By Ray Munyoro Young Warriors coach Tonderai Ndiraya is delighted with the performance of his charges in their 2-2 draw against South Africa on Thursday.Zimbabwe opened their 2020 COSAFA U-20 Men’s championship campaign with a draw against the hosts, surrendering in injury time.The team took the lead twice in the …
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When in June 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, who had just become the president of the world’s foremost superpower and leader of the “free world”, started his landmark speech to the Muslim world with, “al-salamu alaykum” or “peace be upon you”, Arabs and Muslims must have felt like Dorothy in the …
Read More »Loga to announce CHAN squad … Camp starts Sunday
Loga to announce CHAN squad … Camp starts Sunday By Ray MunyoroThe Zimbabwe Warriors are expected to start camp on Sunday ahead of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) finals in Cameroon next January.Coach Zdravko Logarusic is expected to announce a provisional squad today for the finals set for January 16 …
Read More »Young Warriors plunge into battle at 3.30pm
By Ray MunyoroYoung Warriors coach Tonderai Ndiraya believes his boys are in a good position to post a positive result when they face hosts South Africa in the COSAFA U-20 Championship at Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth Thursday afternoon. The match starts at 3.30pm. Zimbabwe have been drawn in Group …
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As he introduced himself to the world, actor Elliot Page received lots of love.The Juno star, formerly known as Ellen Page, announced Tuesday that he is a non-binary, transgender person. His wife, Emma Portner, shared Page’s statement to her own page. Portner called her husband’s existence “a gift in and …
Read More »Actor Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, announces he is transgender
Actor Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, is transgender, he announced in a Tuesday Instagram post. “Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot,” wrote the Juno and Umbrella Academy star. “I feel lucky to be writing this. …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccinations to start next week
The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), paving the way for mass vaccination. Officials said that the vaccine, which the UK today became the first in the world to approve, will be made available from next week.A Department of Health and …
Read More »TRUTH THAT ZIM FOOTBALL AUTHORITIES WON’T TELL YOU
The year 2020 will go down as one of the most depressing for local football players and fans, amid indications that ZIFA sold the nation a dummy on the mini-league Nhau CorrespondentDespite the announcement of plans to hold a mini-league before year-end, reality on the ground is that individual Premier …
Read More »BELLO GIVEN LIFELINE… The arrival of Norman Mapeza for a second stint at FC Platinum has gifted defender Gift Bello a lifeline
By Ray Munyoro From being a peripheral player under Pieter De Jongh, Bello was in the starting line-up as FC Platinum dismissed Costa do Sol 2-1 on Saturday.Indications were that the defender was unlikely to even travel to Mozambique for the CAF Champions league had the Dutchman not left FC …
Read More »Battles won – and lost – against AIDS hold valuable lessons for managing Covid-19
Linda-Gail BekkerWorld AIDS Day this year finds us still deep amid another pandemic – Covid-19. The highly infectious novel coronavirus has swept across the world, devastating health systems and laying waste to economies as governments introduced drastic measures to contain the spread.Not since the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1990s have …
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