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Takudzwa Chitsiga, Sports Reporter
MUTARE Boys and Roosevelt Girls High Schools will be out to successfully defend their national schools’ basketball titles this weekend at the 29th edition of the annual Top Schools Basketball tournament at Queen Elizabeth School.
Kutama scoop B Division gala
Sports Reporter
KUTAMA Boys School continued with their dominance in the B Division swimming gala when they scooped top position at Allan Wilson on Saturday.
Cricket matches rigged
LONDON. — A cricket agent asked for US$1,2m (£768 000) to arrange for Pakistan to throw a Test match against England, a court has heard.
Safa suffer sangoma ‘curse’
JOHANNESBURG. — A KwaZulu-Natal-based sangoma claims the South African Football Association owes him money and, until they settle the debt, Bafana Bafana will not win any matches.
Govt backs future Warriors
Grace Chingoma, Sports Reporter
GOVERNMENT has conceded that it has let Zifa down in funding the Warriors and has pledged meaningful support to the association to enable the national team to adequately prepare for future international assignments.
DeMbare will bounce back: Murape
Eddie Chikamh, Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS midfielder Murape Murape believes the Glamour Boys will be able to spring back from this week’s setback in Masvingo when they face traditional rivals Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match at Rufaro on Sunday.
Prosecutors not being sincere: PSC
Herald Reporters
GOVERNMENT yesterday accused striking prosecutors and law officers of deliberately understating their salaries to garner
4 burnt to death
Four people were burnt beyond recognition on Monday after two haulage trucks side swiped along the Harare-Chirundu Road.
President hints on WikiLeaks probe: Gumbo
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
PRESIDENT Mugabe has reportedly said Zanu-PF will investigate the origins and authenticity of revelations by whistle- blower website WikiLeaks that some of its members engaged United States officials and deliberated on sensitive matters without party approval.
Several junior and senior Zanu-PF members allegedly engaged America through its embassy in Harare.
This was despite the fact that the US administration imposed illegal sanctions on the country in an open show of aggression and disregard of international law.
Zanu-PF, for the first time, discu-ssed the WikiLeaks revelations at its Central Committee meeting last Thursday.
Party spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo yesterday confirmed
Female rape suspects: Scores besiege police station
Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter
SCORES of people yesterday besie-ged Gweru Central Police Station demanding to beat up three women suspected of sexually abusing men.
Police also said many complainants had visited the police station, but could not divulge the numbers.
The three youthful suspects – all aged 24 – were arrested last Sunday after their vehicle was involved in an accident along Lower Gweru Road.
Police say they recovered 31 used condoms – four of them with semen – from the vehicle, a Chevrolet, that was being driven by a boyfriend of one of the suspe- cts.
The three women, whose identities are being withheld as investigations continue and the driver, were arrested.