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Entertainment reporter
The three contestants who are going to represent Bulawayo at the Miss Zimbabwe pageant have stepped up their preparations ahead of their boot camp. In an interview Miss Bulawayo, Bongani Dlakama, said they will be leaving Bulawayo on Sunday for
Zhukwe gardening project improves community’s lives
By Leonard Ncube
DEEP in the valleys, beyond mountains and between rivers lies an industrious community of Zhukwe, which has sustained itself through intensive irrigation farming on a small piece of land.
Zhukwe gardening project improves community’s lives
THE early release of Ordinary and Advanced level results by the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council is further testimony that after years in the doldrums, our education system has now come out of the woods. It also further restores confidence in the examinations body, whose image took a battering due to exam papers leakages and failure to release results on time.
Shortage of funds impacts negatively on land mine clearing
By Kennedy Mavhumashava, recently at Crook’s Corner, Chiredzi South
MR Philemon Sibanda desperately wants a job. He cannot get it. More crucially, the 25-year-old wants a wife. He cannot have one. Many of his colleagues in Gwaivhi Village, Chief Sengwe’s area in Chiredzi South simply walk a short distance
Musician pastor on drive to keep needy children warm
Entertainment Reporter
Zimbabwean musician and pastor, Apostle Toggy Chivaviro of the Assemblies of Pentecostal Methodists (APM) based in South Africa, kick-started a campaign to provide shoes and jerseys to underprivileged children in five countries before winter
Gono gives banks two-week ultimatum
Harare Bureau
UNDERCAPITALISED banks have been given a two-week ultimatum to comply or exit the banking sector.
Presenting the 2012 monetary policy statement to bank executives and journalists in Harare yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono said there would be no further extensions after the deadline. All undercapitalised banks
Civil servants pay tabled
Chronicle Reporter
THE Government yesterday released new salary figures for civil servants with the lowest paid worker getting about $296.
The figures were released during a National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting in Harare, but the civil servants representatives immediately rejected the increase, saying it was a far cry from their request to have the lowest paid worker get
Be guided by desire for peace, nation urged
Chronicle Reporter
THE country’s education sector should strive to direct people and policy making towards the development of a new Zimbabwe, Acting President Dr John Landa Nkomo, said.
Human foot found in city
By Temba Dube
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo’s Ilanda suburb yesterday woke up to the grisly sight of a human foot dumped at a bush behind the United Bulawayo Hospitals’ (UBH) Opportunistic Infections Clinic (OIC).
A couple waiting at a bus stop, at about 7am, reportedly discovered the foot, which was chopped off just above the ankle.
Man jailed three years for culpable homicide
Midlands Bureau Chief
A 65-year-old Silobela man who in 2010 murdered his younger brother following an argument over the burial arrangements of his wife will spend the next three years in prison after the High Court on circuit in Gweru found him guilty of culpable homicide.