adminGovt concerned about civil servants’ salaries
Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT is not happy with the level of salaries and conditions of service for civil servants and is committed to improving them once the dialogue with the workers’…
Detectives extortion case altered
Court Reporter THE case in which two detectives allegedly extorted R80 000 from two gold dealers has taken a new twist with the complainants querying the contents of the docket,…
Three poachers jailed 16 years each for poisoning elephants
Chronicle Reporters— Three out of the eight poachers arrested for killing elephants by cyanide poisoning in Hwange National Park have been sentenced to 16 years in prison each. Hwange provincial…
Business demands probe into Dimaf
Prosper Ndlovu Senior Reporter— THE Bulawayo business community yesterday demanded a full scale investigation into how the Distressed Industries and Marginalised Areas Fund (Dimaf) was used, saying the city was…
Zesa adjusts domestic consumers’ bills
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Reporter—- THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has started implementing the debt relief of $160 to all domestic consumers. Under the debt relief, customers owing…
Editorial Comment: Govt stance on distribution of contraceptives welcome
The Government should be commended for clarifying that it has no policy that advocates provision of contraceptives for girls as young as 10 years of age. There had been concern…
‘Town councils zones of rebellion, off-limits to MDC-T’
DAYS before the election of mayors and their deputies, MDC-T leaders went about seeking to strengthen the party’s grip on towns and cities whose councils it controls. Mr Morgan Tsvangirai,…
State should promote use of all languages
Nelson Masukume LIKE our political history, our different languages must entrench unity among different tribal groups. Language is a vehicle for transmitting cultural values. A person without a language is…
No birth control pills for minors
Harare Bureau GOVERNMENT does not have a policy that advocates provision of contraceptives to girls as young as 10 years and does not intend to have such a policy in…
Masvingo man jailed for causing child’s death during fight with wife
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent A 23-year-old Masvingo man has been sentenced to an effective four years in jail for causing the death of his one-year-old child during a fight with…