adminPanner kills guard in cold blood
Midlands Correspondent
A 29-year-old man employed as a security guard at a gold mine in Silobela died after he was attacked with a machete by an illegal gold panner whom he caught panning at the mine.
NetOne to launch mobile broadband service
Chronicle Reporter
THE country’s leading mobile operator, NetOne will today launch the mobile broadband service in Bulawayo, a facility that would enable subscribers to access and use Internet services through mobile phones.
Prominent businessman Mangezi dies
Chronicle Reporter
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman Mr Timothy Mangezi has died. He was 59.
Zvishavane council chairman, councillors on collision course
From Paul Mundandi in Zvishavane
Zvishavane Council chairman Councillor Alluwis Zhou has taken control of the newly purchased council minibus and has vowed not to return it until a new official vehicle is bought for him.
He wants a new car to replace the twin cab which was bought for him last year.
Habitual housebreaker jailed eight years
Court Reporter
Bulawayo magistrate Mrs Rose Dube has sentenced to eight years in prison a serial housebreaker who had terrorised Bulawayo residents in a series of burglaries in the company of two other men.
George Khulani Dube, aka Thulani Dube (30), of 12519 in Cowdray Park, was on Friday convicted of four counts of unlawful entry and theft and one case of theft from a motor vehicle, which he committed between August and November this year.
Durban talks: debt, doubt loom large
Durban — Economic crisis and the top three polluters China, the US and India, loomed as obstacles to a new global deal at the start of a second make-or-break week of UN climate talks in the South African city of Durban.
DRC scrambles to tally votes as tensions mount
KINSHASA — Congo electoral officials struggled to finish counting votes from last week’s presidential election yesterday, sending helicopters to remote polling stations in an effort to meet a midnight deadline.
Hundreds arrested after anti-Putin rally
Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters are being held by police following overnight protests in Moscow against the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
About 250 people were detained yesterday morning and face being held for up to 15 days, said Olga Shorina, a spokeswoman for the Solidarnost (Solidarity) activist group that organised the protest.
Several thousand people took to the streets in central Moscow late on Monday to protest against alleged fraud and voting irregularities after Vladimir Putin’s United Russia retained power, albeit with a greatly reduced share of the vote.
Concern over delay in wheat producer price announcement
Business Reporter
FARMERS have bemoaned Government’s delays in announcing the new producer price of wheat saying the development has seen growers withholding their crop.
Rise in cost of living worrying: CCZ
Business Reporter
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) has expressed concern over the rise in cost of living in November saying although the increase is marginal, it impacted negatively on low-income urban earners.