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Picture this: Charles Ray Honoured by Zimbabwe Organisation for Youth in Politics (ZOYP), a “human rights” organisation working with youth at the grassroots. The award, 2011 Diplomatic Human Rights Defender, was given to the American ambassador for, in the words of ZOYP’s national coordinator, one Nkosilathi Moyo, “critical helping hand that Ambassador Ray gave” ZOYP, for which ZOYP notes “with bounteous gratitude”.
Let’s be cautious when using fireworks
Cheap consumer fireworks are generally available in Zimbabwe, thanks to the opening of the economy and the lifting of import bans, and a lot have been imported ready for New Year’s Eve tonight. They are sold in supermarkets, small shops and even by street vendors.
Turn resolutions into actions
Make a Difference – Egpha Jokomo
It is this time of the year again that people make resolutions. Resolutions are intentions/objectives that we set out to achieve within the given period. This presupposes that the person making the resolutions has a vision for his/her life on which to hang them on.
Egypt forces storm offices of pro-democracy groups
Cairo — Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of 10 human rights and pro-democracy groups, including several based in the US, which were accused by the country’s military rulers of destabilising security by fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.
Bribery claims against Blatter revealed
Former Fifa vice president Jack Warner claims he was awarded World Cup television rights for as little as one dollar in return for helping Sepp Blatter win elections for the presidency of world football’s ruling body.
Warner, who resigned from Fifa in June amid bribery allegations, released a statement which accused the organisation of awarding him the 1998 World Cup rights in his native Trinidad & Tobago for the nominal fee after he helped Blatter win a ‘brutal’ campaign to become Fifab president.
Henry ‘certain’ to join Arsenal
Thierry Henry will sign a two-month loan with Arsenal if insurance can be arranged with the New York Red Bulls, Arsene Wenger has confirmed.
Makokoba families locked in flat wrangle
Chronicle Reporter
TWO families sharing a flat in Makokoba suburb of Bulawayo are locked in a wrangle over the flat, which they both claim is theirs after inheriting it from their parents.
Bogus cop remanded for robbery
Beitbridge Reporter
A 32-YEAR-old Beitbridge man was yesterday hauled before the courts for masquerading as a police officer and allegedly robbing three suspected border jumpers of their belongings at gunpoint.
Abel Takavada, of House Number 1517 Dulibadzimu suburb in the border town was not asked to plead to four counts of armed robbery when he appeared before Beitbridge magistrate, Mr Carrington Karidzagundi.
He was remanded in custody to 11 January.
Women urged to involve men in empowerment programmes
Chronicle Reporter
THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Dr Sylvia Utete Masango has challenged women to involve their male counterparts in their empowerment programmes.
Injiva in court after hit and run accident
Beitbridge Reporter
A 27-year-old Bulawayo man working in South Africa was yesterday arraigned before the courts for knocking down a three-year-old boy with his car in an alleged hit and run accident.
The boy was trying to cross the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road at Malala area.