adminNaison Ndlovu’s brother Zibusiso dies
Chronicle Reporter
INSIZA Senator, Cde Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu’s younger brother, Zibusiso, has died.
He was 80.
Govt urged to honour faithful health workers
Masvingo Correspondent
GOVERNMENT has been called upon to honour its workers who remained in the country at the height of the economic challenges as an appreciation of their selflessness dedication to the country’s sovereignty.
Close to 40 percent high labour turnover was recorded in the country between 2007 and 2008 when professionals in both the private and public sectors left the country to seek greener pastures in countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Australia, Britain New Zealand and the US.
Masvingo mayor defrauded of $1 250
Masvingo Correspondent
A daring fraudster from Shurugwi has landed himself in trouble for defrauding Masvingo Mayor, Alderman Fermius Chakabuda of $1 250 after he misrepresented himself as a son to a farmer from Chatsworth in Gutu, who was selling four head of cattle.
13-year-old boy convicted on three counts of rape
Court Reporter
A Bulawayo regional magistrate has sent a 13-year-old boy to Kadoma Training Institution, a reformatory centre, after convicting him on three counts of rape.
The boy from Plumtree raped different minors between April and August this year.
Mozambican bicycle thief ‘miraculously’ learns Shona
Midlands Correspondent
A Mozambican facing theft charges whose trial was delayed for two months as the state sought a Portuguese interpreter after he said he could neither speak Shona nor English left the gallery at the Gweru magistrate courts in stitches yesterday when he suddenly spoke Shona as he pleaded with the magistrate to reduce his eight months jail sentence.
Clothing items no longer covered by the traveller’s rebate
The announcement of the 2012 Budget Statement and the subsequent amendments to the Customs and Excise (General) Regulations (Statutory Instrument 154 of 2001) has brought about changes to the traveller’s rebate with regards to goods that qualify for duty free importation.
Sable Chemicals to implement clean-up project
Sable Chemicals, a subsidiary of Chemplex Corporation, will next year implement the first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in the country when it starts processing nitrous oxide waste into fertiliser, an official has said.
Snow, tears mark funeral for North Korean leader
SEOUL — The world watched anxiously yesterday as North Korea staged a huge funeral in the capital, Pyongyang, for former leader Kim Jong-il, searching for signs of what to expect from the isolated nation that may be close to attaining nuclear weapons capacity.
Sexual assaults up at US military schools
Washington — The number of sexual assaults reported at the country’s prestigious military academies rose sharply for the second year in a row, according to a Pentagon report issued on Tuesday.
A total of 65 sexual assault cases were reported at the three academies in 2010-11 compared to 41 reports in the previous academic year, the report said.
Putin calls Russia protesters ‘leaderless’
Russia’s prime minister has belittled the country’s protest movement as lacking clear aims or leaders and rejected their demands for a review of the results of disputed parliamentary polls.
“They have no united programme, clear ways of reaching their aims — which are themselves not clear — or people who could achieve something concrete,” Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast by state television.