adminVatican is a victim of ‘blackmail’
THE Vatican is being subjected to “blackmail”, a spokesman said, as Pope Benedict’s butler was questioned for the second day on charges of stealing confidential papal papers.
Sungura musician releases album
Entertainment Reporter
A UNITED Kingdom-based sungura musician, Mike Sibanda, has released a second seven-track album entitled Mhla Kufika Mina with the group’s representative giving a vote of no confidence in recording studios in Bulawayo.
Sibakhangele Sibanda, a representative of the group, Sons of the Soil, said Bulawayo recording studios did a shoddy job when they recorded their first album Nembeza.
Youths urged to join ZNA as officer cadets
Chronicle Reporter
BULAWAYO Governor Cain Mathema has called on youths from Matabeleland region with Advanced Level passes to join the Zimbabwe National Army as officer cadets.
Exhaustion affected Muzhingi, say experts
Lovemore Dube
Sports Editor
A sports scientist and renowned middle and long distance coach Bhekuzulu Khumalo believes Stephen Muzhingi, who relinquished his Comrades Marathon title on Sunday, could have done better.
Govt mulls Zim dollar conversion rate
Harare Bureau
THE Government has commissioned a study to determine a fair value that insurance firms should pay to clients to compensate for the money they contributed during the Zimbabwe dollar era.
Permanent secretaries reshuffled
Harare Bureau
Government has reshuffled permanent secretaries and directors in line with its thrust to capacitate ministries and departments to ensure greater efficiency in management of resources.
Council rejects NSSA housing project
Temba Dube
BULAWAYO councillors have turned down a multi-million dollar proposal by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to service 882 residential stands in the city as council battles against a housing waiting list that has ballooned to about 100 000.
Doctors administer oxygen to Mubarak overnight
CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak’s condition has deteriorated so much that doctors at the Cairo prison where he is serving a life sentence had to constantly administer oxygen to him overnight, security officials said yesterday.
Mudzingwa out of Bosso, Chicken Inn match
Ricky Zililo
Sports Reporter
REJUVENATED Bulawayo soccer giants Highlanders will miss the services of utility player Eric Mudzingwa when they take on city rivals Chicken Inn in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday.
Tsiba, as Mudzingwa is known, is part of the seven league players that will miss the weekend matches after accumulating three yellow cards.
Wadzanai Traditional Dance group comes up tops in Midlands
Midlands Correspondent
Lalapanzi-based Wadzanai Traditional Dance group shrugged stiff competition from eight other traditional dance outfits to win this year’s Midlands finals of the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance competition in Gweru.