adminMarried women ‘beg’ Zoey for dance lessons
Entertainment Reporter
MARRIED women are reportedly begging Noleen “Zoey” Sifelani for dance lessons to entertain their husbands, a development that has made her set up a dance school, pencilled to begin next year.
Governor Masuku challenges agricultural research institutions
Chronicle Reporter
Ecobank to meet capital threshold deadline
Business Reporter
Pan African bank, Ecobank, is on track to meeting the new minimum capital threshold for commercial banks, country managing director Mr Daniel Sackey has said.Macheso in spectacular act
Bruce Ndlovu
Sungura music kingpin Alick Macheso signed off on a spectacular note to Bulawayo fans when he gave a hair-raising performance at Bulawayo Amphitheatre on Saturday night.
Zanu-PF remains on course
Simon Khaya Moyo
I once again greet you all in the revolutionary name of our party, Zanu-PF.
I have been wondering what issues are pertinent to include in this newsletter as there is so much going on currently. However, I have condensed the critical issues that I feel you need to be made fully conversant with. The first of these is no doubt the constitution-making process and the second all-stakeholders’ conference, which convened with the consent of all concerned parties on 22nd and 23rd October 2012.
Shi’ites under attack in Iraq
Baghdad — A wave of bombings across Iraq yesterday targeted inhabitants of ethnically disputed areas and Shi’ite pilgrims, killing 19 people and wounding dozens.Tunisian president heckled on Arab Spring anniversary
Protesters hurled rocks and heckled Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki yesterday during the second anniversary commemoration of the self-immolation of a fruit vendor that sparked the Arab Spring.Cops to perform community service
Masvingo Correspondent
THREE policemen based at Chikato Police Station in Masvingo were last week ordered to perform 315 hours of community service after being found guilty of extorting money from a man they had found with diesel without a licence.
Peter yet to know of his brother’s death
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
LEGENDARY soccer icon Peter Ndlovu is yet to know that his brother Adam died in the car crash on Sunday, forcing the family to delay announcing the former Highlanders, FC Kriens and FC Zurich of Switzerland striker’s burial arrangements.
His brother Madinda is also yet to see Adam’s body which is at a city funeral parlour.
Zim population grows by one percent
Makhosi Sibanda
THE population of Zimbabwe has grown by 1,1 percent between 2002 and 2012 and as of 18 August this year it stood at 12 973 808.
According to the 2012 preliminary census report availed yesterday, Zimbabwe has 6 234 931 males and 6 738 877 females.
In 2002 the population was 11,6 million with 5,6 million males and six million females and the sex ratio was 95 males per 100 females.
The 2012 population census is the fourth such exercise to be undertaken by the Government since Independence in 1980.
“This means that the overall sex ratio was 93 males per every 100 females,” reads part of the 122-page report by Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (Zimstat) director-general Mr Dzinotizei Mutasa.
He said the country’s population is constituted of 3 076 222 households, leading to an average of 4,2 persons per household.
“With an area of 390 757 square kilometres, Zimbabwe has a population density of 33 persons per square kilometre,” said Mr Dzinotizei.