Poison gas panic at high school . . . Pupils hospitalised, others faint
Bulawayo PED, Dan Moyo Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter Pupils lost consciousness and two of them were rushed to hospital after they inhaled bromine gas in an Advanced Level laboratory at St...
View ArticleDaughter ‘killer’ faces judge after 16 years
Chest Moyo Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter A Gwanda man, 59, allegedly killed his daughter, 5, and cut off part of her arm before claiming that she had fallen into a fire while cooking. Chest Moyo,...
View ArticleINMATES TO GET CONDOMS
Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter THE Commissioner-General of Prisons and Correctional Services of Zimbabwe, Retired Major General Paradzai Zimondi, has...
View ArticleStudent teacher dies in pirate taxi, kombi crash
The wreckages of the Nissan March and the Toyota Hiace which collided at the intersection of 12th Avenue extension and Park Road in Suburbs, Bulawayo, yesterday Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter...
View Article6 kids die at baptism
Snr Asst Comm Charity Charamba Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent SIX children, all under the age of nine, died while two others are in a critical condition after a baptism ceremony conducted by...
View ArticleFive family members die after meal, poisoning suspected
From George Maponga in Masvingo— Five family members, four of them juveniles, died on Tuesday evening in Masangula communal lands in Mwenezi after they ate food suspected to have been laced with...
View ArticleFight stopper knifed to death by friend
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter— A MAN from Bulawayo allegedly fatally stabbed his friend in a fit of rage for admonishing him after he insulted his aunt. Simon Ncube, 27, allegedly flew into a rage after...
View Article‘Bond notes are coming’…President says end to cash crisis in sight
President Mugabe Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau— The prevailing cash shortage is a temporary challenge and those criticising the introduction of bond notes are either pushing certain political agendas or...
View ArticlePresident urges Chinese to bank
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter— ZANU-PF First Secretary President Mugabe yesterday criticised some Chinese businessmen for failing to deposit their cash into local banks and instead, smuggling it to...
View ArticlePolice to cut roadblocks
Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter— Police say they will soon reduce the number of roadblocks following complaints from motorists over their increased presence on the roads. In a statement yesterday,...
View Article‘Jealousy behind polygamous family poison deaths’
Walter Mswazie recently in Masangula, Mwenezi— THE five people who died in Mwenezi’s Masangula area on Wednesday after eating food suspected to be laced with poison were victims of jealousy in a...
View ArticleBREAKING: Dynamos fans involved in fatal accident
The Iveco bus that the Dynamos fans were travelling in is said to have burst a tyre and veered off the road, resulting in the disaster Pure Tafadzwa Chinyakuza MORE than 5 Dynamos fans are feared dead...
View ArticleMiner ‘dies’ on third day at work
Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Reporter— A MAN is feared dead after he slipped and fell into a 26m deep well while working in a mine shaft at Shamrock 5 Mine in Hope Fountain on Saturday. The man, only...
View ArticleReserve Bank hunts cash hoarders
Minister Patrick Chinamasa Takunda Maodza Harare Bureau— THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has launched an operation targeted at assessing banking trends by high cash generators like wholesalers, retailers,...
View ArticleChurch con robs 15 youths…Congregants lose cash, phones at police station
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter— A DARING suspected fraudster allegedly duped some church congregants of $165 in cash and cellphone handsets in front of police officers at the Hwange Police...
View ArticleMines ministry perm sec in corruption storm
Prof Francis Gudyanga Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau— Mines and Mining Development secretary Professor Francis Gudyanga, is chairing three parastatal boards that fall under his ministry — a move that has...
View ArticleMemory loss after friendly brick attack
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter— A MAN from Makokoba, in Bulawayo allegedly mistakenly stoned his friend while trying to defend him from three men who were demanding earphones from him. Andrew Maseko, 19,...
View ArticleDead for a shovel…Herdboy kills man in fight over family tool
Whinsley Masara/ Fairness Moyana Chronicle Reporters— A TSHOLOTSHO man was at the weekend fatally stabbed with a knife by a fellow villager following a misunderstanding over the ownership of a shovel....
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Ex-Minister Mumbengegwi dies
Former Finance Minister Dr Samuel Mumbengegwi has died. He died this morning at the Avenues Clinic in Harare from an unknown ailment. At the time of his death, Dr Mumbengegwi was a lecturer in the...
View ArticleFormer Finance minister Samuel Mumbengegwi dies
The late Samuel Creighton Mumbengegwi Harare Bureau FORMER Finance and Economic Development Minister and veteran educationist Samuel Creighton Mumbengegwi has died. He was 74. Mumbengegwi, who also...
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