Golden World Cup Opportunity for warriors: Magaya 

Source: Golden World Cup Opportunity for warriors: Magaya -Newsday Zimbabwe Zimbabwe football national team WARRIORS benefactor and PHD Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya, who also owns Yadah Football Club, believes the Warriors have been presented with a “golden opportunity” to qualify for their first ever Fifa World Cup finals despite being drawn in the same […]

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WARRIORS benefactor and PHD Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya, who also owns Yadah Football Club, believes the Warriors have been presented with a “golden opportunity” to qualify for their first ever Fifa World Cup finals despite being drawn in the same qualifying group with giants Nigeria and neighbours South Africa.

Zimbabwe, recently readmitted back into the Fifa international football family following a two year suspension that was imposed for “third party interference”, was last week drawn in Group C of the 2026 World Cup CAF qualifiers along with Nigeria, South Africa, Benin, Rwanda and Lesotho.

The team which will finish top in the group will directly qualify to the World Cup to be staged in Mexico, Canada and the United States, while four best runners up from all the groups will play each other to determine one team which will proceed to an intercontinental play offs final.

Magaya believes the draw was very kind to Zimbabwe and has promised to pull all stops to make sure the Warriors qualify, including availing his hotel, as he has done before, for the team’s camping.

“I prayed when the draw was happening, and I think we got the teams that I was wishing for,” Magaya said.

He has repeatedly said his biggest dream is to see the Warriors playing at the Fifa World Cup, and last week’s draw presented the biggest chance for the Warriors to make history.

“On a good day, Nigeria will not beat us home and away. South Africa, we all know the history we have with them. They won’t beat us home and away, either. So, in such a case, I’m very certain that this is our golden chance to qualify for the World Cup more than at any other time.”

The Fifa World Cup qualifiers in Africa will kick off in November.

The appointment of the normalisation committee to run the affairs of Zifa for the next 12 months by Fifa last week, has also excited Magaya who believes the development gives local football a chance to start afresh.

Former Dynamos chairman Lincoln Mutasa is leading the four member committee which also has former Mighty Warriors coach Rosemary Mugadza, ex-Highlanders player Sikhumbuzo Ndebele and lawyer Nyasha Sanyamandwe.

“I’m very excited about the Normalisation Committee that is there at Zifa right now, which I believe has the capacity to do the right things. I want to meet the chair, Mr Mutasa … that is my wish, so I can share with him my vision for the team that can make us qualify because we need to qualify. I’m always saying to myself one day i want to be standing in the stadium holding my chest whilst singing our national anthem in front of the whole world. That is my dream. I would do whatever it takes so that my dream comes true.”

But for Zimbabwe to entertain any chances of ending their 43-year wait to participate at the biggest football showcase, Magaya believes there are a lot needs to be done and differently.

“We should just come together as a nation and be united. We should also make use of the well knowledgeable guys like our current national team manager (Wellington Mpandare) who is connected to almost every Zimbabwean player around the world and bring all those kids who went abroad while they were young, and are now playing there but are not known this side.

“We also have to play a lot of friendly matches, compete with other good teams because remember in the past three years we didn’t play international football. We didn’t export any player because of the ban so we have to see who is supposed to be out but is still in the local league. The programme just need to be sped up and give the guys enough camping time. The team has always utilised Yadah hotel for that and our arms are always open for them. I’m availing Yadah Hotel to continue host the team. But if there is any other better place, let’s all help each other to send them there so that they can practice and be ready for this wonderful world stage, which is the largest football stage in the world. We want as a nation to have our flag being lifted there and our national anthem will be sung. So we shall support the team as we have always done.”

Magaya and his Yadah FC are making inroads in the development of football in the country and they have since set up a thriving academy which has kids as young as three years old.

The academy will on August 26 host scouts from European giants Juventus in a historic development that could open doors for young players into Europe and other international markets.

Last week, Yadah unveiled three Brazilians who will play for the club’s senior team.

