adminZesa installs 55 000 prepaid meters countrywide
Felex Share Herald Reporter
Zesa Holdings has installed 55 000 prepaid meters in domestic premises countrywide since August last
Legislators owed $1,6m in unpaid allowances
Harare Bureau
GOVERNMENT has failed to pay over $1,6 million owed to Members of Parliament in unpaid sitting and subsistence allowances for 2012.
This comes amid indications that Treasury has not instructed Parliament on how the once off $15 000 payment given to each legislator in December 2011 should be accounted for.
According to payment structures agreed, each legislator is entitled to $75 per sitting and judging by the estimated number of sittings for 2012 and the total number of legislators, the lawmakers should be paid a cumulative $1,6 million.
The $15 000 once-off payment did not take into account the number of sittings one had, creating a scenario where one might either be overpaid or underpaid.
With barely three months before Parliament is dissolved to pave way for harmonised elections, most legislators fear they might leave the House empty-handed.Top midfielder wants to join Bosso
Ricky Zililo
COMBATIVE former Njube Sundowns FC holding midfielder Tendai “Mtengo” Ngulube said he is ready to join Highlanders following the expiry of his contract with Monomotapa last Monday.
Zimbo 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.