adminCaps property attached
Harare Bureau
CAPS HOLDINGS Limited’s premises in Harare and all its movable property face the hammer after the Deputy Sheriff yesterday attached the assets to recover $4 million owed to CBZ Bank Limited.Fireguards — a statutory requirement
Fireguards and the legislationIt is a statutory requirement under Forest Act CAP 19:05 and Environmental Management Act CAP 20:27 as read with Statutory Instrument 7 of 2007 on EIA and Ecosystem Protection, that any land user or property owner should put in place fire prevention mechanisms.
One of these mechanisms is by constructing standard fireguards. A standard fireguard should be at least nine metres on either side of a boundary.
Fireguards are essential in protecting property and lives of various living organisms, including human beings.
‘Referendum irreversible’
Harare BureauA referendum to decide on a new constitution for Zimbabwe later this year is irreversible even if other players try to scuttle the process, the Secretary for Media, Information and Publicity Mr George Charamba has said.
Scratch card operator accused of swindling clients
Chronicle ReporterA LOCAL scratch card operator is suspected of swindling clients of their hard earned money.
The scratch card operator sells cards at inside the Haddon and Sly building.
Swimmers to take part in SA Olympic qualifiers
Sports ReporterSEVEN Zimbabwean swimmers will participate in an invitational South African Olympic qualifiers tournament set for Monday in Durban, South Africa.
ZPS needs $6m per month to run prisons
Beitbridge ReporterTHE Zimbabwe Prison Services (ZPS) needs at least $6 million every month to effectively run its correctional facilities in the country, an officer said.
In a telephone interview from Harare yesterday, ZPS Deputy-Commissioner responsible for rehabilitation Rhodes Moyo said his organisation continued to face several challenges due to inadequate funding from the Treasury.
Accident victims named
Chronicle Reporters
POLICE have identified 10 of the 12 accident victims who were burnt beyond recognition when a South African-registered Toyota Hilux they were travelling in collided with a Volvo haulage truck along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge highway.
The accident occurred at West Nicholson on Monday at about 8.30pm.
They are all from Bulawayo and this comes amid reports that the family of Lungile Ndlovu of 1682 Nkulumane, the owner and driver of the Toyota Hilux, has started engaging the victims’ relatives on funeral arrangements.
According to a family spokesperson for Lungile, who only identified himself as Mr Ndlovu, the families of the victims they have since engaged were co-operative.
He said they were likely to bury Lungile at his rural home in Kezi at the weekend.
Yesterday Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Sergeant Loveness Mangena named the victims as Gideon Ncube of 631 Emganwini, Percy Dlamini of 1434 Pumula North, Thandeka Ndebele of 3527 Emakhandeni, Dalukuhle Ncube of 33255 Entumbane, Thandiwe Sibanda of 6639 Pumula North, Nkosilathi Ndlovu of 168 Makokoba, Ephraim Sibanda of 7301 Nkulumane, Nozimuhle Sibanda of 11625 Nkulumane and her baby, Candice.
The charred bodies were taken to Gwanda Provincial Hospital mortuary.
Slow start at Galaxy could hurt Beckham’s Olympics chances
David Beckham’s dream of representing Great Britain in this summer’s London Olympics could be in jeopardy due to his disappointing start to the Major League Soccer season with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Green Fuel raps Mangoma
Harare Bureau
GREEN FUEL has rapped Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma for refusing to initiate a legal instrument
Churches blast council
Chronicle Reporter
OPEN air churches, a majority of them Apostolic sects, have labelled the resolution by the Bulawayo City Council to accommodate them in beerhalls as “inspired by the devil”.
The churches accused councillors of trying to destroy Christianity and bring devil worship to Bulawayo.
Councillors agreed last week that churches, who believed they should not have a roof over their heads while worshipping God, could use council’s closed beerhalls for their church services.
They argued that the move would remove the churches from the bush where they could spread diseases because there were no ablution facilities.
However, in separate interviews yesterday, a number of the churches said councillors had made the “silliest possible” decision.