adminRuwa residents cry foul
Municipal Reporter
Ruwa’s over 120 000 residents feel let down by their local board which is failing to provide them with water, exposing them to waterborne diseases in the process. Residents from all the town’s suburbs are now resorting to the few communal water points in the town. They expressed dismay with the
Committee to work on issues raised at stakeholders’ conference
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
COPAC has set up a committee expected to refine the final compilation of issues raised at the just-ended Second All Stakeholders’ Conference for onward transmission to the management committee and the Principals. The chairpersons forum that comprises Copac co-chairpersons, their deputies
A saviour for thirsty Hatcliffe
Michael Chideme Features WriterOne catchy biblical folk song that talks of goats that plough the fields when the beasts of burden, cattle, are there chewing cud can be taken to mean a complete role reversal — or a system failure. Harare City Council’s failure to provide water for suburbs like Hatcliffe, in the north- east, has
Hwange hammer Hardbody
From Tobias Mandoreba in Hwange
Hwange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2)5
Hardbody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(0)1
HWANGE continued with their rehabilitation exercise when they hammered fellow strugglers Hardbody in a Castle Lager Premier League match at the Colliery
Robbery gang nabbed
Chinhoyi Bureau
SWIFT reaction from police at a tollgate in Nyabira led to the arrest of five robbers that had terrorised travellers along Lomagundi Road on Tuesday night. The robbers offered five hikers transport before stripping and robbing them of their possessions. The gang — Martin Kapfumvuti (32), Esther
Dynamos thrash Black Mambas
Harare Bureau
Black Mambas ………….… 0
Dynamos …………….… (1) 3
HARARE giants Dynamos overcame a lethargic start to their match against Black Mambas to consolidate their position at the top of the Castle Lager Premiership table as second placed Highlanders kept the heat on as well.
Simba Sithole thrust Dynamos into the lead in the 33rd minute when he scrambled the ball home from close range before Timire Mamvura added the second in the 50th minute.
Highlanders win
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Highlanders ……………………………..… (1) 1
Bufalloes ……………………………………..…. 0
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders chose the hardest way to claim three points over visiting army side Buffaloes in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League encounter at Barbourfields Stadium that had last minute drama.
Masimba Mambare drilled from close range in the 14th minute to leave Highlanders faithfuls geared for a massacre.
First assistant referee Tione Kacheche raised his flag deep into injury time to signal a foul by Buffaloes goalkeeper Hopeful Bere and all hell broke loose as the visitors saw no crime committed.
Judge denies gag order in Zimmerman case
Orlando — A judge on Monday denied prosecutors’ request for a gag order in the trial of a neighbourhood watch leader charged with killing a black teen, in a case which drew national attention over questions of race and self-defence.
Teachers desert school over goblins
Chronicle Reporter
THE Government has given villagers in Dete area in Matabeleland North province up to Friday to cleanse Ndangababi Primary School of goblins.
Plot owner loses 5kg of gold in gold rush at Summerset
Midlands Correspondent
HEAVILY armed police officers have been deployed to a plot in Summerset in Lower Gweru following a gold rush in the area.
The police officers, some with dogs, were deployed to the area after the plot owner, Mr Eliot Khumalo, reportedly lost about five kilogrammes of gold he was keeping at his homestead to some armed people following the discovery of the mineral in his fields about two weeks ago.