adminWorld Theatre Day preps on course
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre corridors
The International Theatre Institute (Zimbabwe Centre) has decided to the celebrate World Theatre Day on March 26. The day which falls on March 27 and was first commemorated in 1961, is celebrated the world over by national centres of the
2 million dead people on US voters roll
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
THE United States’ pretences on democracy received a major knock on Tuesday in the wake of revelations that the country’s voters roll has close to two million dead voters.
A report by Pew Centre, a renowned US thinktank, estimates that among 24 million voter registrations, about one out of every eight are either no longer valid or inaccurate.
The Washington-based research centre provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world.
The centre and its projects receive funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Of the invalid or inaccurate registrations, 1,8 million belong to deceased individuals and 2,75 million belong to people
China bans foreign shows at primetime
BEIJING. – China’s media regulator has issued new rules banning foreign television shows from being shown at primetime as the country tries to encourage domestic programming, state media reported on Tuesday. Foreign television series must be capped at a total of 50 episodes and the running time for an imported series must not exceed 25 percent of the total time a given channel
The agony of hot-sitting
Farai Kuvirimirwa Features Correspondent
THE bell rings and Takudzwa jostles with other students while he enters the school gate. Mud squirts from under his shoes as he heads westwards to the assembly point. It’s his first day at a Harare high-density suburb secondary school and he is excited
Tobacco sales open on high note
Agriculture Reporters
THE 2012 tobacco-selling season opened in Harare yesterday with the price averaging US$4 per kilogramme.
The bulk of the crop was bought for more than US$ 4per kg, a price that many farmers feel was fair while the industry expressed satisfaction with the quality of the leaf.
Most farmers at all the four auction floors expressed satisfaction at the state of the infrastructure and the service they were getting.
Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Millennium Tobacco Floors, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Floor are the licensed floors.
Farmers said they were happy with the ablution, water and health facilities.
When sanitary wear becomes a luxury
Catherine Masunda Features Correspondent
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tinashe Magaya’s parents struggle to feed their offspring and for things like sanitary pads and tampons are luxuries she can not dare ask for. She has devised a way of making her own sanitary pads using pieces of cloth during her
Labour unions sleeping on the job
Taurai Musakaruka HR issues
SOME progressive employees have asked so many questions with regards to the conduct of labour unions in the country.
Most of the questions centre on whether our trade unions are proactive or reactionary. Some employees I spoke to pointed
More importers use Feruka pipeline
Use of the Feruka oil pipeline which fuel importers had been shunning has improved significantly over the past year, a Cabinet Minister has said.
Fishing expedition ends in tragedy
Chronicle Reporter
A fishing expedition ended in tragedy for a group of Jotsholo boys in Lupane when one of them was killed by a crocodile.
Boy dies in suspected drowning
Beitbridge Reporter