adminPSL 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.
Mass defection of Sudan troops to South Sudan
More than 200 Sudanese soldiers have defected from the army, accusing Khartoum of deliberately trying to destabilise the newly created country of South Sudan.
Bosso supporter pledges car for Kaindu
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
A doctor of philosophy law student in the United Kingdom, who is also a Highlanders member, has pledged a BMW 3 series car for use by the high-flying Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu.
SABMiller increases shareholding in Delta Corporation to 40pc
Oliver Kazunga
Business Reporter
ONE of the world’s largest brewers, SABMiller, has increased its shareholding in local beverages and soft drink maker Delta from 38 percent to 40 percent.
In a statement accompanying their financial results for the year ending 31 March 2012, SABMiller chief executive Mr Graham Mackay said the local lager and soft drink volumes continued to record encouraging results.
Mixed reactions from Liberians at ex-president’s verdict
MONROVIA — Liberians are divided in opinion on the 50 years’ jail sentence handed down yesterday on Liberia’s convicted former president Charles Taylor, age 64.