Bosso tipped to end title drought 

Source: Bosso tipped to end title drought –Newsday Zimbabwe Bosso supporters HIGHLANDERS legend Zenzo Moyo has tipped the Bulawayo giants to win the 2023 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League title, judging by the team’s performance so far. Bosso are looking good to finally end a 17-year-long title drought. The Bulawayo giants remain unbeaten after 15 […]

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Bosso supporters

HIGHLANDERS legend Zenzo Moyo has tipped the Bulawayo giants to win the 2023 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League title, judging by the team’s performance so far.

Bosso are looking good to finally end a 17-year-long title drought.

The Bulawayo giants remain unbeaten after 15 league matches, winning eight, playing seven draws and amassing 31 points in the process.

They made a huge statement on Sunday when they opened a four-point lead on the log table after edging Herentals 1-0 at Mandava Stadium, courtesy of a Melikhaya Ncube goal.

Moyo won three titles with Highlanders in the 1998-1999 season when he was also crowned Soccer Star of the Year and also won the Golden Boot Award with 22 goals, in 2000 and in 2006 when Bosso last won the championship.

The former Highlanders striker is confident that this is the Bulawayo giants’ year.

“Highlanders will win it this year. It is promising. They should continue to make people happy. The boys have what it takes. They just have to believe in themselves,” Moyo said.

More than half of the 13 goals Highlanders have scored have come from defenders and midfielders and Moyo attributed it to the country’s lack of forceful strikers who can “bang in goals”.

“We no longer have those strikers who used to bang in the goals and I think it has to do with coaches’ formations. The coaches in our league sign defensive strikers,” he said.

Highlanders are targeting Bulawayo Chiefs’ Obriel Chirinda who scored a hat trick on Sunday when The Ninjas ran riot over Triangle with a 3-0 win having scored a brace in the previous match when beat Caps United.

After defeating Herentals on Sunday, coach Baltemar Brito gave credit to his players.

“It was a good game, we played against a good team. All these performances since round one are credited to the players. “We are just coaching them, but the players are putting up the spirit in the field of play,” Brito said.

Brito has built his side on a mean defence which has let in just four goals so far this term.

Dark horses Manica Diamonds were victorious, beating Cranborne Bullets 1-0 and they are on position three on the log table with 26 points, a point behind Ngezi Platinum, who slumped once again losing 1-0 at home to Simba Bhora.

Dynamos also picked up maximum points after edging Chicken  Inn and they are now on the fourth spot with 25 points, at par with reighning champions FC Platinum, who suffered a home defeat to Yadah on Saturday after last weekend’s goalless draw to Dynamos at BF.

Chicken Inn dropped to position seven.

It is looking good for Chiefs’ new coach Joseph Sibindi who has won two of his games since he took over from Lizwe Sweswe.

It was a good weekend for Zimbabwe’s big three clubs with Caps United ending a lean spell to pick up maximum points against GreenFuel at Bata stadium in Gweru on Saturday.

Mugabe’s ouster inspired author 

Source: Mugabe’s ouster inspired author –Newsday Zimbabwe BULAWAYO-based author Lucky Zihundi BULAWAYO-based author Lucky Zihundi says the late former President Robert Mugabe’s fall from power in November 2017 struck a chord in him to put pen to paper and come up with the novel On the way to Damascus. The intriguing book explores the trappings […]

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BULAWAYO-based author Lucky Zihundi

BULAWAYO-based author Lucky Zihundi says the late former President Robert Mugabe’s fall from power in November 2017 struck a chord in him to put pen to paper and come up with the novel On the way to Damascus.

The intriguing book explores the trappings of power and wealth if unchecked.

Zihundi told NewsDay Life & Style that he hopes readers of his book draw lessons on how greed and desire for power can be their downfall.

“The main lesson to be learnt in the book is on how politics has shaped the world we live in today. It’s about how much religious power can also corrupt if handled badly,” said Zihundi.

“Initially it was after I read a story way back in 1995 in Cosmopolitan magazine in Johannesburg. It was titled You can do anything, but it was in November 2017 after Mugabe’s sudden fall that got me activated. I am 53 years old, I experienced Mugabe’s rule and I never thought a time would come when he won’t be in power. Who doesn’t remember his absolute control and authority? He went out so easily after being an executive President.”

Zihundi, however, bemoaned the declining reading culture.

