adminTeacher commits suicide over adulterous wife
Chronicle Correspondent
A Gokwe teacher committed suicide by hanging himself after he allegedly caught his wife pants down with another man at a lodge in Gokwe North.
Caps’ winning streak continues
Lovemore Zigara
Hardbody ..(0) 0
Caps United ..(0) 1
CAPS United’s fine run continued after posting their fourth consecutive win when they edged a spirited Hardbody 1-0 in a Castle Lager Premiership match played at Ascot Stadium.
Bata on recovery path
Freedom Mupanedemo
GIANT Gweru-based shoe manufacturing company, Bata, is fast recovering and is now working towards producing about 75 000 pairs of shoes per week from the present 50 000, an official has said.
Western Panthers beat Gweru Sports Club
Mehluli Sibanda
Matabeleland Warriors.(43) 80
Airforce………………..(0) 0
Western Panthers….(17) 32
Gweru Sports Club….(20) 25
WESTERN Panthers recorded their third win of the season when they sailed past visiting Gweru Sports Club in a tightly contested Lion Lager National Rugby League tie played at Hartsfield Rugby Ground in Bulawayo on Saturday.
‘Egypt’s Mubarak in critical condition’
CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness eight days after the ousted Egyptian leader was sent to prison to begin serving a life sentence, a security official said yesterday.
Kenyan minister killed in air crash
NAIROBI — Kenya’s internal security minister, who was closely involved in the fight against Somali militant group al Shabaab, was killed when the police helicopter he was travelling in crashed into a forest yesterday.
George Saitoti, his deputy Orwa Ojode, two pilots and two bodyguards were killed when the aircraft came down outside the capital Nairobi and burst into flames, the government said.
Al Qaeda group says Obama, Clinton worth only chickens, camels
WASHINGTON — A Somali Islamist militant group is offering rewards of chickens and camels for information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, mocking the millions of dollars the United States has offered for leaders of the al Qaeda affiliate.
$30m conference centre to be built in Victoria Falls
Business Reporters
A $30 million conference centre will be built to accommodate delegates to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly instead of a convention centre because of time constraints, an official has said.
Mines still face safety challenges
Yoliswa Dube
ON the morning of 6 June 1972, 427 coal miners were killed following what is suspected to have been a gas explosion. The disaster cast a dark shadow over not only the mining town of Hwange but also the entire nation and beyond. Miners from South Africa, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Costa Rica among others died at the then Wankie Coal Mine Number Two Colliery, today known as Kamandama Mine.