‘There is bound to be some of these hiccups’: Zim 7s on the back-foot...
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HARARE – Zimbabwe Sevens rugby coach Ricky Chirengende admits that a “tall order” faces his team at the ongoing Africa Cup in Mauritius as the Cheetahs target qualification to the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.
Zimbabwe lost 24-21...
‘We have X-factor across the field’: Confident Zim 7s coach targets World Rugby Challenger...
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HARARE - Ricky Chirengende, the Zimbabwe Sevens rugby team coach, believes the young side he is taking to next week’s Africa Cup in Mauritius is oozing with quality to go all the way in the tournament and...
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...
‘We’re now able to identify who can cope’: Sables coach says squad will be...
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HARARE - TJ Maguranyanga, the France-based utility back, is one of foreign-based stars lined up to boost Zimbabwe’s rugby squad for July’s make-or-break Africa Cup tournament in Uganda.
The 21-year-old speedster, who plays for French Top 14 club...
Ambitious Sables up tempo as crucial Africa Cup looms
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HARARE - Zimbabwe’s rugby team steps up its preparations for next month’s important Africa Cup tournament in Uganda with a return friendly away to neighbours Zambia this afternoon, the Sables accompanied on that Lusaka trip by the...
‘We would have all been dead’: Falcon coach narrates how heroic bus-driver prevented a...
BY ENOCK MUCHINJO
HARARE - One life lost is one too many, especially someone so young and promising as Aidan O’Donovan, the gifted Falcon College pupil who died in a horrific crash last Sunday as the elite Matabeleland school’s rugby...
Harare rugby boss resigns following fallout with province’s ‘Big Four’
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HARARE - Harare Province Rugby Board chairman Kudzai Zisengwe has resigned just six months into his term amid a fallout over the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) elections as well as governance issues.
Zisengwe, who was elected in January...
BREAKING: Losson Mtongwiza elected new ZRU president
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HARARE – Losson Mtongwiza has been elected new president of the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) at an elective AGM in Harare this morning.
50-year-old Mtongwiza now takes over from Aaron Jani, the outgoing president, who was bidding to...
‘This is my development master-plan!’: prospective next president of ZimRugby delivers keynote speech
BY LOSSON MTONGWIZA
HARARE – In a nutshell, what we are trying to do in as far as development is concerned is that we are trying to pick up all the 17 to 22 year-olds that are in schools that...
‘It’s time!’: Mtongwiza outlines ambitious vision for Zimrugby
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HARARE – Losson Mtongwiza has always had a romantic connection to the Rugby World Cup since he keenly followed Zimbabwe’s progress at the 1991 edition as a star-struck 17-year-old Prince Edward schoolboy.
That early experience for the famed...
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Ex-Zimbabwe Rugby World Cup star boasts of controlling ’99 percent’ of...
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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...
