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MUKAMBA AND MUTUMA, BAD BOYS OR JUST A BUNCH OF FELLOWS WE DON’T UNDERSTAND?
Sharuko on Saturday IT was a relatively short drive, from Harare’s Central Business District to Highlands and on Monday nights, the madness that usually characterises the traffic jungle of our capital...
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KHAMA BILLIAT ISN’T A SAINT, BUT HE IS BY NO MEANS A DEVIL
Sharuko on Saturday ON November 13, 1861, an American priest, Reverend M R Watkinson sent a letter to the United States Treasury, petitioning the department to add a powerful statement that recognised...
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LIKE BALOTELLI AT OLD TRAFFORD SIX YEARS AGO, WE SHOULD ASK: ‘WHY ALWAYS US?’ NO one excreted as much venom as we did in the painful soul-searching exercise that followed our first experience of...
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I HAVE always had a romantic attachment to the English Premiership because, more than being just a blood-and-thunder theatre of football attrition, its fascinating adventure provides me with a tracker...
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, WE FORGOT SHUTTO, AJIRA, ADAMSKI AND A DOCTOR WHO...
A TROOP OF LEGENDS . . . Helping our kids to always know that there was a time when our football fields used to be graced by such legends as (from left) Sydney Zimunya, Netsai “Super Netsai’’ Moyo,...
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AKBAY IS A LOOSE CANNON WITH A WEAKNESS OF MISFIRING BADLY
Sharuko on Saturday IN the summer of 2001, Manchester United were celebrating winning a SEVENTH title in NINE seasons with only Blackburn, in ’95, and Arsenal in ’98, the only clubs to break the Red...
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A COLLECTION OF FOOTBALL LEGENDS…FORTY YEARS LATER MUCHERAHOWA FINALLY BROKE...
A GROUP OF SUPERMEN . . . David Mwanza (kneeling, extreme right), who rose from our small mining town in Chakari to become one of the finest football players to grace Zimbabwe’s stadiums, poses for a...
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IT’S BEEN A COCKTAIL OF FURY AND THE UNRULY, HATE AND THOSE HURT
Sharuko on Saturday MY social media platforms are an explosive interactive arena, but I have to agree they have never exploded, as far as I can remember, as much as they have been raging this week in...
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WE’VE BECOME A PEOPLE POISONED BY NEGATIVITY, ALLERGIC TO THE POSITIVE
RAW EMOTIONS . . . Augustine Moyo, a former journalist with The Sunday Mail, who is now the spokesman of the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration, shows his boundless joy as he celebrates the...
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POOR DENVER, THE BOY WHO NEVER BECAME A MAN, TRAPPED FOREVER IN THE FANTASY...
Sharuko on Saturday FOR Nicholas Munyonga, a long-term Warriors doctor who, is also a sports medicine expert and the regional leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the warning signs flashed four...
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HIS last dance with the domestic Premiership was covered in a blaze of glory, celebrating the last of the three domestic league titles he won as part of a special group of footballers whose immortality...
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THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GOOD TIMES AND SOME BAD TIMES, BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT IS WHETHER by design, or by default, it had to be the year this Brazilian shanty town on the shores of the Atlantic, welcomed...
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WHERE does one really start after the intoxication of the sights and roaring sounds of that unforgettable Sunday summer afternoon when domestic football paraded the full spectrum of its enduring beauty...
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FOR ALL THE ROMANCE AT ASCOT, PAUL MUNDANDI’S ABSENCE AT THE PARTY WAS SIMPLY...
Paul was the one they looked up to, when it came to telling their story, telling the story of their community, telling the story of fate, cruel as it always is, had to somehow rule that Mundandi, whose...
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JUNGLEMAN BACK IN A TOWN RULED BY A SMILING ASSASSIN
Sharuko on Saturday THE last time this blog appeared in this newspaper, only a week had passed since the inauguration of President Mnangagwa as Zimbabwe’s new leader — the culmination of landmark...
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THE first big hint came in the main reception of the Yadah Hotel, one bright moonlit evening last year, the sound of water oozing from the giant water wheel, as it crashed into the pool beneath,...
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EXACTLY five years ago, the finest cricket writer and broadcaster of our time, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, finally lost his brave battle with cancer and died surrounded by his close family members at...
View ArticleSharuko on Saturday- AMHLOPE MHLOPHE, BUT SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T ADD UP
Congratulations to Kenneth Mhlophe, the new chairman at Highlanders, and hopefully this good man will help this iconic football institution to get back on its feet and end its longest barren spell...
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IT’S BEEN A COCKTAIL OF FURY AND THE UNRULY, HATE AND THOSE HURT
Sharuko on Saturday MY social media platforms are an explosive interactive arena, but I have to agree they have never exploded, as far as I can remember, as much as they have been raging this week in...
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WE HAVE OUR DIFFERENCES, OF COURSE WE DO, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE ARE PROUD...
ON June 24, 1995, a South African pilot, Laurie Kay, guided his giant Boeing 747 — then the world’s biggest passenger plane — over Johannesburg’s Ellis Park packed with more than 63 000 fans in a...
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