admin‘Nato failed to probe Libya civilian deaths’
LONDON — Nato has failed to properly investigate or provide compensation for civilian deaths caused by its air strikes during the seven-month operation in Libya that helped bring about the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, Amnesty International said yesterday.Echoing similar criticisms aired this month by Russia, Amnesty said scores of Libyans who were not involved in the conflict had been killed or injured in Nato bombings but there had been no legitimate investigations.
Real out to maintain lead
Real Madrid will try to maintain an eight-point lead atop La Liga by winning at troubled Villarreal tomorrow.Gwanda hosts Mat South Naph athletics meet
Sunday News ReporterPELANDABA Stadium in Gwanda will tomorrow and Thursday play host to the National Association of Primary Heads track and field athletics competitions where a provincial team is expected to be selected.
Murdered Chiwundura woman’s family demands 40 beasts
Midlands CorrespondentTHE family of the 18-year-old Chiwundura woman who was allegedly gruesomely killed by her husband following a domestic dispute last week is reportedly demanding 40 cattle as compensation before any burial arrangements could be made.
Council acts on water crisis: Feasibility study on duplication of Insiza Dam pipeline complete
Chronicle Reporter
THE Bulawayo City Council has started implementing short-term contingency measures, including the duplication of the Insiza Dam pipeline, in a bid to avert perennial water problems in the city.
The project is expected to cost $21,2 million.
The city has started vigorously lobbying for funds from Government and financial institutions to undertake the project.
The city has completed a feasibility study for the construction of a parallel pipeline from Insiza Dam to increase the volume of water to be pumped from the city’s largest supply dam.
The city is faced with a crisis as it expects to decommission two of its five supply dams — Upper Ncema and Umzingwane — in the next four months.
About 80 percent of Bulawayo’s water supplies is at Insiza Dam.
If the dams were decommissioned, the Insiza Dam pipeline would be too small to supply enough water to the city’s residents.
Mpopoma murder: Family agrees to bury victim
By Thandeka Moyo
THE family of Miriam Nyoni (nee Takavingofa) who was allegedly brutally killed by her husband at their Mpopoma home in Bulawayo yesterday resolved to bury her but insisted the demands still stand.
The family is demanding 45 cattle and $3 000 from the family of Goodman Nyoni, Miriam’s husband.
In a telephone interview from Harare, the Takavingofa family spokesperson, Mr Simplicious Chikoko, said although the Nyoni family had not met their demands, they had resolved to bury Miriam.
“There is a deadlock between us and the Nyoni family as they have failed to communicate with us. We have resolved to bury Miriam either this week or next week since we have not received any feedback from them.
In as much as we want to be compensated for the brutal murder, we cannot let our daughter’s body decompose in the mortuary just because the Nyoni family is failing to meet our demand,” said Mr Chikoko.
He said the family’s demands still stand and they expect the Nyoni family to comply after the burial.
Zifa affiliates set to lose voting power
Sports ReporterZifa president Cuthbert Dube has rubbished claims that he has been lobbying for early elections saying the Zifa elections will only be held in 2014.
Dube was elected into office in March 2010.
Canadian artiste gives Zim top billing
Masvingo CorrespondentA visiting music lecturer from Canada has described Zimbabwean people as kind and hospitable, contrary to the negative perceptions that the outside world has of the country.
Absence of banks adversely affecting Mvuma’s growth
By Dosman Mangisi
Mvuma is located at the heart of Zimbabwe in the Midlands Province.
MLF treason trial begins
Court Reporter
TWO State witnesses called to testify in the treason trial of three members of Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF),