adminCouncil employees down tools
Midlands Correspondent
BUSINESS came to a halt at the Gweru Town house yesterday when city council workers besieged offices singing and chanting anti-management slogans in protest over unpaid bonuses.
Councillors now greedy: Ex-Mayor
Chronicle Reporter
COUNCILLORS are now more concerned with lining their pockets instead of providing service to the people who elected them into office, the first black Bulawayo Mayor, Cde Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu, said.
$1,5m required for water treatment plant
Chronicle Reporter
A total of $1,5 million is needed to set up a water treatment plant at Bubi-Lupane Dam before it could supply water to Matabeleland North capital, Lupane town.
Villagers lose livestock to lions
Victoria Falls Reporter
VILLAGERS in Matetsi ward in Hwange district have lost eight cattle to six lions that are terrorising the area, which is under Chief Mvutu.
Bogus healers’ days numbered
Chronicle Reporter
THE Traditional Medical Association Council of Zimbabwe (TMACZ) Matabeleland South branch has vowed to stem out bogus traditional healers operating without licences by January next year.
Founders launch cultural village
By Auxilia Katongomara
FOUNDERS High School has become the second educational institution in Bulawayo to launch a cultural village in line with the Ministry of Education’s directive that each school construct one.
The first school to construct the cultural village in the city was Emganwini High School.
Young Igwe makes Masvingo debut
Masvingo Correspondent
Peter Moyo, son of the late sungura maestro, Tongai Dhewa Moyo, makes his debut visit to Masvingo tomorrow in what has been dubbed as the reincarnation of the Igwe at the popular watering hole, Club Oasis.
MJ’s doctor gets maximum sentence
Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s personal physician, has been sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the pop star’s death.
Michael Pastor, Los Angeles superior court judge, gave Murray the maximum sentence on Tuesday and said that the physician engaged in “money for medicine madness that is simply not acceptable to me”.
China decries Canada’s ‘bad example’ in climate talks
BEIJING — Canada’s failure to deny reports that it is about to ditch the Kyoto Protocol is “setting a bad example” to other developed nations as global climate change talks enter their third day, China’s official news agency said yesterday.
UN concerned about HIV funding
Geneva — HIV infections fell and treatment soared following an unprecedented response to Aids over the last decade, the UN said yesterday, while sounding the alarm over declining funds.
New infections dropped by more than a quarter between 2001 and 2009 across 33 countries, a report published ahead of World Aids Day today said.