adminCivil servants get bonuses
Leonard Ncube
Chronicle Reporter
THE Government has awarded civil servants performance related bonuses with some getting as much as $1 000.
There was excitement among civil servants after they found the money in their bank accounts this week.
Some even reportedly phoned civil servants’ union leaders asking about the money.
However, the Apex Council, the body that represents civil servants in the country, is seeking clarity about the money as there was reportedly no communication from the employer about it.
Protect rights of women, girls: President
Harare Bureau
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday challenged governments and civic ociety across Africa to champion and protect the rights of women and the girl child.
President Mugabe was speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Global Power Women Network Africa chapter in Harare.
Motorists rush for vehicle licence discs
Chronicle Reporters
WITH a few days remaining before vehicle licensing discs expire, motorists in Bulawayo and southern parts of the country are in panic mode with Zimpost offices heavily congested.
Zimpost launches second postal bus
Chronicle Reporter
POSTAL company, Zimpost, has officially launched its second postal bus to ply the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls route.
The launch was done in Bulawayo on Wednesday.
The post bus project is expected to assist Zimpost to recover its operational costs while at the same time providing an affordable service to travellers in Matabeleland.
Death sentence for miners’ killers
Midlands Correspondent
ACTING Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Meshack Cheda yesterday sentenced to death two men who early last year poisoned two Bulawayo miners before fatally striking one of them with a pick during a gold prospecting trip near Kwekwe.
Man axes mother to death
Chronicle Reporter
A NKAYI man ran amok and axed his mother to death before handing himself over to authorities, still carrying the blood-stained axe.
Trader has man killed, draws blood for rituals
Midlands Correspondent
POLICE have arrested a Lalapanzi cross-border trader for allegedly hiring the services of five men, including her son, who then gruesomely killed a 32-year-old man.
Youths urged to take control of their destiny
Chronicle Reporter
THE youths are the vanguard of the revolution and represent not only the majority of their countries’ respective populations but the future as well, Zanu-PF National Chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said.
Addressing delegates at the World Federation of Democratic Youths (WFDY) 19th conference in Harare on Wednesday, Cde Khaya Moyo said the youths have participated in many struggles ranging from liberating their people from the shackles of oppression by unashamed imperialists and unrepentant colonialists.
Masvingo City Council owed $8 million
Masvingo Correspondent
A total of $8 million owed to the Masvingo City Council by residents and the Government is preventing the city from delivering effective service, Mayor Alderman Femius Chakabuda, has said.