adminCabinet to discuss council CEOs’ salaries
Chronicle Reporter
Government is concerned over excessive salaries of up to $30 000 paid to town clerks and chief executive officers and Cabinet will soon deliberate on the matter, the Minister of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Dr Ignatius Chombo, said yesterday.
Togo PM, government resign
LOME — Togo’s prime minister and government have resigned, according to a statement on national television and radio, but no reason was given for their stepping down.
British firm reintroduces package tours to Zim
Patrick Chitumba in Victoria Falls
A United Kingdom-based luxury travel company, Cox & Kings, is to reintroduce package tours to Zimbabwe after a 10 year absence.
Quelaton escape Bosso walkover
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match pitting struggling Quelaton and chart toppers Highlanders hung in the balance until late yesterday afternoon following a memorandum of understanding between Quelaton and the league.
Teachers blast minister over private lessons
Midlands Correspondent
TEACHERS’ unions have strongly condemned Minister David Coltart’s pronouncement that his ministry would prosecute teachers who conduct private lessons for a fee.
Egypt president seeks talks over parly crisis
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist president said on Wednesday he wanted talks with the judiciary and political powers to defuse a crisis over him trying to reinstate parliament in defiance of generals who dissolved it last month based on a court ruling.
Kapenta crisis in Zambezi Valley
Patrick Chitumba
Some blame it on climate change, others on juju.
Zambians have also been blamed as they commonly encroach into Zimbabwean waters for fishing expeditions yet others accuse some “whites” of “inventing” a type of fish that only eats kapenta thereby decimating the population of the small fish in the Zambezi River.
Injury rules Murape Murape out of Interclube encounter
Harare Bureau
HARARE giants Dynamos are not making major changes to the team that thrashed Blue Rangers in a league game last weekend as they leave for Angola this morning for a date against Interclube in the return leg of the Confederation Cup third round play off in Angola this Sunday.
EU to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe
Innocent Madonko
The European Union is preparing to lift all sanctions on Zimbabwe and the punitive measures — which have wreaked havoc on the country’s economy — could be removed at the next meeting of the bloc next month.
President’s by-election case dismissed
Harare Bureau
PRESIDENT Mugabe’s appeal against a decision by the High Court in Bulawayo directing him to set the election date for by-elections in three vacant House of Assembly constituencies in Matabeleland was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court.