By Sheldon Hakata
WHILE herding cattle in the remote village of Shariwa, in Bikita, Masvingo Province, some boys came across a troop of baboons and took after them. One boy outdid himself by bolting after one of the baboons and catching it. This, of course,...
THE Zimbabwe national football team, the Warriors, once again fi nd themselves in the embarrassing position of playing their home games in a foreign land. This time, they face Benin and Nigeria in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifi ers, but instead of playing...
By Elizabeth Sitotombe
ZIMBABWE’S Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Minister, Kirsty Coventry, has been elected the fi rst female president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the 10th president overall of the organisation that was founded in 1894. As the world celebrates Women’s...
By Sheldon Hakata
THE largest ethnic group in Zimbabwe is collectively known as the Shona and consists of sub-groupings of the Manyika, Zezuru, Karanga, Korekore and Ndau, making-up about 76 percent of the country’s indigenous population.
The second largest ethnic group is the Ndebele, which is...
By Shingi Shadreck
THE 2024 Zimbabwe Premier League ended on a high note for most PSL clubs, with some clubs left licking their wounds after some bruising encounters.
The country’s ‘Big Three’ clubs — Dynamos, Highlanders and CAPS United — breathed a sigh of relief...
By Sheldon Hakata
CLEARLY football, or soccer as it is popularly called, is now a major business.
The phenomenal growth of the sport of football can easily be traced. From being a weekend recreation around the 1960s, it has developed to a stage where major business...
By Sheldon Hakata
FOOTBALL is more than just a game. It is an art form, a theatre where the gifted perform and etch their names into history. Zimbabwe has had its fair share of virtuosos, players whose names still linger in conversations long after they...
By Sheldon Hakata
AT West Park Cemetery in Bulawayo lies one of the legendary Zimbabwe national team stalwarts Mercedes Nkila ‘Rambo’ Sibanda, the best right back that Highlanders and the Zimbabwe na- tional men’s football team has ever had.
Sibanda was affectionately known as ‘Rambo’ due...
By Sheldon Hakata
IT is hard to talk about Dynamos or the Zimbabwe national team without the name Sunday Chidzambwa cropping up. Called 'Mhofu' by his legion of fans, Chidzambawa's status as a giant of local football is unquestionable.
His successes with the national team in...
By Sheldon Hakata
THE European and most African leagues are in mid-season, while Zimbabwean soccer is in its closed season. During this transfer window, the spotlight has been on the Liverpool trio of Mohamed Sala, Virgil Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold; Manchester United’s Marcus...
By Anesu Chakanetsa
THOSE martial artists who have passed through his hands — young and old — bow down in the sifu posture; clenching the f ist, and holding it with the other hand. That is the respect Sifu Barnabas Kachitsa, popularly known as Mdara...
By Anesu Chakanetsa
SCINTILLATING football moments are now as rare as hen's teeth these days. Remember the 1970s when the legendary George Shaya and Kuda Muchemeyi did the passing penalty in 1979? It got the fans talking. Do you also recall when Friday Phiri...
