adminAsiagate hearings begin
Harare Bureau
HEARINGS into the Asiagate scandal began at Alexandra Sports Club yesterday with the prosecution team making opening statements to the Zifa Independent Ethics Committee.
Iran’s FM asks P5+1 to lift sanctions
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TEHRAN. — Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi yesterday asked the P5+1 to lift sanctions against Tehran before the next round of nuclear talks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in May, local media reported.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Come up with better ways to curb sand poaching
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THE degradation caused by sand poaching in and around Bulawayo has reached alarming levels and there is urgent need to find a lasting solution before it is too late. The worst affected are Methodist, St Peters and Robert Sinyoka villages on the outskirts of Bulawayo.
21 perish in bus accident
Harare Bureau
TWENTY-ONE people, including the driver and his conductor, were killed while 45 others were injured when a Beitbridge-bound bus veered off the road and crashed into a tree along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road early yesterday morning.
Fierce clashes in Syria as UN observers begin work
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SYRIAN forces were locked in fierce gunfights with rebels in one city and shelled another yesterday, hours after UN peacekeepers arrived to oversee a truce aimed at ending a year of bloodshed.
Sudan denies its warplanes bombed disputed oilfield
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KHARTOUM — Sudan yesterday denied its warplanes had bombed an oilfield seized by forces from South Sudan and blamed the south for any damage to the facility during fighting that has raged since last week.
Highlanders yet to drop points
Sports Reporter
HIGHLANDERS remained the only team in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League yet to drop points following their 5-3 win over Hardbody at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.
‘Taliban attacks show intelligence failure’
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COORDINATED attacks by Taliban insurgents across Afghanistan showed intelligence failures, particularly on the part of Nato forces, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday.
Bulawayo playwright makes it to Hifa
Auxilia Katongomara
UNHERALDED Bulawayo playwright Nonhlalo Dube has scored a first as her new play It Never Rains will be showcased at the Harare International Festival of the Arts set for next month.
Bulls face backlash
Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
Zifa throw weight behind PSL in stadium row
ZIFA have come out in full support of the Premier Soccer League leadership in the ground row that led to the abandonment