adminD-Day for Danny Jordaan draws near
The Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) will hold its 2011 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday when Danny Jordaan will take on incumbent Suketu Patel for the role of president of the organisation.
Dalglish unhappy at FA example
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has accused the Football Association of not setting a good example in successfully appealing against Wayne Rooney’s three-match international ban.
India’s Sehwag smashes highest ODI score
It took nearly 40 years for a batsman to score the first double-century in one-day international cricket but less than two years for the second. Virender Sehwag, the batsman most touted to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record for the highest individual ODI score, didn’t merely break it — he shattered it and raised the bar so high that it’s hard to imagine anyone, apart from Sehwag himself, raising it higher.
Army on alert as DRC awaits results
KINSHASA — Tensions are high in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, as the city awaits the release of results in the controversially contested presidential elections with police filling the streets and thousands of troops on standby amid fears of unrest.
UN edges towards global climate fund
Representatives at a UN climate conference are edging towards an agreement to create a Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will help poor nations tackle global warming and allow them to effectively contribute to a new global effort to fight climate change.
Foreign land buying in Africa slammed
Durban — Foreign countries which buy African farmland in order to gain food security are guilty of a “new form of colonisation,” South Africa’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday.
Sudan, S Sudan armies clash in disputed border region
JUBA/KHARTOUM — The armed forces of Sudan and South Sudan clashed in a border region claimed by both sides on Wednesday, in a rare direct confrontation between the old civil war foes.
Both countries said they would bring complaints against the other to the United Nations, moves likely to hinder already tense talks over issues such as oil and debt that have been unresolved since South Sudan seceded in July.
World Vision ordered to pay former workers
Court Reporter
A non-governmental organisation, World Vision, has been ordered to pay $54 775 to 102 former workers, which it unfairly dismissed in June this year.
Council mulls replacing auditors
Chronicle Reporter
Bulawayo City Councillors are mulling plans to replace the council’s external auditors, Earnst and Young (Zimbabwe) Chartered Accountants saying there is a need to change after having engaged the services of the company for the past seven years.
‘Wheat will not go bad’
Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union has allayed fears that the wheat that farmers are holding onto following the delay by Government to announce the producer price might go bad.
The ZCFU said most farmers had facilities to store the grain for a long time.