Judge wants sex offenders data base
Justice Martin Makonese inspects a police parade at the opening of the 2016 legal year for the Gweru High Court Circuit yesterday Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief BULAWAYO High Court judge...
View ArticleBody MIX-UP . . . Family learns of mistake 20 minutes after burial
A relative stands at the new grave of the late Makarathi Sibanda yesterday Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter A FAMILY from Fort Rixon, whose relative died in South Africa, had a horrific experience when...
View ArticleFour in court for Gushungo Dairy bomb plot
Some of the four suspects who were arrested last Friday following an abortive bid to bomb the First Family’s Alpha Omega Dairy Farm being led by detectives into the Harare Magistrates’ Courts...
View Article$60m lifeline for Murowa . . . RioZim injects critical cash into diamonds mine
Murowa Diamonds board chairman, Lovemore Chihota (centre) and Chief Mazvihwa (right) unveil the equipment worth $6 million for the mine’s expansion in Zvishavane yesterday Patrick Chitumba Midlands...
View ArticleParliament battles to buy cars for new MPs
Kennedy Chokuda Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau Parliament is struggling to secure more than $1,2 million to buy all-terrain vehicles for about 35 recently sworn in Members of Parliament, five months...
View Article25-year-old ‘dumped’ by lover claims maintenance from dad
Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter A 25-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman yesterday dragged her father to the maintenance court demanding $250 maintenance. Rebecca Masuku, allegedly fresh from co-habiting with her...
View ArticleTeachers fight back . . . Union goes to court over scrapped leave
Sifiso Ndlovu Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter THE Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) has taken the government to court over its decision to cancel teachers’ annual leave. The teachers’ union filed...
View ArticlePresident launches Nyerere book
President Mugabe with Julius Nyerere in this file photo Felex Share Harare Bureau AFRICANS should honour the legacy of founding fathers such as former Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere whose...
View ArticleMan missing for 1 year was ‘killed by son’
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent THE mystery surrounding the disappearance of a 75-year-old man from Bulilima, who was reported missing in 2014, has been solved after his son was arrested for...
View Article‘NO LEAVE FOR TEACHERS’ . . . Minister digs in heels on vacation scrapping
Minister Prisca Mupfumira Felex Share Harare Bureau No teacher will go on vacation leave until the government is in a position to pay relief teachers who replace them for the three months they will be...
View ArticleEnd nigh for Zanu-PF succession plotters: Charamba
George Charamba Harare Bureau Presidential spokesperson George Charamba has rapped Zanu-PF successionists claiming to be behind the First Family when in actual fact they harbour their own presidential...
View ArticleSoldiers lose $18k to ‘magician’
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter A BULAWAYO man masqueraded as a magician and allegedly duped two soldiers of $18,500 after hoodwinking them into believing that he could turn old Z$5 notes into...
View ArticleWoman ‘kills’ son to please new hubby
Patience Mutsiwi Midlands Reporter A WOMAN from Chirumhanzu allegedly killed her two-year-old son from a previous marriage to please her new husband and in-laws. Precious Hamandishe, 27, of Ritize...
View ArticleTeacher sues Dokora for ‘illegal’ transfer
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter A PRIMARY school teacher has dragged the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora, and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to the Bulawayo High...
View ArticleEgodini facelift: $60m upgrade of bus terminus set for next week
Part of Basch Street Bus Terminus, popularly known as Egodini in Bulawayo Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter THE $60 million upgrading of Basch Street Bus Terminus, popularly known as Egodini, is...
View Article‘There is no respect anymore in Zanu-PF’…factions beware: president
President MugabeFelex Share Harare Bureau— Individualists and factionalists have no place in the Zanu-PF government and people should respect the leadership appointed at the party’s 2014 National...
View ArticleIt will get better, Sekeramayi tells troops
Harare Bureau THE government has assured troops that it is working tirelessly to improve their conditions of service, which have deteriorated over the years owing to poor economic conditions spawned by...
View ArticleWhatsApp suicide man found hanged
Police officers collect the body of Godfrey Marange from a house where he was staying in Emakhandeni, Bulawayo. Inset, the late Godfrey MarangeNqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent — A MAN who sent a...
View ArticleUS blocks Zim bailout…Ministers fume at meddling super power
Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau— The government has castigated the United States of America for meddling in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs in a way that seeks to weaken the country’s sovereign status and...
View ArticleIllegal to withhold results, schools told
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter— SCHOOLS that withhold exam results from pupils are breaking the law, the government said yesterday. Primary and Secondary Education Deputy Minister Professor...
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