Police hunt armed, deadly poacher syndicate
Snr Asst Comm Charity Charamba Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter POLICE have launched a manhunt for seven suspected poachers from across the country and have described them as armed and dangerous....
View ArticleChurches tax begins . . . Old order calm, panic in startups
Mr Pasi Clemence Manyukwe News Editor CHURCHES are bracing for a new tax on income derived from trade or investments following regulations that came into effect on January 1. Tithes, offerings and...
View ArticlePower imports bring load shedding relief
Felex Share Harare Bureau Zimbabwe is getting 300 megawatts daily from South African power company Eskom, in a development that has resulted in improved electricity availability in parts of the country...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day cop killer held
Snr Asst Comm Charity Charamba Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter A POLICEMAN stationed in Jotsholo, Lupane, died on the spot after being stabbed once with an okapi knife by a man he was trying to...
View ArticleDUTY BLOW . . . Travellers’ rebate revised downward . . . Cross border...
Travellers queue at Plumtree border post in this file photo Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The government has revised travellers’ rebate to $200 from $300, among a cocktail of measures as it seeks to...
View ArticleSecurity guard sjamboks ‘caught-in-the-act rapist’
Dickson Nungu Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter A SECURITY guard heroically rescued a Bulawayo woman from a man whom he caught allegedly raping her and trying to strangle her on Sunday at around 1AM....
View ArticleSuicide bid after maid ‘murder’ . . . 14-year-old keeps dead maid’s body for...
The teenager who allegedly killed a domestic worker Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief A 14-year-old Gweru boy allegedly murdered a 41-year-old family maid in cold blood over a memory card and...
View ArticleSecurity concerns save airport fire tenders from auction
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau SOME 123 former Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe fire fighters, who last year attached the company’s fire tenders over unpaid allowances to the tune of $3,1 million,...
View Article$1 million gold smuggler bolts
Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter A 33-YEAR-OLD Kwekwe man who is facing charges of attempting to smuggle gold worth about $1million is on the run after defaulting court. National police spokesperson,...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Maridadi arrested at Beitbridge border post
James Maridadi soon after his arrest at the Beitbridge border post Wednesday morning. Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau Mabvuku legislator James Maridadi was arrested around 4am today by police...
View Article186 homes razed . . . Boxing Day eviction farm ‘squatters’ stranded
Illegal settlers sift through ashes after their huts were torched and destroyed at Deep Dene Farm in Silobela by the farm owner recently Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief ABOUT 186 homesteads...
View ArticleExperts say new $100 traffic fines not yet legal
Terrence Hussein Harare Bureau Police have no right to fine motorists the proposed $100 spot fines for a handful of offences because the increase in the fines has yet to be gazetted, legal experts have...
View ArticleCivil service pay dates announced
Minister Saviour Kasukuwere Felex Share in Harare and Pamela Shumba in Bulawayo THE government’s negotiators yesterday met civil servants’ representatives and gave them specific January pay dates, with...
View Article1000s face starvation after food aid ‘looted’
Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief— Thousands of vulnerable people in the Midlands province face starvation following allegations of food aid looting by government officials tasked to distribute...
View ArticleRecord high temperatures expected today
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter— INTENSE heat is expected today as the country continues to be under the spell of a heatwave. People have been advised to drink a lot of water and to avoid...
View ArticleMDC MP questioned in poaching probe
Thupeyo Muleya Harare Bureau— Four people have been arrested in connection with suspected rhino poaching in Matobo National Park while an MDC-T legislator for Matabeleland North (Proportional...
View ArticleDad rape teenager to abort
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A BULILIMA girl who was allegedly raped by her father has been granted permission to abort the pregnancy by a Plumtree magistrate for her not to interrupt her...
View ArticleWadyajena in G40 threat storm
Cde Wadyajena Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent— ZANU-PF Midlands Province has set up a disciplinary committee to conduct hearings against provincial leaders accused of threatening three...
View ArticleBoarders water woes…Supply dams dry up ahead of schools opening
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter— MANY boarding schools in Matabeleland South are panicking over low water levels in their dams ahead of the opening of schools next week as the dry spell...
View ArticleBiti fights for death row 16 . . . Murder convicts’ bid to escape hangman’s...
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau At least 16 death row inmates, who have spent between four and 18 years awaiting their fate, have challenged their pending executions on the basis that the current legal...
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