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Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Late budget submission costs BCC
Chronicle ReporterTHE Bulawayo City Council lost potential revenue of about $8,6 million in 2012 because of late submission of its budget to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural and Urban Development and residents’ apathy in consultation meetings.
Ndlovu caps 103 pupils in Mpopoma
Uyapo MajahanaTHE Zanu-PF Secretary for Education, Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, has commended the Government for establishing Early Childhood Education (ECD) classes at primary schools.
Miss Earth Zim takes on the world
Auxilia Katongomara
Kabila suspends army chief
Congolese President Joseph Kabila has suspended the head of the army’s ground forces over a United Nations report accusing him of selling weapons to criminal and rebel groups.Campaigns should be centred on ideas and policies
With about four months to go before the harmonised presidential, parliamentary and council elections expected to be held at the end of March next year, the country’s two biggest political parties Zanu-PF and the MDC-T have in earnest started their campaigns.
Zanu-PF Byo postpones elections
Prosper Ndlovu
THE holding of elections for the chairman of Zanu-PF Bulawayo province, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed following the death of Cde Josiah Thwala.
Cde Thwala, who was the provincial secretary for legal affairs, died in a car accident on the outskirts of Bulawayo along the Bulawayo-Harare Road on Thursday evening.
However, elections in Matabeleland North will go ahead where Cdes Richard Moyo from Umguza district and Cde Patrick Utete from Hwange district would contest for the senior leadership post.
Bulawayo and Matabeleland North have been operating without substantive chairpersons following the suspension of Cde Isaac Dakamela (Bulawayo) in March this year and Cde Zwelitsha Masuku (Matabeleland North) late last year.Beitbridge communities concerned over Zhovhe Dam canal delays
Beitbridge ReporterTHE Beitbridge Rural District Council and communities around Zhovhe Dam have expressed concern over delays in the construction of the proposed 63km water canal stretching to the border town.
43 000 Zimbabweans deported from SA
Beitbridge Reporter
NEARLY 43 000 Zimbabweans were deported from South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post over the last 12 months as the crackdown on illegal immigrants continues in the neighbouring country.
South Africa resumed the deportation of undocumented Zimbabweans on 7 October last year during which the first group of 261 deportees was brought in from Johannesburg in four buses under the escort of the neighbouring country’s Home Affairs officials.
Officer commanding police in Beitbridge District, Chief Superintendent Lawrence Chinhengo, said between October last year and this year, they handled 42 940 deportees.
PSL moots compu-ticket system
Eddie Chikamhi in HarareTHE Premier Soccer League will engage stakeholders in the football fraternity to consider the introduction of computerised ticketing system and installing electronic gadgets to help control the gates.