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At least 74 people were killed in a riot at a soccer match in the Egyptian city of Port Said on Wednesday.
Dzumbunu appeals for numbers at Saints AGM
Sports Reporter
Zimbabwe Saints Football Club outgoing chairman Felix Dzumbunu has appealed to club members to come in their numbers to attend Sunday’s annual general meeting at the clubhouse in Queens Park East.
“The annual general meeting is an important gathering for the club. It is where the club’s performance of the previous year is discussed and plans for the ensuing year formulated,” said Dzumbunu.
He said the future of the club lay in active participation by members.
Basketball teams converge on Gweru
Sports Reporter
GWERU is set to be abuzz with activity tomorrow with Bulawayo teams invading the city to take part in the Southern Region Basketball Leagues for both men and women.
Games will be played at Regina Mundi High School courts.
Player agents cry foul over proposed $10 000 licence fee
Harare Bureau
LOCAL players’ agents could be heading for a collision with the Zifa assembly after a resolution was passed to charge a fee of $10 000 for the licensed football agents to operate.
At their meeting at the weekend, the Zifa assembly agreed to charge a fee for all the operating football agents but the association for players’ managers, through its president Omega Sibanda yesterday came out fighting and said such a decision “is unfortunate”.
Spoof Zuma, Zille poster causes stir
Cape Town — A spoof advert showing puppets of President Jacob Zuma and DA leader Helen Zille in a passionate clinch is the latest mock of the opposition party’s youth poster campaign to cause a stir on social network sites.
Brain-eating man held in US
Bridgeport — A US man charged with hacking a homeless man to death with an axe and eating his brain was ordered on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Tyree Lincoln Smith, aged 35, stared blankly as he stood with his hands chained behind his back during his arraignment on a murder charge. It was his first court appearance since he was returned to Connecticut on Tuesday following his arrest last week in Florida.
Give boys and girls same treatment
By Vaidah Mashangwa
In a survey conducted by researchers in terms of educating the boy and the girl child there were some parents who said that if faced with hardships, they would rather educate a boy than a girl.
ZMC seeks ban of foreign papers
Harare Bureau
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission wants The Sunday Times of South Africa and other foreign- based publications
Ex-auctioneer remanded on vehicle theft charge
Court Reporter
ONCE prominent Bulawayo auctioneer, Raphael John Masuku, appeared in court yesterday together with another person facing charges of stealing a motor vehicle valued at $16 000.
Masuku (48), of Number 5 Blencow Road, Greenhill and Tendai Rudolph Kambare (24), of Number 24 Welford Road in Montrose were not formally charged when they briefly appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Victor Mpofu.
Parents, authorities clash as burglars raid school
Midlands Correspondent
PARENTS whose children attend Pakame High School in Shurugwi are up in arms with the school authorities after burglars broke into the school dormitories on opening day and got away with pupils’ trunks and blankets.