Busy schedule for boxers

Lovemore Dube
Sports Editor

THE Zimbabwe Board of Boxing and Wrestling Control is confident that the three tournaments lined up for this year could shape the future of local professional boxing.

Sables conclude training camp

Sports Reporter

A national rugby team select made up of locally based players yesterday concluded a two-day strength and conditioning training camp that was held at Old Hararians Sports Club in Harare.

Tutu boycotts seminar in anti-Blair protest

JOHANNESBURG — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from a seminar in South Africa this week in protest against the presence of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his support for war in Iraq.

Many civilians massacred in Congo: UN officials

GENEVA — Rival armed groups may have killed hundreds of civilians in massacres and other “incomprehensibly vicious” attacks in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), senior UN officials said yesterday.

Mkoba councillor runs amok, ‘beats up’ residents

Midlands Correspondent

GWERU’S Ward 19 councillor in Mkoba, Clemence Kwaru, reportedly ran amok and assaulted two female residents who were part of a group which besieged his house accusing him of failing to present their problems to the council.

France opens inquiry into claims of Arafat poisoning

French prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources said on Tuesday.

Declaring constitutional deadlock means elections: Zanu-PF

Harare Bureau

ZANU-PF yesterday said if the MDC formations declare a deadlock over the draft constitution they will be effectively calling for elections. 

Three-member theft gang nabbed

Court Reporter

POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a three-member syndicate after the discovery of theft of goods valued at more than $2 000. Two of the syndicate members are attached to OK Mart.

Water furore erupts

Temba Dube and Prosper Ndlovu

THOUSANDS of residents in Bulawayo’s high density suburbs were left stranded when the council cut off supplies after changing its publicised water shedding schedule without notice.

Govt avails funds to pay census enumerators

Harare Bureau

GOVERNMENT has released $8 million to the Zimbabwe Statistical Agency to pay enumerators who participated in the 2012 national census.

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