adminTreasury yet to release JMN airport funds
Chronicle ReporterTREASURY is yet to avail the $10,5 million for the completion of the remaining work at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (JMN) International Airport’s new terminal building.
The development is likely to further delay the commissioning of the building, which has missed the deadline on several occasions.
Gumbo eyes next stage
From Paul Mundandi in Zvishavane
RAHMAN Gumbo wants to reach the next stage of the Champions League and play in the lucrative mini-league with FC Platinum.
“We are going to Sudan to try and bring a positive result. Our objective is to qualify for the next round and we are looking at nothing else except that.
“We are going to play open football and there is no point for us to defend at all. We are going to attack from the first whistle until full time and we hope we are going to qualify,” said the miners mentor.
Coventry injured
Harare BureauZIMBABWE’S medal hopeful for the 2012 London Olympic Games Kirsty Coventry, suffered a setback in her preparations for the Ultra-Swim meet in Charlotte, United States, set for next month.
Man jailed for raping stepdaughter
Chronicle Reporter
A 44-year-old Binga man will live to rue the day he decided to rape his stepdaughter after he was sentenced to 14 years in jail for the offence.
The man (name withheld to protect the girl), from Chinkobo Village under Chief Sinampande in Binga, raped his wife’s 11-year-old daughter last year.
Armed robbers on the prowl
By Temba Dube and Kamangeni Phiri
ROBBERS who steal vehicles and use them to commit armed robberies are on the prowl with five cases reported in Bulawayo and the Midlands in four days.
The robbers got away with a combined total of more than $15 000 plus four vehicles.
In Bulawayo, two armed men reportedly robbed a taxi driver of his vehicle and personal belongings before using the car in an armed robbery at a Grill Garage outlet in the city centre.
The suspects took the outlet’s till which had about $1 400, in the incident which occurred on Saturday at about 9pm.
The suspects allegedly hired a taxi from Mpilo Central Hospital to North End suburb where they assaulted and overpowered the driver.
They tied him up and left him at a bushy area near the United College of Education (UCE).
They later used the taxi as a getaway car when they hit the Grill Garage outlet at the corner of Jason Moyo Street and 10th Avenue.
A source close to the investigations said the robbers got away with about $1 500 and a cellphone in both robberies.
The suspects hit the owner of the taxi until they tore off his T-shirt, which they used to tie up his hands and feet.
“They left him tied up in a bushy area near the United College of Education and used the vehicle as a getaway car when they robbed Grill Garage,” said the source.
Malema should be expelled: MK veterans
Johannesburg — ANC Youth League president Julius Malema should be summarily expelled from the ANC, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) said yesterday.
SA at corruption ‘tipping point’
Cape Town — South Africa is at a “tipping point” in its battle against “endemic” corruption, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said in Stellenbosch yesterday.US funding of democracy a problem — Russia
MOSCOW — Russia said yesterday that continued US funding of groups supporting the spread of democracy in the country was turning into a problem in advance of Vladimir Putin’s return for a third Kremlin term.
Sudan inspires separatist movements
By Dermott Musawila in Lusaka and Farirai Machivenyika in Harare
South Sudan appears to have inspired separatist movements across the whole world.