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Man kills grandmother over groundnuts
Midlands Correspondent
A 73-YEAR-OLD Gokwe woman died when she was struck with a machete on the head by her 20-year-old grandson following an argument over a handful of groundnuts, police have said.Mali names new PM in abrupt change of leadership
Mali’s president has named Diango Cissoko as the country’s new interim prime minister, according to state media reports, hours after the abrupt resignation of the former prime minister following his arrest by soldiers.
VP Mujuru back home from UAE
Munyaradzi Doma, recently in Dubai
Fashion show with a twist on the cards
Entertainment Reporter
A local urban lifestyle magazine and a coffee shop are working on a collaboration to bring fashion and coffee enthusiasts together.Sportspersons vie for honours
Harare Bureau
ALL is set for tonight’s Annual National Sports Awards function to be held at the Rainbow Towers with golfer Brendon de Jonge strongly tipped to be crowned the Sportsperson of the Year after recording his best season on the USPGA Tour.
Manufacturing sector takes a battering from imports
AS the clock ticks towards the annual shut down for local industries, most manufacturing companies are breathing a sigh of relief that 2012 is almost gone and they are still…
Weather pattern affects SeedCo’s ZSE listing
Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed firm SeedCo has driven the industrial index down due to slow seed uptake this year as the changing weather pattern takes a toll on farming.
Passengers stranded as train derails
Pamela Shumba
SCORES of passengers were left stranded on Tuesday night when a Bulawayo bound National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train from Victoria Falls derailed.
The passenger train had five economy coaches, two second class coaches and one first class coach with 137 passengers on board.
It derailed between Lobangwe and Zanganja sidings probably due to wet conditions.
Passengers who spoke to Chronicle yesterday said the train, which left Victoria Falls at about 7pm, derailed at about 8.30 pm leaving them stranded until yesterday at about 4pm when NRZ organised another train to take them to Bulawayo.
“We left Victoria Falls at about 7pm on Tuesday and we expected to be in Bulawayo this morning. After travelling for only one hour the train derailed and the railway line was broken, which made it impossible for us to move,” said a passenger who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Zim troops for DRC
Harare Bureau
Zimbabwe will send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a neutral Sadc force pledged by the regional bloc to resolve the armed conflict in the eastern part of that country.
Fighting between the Government of President Joseph Kabila and M23 rebels has been raging for the past few months.
Foreign Affairs permanent secretary Ambassador Joey Bimha confirmed in an interview yesterday that Zimbabwe would deploy in the DRC.
This followed an approval by regional leaders at a Sadc Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government in Tanzania last Friday to deploy a neutral force in the eastern DRC to ensure peace.
“As such, Zimbabwe will contribute troops to that eastern area of the DRC to work with other countries in the region who will also contribute troops under the Sadc Standby Force,” said Ambassador Bimha.