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Entertainment Reporter
PROMINENT hip-hop dance group Anti-virus are looking to collaborate with other dance crews while incorporating more traditional dance elements in their act in a bid to lure more fans and gain more recognition within the arts industry.
Zifa, Ethics Commission clash
Goodwill Zunidza
ZIFA, stung by mounting public demand for a swift close of the Asiagate chapter, are now at loggerheads with their own Independent Ethics Commission for failing to release findings of their probe a year after they were constituted for the exercise.
Genesis depositors access funds
Depositors who had their monies locked up in closed Genesis Merchant Bank have started accessing their funds through the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC), an official said yesterday.
Kee-Tui scoops Yvonne Vera Award
Entertainment Reporter
Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo has announced Violette Kee-Tui as this year’s winner of The Yvonne Vera Award for short story writing.
Tourists fined for stealing boat
Victoria Falls Reporter
THREE foreign tourists have each been fined $500 (or nine months in prison) after they were found guilty of unlawfully borrowing a fishing boat and peddling it at night in the Zambezi River. Appearing before Victoria Falls resident magistrate, Mr Archibald Dingana were Maciej Trzcinski (40) and Artur Krzysztof Dabrowski (41), both from Warszanka, Poland, and Francesco Perini (26), who resides at Via Bollitol East 19 Capri, Italy.
Firm seeks endorsement of cost effective houses
Business Reporter
A Bulawayo company is engaging regulators to approve construction of houses made from prefabricated material in the country.
Indigenisation: beyond the scare mongering
YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere stands accused of being anti-foreign investment, fascist and a thug for unapologetically pursuing the black economic agenda.
PM loses court bid in maintenance case
Harare Bureau
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday lost a bid to have the $15 000 maintenance claim by his wife Ms Locardia Karimatsenga struck off the roll.
Harare Civil Court magistrate Mr Reuben Mukavhi ruled that the application was properly before the courts and that the hearing should be held.
PM Tsvangirai had argued that the application did not comply with the provisions of the Maintenance Act.
The premier’s lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu said the claim could have been brought up through summons and not a court application.
He also argued that service of the court papers was not done properly.
Adv Mpofu raised the objection just before the maintenance inquiry but Mr Mukavhi ruled against him.
Kaindu hails player’s call-up for national duty
Lovemore Dube Sports Editor
HIGHLANDERS coach Kelvin Kaindu yesterday hailed the call up to the national team of his star attacking midfielder Masimba Mambare. He was included in a team to travel to Angola next month. In an interview yesterday the gaffer described the move as deserved.
Makokoba residents blast Zesa over bulk pre-paid meters
Pamela Shumba
RESIDENTS of Makokoba suburb in Bulawayo who live in flats have attacked Zesa Holdings for installing bulk pre-paid meters in their houses, saying the move will cause confusion when buying power units.
The ongoing installation of pre-paid meters by Zesa rolled into Makokoba, one of the oldest suburbs in the city, on Tuesday morning.
When Chronicle visited the suburb on Wednesday afternoon, Zesa electricians were all over the suburb installing pre-paid meters while residents were fuming, saying the power utility should have installed a pre-paid meter for each household.
A resident of Enjingeni Flats, Mr Bongani Ncube, blamed the power utility for not consulting the residents or the Bulawayo City Council before conducting the exercise in the suburb.
“An apartment with four rooms in Makokoba is occupied by two families and it was easy for us to pay for electricity when we were using fixed charge meters,” said Mr Ncube.