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Chronicle Reporters
THE schools’ second term resumed yesterday with some schools turning away pupils over non-payment of fees,
SRC heeds VP Nkomo’s advice
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Sikhumbuzo Moyo,
Senior Sports Reporter
THE Sport and Recreation Commission is seriously considering a proposal by Vice President Landa John Nkomo to increase the number of sporting disciplines in future Paralympic Games.
Addressing the gathering during the closing ceremony of the fifth edition of the Zimbabwe National Paralympic Games at the Colliery Stadium last month, Vice President Nkomo challenged the organisers of the annual event to work towards increasing the number of sporting disciplines so that people with disabilities are also given a chance to compete in more sporting disciplines.Court adjourns as recording machines break down
Court Reporter
Technical glitches are threatening justice delivery in Bulawayo after a trial at the High Court was stopped yesterday due to the breakdown of recording machines.
The machines’ breakdown saw the trial of a Hillside man, who allegedly chopped his wife into pieces following an argument over a telephone, postponed sine die.
PSL summons Dynamos over Hwange fracas
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Harare Bureau
HARARE giants Dynamos have been summoned to appear before a Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee following ugly scenes at Rufaro last Sunday where Hwange coaches Nation Dube and his assistant Mamelo Njekwa, were allegedly assaulted by the club’s marshals.
Netanyahu enters surprise coalition
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a unity government yesterday in a surprise move that could give him a freer hand to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and seek…
Soccer star Jules-Francois Bocande dies
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THE man who booted out Zimbabwe in the 1986 Africa Cup of Nations finals qualifiers, Senegalese Jules-Francois Bocande has died.
He was 54.
Bocande died in Metz, France, where he played between 1984 and 1986.The death of creative writing?
The death of creative writing might sound too harsh, but the breach of copyright or intellectual property rights has reached alarming levels, and it is time drastic measures are taken.
When music artistes and artists in other genres have been lamenting the level of piracy of their works, their cries seemed to have fuelled the problem.
It went viral, and the result is that the music and/or movies most people listen to and/or watch on their DVDs and/or computers is all pirated, and at the end of it all, the artistes are the biggest losers.
What is also very painful is that industries that could earn the country millions of dollars are now almost non-existent, and,
Churches rap TB Joshua
Felex Share Herald Reporter
CHURCH leaders yesterday said controversial Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua was not welcome in Zimbabwe.
The churches argued that prophet TB Joshua’s teachings were of no help to the country as they were judgmental, partisan and unorthodox.
TB Joshua heads the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria and was said to be guest speaker during the National Day of Prayer set for May 25, Africa Day.
Speaking during an Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe meeting in Harare yesterday, the pastors and bishops said while they were not afraid of TB Joshua, they were wary of his intentions.
They said that as custodians of the National Day of Prayer in Zimbabwe, they would not welcome him at their event.
EFZ president and spokesperson Dr Goodwill Shana said God should not be used for partisan purposes. EFZ brings together over 100 denominations, churches, para-church movements and individual Christians of the Evangelical persuasion.
United Kingdom seeks to derail Zim-EU dialogue
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
Britain has come under fire for raising petty issues, including an arms deal executed in the 1980s, to undermine the Zimbabwe-EU dialogue.
The arms deal was done before the November 1997 fallout with the New Labour government of former premier Tony Blair.
The Zimbabwe-EU dialogue seeks to find ways of thawing relations that became frosty after the bloc imposed illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe in 2002.
The British government loaned Zimbabwe 35 million pounds to buy Hawk fighter jets between 1989 and 1992.
Although Zimbabwe has since repaid the loan, Britain wants companies involved in the deal to explain why British taxpayers’ funds ended up helping Zimbabwe buy the jets. Zimbabwe bought five Hawk fighter jets and 1 030 police Land-Rovers, and Britain claims these were used to suppress dissent.
A story published in the British newspaper, The Guardian, says managers of BAE Systems and BP would be asked to account for hundreds of millions of pounds used to help “military dictators” build up their arsenal. The Guardian said an official all-party inquiry into the British government Export Credits Guarantee
Calls to disband Copac mount
Lloyd Gumbo and Felex Share Herald Reporters
THE Copac draft has many irregularities that will have undesirable consequences if confirmed as the supreme law of the country, legal experts said yesterday.
They called for the total disbandment of the Copac process and the holding of elections under the current Constitution, saying the draft seeks to decimate the country’s post-independence history to pave way for the MDC-T’s envisaged ‘‘new Zimbabwe’’.
Church leaders also weighed in, saying the input they gave during the outreach programme was left out of the draft constitution as the process had turned out to be a battle between Zanu-PF and the MDC formations, a development they described as untenable.
They, too, called for the disbandment of Copac and the rescuing of the constitution-making process.
Apart from the issue of gay rights, some of the contentious issues include a clause on founding provisions on the national flag, national anthem, public seal and the coat of arms.
The draft says: “Zimbabwe must have a national flag, a national anthem, a coat of arms and public seal, details of which are to be prescribed in an Act of Parliament.”