adminPotraz yet to decide on BlackBerry services
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (POTRAZ) will this month decide on whether to give Econet and Telecel the green light to offer BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services to their subscribers, an official has said.Early last year, Econet and Telecel sought approval from the regulatory authority to offer BBM services to their subscribers.
Disabled worker successfully challenges transfer
Labour ReporterA disabled worker has successfully challenged, in the Labour Court, a transfer by his employer from Harare to Beatrice.
Mr Michael Samu is employed by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a processing officer in the Marriages Section of the Registrar
240 unregistered vehicles imponded
Crime ReporterPOLICE in Harare have impounded 240 unregistered vehicles as they clampdown on errant motorists. The impounded cars are at various police stations in the city and will only be released after the owners have been fined and obtained the required
Kingstons manager suspended for cellphone misuse
Labour ReporterA branch manager with Kingstons Limited has had his dismissal on charges of disobedience to an order to surrender a company phone put aside on technical grounds but remains on suspension without pay until a new hearing can convene.
Hospital clerk jailed for fraud
From Noah Pito in HurungweA KAROI Hospital clerk has been fined US$360 (or four months) for defrauding patients. Tatenda Kudzirunga (25) who was employed by Karoi Hospital as a clerk responsible for receipting cash from patients, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud when
Most wanted gang leader gets 31 years
Noah Pito
Hurungwe’s most wanted criminal and leader of a six-member gang that recently went on a crime spree, robbing schools and shops in and around Karoi, has been jailed for 31 years. Karoi Magistrate Mr Robson Finsin slapped Todd Maketo (42)
Muzhingi in historic feat
JOHANNESBURG — Comrades Marathon three-time champion Stephen Muzhingi yesterday became the first man in recent memory to win two back-to-back ultra races with his victory in the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday. Muzhingi emulated the feat of Derek Preiss who clinched the Two Oceans in 1975 on the back of a Comrades triumph. Despite the men’sEast Timor: Threat to the powerful
John PilgerMilan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I went to Stanfords map shop in London’s Covent
Book revolution in the offing
Stephen MpofuSnatches of hope are in the air that a revolution in black and white now in the offing could change, in fact transform altogether, the complexion of the publishing industry in Zimbabwe, thanks to National University of Science and Technology
The ‘Adventures’ of Chinodya
Memory ChirereTitle: Chioniso and Other Stories
Author: Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher: Weaver Press
Publication date: 2012, 182 pages,
Isbn: 978-1-77922-170-4
Reviewer: Memory Chirere
Shimmer Chinodya’s latest offering, Chioniso and Other Stories is a work of a mature craftsman. These stories are just