adminSRC endorses Zifa match-fixing probe
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE country’s supreme sports body, the Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) has endorsed the ongoing investigations by Zifa into match-fixing allegations especially in the central region that has since seen two board members, Gift Banda and Patrick Hokonya being suspended.
Dynamos in sensational scoop
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
CASTLE Lager Premier Soccer League champions, Dynamos, had a sensational scoop late on Thursday when they snatched the signature of former Legia Warszawa in the Polish Ekstraklasa league Takesure Chinyama and registered him for the Caf champions league while Motor Action beat the 12 midnight deadline to register 19 players.
Gaddafi killing could be war crime: ICC
New York — The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said on Thursday there are serious suspicions that the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime.
Fight ANC and face the wrath of the ancestors — Zuma
East London — ANC president Jacob Zuma warned party members in the Eastern Cape not to let themselves be influenced by money and other members, to rise against leadership or risk the wrath of the ancestors.
Zuma addressed delegates at the province’s general council at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, where members take stock of the state of the organisation.
The council, which ends today, is attended by 1 353 delegates from the province’s 715 branches.
Egypt protesters clash with police
CAIRO — Egyptian protesters set cars alight and threw stones at military police in Cairo yesterday, witnesses said, after rumours spread that an activist had been detained at a sit-in outside the cabinet office and badly beaten.
Ouattara wins parliamentary majority
Abidjan — Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara’s party won a parliamentary majority in Sunday’s elections, the chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission said yesterday.
The party of president Laurent Gbagbo, who is awaiting trial in The Hague, boycotted the poll.
Wanted men still committing crimes in Darfur: ICC
UNITED NATIONS — A group of senior Sudanese officials indicted by the International Criminal Court, including the president, continue to commit genocide in western Sudan, the court’s prosecutor said on Thursday.
The ICC has issued arrest warrants against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for genocide as well as former Interior Minister Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb for war crimes in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
KISS-FM plagiarised SABC document
Court Reporter
KISS-FM reportedly lost its bid for a national radio licence after it submitted a plagiarised South African Broadcasting
ICC says Gaddafi killing may be war crime
THE HAGUE. – The death of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi “creates suspicions” of war crimes, says the chief prosecutor
Mutambara contests ruling on MDC presidency
Innocent Ruwende Senior Court Reporter
DEPUTY Prime Minister Professor Arthur Mutambara has approached the Supreme Court contesting the High Court ruling to grant Professor Welshman Ncube the MDC presidency.
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha on Thursday granted an application by Prof Ncube to interdict Prof Mutambara from acting as both party president and principal to the GPA.
The appeal effectively suspends the lower court’s ruling until the Supreme Court hands down its determination.
Justice Kamocha ruled that basing on the final order sought, Prof Mutambara was no longer MDC president.
He said the party was justified in launching the application to restrain Prof Mutambara from persisting with his behaviour.
Justice Kamocha said the outcome of the party congress remains valid until and unless it was set aside by a court of law.
He said the balance of convenience clearly favoured the applicants.
Through his lawyers, Mbidzo, Muchadehama and Makoni, Prof Mutambara filed his appeal yesterday at the Supreme Court without