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By Ricky Zililo
THE locally based Warriors have been given a chance to impress national team coach Norman Mapeza this evening when they take on Botswana in an international friendly soccer match set for Gaborone.
Foreign-based players snubbed the national team call up after Zifa blundered by failing to get them released by their clubs.
Soccer coaches, former players clash at Luveve
Sports Reporter
SOCCER coaches from the Southern and Northern Regions will this afternoon clash in a reverse Zimbabwe Soccer Coaches Union challenge match at Luveve Stadium.
Zimbabwe Saints hold annual review meeting
Sports Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Saints executive will meet this afternoon to discuss the way forward ahead of the start of the 2012 soccer season.
Confusion over grain loan scheme in Midlands
Midlands Correspondent
Grain Marketing Board depots in the Midlands are reportedly turning away many communal farmers seeking assistance under the Government’s grain loan scheme demanding that they produce offer letters.
Many of the affected villagers are facing starvation and are now turning to the office of the Midlands Provincial Governor, Cde Jason Machaya for assistance.
Gumbo calls for completion of Zanu-PF verification exercise
Midlands Bureau Chief
Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Rugare Gumbo has called on all provinces to complete the verification of all their structures ahead of the DCC elections scheduled for next weekend.
In a Press release yesterday, Cde Gumbo said the commissariat department had advised all the provinces that there was an urgent need to have all structures, that is cell/village, branch and districts verified by a Politburo verification team before the DCC elections are held next Saturday and Sunday.
Gweru City Council warns urban farmers
Midlands Correspondent
GWERU City Council has expressed concern over the high levels of illegal urban farming taking place in the city and threatened to slash the maize crop cultivated in prohibited areas.
The city fathers said the illegal cultivations had become an eyesore.
Illegal gold panners descend on Kwekwe
Midlands Bureau Chief
ILLEGAL gold panners invaded a mining claim in Kwekwe in their numbers following the discovery of some gold alluvial in the mineral rich district, police have said.
Lightning fatally strikes two
Beitbridge Correspondent
TWO villagers from Matabeleland South province were fatally struck by lightning in two separate incidents last week which also left a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler with serious burns all over the body.
Matabeleland South police spokesman Inspector Tafanana Dzirutwe confirmed the incidents yesterday.
Man gets suspended sentence for chopping off wife’s lover’s fingers
Court Reporter
THE man who chopped off the fingers of his wife’s lover with a machete escaped jail when he was sentenced to five months wholly suspended.
Unpaid guards take children, spouses to work
Midlands Correspondent
EMPLOYEES at Guardian Security Company in Gweru reported for duty in the company of their spouses and families on Tuesday in protest over non-payment of their November and December salaries.
The employees said they went for the Christmas break without pay.