adminGMB installs ETRs at five depots
Business Reporter
THE Grain Marketing Board has installed Fiscalised Electronic Tax Registers (ETRs) at five depots under a $500 000 programme the parastatal recently embarked on.
Senior Govt officials implicated in fuel scam
Harare Bureau
STAKEHOLDERS in the petroleum industry have implicated senior Government officials in underhand fuel deals that are prejudicing the State of millions of US dollars.
Afcon dream nears reality
Harare Bureau
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe captain Peter Ndlovu believes the Warriors’ crucial African Cup of Nations victory over Burundi could be the turning point of the senior team’s fortunes, which will lay the foundation for possible qualification for the 2013 African Cup of Nations in South Africa.
Angry SA mob severely beats Zim ‘conman’
Beitbridge Reporter
A ZIMBABWEAN man accused of conning a woman of R500 is lucky to be alive after he was rescued by South African police while being assaulted by an angry mob in Musina in the neighbouring country.
Unqualified 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.
Fuel scam sucks in bigwigs
Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
STAKEHOLDERS in the petroleum industry have implicated senior Government officials in underhand fuel deals that are prejudicing the State of millions of US dollars.
They alleged that certain officials in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development are involved in “administrative sabotage” with a negative impact on fuel companies.
This has resulted in the breach of an agreement signed between the Government and some investors for the smooth and cheap transportation of fuel, aiding a thriving black market while compromising quality control measures.
Sources accused the officials of conniving with European oil companies to monopolise the Feruka Pipeline.
MDC official vanishes in UK
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
AN official in the Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC failed to return home after representing the party in the United Kingdom.
Women’s Assembly secretary Ms Ellen Gonyora was reportedly seconded to represent the party at a meeting convened by one of Britain’s ruling coalition parties.
She however, did not turn up for her scheduled flight back home.
The party’s deputy national spokesperson Mr Kurauone Chihwayi yesterday confirmed that Ms Gonyora had attended the meeting in Britain.
He, however, dismissed reports that Ms Gonyora had absconded, saying she had extended her stay in Britain.
Minister wants Zisco, Essar deal revisited
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
MINES and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu says the Essar deal must be revisited because the Indian company will pay only US$700 million for resources worth over US$30 billion
Minister Mpofu said he will transfer mineral rights of iron ore to Essar only for actual value, as part of the conditions he wants observed on the deal.
He said iron ore reserves in Mwanesi near Chivhu, which are supposed to be controlled by Essar under the agreement, had a cumulative value of US$30 billion.
Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce, Minister Mpofu said he will not allow the minerals to be surrendered to Essar for no value in return.