adminCouncil tightens water rationing
Temba Dube
THE Bulawayo City Council has further tightened its water rationing regime with residents found using a hosepipe facing a $1 500 fine, up from $200.
‘Design training needs for each Sadc country’
Oliver Kazunga
Business Reporter
THE Chamber of Mines has challenged the Zimbabwe School of Mines to design courses that meet the unique mining features of each Sadc country.
Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dies
Ghanaian President John Atta Mills has died. He was 68.
Politicians urged to have unity of purpose
Chronicle Reporter
POLITICAL leaders should desist from fuelling divisions among Zimbabweans and have unity of purpose towards improving livelihoods of ordinary people in their communities, senior politicians said yesterday.
Disgruntled subject attacks village head
Chronicle Reporter
A village head from Nkayi district is lucky to be alive after he was allegedly struck with an unknown object by one of his subjects.
He used to sodomise me — murder suspect tells court
Court Reporter
A man accused of murdering an elderly man staying alone in Bulawayo’s Pumula North suburb and later burying the body in a shallow grave in the yard yesterday stunned the court when he claimed the old man had over the years sodomised him.
At his initial appearance yesterday, Daniel Sinkala told Bulawayo provincial magistrate Mr Shepherd Mjanja that each time the late William Longwe would have anal sex with him he would pay him $50.
He said events leading to the killing of the old man were that after having anal sex with him twice, Longwe told him that he did not have money to pay him.
It was then that he decided to kill him and sell his property so that he would get his $50.
Sinkala (24), of House Number 687 New Luveve, was not formally charged with murder as defined in Section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23.
He was remanded in custody to 7 August and was advised to apply to the High Court for bail.
He had his warned and cautioned statements, which he made to the police after his arrest, confirmed meaning they can be used in a trial court as evidence.
Mr Masimba Saruwaka for the State told the court that on 13 July this year, Sinkala proceeded to House Number 6928 Pumula North where Longwe was staying alone.
Mthulisi Maphosa apologises
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Senior Sports Reporter
HIGHLANDERS midfield general Mthulisi Maphosa, who missed a 71st minute penalty that could have given his side a momentous and confidence boosting win over old nemesis Dynamos at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday, has apologised to the fans, his colleagues and technical bench for the casually taken kick.
Jomic approves Nyaminyami script
Bongani Ndlovu
Entertainment Reporter
ON-site filming of scenes of six episodes of the television series Nyaminyami began last week after the script was approved by the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) three weeks ago.