DEVELOPING: Sadc Double Troika Summit underway
From Morris Mkwate in GABORONE, Botswana The Sadc Double Troika Summit on Lesotho is now underway in Gaborone, Botswana, with Heads of State examining steps the Mountain Kingdom has taken to restore...
View ArticleNRZ to shed 1,000 jobs
Larry Mavima Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter— MORE than 1,000 National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workers are set to be retrenched after the completion of a forensic audit of the company, the...
View ArticleZinara, Central Vehicle Registry integration starts
Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau— THE Government’s integration of systems under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to enhance enforcement of laws and reduce revenue leakages, has...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day cop killer gets 25 yrs…Judge laments rabid violence in youths
Mashudu Netsianda in Hwange Senior Court Reporter— A MAN who stabbed a police officer to death as he tried to evade arrest on New Year’s Day, was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in jail. Proud Dlamini...
View ArticleDEVELOPING STORY: Masked, armed and dangerous robber on the loose in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo are searching for an unidentified armed robber who, on Tuesday night, shot and injured a Telecash agent before robbing two people of their mobile phones at gunpoint after firing...
View ArticleLATEST: Vapositori attack senior cop at shrine
Crime Reporter A police chief superintendent was attacked and seriously injured by members of the Johane Masowe Apostolic Sect in Mashonaland Central Province after he was accused of trespassing on...
View ArticleInyanga’s herbal concoction ‘kills’ five-month pregnant woman
Peter Paulos Mkhothanda Mashudu Netsianda in Hwange A SELF-PROCLAIMED prophet-cum-traditional healer allegedly killed his five-month pregnant patient when he made her drink a poisonous herbal...
View ArticleChurch a must at mission schools: Court
Harare Bureau Children in mission or private schools are compelled to attend chapel services or religious activities at their respective institutions, and if they are not comfortable with the policies,...
View ArticleGunman’s rampage…Masked thug goes on shooting spree, strikes thrice in 1 hour
Charles Tshuma shows injuries he sustained in the attack Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter A BULAWAYO man was rushed to hospital after a masked gunman shot him on the shoulder in a failed robbery...
View ArticleLATEST: Blind man rapes 3-year-old niece
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter OFFICIALS struggled to drag a 76-year-old visually impaired man into a courtroom as he refused to stand trial for allegedly raping his three-year-old niece....
View ArticleIndustry captains decry ‘numerous’ roadblocks
Advocate Jacob Mudenda Prosper Ndlovu/Leonard Ncube in Victoria Falls THE presence of numerous roadblocks on the country’s roads is becoming a burden on the economy as they increase the cost of doing...
View ArticleTake it or leave it…Govt insists on civil servants $100 offer
Minister Supa Mandiwanzira Felex Share Harare Bureau THE Government is today expected to pay civil servants the $100 advance salary as promised to cushion them despite resistance from unions...
View ArticlePay delays force change to nurses shifts
Minister Patrick Chinamasa Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter SOME hospitals have reduced working days for nurses from five days to three to cushion the health workers from transport costs following the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Beitbridge border shut down over new import regulations
The demonstrators have blocked Beitbridge border post2016. – Pic Thupeyo Muleya Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge THOUSANDS of people including Zimbabweans, Ethiopians, Indians and businessmen from South...
View Article2 die as mine shaft collapses
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent TWO miners died while two others were hospitalised with critical injuries after a shaft collapsed on them at Turk Mine in Bubi District yesterday. The accident...
View ArticleMan kills, burns father with petrol
Bethester Ndlovu Mashudu Netsianda in Hwange A MAN from Tsholotsho who allegedly teamed up with his sister-in-law to beat up his 67-year-old father before dousing him with petrol and burning him to...
View ArticleProtestors go wild in Beitbridge…BURNING, LOOTING
Thupeyo Muleya and Mashudu Netsianda: Chronicle Reporters PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars went up in smoke in Beitbridge yesterday when a mob burnt down a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)...
View ArticleVice President Mphoko against church tax
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko Mashudu Netsianda Senior Reporter VICE-President Phelekezela Mphoko has condemned the taxing of churches by the Government, arguing that they could not be “taxed...
View Article19 years jail for dad who armed son for murder
Fairness Moyana Hwange Court Correspondent A MAN from Nkayi armed his son with an Okapi knife which the 20-year-old used to stab two brothers, killing one in the process. The father and son, appearing...
View ArticleShot dead in bus robbery . . . South Africa-bound passenger kills gun toting...
A Mzansi Express bus and Mrs Samukeliso Mpofu who was on the ill-fated bus Bianca Mlilo Chronicle Reporter A PASSENGER on a Mzansi Express bus from Zimbabwe to South Africa allegedly wrestled a gun...
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