adminNewZim Steel employees paid 25 percent of full salaries
Business Reporter
NEWZIM Steel employees are reported to have been paid 25 percent of their full salaries this month, a move that has seen some of the workers earning as little as $50.
Festive season death toll rises
Leonard Ncube
THE festive season death toll has risen to 101 after 31 more people died in separate accidents across the country between Sunday afternoon and yesterday afternoon, police said yesterday.
Eighteen of the deaths were recorded in Manicaland Province when a containerised truck carrying 64 people veered off the road killing 17 on the spot while one died on the way to hospital and 46 others were injured, some of them seriously.
The truck belonging to Mr Bishop Nyerenyere of Harare was being driven by Mr Beaven Nyerenyere. It was coming from Harare on its way to Hauna.
In the other accidents, four people died when two vehicles collided along the Bulawayo-Gwanda Road while three others died along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road.
In an interview yesterday, national police spokesperson Superintendent Tinaye Matake said the death toll so far was more than double the same period last year where 48 people had died in 10 days.
Police launched the 30-day festive season campaign period against road carnage on 15 December and it runs until 15 January, and 101 people have died to date compared to 48 during the same period last year.
Celtic eye Mutuma
Harare Bureau
Congestion at border post as injiva flock in
Stanford Mguni and Mashudu Netsianda
BEITBRIDGE Border Post was yesterday heavily congested, as travellers, mostly Zimbabweans working in South Africa, who are commonly known as injiva, continued flocking into the country in the last minute festive rush.
According to immigration statistics, 37 055 people entered the country through the border post between Thursday and Sunday.
The assistant regional immigration manager in charge of Beitbridge Border Post, Mr Charles Gwede, said they were handling more travellers on the arrivals section than those on the departure side.
“We have been very busy between Sunday and today (yesterday), as more people continue to arrive for the Christmas holiday. We are, however, yet to compile the latest statistics for travellers,” he said.
When a Chronicle news crew visited the border post yesterday afternoon there were long winding queues of travellers waiting for both customs and immigration clearance.
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Entertainment Reporter
KOMBANI Lodge in Plumtree Town is set to celebrate its second anniversary on Friday with a concert featuring Zimbabwe music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi.