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Charity Shield changes format
Senior Sports Reporter
THE traditional Premier Soccer League season opener, the Charity Shield, will this year take a different format after reports that the league management wants to have a four-team event.
Essar workers woes mount
Harare Bureau
Chavez ‘is not in coma’ — brother
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is not in a coma and is responding well to cancer treatment in Cuba, his brother has said.Govt to avail 6 000 stands for civil servants
Chronicle Reporter
THE Government will soon avail about 6 000 housing stands for people employed in the public service, a senior official has said.
BCC aquifer bid squashed
Temba Dube
THE Government has dismissed a bid by the Bulawayo City Council to take over the Nyamandlovu Aquifer from the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa).
Council, in October last year, resolved to enlist the assistance of the Minister of Water Resources Management and Development, Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo, to wrest control of the aquifer from Zinwa.
The local authority argued that it had to be involved in fundraising campaigns almost every year to rehabilitate boreholes at the aquifer, only for Zinwa to fail to protect the boreholes from vandals.
Council felt that the water situation in Bulawayo would improve significantly if Dr Sipepa Nkomo allowed the city to run the aquifer boreholes.
Zinwa is the entity mandated with the control of bulk water sources in the country.
Farmers increase tobacco hectarage
At least 77 910 hectares have been planted under tobacco this year, a 38 percent increase from 56 377 hectares last season, Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) chief executive officer Dr Andrew Matibiri has said.
Gweru school demands fees in advance from Beam pupils
Midlands Correspondent
MKOBA Four Primary School in Gweru is reportedly demanding advance payment from pupils under the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam) facility so that they can be allowed into classes before the Government releases their fees.BMX national team named
Sports Reporter
TWENTY-SIX BMX riders including 10 World Plate holders have been selected to represent Zimbabwe at the 2013 regional and international competitions.Hwange defender joins Chicken Inn
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
EXCITING Hwange right back, Tonisani “Yeboah” Sibelo has left the coalminers for ambitious Bulawayo side, Chicken Inn, becoming the third player and second defender to leave the Nation Dube-coached outfit.