women’s advocate, as the new head of the United Nations body tasked with promoting women’s rights and their full participation in global affairs.
Malema’s EFF to contest 2014 poll
JOHANNESBURG. – Julius Malema officially launched his new political organisation, the Economic Freedom Fighters yesterday.
Malema said it was agreed by members that the EFF would be a radical leftist movement that will look to contest the 2014 elections.
Guardiola wants Thiago
MUNICH. — Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola yesterday confirmed the European champions’ interest in Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara.Spanish media had already linked the 22-year-old Alcantara to the Champions League winners and ex-Barcelona coach Guardiola has admitted he has asked the Bavarian giants
Rooney suffers hamstring injury, out for a month
BANGKOK. — Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will be out of action for a month after sustaining a hamstring injury on the club’s tour of Asia.Rooney suffered the problem during a training session yesterday and when scans showed there was no chance he would be able to play during the tour, the England star was sent
Aussies’ Agar lights up Ashes
NOTTINGHAM. — Teenage Australia debutant Ashton Agar fell agonisingly short of becoming the first Test match No 11 to score a century as he frustrated England with a record-breaking 98 on the second day of the Ashes opener at Trent Bridge yesterday.Michael Songore fails in 100m bid
Sports ReporterZIMBABWE’S Michael Songore failed in his bid reach the finals of the boys’ 100m at the International Association of Athletics World Youth Championship in Donetsk, Ukraine, last night.
Gary Kasparov in Zimbabwe
Augustine Hwata Sports ReporterFORMER world chess champion Gary Kasparov, considered by many as the greatest player of all time, made a brief stopover in Harare yesterday as part of his Kasparov Chess Foundation Global Reach.
Copa-Cola tournament on
Ellina Mhlanga Sports ReporterFIREWORKS are expected in Mutare with 24 schools set to battle it out in the Copa Coca-Cola boys Under-16 and girls 17-and-Under football tournament.
Mzingwane and Vainona are the defending champions in the boys and girls sections while the host Sakubva 1 High will field a boys and girls team.
Dube taunts CAPS United
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterHWANGE coach Nation Dube says CAPS United are nolonger a big club and it’s only their name, which is a huge football brand in this country, which remains and reminds them of a glorious past that has long gone.
Sainfiet still carries scars
From Petros Kausiyo in LUSAKA, ZambiaTHREE years after his attempts to coach the Warriors ended in deportation, Tom Sainfiet has revealed that he still carries the emotional scars of that troubled period but insists he doesn’t hold any ill-feelings towards the team.