Ponting faces ICC charge
LONDON.Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting will be charged for allegedly damaging a television set in the dressing room after being dismissed against Zimbabwe. Ponting (36) was run out for 28…
Proteas bank on Kallis
NEW DELHI.South Africa will bank on their recent form and fitness of key player Jacques Kallis when they take on an upredictable West Indies in their opening Cricket World Cup…
Del Boy blasts Tyson
LONDON.Heavyweight boxer Dereck “Del Boy” Chisora says Tyson Fury is “all boots and braces but no substance”, following comments the 22-year-old made after his latest victory.Fury is next in line…
SMM workers send SOS to President
By Farirai Machivenyika recently in ZVISHAVANE
SHABANIE Mine workers, who have gone for two years without salaries, have asked
Car runs over pair: One dead, another injured
Herald ReportersA CHINHOYI woman died on the spot while another was seriously injured when they were run over by a car that veered off the road as the driver tried…
Agric project set to benefit 3 636 farmers
Agriculture ReporterTHREE-THOUSAND-SIX-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY- SIX small-holder farmers will benefit from the Union Project conservation agriculture programme currently running at 21 sites in 11 districts of Zimbabwe.UP board member Mr Paul Zakariya told…
Three armed women rape Norton man
From Walter Nyamukondiwain Chinhoyi A Norton man has become the latest victim of sexual abuse by armed women when he was recently forced to be intimate with three of them…
Businesswoman loses US$26 000 goods
Court ReporterA Chinese businesswoman lost her vehicle, cash, two guns and jewellery – all worth more than US$26 000 – to five armed robbers who stormed her house in Harare…
Suspects acquitted
By Wenceslaus MurapeA Marondera magistrate on Tuesday acquitted five people on charges of raping a nine-year-old girl.The five include the girl’s aunt and maternal grandmother and a policeman, who had…
Somali troops seize rebel bases
MOGADISHU.Somali troops, backed by peacekeepers, seized three rebel bases in the capital Mogadishu yesterday, the government said, in a new offensive against hardline Islamist militants. The country’s interim government –…


