adminExhaustion 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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Saddam aide executed in Iraq
BAGHDAD — One of Saddam Hussein’s closest aides who handed down many of the dictator’s repressive orders was executed in Iraq yesterday, the justice ministry said.
Chinese secretly copy Austrian town
A group of Austrians whose scenic mountain village has been copied down to the statues by a Chinese developer attended Saturday’s opening in China for the high-end residential project but were still miffed about how the company did it.
Employees panic as Colliery adopts new management system
By SIKHUMBUZO MOYO recently in Hwange
HWANGE Colliery Company Limited employees are in panic over their future at the colliery after the company introduced and adopted the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management system that will see more than 300 employees losing their jobs.
The company’s managing director, Fred Moyo, confirmed the new system during an interview on the sidelines of the Kamandama Mine Disaster commemorations held at the disaster site in Hwange on Wednesday.