adminZimbo Cup kick starts 2013 rugby season
Sports ReporterTHE third edition of the Zimbo Under-20 Cup will mark the start of the 2013 rugby season this weekend with four teams battling it out at Hartsfield Stadium.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Farmers should concentrate on short season crop varieties
Most parts of the country this season received rains late. The country normally receives rains in October for the summer cropping season but some parts of the country had not received significant rains as late as end of last month. Farmers in most parts of the country only started planting this week yet by this time most farmers should be busy weeding and not planting.
Queues resurface at border post as injiva flock to base
Beitbridge Reporters
QUEUES yesterday resurfaced at Beitbridge Border Post as scores of travellers, mostly injiva started flocking back to South Africa following the end of the festive season.
When Chronicle newscrew visited the border post yesterday evening there were long winding queues of cars stretching for about 2km as travellers waited to be cleared by customs and immigration officers on the departure side.
The assistant regional immigration manager in charge of Beitbridge Border Post, Mr Charles Gwede, said they anticipated the volume of both human and vehicular traffic to increase on the exit side at the weekend.
“We have just started handling an inreased volume of traffic as the number of people, mostly Zimbabweans working in South Africa have started returning to work.
“We anticipate a sharp increase as more people are likely to travel at the weekend,” he said.
Mr Gwede said so far they were managing the situation. “So far everything is under control and our officers are efficiently managing the queues. We have also created separate immigration counters for buses as a way of easing congestion and ensure a smooth movement of travellers,” he said.
Anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America
On the evening of 27 December, an Indian immigrant to America named Sunando Sen was pushed by a stranger onto the subway tracks in New York City and was struck and killed by an oncoming train. Sen had called New York home for years, and after years of hard work and struggle had recently managed to achieve his lifelong goal of opening a small business of his own, a copy shop in Upper Manhattan.
DeMbare eye Njube Academy players
Sports CorrespondentTHREE left-footed strikers and a midfielder from Njube Soccer Academy could be joining Dynamos in Harare.
Man kills friend in dispute over property
Chronicle Reporter
A 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his friend
Chikuni back from SA
Lovemore Zigara
FC Platinum coach Tendai Chikuni last week returned from a month long attachment in South Africa at Absa Premiership outfit, Platinum Stars.
Zesa reduces tariffs for consumers
Harare BureauZesa Holdings has won a minute 0,3 percent increase in average electricity tariffs
Councillors, Biti clash over Govt debt
Prosper Ndlovu
BULAWAYO councillors are headed for a collision course with Finance Minister Tendai Biti over Government’s failure to pay more than $5 million it owes the local authority.
The city fathers have threatened to confront Minister Biti seeking an explanation over the issue.
According to the council’s latest report, the councillors, a majority of them from MDC-T party whose secretary-general is Minister Biti, expressed concern over Government’s ballooning debt to council, saying the move was crippling service delivery.
This comes at a time when council is already in debt of up to $70 million it owes different service providers. The council is owed $87 million in rates and service charges.
Deputy Mayor Councillor Amen Mpofu has called for a meeting between council and Minister Biti.
He said Minister Biti should clarify the issue of payment of Government debts and make arrangements that would benefit council.
The Town Clerk, Mr Middleton Nyoni, said council was planning to send a delegation to meet Minister Biti in Harare over the issue.
In the report the director of financial services, Mr Kempton Ndimande, said the Government’s debt increased from about $5,4 million in early September last year to about $5,7 million at the end of the same month.