adminZM commends Govt for equipping small-scale miners
Harare — The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has commended the Government for embarking on a programme to equip small-scale miners saying the move would push production levels up.
‘Reintroduction of local currency will be a hard sell’
Business Reporter
KINGDOM Financial Holdings Limited has said the reintroduction of the local currency will be tough considering the feasibility of such a move at this point in time.
Of late, debate has resurfaced regarding the reintroduction of the local currency as some people are of the view that it will provide a solution to the persistent liquidity crisis. Since the introduction of the multi-currency system, monetary authorities no longer have much to do.
DPM Khupe commissions $800 000 equipment
Chronicle Reporter
Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe on Wednesday commissioned new machines and rehabilitated equipment
Zambians arrested for poaching
Harare Bureau
A total of 31 Zambians have been arrested for poaching fish and fishing in prohibited zones along the Zambezi River in an operation in which the police also recovered eight commercial fishing rigs.
The poachers were nabbed last month during a joint anti-poaching operation between the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority and Zimbabwe Republic Police to weed out illegal fishing activities along the river.
Gogo Sidile dies
Chronicle Reporter
THE widow of the first black director of the Bulawayo City Council’s Department of Housing and Community Services and long-serving Highlanders Football Club executive member, Mtshena Loyola Sidile, Gogo Lillian Leta Sidile, has died.
Police urge public to exercise caution on roads
Chronicle Reporter
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned that they will arrest members of the public who sound hooters to celebrate weddings within the city.
Man rapes mentally challenged niece
Court Reporter
A 54-year-old man from Mtshabezi area in Gwanda district has landed himself in trouble after he allegedly sexually abused his mentally challenged niece until she fell pregnant.
Domestic violence cases increase
Beitbridge Reporter
POLICE in Beitbridge have this year recorded 54 cases of domestic violence compared to 47 recorded during the same period last year.
‘Kidnappings’ mar Sudan Christmas
Khartoum — The fear of kidnappings, a dwindling number of worshippers, and shrinking church finances mar the first Christmas in Muslim-majority Sudan since the Christian South separated, church sources say.
“We are going to have a Christmas like parents without children,” said one source.
Commotion after Zuma’s Christianity comments
Johannesburg — President Jacob Zuma’s comments about the advent of Christianity in South Africa caused a flurry of criticism and clarifications from various groups on Wednesday.
The Timeslive website quoted Zuma as telling the launch of a road safety and crime awareness campaign in KwaZulu-Natal that “as Africans, long before the arrival of religion and [the] gospel, we had our own ways of doing things”.