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...
By Sheldon Hakata
HEART Group Company owner Prophet Walter Magaya is a passionate advocate of the beautiful game in Zimbabwe.His football journey began as a teen in a family whose love of the game was the common denominator.Chibuku Stadium was where his affection for football took...
ARE the Warriors back and the ‘Worriers’ a thing of the past? With new coach Michael Nees at the helm do we, as a nation, dare to dream again? The Zimbabwe Warriors held former African giants — the five-time African Champions, Cameroon —...
By Anesu Chakanetsa
A RAGING debate was torched as soon as he was drafted into the Warriors squad, over whether Khama Billiat will be in the Warriors's starting line-up this (Friday) afternoon or not.
The former Kaizer Chiefs midfield maestro last week announced the end of...
By Anesu Chakanetsa
IN his younger days, Edmond Mtet- wa was good at a variety of sports but later decided to settle on basketball, becoming a marvel to watch during live
broadcasts by ZBC-TV at the turn of the millennium.
Being the shortest player in the Var-...
By Simon Ngena
THE XXXIII Olympic Games have come and gone.
Records were broken; new stars were born while the aging stars of yesteryear were consigned to the dustbin of history.
Zimbabwe was represented at the Paris Games by a contingent of seven athletes, whose stand-out performers...
THE just ended Paris Olympics will be remembered in Zimbabwean sports history as a moment of profound significance.
We all, with great joy, watched our two sprinters, Tapiwanashe Makarawu and Makanakaishe Charamba, blaze their way to the finals of the men’s 200 metres.
Their presence on...
