adminEasipark deal faces fresh hurdle
Senior Reporter THE joint venture parking business between South African company Easihold Proprietary Limited and Harare City Council has faced a fresh hurdle with the foreign company taking the council…
Writers mourn novelist Chitsike
Tafadzwa Ndlovu Herald Reporter Zimbabwean writers have described the death of prolific Shona novelist and playwright Bisset Cosmas Chitsike last Sunday as a loss to the country’s valuable intellectual and…
Ineffective supervision
Bulawayo bureau THE permanent secretary in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Mrs Constance Chigwamba said the decline in academic performance in schools is largely because of lack of…
Councillors’ training
Herald Reporter GOVERNMENT will next week convene a three-day national induction and training programme for councillors to equip them with requisite skills needed in running council affairs, a senior official…
Council warns public
Municipal Reporter Manyame Rural District Council has warned members of the public against allocating themselves or being allocated communal land without permission from the local authority. Villagers in Seke are…
Library war
Bulawayo Bureau An annual general meeting to elect a new board to run the Bulawayo Public Library turned chaotic when members walked out after the old board announced it would…
Calls mount for chiefs to adopt circumcision
Masvingo Bureau Chiefs countrywide have been urged to adopt annual male circumcision in their communities like the Shangaan people in southern Masvingo if the country is to make meaningful inroads…
Bogus CIO operatives nabbed for extortion
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter POLICE have arrested five men for masquerading as Central Intelligence Organisation officers and swindling business people of money ranging between US$2 000 and US$10 000. Police…
Witness grilled in Komichi case
Senior Court Reporter THE lawyer representing MDC-T deputy national chairman Morgan Komichi, accused of contravening the Electoral Act, has entered the third week grilling one State witness in cross-examination. Mr…
UFIC pays ransom
Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent A Kwekwe man was yesterday slapped with a 10-year jail sentence for kidnapping a four-year-old girl at Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church service in…