adminConfusion surrounds loan scheme
By Leonard Ncube
THE loan scheme advertised by Old Mutual recently, which can be accessed by businesses through CABS, has put Bulawayo industries into further confusion
Man jailed 16 years for rape
Court Reporter
A Bulawayo man will curse the day he decided to connive with a neighbour to lock up his 13-year-old stepdaughter in a room before raping her twice as he has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The incident occurred recently at Burombo Flats in Nguboyenja.
More rains expected
Chronicle Reporter
THE Meteorological Services Department yesterday said there will be a marked increase in rainfall activity across the country, with heavy rains expected in the Mashonaland region.
Met Services Department duty forecaster Mr David Chifuna said although a decline in rainfall activity was expected between today and tomorrow, it would increase in intensity from Thursday.
“However from 8 December to 11 December, mild to warm daytime temperatures are expected.
‘Land reform key to economic revival, growth’
From Innocent Madonko in Beijing, China
ZIMBABWE is on the right path to economic prosperity because its land reform programme will be the pillar from which the country will launch its economic revival and growth, the leader of the Development Research Centre of China, Mr Sun Qiming, said here yesterday.
VP Mujuru urges leaders to serve people
Masvingo Correspondent
VICE-President Joice Mujuru has urged the Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo to serve interests of people they lead in order to promote the name of the party.
Speaking during the official opening of Nico Orgo Farm Centre and Fabs Hardware in Masvingo on Friday, Vice-President Mujuru said leaders should be mindful of the fact that they lead people and not animals.
Research centre seeks to attain associate status
Midlands Correspondent
RESEARCH and training institution, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), has courted one of the country’s top state university, National University of Science and Technology (Nust), in a bid to attain its associate status.
Let’s guard against neocolonial forces Asia, Latin America urged
Chronicle Reporter
ZANU-PF national chairman Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo has called for cooperation between Africa, Asia and Latin American countries
Border jumper survives crocodile attack
By Mashudu Netsianda
A 17-year-old would-be border jumper from Mozambique escaped death by a whisker when he fought off a crocodile which had grabbed his left leg while trying to illegally cross the Limpopo River into South Africa.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Everyone must comply with indigenisation laws
FOR the umpteenth time, we want to once again emphasise the need for all foreign-owned companies operating in Zimbabwe to take seriously the Indigenisation and Empowerment Act and comply with its provisions.
PM Tsvangirai’s perennial puberty violates public trust
By Itayi Garande
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s public denunciation of Lorcadia Tembo and the imputation that somehow she is a pawn used by State security agents to tarnish his image was a predictable follow-up to what appears to be a morality vacuum created by this story.