adminMasuku urges youth to emulate Moyo
Chronicle Reporter
THE Governor and Resident Minister of Matabeleland South, Cde Angeline Masuku, yesterday visited the late veteran journalist Freedom Moyo’s family to pay her condolences. Addressing mourners who had gathered at Moyo’s home in Esigodini’s Habane
Pandemonium as council evicts 20 families
By Bongani Ndlovu
THERE was pandemonium at Bulawayo’s Jabulani Flats yesterday when council workers armed with crowbars, hammers and metal pins, descended on 20 families and locked them out of their apartments over unpaid rentals. The flats are situated
Civil servants strike on: Apex
CIVIL servants yesterday declared that they would press ahead with the strike today in a bid to push their employer to present a position paper on a new salary structure.
Apex Council president Ms Tendai Chikowore yesterday said the strike was on. The Apex Council is the body that represents all civil servants.
Civil servants resolved to stage a one-day strike after the Minister of Public Service Lucia Matibenga snubbed the meeting she had agreed to hold with them in Harare on Tuesday.
“Our position has not changed. Civil servants will today stage a one-day strike as a way of expressing their disappointment to their employer,” said Ms Chikowore.
Nude thief terrorises Zvishavane residents
Midlands Correspondent
AN unknown nude thief operating in Zvishavane is allegedly going around terrorising residents and stealing cash and cellphones during the night from locked houses in different suburbs in the asbestos mining town.
A number of residents who were victimised by the strange thief’s ways said the mysterious suspect would apply some white powder all over his body, raising suspicion that he could be using some juju in his stealing antics.
The deputy officer commanding police in Zvishavane and Mberengwa districts, Superintendent Robert Mugazambi, confirmed the operations of the mysterious thief yesterday.
Supt Mugazambi said what made the strange suspect’s ways mysterious was that the victims would only notice him when
General Mujuru’s maid testifies
Harare Bureau
One of the star witnesses testifying in the ongoing inquest into the death of retired General Solomon Mujuru yesterday told the court that the general sometimes slept in his car and had contemplated doing so the day he died in an inferno that engulfed his house.
General Mujuru’s maid, Ms Rosemary Short, told the court that when the General left the farm on 11 August, he said was going to Harare. He returned on 15 August, and died that night in the inferno.
She had knocked off early that day because she was not feeling well but a child told her around 8pm that there was a vehicle outside her house, which was in the workers’ compound about 3km from the farmhouse.
AirZim decides to lease aircraft
Harare Bureau
AIR Zimbabwe has decided to lease aircraft because neither the Government nor the national airline have resources to buy new planes,
Election Watch 2012: The MDC-T Perspective
The last time this writer engaged Senator Obert Gutu on his routine publications on political commentary was when he wrote about the indigenisation policy and what he thought of its chief presiding executive, Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
Mayors not bitter about cancelled US trip
Chronicle Reporter
BULAWAYO mayor Councillor Thaba Moyo and his counterparts from other cities yesterday said they did not have hard