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Court Reporter
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha yesterday granted four villagers from Beitbridge a provisional order against the son of co-Minister of Home Affairs, Kembo Mohadi over some disputed land.
Parties urged to accept existence of sanctions
Harare Bureau
VICE-President John Nkomo has challenged parties in the inclusive Government to accept the existence of the illegal sanctions imposed by the West and their negative impact on the economy as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai blamed a bloated Cabinet for putting pressure on critical national resources.
Only Harare auction floors to sell this year’s tobacco
Harare Bureau
TOBACCO growers will sell their crop at auction floors in Harare only this year because all companies that applied for licences to operate in other provinces failed to meet stipulated standards.
West slammed over climate change issues
Harare Bureau
DEVELOPED countries have been rapped for trying to control developing countries using climate change issues.
Makosi deported
BIG Brother minx Makosi Musambasi says she is “in a happy place” after UK media reports claimed she had been deported to Nigeria.
MLF members’ trial postponed
Court Reporter
SENIOR Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nicholas Ndou on Wednesday allowed an application for a postponement of the treason trial of three members of Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), a pressure group-cum-political party calling for the separation of Matabeleland from the rest of the country.
Youths must demand greater stake in national resources
The continent of Africa carries the largest proportion of a population of young people, meaning that the potential locked up in its youth would shape the future of the continent. With 60 percent of its inhabitants below the age of 24, the continent is better placed to harness the latest technologies and usher in a new thrust to take even its economy forward.
Are dreadlocks a sign of rejection of Western imperialism?
By Pamenus Tuso
The controversial issue of Rastafarianism and dreadlocks came into the spot light last month when a Bulawayo High Court Judge Martin Makonese granted a provisional order allowing a Masiyephambili Junior School child, Mbalenhle Dube, to commence lessons at the school which had barred him from attending lessons citing his dreadlocks.
Child (3) raped, fed with rat poison
By Temba Dube and Nihleli Ngwenya
A Kezi woman allegedly broke her three-year-old step granddaughter’s hands in a case of brutal abuse, while her son allegedly regularly raped her before they reportedly poisoned the child to death.
Teachers to be charged for strike
By Leonard Ncube
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) has reportedly embarked on a witch-hunting exercise to identify civil servants who participated in the recent strike with the intention of charging them.
Chronicle is in possession of a circular dated 7 February and sent to all provincial education directors requiring them to order school heads to list details of all teachers who participated in the strike.
The names are supposed to be handed to the chief provincial inspector’s office today prior to being sent to the PSC.