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Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president, has named former irrigation minister Hesham Qandil as the country’s new prime minister, state television has announced.
Prominent lawyer in court for stocktheft
Midlands Correspondent
PROMINENT Kwekwe lawyer and former Gweru magistrate Tapera Sengweni has been arrested for allegedly stealing five cattle belonging to two villagers in Zhombe and Silobela communal lands.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Zesa must strive for good relations with consumers
In an environment of spiralling service charges that haunt consumers throughout the year, having some form of control over tariffs can be a very empowering experience. Zimbabweans have generally been price-takers and even service providers with the most opaque billing systems have managed to literally get away with murder since the docile consumers have resigned themselves to just paying their bills.
Girl (8) given R5 after rape
Chronicle Reporter
A 61-year-old Hwange man reportedly raped his neighbour’s daughter thrice on different occasions and gave her R5 to buy her silence.
Exhibitors optimistic over Mine Entra expo
Lynot Munyaka
Business Reporter
EXHIBITORS at Mining, Engineering and Transport (Mine Entra) exhibition which begins in Bulawayo today have expressed optimism of clinching deals during the showcase.
Biti snubs civil servants
Harare Bureau
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti yesterday snubbed civil servants and denied them access to his offices to hand over a petition outlining their grievances.
The workers led by the Apex Council leaders, however, managed to hand over the petition to Clerk of Parliament Mr Austin Zvoma at Parliament Building.
In their petition, the Government workers implored the legislators not to pass Minister Biti’s Mid-Term policy statement.
Mr Zvoma received the petition on behalf of Senate president, Mrs Edna Madzongwe and the Speaker of Parliament Mr Lovemore Moyo.
Accepting the petition, Mr Zvoma said: “I accept the petition and I am going to hand it over to the respective persons as per your request.”
The workers are demanding an all-inclusive salary of $564 for the least paid worker and 15 percent of the basic salary as rural allowance. The least paid Government worker is getting $296.
Addressing legislators in Parliament yester-day on civil servants’ demonstration, Minister Biti said he did not have resources at his offices.Hundreds of workers drag employers to labour court
Chronicle Reporter
HUNDREDS of workers from four chemicals, plastics and rubber manufacturing companies in Bulawayo are locked in a wrangle with their employers over affiliation to a workers union.
Parents demand headmaster’s immediate dismissal
PARENTS with pupils at Lotshe Primary School in Bulawayo’s Makokoba suburb are demanding the immediate dismissal of the school’s headmaster over allegations that he forged a letter purporting pupils should pay a general levy of $10 per term.
War of words erupts over water shedding
Chronicle Reporter
A war of words has erupted over the Bulawayo City Council’s water shedding programme between the city’s Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, and Bulawayo United Residents Association (Bura) chairperson, Mr Winos Dube.
The local authority announced that with effect from Friday, it would be embarking on a tight water shedding schedule that would see residential areas going without water for 24 hours, twice a week.
In a story carried in yesterday’s Chronicle, Mr Dube verbally roasted the city’s councillors, saying their leadership credentials were questionable.
He said their failure to carry out conti-ngency measures like keeping the bore-holes at Nyamandlovu Aquifer running and duplicating the Insiza pipeline had led to the crisis that necessitated shedding.
He attacked the council, after Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, in his Mid-Term Budget Review, said the local authority had failed to use about $6 million availed by Treasury to rehabilitate water infrastruc-ture, until the money was sent back.
Clr Moyo responded to the tongue lash-ing yesterday with a verbal salvo of his own.
“Mr Dube must go to hell many times over. He is speaking from a position of ignorance. Instead of fighting with council, why does he not push the Ministry of Water Resources, Management and Development to complete the National Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project (NMZWP) or the Mtshabezi pipe-link that has actually led to this state of affairs?” asked Clr Moyo.
He said the views in the story were those of a person who had contributed nothing to the development of the city in his entire life.Fifa sets date for player agents exams
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
WORLD soccer governing body Fifa have set 27 September as the Players’ Agent Regulations Examinations date.