adminMembers of Parliament lose hope of getting $50 000 funding
Prosper Ndlovu
MEMBERS of Parliament have lost hope of getting this year’s $50 000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) amid revelations that none of them has received any funding since the beginning of the year.
Mr Ugly turns uglier
Bongani Ndlovu
THE search for the most hideous looking man in the country has turned uglier, with the original Mr Ugly organiser accusing Harare organisers of “stealing our brainchild”.
Lovemore Chonzi, the initiator of the Mr Ugly pageant, has said the show was hijacked by greedy people.
No licences for foreign miners
Harare Bureau
NO more new mining licences will be granted to foreigners as Government seeks to intensify its Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Policy, President Mugabe said yesterday.
Mat’land rugby squad named
Ricky Zililo
MATABELELAND Warriors and Old Miltonians dominate the Matabeleland senior men’s rugby select that will today take on Botswana national team at Selibe Phikwe, Botswana.
MP invisible, say Hwange East villagers
Patrick Chitumba and Yoliswa dube
Hwange East Constituency whose MP is Mr Tose Wesley Sansole (MDC-T) is divided into 11 urban wards and 15 rural ones and has a total population of about 80 000 people.
Let’s just whistle in the dark
At times you have to go back to the idioms to make some points clear.
Parks authority embarks on awareness campaign
Chronicle Reporter
THE Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has embarked on an awareness campaign in wild animal infested communities about the dangers the animals like elephants can pose to humans.
Cross-border trader fined $800 for smuggling
Beitbridge Reporter
A 38-year-old Masvingo cross-border trader was on Tuesday fined $800 (or one month in jail) for smuggling a consignment of flea market goods worth more than R9 000 into the country through Beitbridge Border Post.
Suspected Zesa cables thief appears in court
Chronicle Reporter
POLICE have arrested a man suspected to be part of a gang that was cutting Zesa cables in Mbembesi area and causing power blackouts.
Zimbabwe sail past Bangladesh in T20 warm-up
Harare Bureau
CAPTAIN Brendan Taylor says rusty Zimbabwe got the confidence boost they needed ahead of the first Twenty20 Tri-series match against Bangladesh when their select XI side brushed aside the visitors in two warm-up matches at the Country Club yesterday.