adminFirm 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.
War crimes court orders freeing of Rwandan rebel
The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday rejected a prosecution demand that it suspend an order to free Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana after dropping war crimes charges against him.
The “pre-trial chamber . . . rejects the prosecution’s application,” the ICC said on its website, as the prosecution said it was looking at options.
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo had on Friday asked the court to suspend the decision to release Mbarushimana, identified as the executive secretary of the Democratic Forces of the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel group.
DPRK leader dies
PYONGYANG — Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), passed away last Saturday at the age of 69, the DPRK’s official KCNA news agency reported yesterday.
Kim, who was general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), died “from a great mental and physical strain at 08:30 (2330 GMT Friday) on December 17, 2011, on a train during a field guidance tour,” said the report.
6 soldiers among dead in Syria
Armed clashes erupted in Syria on Sunday, killing at least 15 civilians and six government troops, activists said. Isolated and faced with a possible civil war, Syria appeared to be bending toward allowing Arab League observers in as a step toward ending the conflict.