Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton recruits another high-flying Zimbabwean engineer
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HARARE – Another female Zimbabwean engineer, Samantha Nyikadzino, has soared after she announced joining Formula One ace Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team.
The design engineer becomes the second woman from Zimbabwe to be part of Hamilton’s team....
Zimbabwe’s cricket and hockey associations mourn all-rounder ‘Porge’ Williams
BULAWAYO – The national associations of cricket and hockey in Zimbabwe have paid tribute to Porge Williams, who starred in both sporting codes, more so in the latter where he captained the national team and later coached it.
He lost...
Like England with Maro Itoje, Zimbabwe introduces it’s own ‘Nigerian’ engine-room
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HARARE - Some years back, a colleague once light-heatedly remarked how he couldn’t wait for Tochukwu Emwerem to make his debut for Zimbabwe in Test cricket, the venerated five-day format of the sport played then only by...
Dumisani Mankunzini released from prison after three months
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BULAWAYO – Dumisani Mankunzini, the controversial former club cricketer, has been released from jail for “lack of evidence” after spending three months in prison on charges of fraud.
He was let go on 31 January after a Bulawayo...
Under-20s dominate Zimbabwe ‘developmental side’ for Uganda clash
HARARE – Smarting from yet another World Cup qualification failure, Zimbabwe have selected a side made up of national Under-20 players for the Victoria Cup opener with Uganda in Kampala on Saturday in the country’s first step back to...
Ex-Zimbabwe Rugby World Cup star boasts of controlling ’99 percent’ of government through illicit...
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HARARE – Ewan Macmillan, who played for Zimbabwe in the African country’s last Rugby World Cup appearance in 1991, has since become a convicted and controversial gold dealer who has now sensationally claimed, unknowingly filmed, to control...
Mwana Group to the rescue as Zimbabwe’s world famous schools rugby festival returns
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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s schools rugby festival, which had disappeared from the scene in recent years, will return to the calendar courtesy of a welcome sponsorship from Mwana Group (Pvt) Ltd.
The Harare-headquartered multinational conglomerate company will bankroll the...
‘We’ll go hard and big, or light and fast’: De Souza mulls over plan...
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HARARE – Zimbabwe head coach Shaun De Souza is upbeat about his team's adaptability to give back whatever a bulkier Tunisian side will throw at them in the semi-final of the Rugby Under-20 Africa Cup on Wednesday.
Defending...
Ex-Zimbabwe cricket boss ‘Ellers’ remembered in a moving Memorial Service in Harare
BY NICK CHOUHAN
HARARE – The life of Dave Ellman-Brown, who was president of the Zimbabwean cricket board at the time of attainment of Test status in 1992, has been celebrated at a well-attended Memorial Service in Harare on Saturday...
‘Football has no race, no religion, and no ethnic background’: Zimbabwe hopeful Summerfield
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HARARE – Many sporty young white Zimbabweans endeavour to be the next Andy Flower on the cricket field, the next Nick Price on the golf course, the next Kirsty Coventry in the swimming pool.
20-year-old Sebastien Summerfield has...