adminMan killed in quarrel over box of matches
Chronicle ReporterA man from Nkayi in Matabeleland North was fatally stabbed by a friend while trying to stop a quarrel over a box of matches between the friend and a bar lady at a bottle store.
Phumulani Sibanda (31) was stabbed once on the chest by Melaphi Ndlovu (24) and died instantly.
Ndlovu has since been arrested.
HCCL’s DRC market safe
Hwange Colliery Company Limited’s market in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which was under threat from Chinese mining companies is now safe following negotiations with the Congolese government, the managing director Mr Fred Moyo, has said.Prison officers promoted
Chronicle ReporterA total of 21 Zimbabwe Prison Services (ZPS) officers from Matabeleland region were yesterday conferred with new ranks at a brief ceremony held at the Bulawayo Remand Prison.
Fifteen were elevated from the rank of senior prison officer (SPO) to principal prison officer (PPO). Of these, four were female officers from Ntabazinduna Training Depot, Khami Staff Hospital and Khami Workshop.
Bantu Rovers announce US tour
By Ricky ZililoBANTU Rovers Football Club’s Under-19s will next month tour the United States of America where they have been invited to participate in the Dr Pepper Dallas Cup.
The competition, which will see a number of top teams from Europe participating, will run from 1-8 April in Dallas.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Government must urgently act on radioactive alert
Government should not take lightly fears that second-hand vehicles being imported from Japan might be contaminated with radioactive material released into the atmosphere when the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant was damaged by a tsunami in March last year.China braces for rare earth WTO case
Beijing — China is preparing to defend itself should the United States and other countries take its rare earth export restrictions to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), state news agency Xinhua yesterday cited a government minister as saying.Africa champs team heads to Cape Town
Sports ReporterEIGHT athletes will leave the country tomorrow by road to participate at Sunday’s second edition of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) African Cross-Country Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.
Woman was hacked while son watched
By Thandeka Moyo
THE machete wielding husband who allegedly chopped his wife into pieces in the early hours of Monday in Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb allegedly committed the act in front of his seven-year-old son.
This was revealed by the family’s domestic worker yesterday.
Goodman Nyoni (33) split the skull of his estranged wife Miriam Tavingofa Nyoni and chopped off her hands before trying to commit suicide by slitting his wrists with a machete over an undisclosed dispute.
It also emerged yesterday that Mrs Nyoni was working for the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) while the husband was working for Carousel, a subsidiary of Edgars.
The domestic worker aged 30, who had only worked for the woman for four days only, said the son (name withheld) was sleeping in the lounge when the spine chilling incident occurred.
It is alleged that her mistress had told her that her husband was in South Africa.