adminMurder cases put damper on festive mood
Midlands Correspondent
THE Midlands Province has recorded four murder cases and an attempted murder case within a space of three days signalling a bloody festive season for the province.
Acting police spokesperson for Midlands, Assistant Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko, said the four murder cases occurred in Redcliff, Lower Gweru and Silobela between Wednesday and Friday.
Asst Insp Mahoko said the attempted murder case occurred in Mberengwa on Friday.
Residents invited to Christmas lights switching-on at Centenary Park
Chronicle Reporter
BULAWAYO’S Mayor and Town Clerk will tomorrow ride in a horse-drawn carriage to the Centenary Park as part of spectacular festivities organised by the city to mark the annual switching-on of Christmas lights at the park.
NGO withdraws services in protest over bureaucracy
Chronicle Reporter
THE future of scores of vulnerable children hangs in the balance after a Bulawayo-based non-governmental organisation stopped paying their school fees in protest over the bureaucracy involved.
Haven Trust Safe Shelter, situated in Bulawayo’s Hillside suburb, provides shelter and security for gender-based violence (GBV) victims and it has since removed its service of paying fees for orphans because of the procedure and paperwork involved.
Firm holds Christmas party for police officers’ widows
Chronicle Reporter
ELITE Car Hire Private Limited held a Christmas party and donated hampers to 50 widows and 100 orphans of police officers.
Businesses still shy away from the banking culture
Victoria Falls Reporter
HOUSEHOLDS and businesses are still lacking trust and confidence in the banking sector after having seen their investments collapsing in the past and as such the market is illiquid arising from lack of credit lines, an official said.
Bank employee up for fraud
Court Reporter
A BULAWAYO businessman lost nearly $10 000 to a bank employee who gave him an invalid bank card after opening an account while the employee went on to withdraw money from his account on several occasions.
Mr Nkosizile Chanza, of P8 Mzilikazi and operating a gold mine in Cement Siding, less than 20km outside Bulawayo, had gone to Kingdom Bank intending to open a bank account when Sandra Zikhali (24), whose address was not given, gave him an invalid cell card while she remained with the original one without his knowledge.
Philippine flood victims buried
ILIGAN (Philippines) — With funeral parlours overwhelmed, authorities in a flood-stricken southern Philippine city yesterday organised the first mass burial of some of the nearly 700 people who were swept to their deaths in one of worst calamities to strike the region in decades.
Suspected terrorist leader arrested
One of the suspected leaders of Nigeria’s extremist Islamic group, Boko Haram has been arrested after a deadly standoff between the militants and police.
Mohammed Aliyu, who also goes by the alias Hamza, was arrested at a checkpoint on Saturday.
Party official warns members over religion
BEIJING — Religious practice among Chinese Communist Party members is increasing and threatens its unity and national leadership, a top party official said in remarks reported yesterday.
Party members are required to be atheists and must not believe in religion or engage in religious practice, said Zhu Weiqun, a member of the party’s Central Committee and executive vice director of its United Front Work Department in charge of dealings with non-party groups.
Zuma suffers blow in ANC vote
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Jacob Zuma’s foes challenged his dominance in the ruling party by re-electing an ally of his estranged protege as its leader in a northern province.