‘Dead man’ returns from jail after 23 years

THOUGHT to be dead for over two decades, a Bangladeshi man returned home after 23 years, most of which were spent in Pakistani jails.

Women stranded at border

Leonard Ncube

SCORES of Zimbabwean women travelling to South Africa with minor children are stranded at Beitbridge Border Post as the neighbouring country’s immigration officials are demanding affidavits for the children.

President in Zambia for state visit

Harare Bureau
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived in Lusaka yesterday for a three-day state visit that will see him officially opening Zambia’s 86th Agricultural and Commercial Show in Lusaka tomorrow.

Bulawayo Table Tennis Association launched

Sports Reporter

The Bulawayo Table Tennis Association was officially launched at Drill Hall on Saturday last week with Harare-based Spinmasters Table Tennis Academy in attendance.

Jeys in lobola payment celebration

Entertainment Reporter

MAJAHAWODWA “Jeys Marabini” Ndlovu and Umkhathi Theatre will tomorrow perform deep in Filabusi district to welcome a Mkhwenyana (in-law) from the United Kingdom at Kalani “Mjayeli” Ndlovu’s homestead.

CSC yet to resume regional beef exports

Business Reporter

THE Cold Storage Company (CSC) is yet to resume regional beef exports due to a slowdown in the number of cattle from Botswana meant to improve beef supply on the local market.

Zambia on high alert of Ebola at all borders as disease rages on in Uganda

LUSAKA — Health officials in Zambia have been placed on high alert to monitor people coming and leaving the country at border entries to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from entering the country, a Ministry of Health official said yesterday.

Council to ban errant bottled water companies

Chronicle Reporter

THE Bulawayo City Council will soon ban bottled water companies whose products fail to meet the prescribed standards for human consumption.

Police concerned about crime upsurge in city

Chronicle Reporter

POLICE in Bulawayo have appealed for co-operation from members of the community and the corporate world in the fight against crime.

Council to donate excess stocks of STI drugs to prostitutes

Chronicle Reporter

BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to donate excess stocks of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) treatment drugs in council clinics to commercial sex workers.

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