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The Hague —The International Criminal Court yesterday backed a decision to drop war crimes charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana.
“The appeal is rejected,” said Judge Erkki Kourula, following an appeal by prosecutors against the tribunal’s decision to drop charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Nkala not planning return to politics
Chronicle Reporter
FORMER Cabinet Minister Cde Enos Nkala yesterday said he will not return to active politics as it is a dirty game and does not want anymore political confrontations.
Tattoos give away rapist
Court Reporter
A man’s chest tattoos gave him away leading to his arrest and conviction for raping a woman whom he met while she was gathering firewood.
Accident victims buried
Chronicle Reporter
TWO of the three Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDA) women who died when a Nissan Sunny they were travelling in was involved in an accident with a Nissan Navara truck near Nkulumane Shopping Complex in Bulawayo on Sunday were buried yesterday.
PSL matches cancelled
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Senior Sports Reporter
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has cancelled all the matches that were scheduled for Saturday so as to allow the national team to prepare for its weekend match without any disruptions.
Zimbabwe play Guinea at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. “This serves to advise that the League has postponed all the Castle Lager PSL matches scheduled for Saturday 02 June 2012.
City artistes hit back at Macheso
Bongani Ndlovu
Entertainment Reporter
BULAWAYO musicians have hit back at Alick Macheso over his rant last week saying he should not gain support from fans by mocking them.
Macheso mocked Bulawayo artistes during his show on Thursday night, saying he could fill up Bulawayo’s Amphitheatre and they could not although he was playing in their mother city.
High Court judge orders release of BBC presenter
Court Reporter
SENIOR Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nicholas Ndou has directed officials from the Department of Immigration and co-Ministers of Home Affairs to forthwith release a BBC Channel Three presenter from custody.
Rot at Zifa Midlands exposed
Lovemore Zigara
THE leadership deficiencies in the Brian Chishanga-led Zifa Midlands executive have been exposed once more after it cleared Asibu Mususa to contest the Gweru Amateur Football Association (Gafa) elections.
Former Liberian leader Taylor jailed for 50 years
THE HAGUE — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was jailed for 50 years yesterday for helping Sierra Leonean rebels commit what a court in The Hague called some of the worst war crimes in history.
Taylor (64), was the first head of state convicted by an international court since the trials of Nazis after World War Two and the sentence set a precedent for the emerging system of international justice.
Match verdict delay appalls Hwange FC
Sports Reporter
HWANGE FC have expressed disappointment over the delay by the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee to release the verdict of their case against Harare giants, Dynamos, more than a week after the case was heard.