adminWhy silence the bones of Chibondo?
Isdore Guvamombe
The silence as one arrives at Chibondo is both eerie and profound. Only chirping birds that intermittently somersault, albeit, effortlessly from one tree branch to another or from one grass tuft to another, give a sign of life. Distant cranking cattle bells give another sign
ZLG, Oldlock donate goods to school
Herald Reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri has called for public-private sector partnerships to assist in improving the lives of disadvantaged communities.
Air Marshal Shiri, founder member of the Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe Charity Fund, said this yesterday during the handover of computers and blankets worth US$4
Cellphone thief to do unpaid work
Court ReporterA daring thief was last week ordered to complete 210 hours of community service for stealing mobile phones and cash from two sleeping drunkards at a night club in Waterfalls.
Abisha Katongomara (22) of 3622 Unit D in Chitungwiza and his two accomplices, Stitch and Prince, who are still at large, went to Mainway Meadows in Waterfalls to steal from
North Korea’s justifiable anger
Stansfield Smith
The corporate media reduces the DPRK (North Korea) to the Kim family and prefaces their names with the terms “madman”, “evil” and “brutal”. Such vilifications of foreign leaders are used here not only to signify they are target for US overthrow. They are meant to
Two years for assaulting senior couple
Beitbridge BureauA 25-year-old man from Toporo Village in Beitbridge who in August last year brutally assaulted an elderly couple with a machete in a botched robbery attempt was yesterday jailed for two years.
Sodomy earns man seven-year jail term
Court ReporterA 20-year-old Chitungwiza man who beat up a juvenile and sodomised another as punishment for stealing guavas at his place was on Monday jailed for an effective seven years.
Liberty Matswai caught the pair last February playing outside his gate after stealing guavas from one of the trees at his place.
Nurse recruitment freeze lifted
Paidamoyo Chipunza Health ReporterABOUT 1 800 qualified registered general nurses have so far been recruited in public health institutions since the suspension of a recruitment freeze on over 2 000 posts for March and April.
Affirmative action way to achieve gender equality
Herald ReporterWomen activists attending a public forum yesterday to discuss achieving gender equality and women empowerment said affirmative action was the only way to achieve the goal.
The public forum was facilitated by the United Nations to deliberate on issues surrounding achievement of Millennium Development Goal number three, which talks of gender
Mash Central Prosecutor Muchenga dies
Rugare Maranga Herald ReporterThe area public prosecutor for Mashonaland Central Province, Mr Emmanuel Muchenga, has died.
Muchenga, who was 45, died last week.
Govt resumes work on Harare-Norton dual road
Norah Mutale Herald ReporterGovernment has resumed work on the dualisation of the Harare-Norton Road, which had been suspended due to a shortage of funds.
The road had been successfully dualised up to the Manyame Bridge which was officially opened on Monday.