POWER CRISIS…Electric geyser ban looms
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent THE government is crafting legislation to outlaw the use of electric geysers as it battles to reduce electricity consumption following crippling power outages...
View ArticleImported maize delivered to Byo: Acting President
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa Nduduzo Tshuma Political Editor— THE maize bought from Zambia for distribution to different parts of the country affected by drought, has been delivered to Bulawayo,...
View ArticlePandemonium as ZBC locks out Deputy Sheriff
The Deputy Sheriff vehicles outside ZBC gate in Harare yesterday Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau— There was drama at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Highlands, Harare, yesterday...
View ArticleMbanje in gardens…8 men, 6 women nabbed…358 thriving plants recovered
Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter— Police in Tsholotsho yesterday arrested 14 people from Khekhethe village under chief Gampu and recovered more than 300 mbanje plants. The police raided the village...
View ArticleFood aid distribution begins in all provinces…Hunger relief
Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau— The government will today start distributing drought relief food to families affected by the drought in all the country’s ten provinces. The deficit of 700,000 tonnes...
View ArticleCouncil boss ‘targets interns for sex abuse’
Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent— Gweru City Council has suspended its personnel and training manager, Rodgers Chanda, for among other allegations sexually abusing students on work related...
View ArticleFat cats cornered: New law to govern parastatal bosses’ pay
Patrick Chinamasa Farirai Machivenyika Harare Bureau— Parastatals and public enterprises will soon be required to convene annual general meetings where a review of their financial statements will be...
View ArticleByo Town Clerk dies
Middleton Nyoni Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter— BULAWAYO City Council Town Clerk, Middleton Nyoni, has died. He was 62. Nyoni, who had been battling cancer for some time, died on Sunday. He had...
View ArticleMPILO MESS-UP…Woman left with surgical glove in body after op
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent— A WOMAN from Zhombe in the Midlands has been living with a surgical glove stuck inside her body after a botched surgical operation last Thursday at Mpilo...
View ArticleWelshman Ncube flees angry war vets
Prof Ncube Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter— PROMINENT lawyer Professor Welshman Ncube yesterday sneaked out of the Bulawayo High Court through a back door with the help of police following...
View ArticleZinara to de-register 300,000 vehicles
Police officers inspect vehicle licences at a Bulawayo roadblock in this file photo Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau THE Central Vehicle Registry will de-register more than 300,000 vehicles that have not...
View Article107 passports man arrested
Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent A BULAWAYO man who masqueraded as an immigration official has been arrested after being found with 107 passports,...
View Article‘NO MATHS, NO DEGREE’
Professor Jonathan Moyo Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent THE government will soon make it mandatory for those wishing to enrol in universities and other institutions of higher learning to have...
View ArticleMinister issues drought warning
A farmer stands in a field with a wilted maize crop in this file photo Samantha Chigogo Harare Bureau MOST parts of the country will this season experience drought characterised by low rainfall, while...
View ArticleDelta slashes beer price
Business Reporters DELTA Beverages has slashed prices of its mainstream beer products starting today in keeping with the steady commodity price reductions being witnessed across the country. Economic...
View ArticleJAN ‘16 BAN ON GEYSERS…Phased ban on power guzzlers…300k households to be...
Minister Samuel Undenge Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau THE government will phase out electric geysers and replace them with solar powered water heating geysers from January next year as one of the...
View Article‘THE PAIN WILL EASE’…President speaks on power crisis…Relief to be slow, but...
Tendai Mugabe Harare Bureau— THE government has set in motion an aggressive power generation plan which will see solar energy being harnessed to complement hydropower from Lake Kariba and thermal...
View ArticleChiyangwa, Coltart spat over Bulawayo industries
Mr Coltart Prosper Ndlovu Business Editor— PROPERTY magnate Philip Chiyangwa is “angry” after the former Education Minister David Coltart blamed him for causing the demise of Bulawayo industries....
View ArticleFour die in bus crash
Fairness Moyana and Leonard Ncube Chronicle Reporters— FOUR people including a baby died on the spot while 23 others were injured when an Extra City bus side-swiped the trailer of a haulage truck...
View ArticleOne child dies after immunisation
Whinsley Masara and Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporters— A BOY, 3, from Jotsholo in Matabeleland North died following a suspected allergic reaction to the measles and rubella vaccines and a...
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