adminUnqualified personnel handling HIV cases: report
Harare Bureau
TREASURY’S freeze on recruitment has resulted in unqualified health personnel treating people living with HIV and compromising their lives.
Elderly want exemption from paying electricity bills
Chronicle Correspondent
ZIMBABWE’S elderly people want to be exempted from paying electricity bills at a time when the tabling of the Old Persons Bill before Parliament is drawing near.
Police confiscate students’ laptops
Chronicle Reporter
Fifteen students from Bulawayo Polytechnic were on Friday taken to Bulawayo Central Police Station after their laptops had been confiscated for failure to produce receipts.
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Implement corporate governance code now
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