adminReplenishing of national blood stocks begins
Chronicle Reporter
NATIONAL bloodstock levels are low due to high demand for the precious commodity experienced during the festive season and the National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has begun replenishing national stock levels.
Suspected poacher shot dead
Victoria Falls Reporter
A suspected Zambian poacher was shot dead by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers in Sinamatela National Park on Tuesday as the authority intensifies war against poaching.
The shooting of the poacher comes at a time when the authority lost 23 rhinos last year to poachers — a decrease in rhino deaths after 52 were lost in 2010.
MDC youths split over TV set
Chronicle Correspondent
THE MDC youth executive has been split into two camps after its chairperson, Mr Jackson Lunga, stole a television set only to be forgiven by the provincial disciplinary committee.
School authorities in quandary over HIV-positive pupils
Victoria Falls Reporter
MOSI-Oa-Tunya Secondary School authorities are in a quandary on how to treat or assist pupils living with the HIV virus in case of sickness while at school amid reports that a number of pupils are allegedly taking anti-retroviral drugs.
Malema hearing used to settle scores: ANCYL
Johannesburg — A leaked e-mail has led the ANC Youth League to accuse its parent body of using disciplinary procedures to settle political scores, reports said yesterday.
Reports said this came after it was revealed at a disciplinary appeals committee this week that ANC “chief prosecutor” Uriel Abrahamse wrote an e-mail to his deputy, advocate Nomazotsho Memani, suggesting that the appeals should be heard before the ANC’s centenary celebrations.
Painting by Hitler to be auctioned
Bratislava — A painting by Adolf Hitler, done before he became Nazi Germany’s dictator, has been put up for sale by a Slovak auctioning house.
Pastor says Jesus statue shot in head
CHARLESTON (WVa) — A church congregation in Logan County is in disbelief that someone would shoot a statue of Jesus in the forehead, but members are willing to forgive whoever was behind the incident.
Pastor Bobby Adkins said the bullet hole was discovered on 18 December as parishioners were entering Lundale Free Will Baptist Church for their annual Christmas celebration. Adkins wasn’t sure when the shooting happened.
Three inch nail removed from man’s brain
OAK LAWN (Ill) — Dante Autullo was sure he’d merely cut himself with a nail gun while building a shed, and thought doctors were joking when they told him what an X-ray revealed: A three-and-a-quarter-inch nail was lodged in the middle of his brain.
Cocaine cache gets diplomatic treatment
A 16 kilogramme consignment of cocaine lost by Mexican drug traffickers has turned up in an unlikely place — the United Nations in New York.
Exodus ofSetback . . . members derails Macheso’s recording
By Givemore Muzariri
THE departure of Alick “Extrabasso” Macheso’s long serving lead guitarist Noel Nyazanda has disrupted the King of Sungura’s recording of his forthcoming album, Saturday Leisure can reveal.
Cheso Power was supposed to go into the studio this month.