“The zeal to read has significantly diminished. Our children now prefer watching movies. In our time, our parents would force us to join libraries both at school and in the community. I was a member of Mzilikazi Memorial Library. I encourage readership though because of the many lessons one gets from reading and the improvement of language.”

On the way to Damascus delves deep into history and analyses the three decades preceding the millennium. It brings to light the flux and intrigues of the late former British Prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s tenure, the late Zimbabwean Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, Fidel Castro and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) who ruled his country with an iron fist.

Zihundi said he was yet to set up a bookshop since the copies have just arrived from Pretoria, South Africa, where they were printed and are already being distributed.

Barbara Rwodzi, police boss in heated tantrum: The people’s reactions 

Source: Barbara Rwodzi, police boss in heated tantrum: The people’s reactions –Newsday Zimbabwe ENVIRONMENT, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi who has caused a storm after allegedly verbally assaulting a senior police officer Rwodzi, who is the Zanu PF legislator for Chirumanzu South constituency, was recorded insulting a senior police officer, who was […]

Source: Barbara Rwodzi, police boss in heated tantrum: The people’s reactions –Newsday Zimbabwe

ENVIRONMENT, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality deputy minister Barbara Rwodzi who has caused a storm after allegedly verbally assaulting a senior police officer

Rwodzi, who is the Zanu PF legislator for Chirumanzu South constituency, was recorded insulting a senior police officer, who was preparing a docket against the Zanu PF supporter, only known as Danger. This is how people reacted to the video:

What is to “sit down and talk?”. While this could be a very simple phrase it’s implications on police work in this case could be devastating- Chidza Sachidza

It sound concocted. How come the officer at one time calls himself a constable qnd and then says assistant inspector- TendayiZinyama

The Policeman is working for CCC. Even the way he talks is terrible. Deliberately triggering the honourable MP- Hulu

Ndiyo Tourism yamakasiya madzidzisa vana here iyi. Shocking language from the Honourable, entitlement yekuti ndini ndo creator mutemo,yet she can’t even follow mutemo wacho- Tapsy

I thought she should be in “mourning “. It’s regrettable- Dr Walter Mzembi

Even Nick Mangwana, the most hated person in the Zim govt, cannot do this to a person.- 𝑹𝒆𝒚 𝑮𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒊

We need to find out what happens to this officer and stand behind him, a lot of them go through this harassment and end up folding. They are not voluntary supporters- Bhudas Iscariot

Chamisa turns blind eye to achievements

Source: The Herald – Breaking news.   Mr Nelson Chamisa Midlands Bureau  CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa on Sunday launched his party’s campaign for the 2023 harmonised elections  at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru, where he stunned his supporters by claiming that there was no development in the country. Addressing an estimated 15 000 supporters, by far […]

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Chamisa turns blind eye to achievements 
Mr Nelson Chamisa

Midlands Bureau 

CCC leader Mr Nelson Chamisa on Sunday launched his party’s campaign for the 2023 harmonised elections  at Mkoba Stadium in Gweru, where he stunned his supporters by claiming that there was no development in the country.

Addressing an estimated 15 000 supporters, by far a smaller number when compared to the bumper crowd of over 124 000 who attended President Mnangagwa’s rally in Zaka, Masvingo on the same day.

The CCC leader was full of his same old criticism of the Second Republic and the ruling party Zanu PF without offering alternative solutions.

“We are here launching this 2023 August election, we are representing everyone. We have MPs and councillors who are from across the country who will be representing you whom we chose,” he said.

Mr Chamisa turning a blind eye on the successes brought by the Second Republic under President Mnangagwa’s leadership said the country was not developing.

This is besides the fact that Zimbabwe in under five years is being ranked as the fastest growing economy in the Sadc region. There have also been massive infrastructure development projects such as the Beitbridge-Harare road rehabilitation and dualisation, Hwange 7 and 8 expansion programme leading to improved power supply in the country, the Gwayi-Shangani dam project, among many other successful projects completed and on-going across all provinces.

Mr Chamisa said he will not accept anything outside his outright victory after election day.

“After the August 23 election, we will have results around August 26 and we are expecting to win resoundingly. We won’t accept anything other than a win. I will then be on my way to the State House,” he said.