adminParents welcome decision on extra lessons
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter PARENTS have supported the government directive outlawing holiday and extra lessons but educators, on the other hand, maintained that the practice is necessary for pupils…
Four border jumpers drown in Limpopo River
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau POLICE have retrieved two bodies of border jumpers who drowned while attempting to cross the crocodile-infested Limpopo River at the weekend. The police officer commanding Beitbridge…
Body parts vanish at UBH morgue…Family demands corpse’s foot from hospital
Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Reporter— A FAMILY from Kombo in Insiza is demanding the foot of its late son from authorities at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after they found it…
Housebreaking rapist up for sentence
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter—- A 28-year-old Bulawayo man will today hear his fate after he was yesterday convicted of raping, stabbing and robbing a woman from Queens Park West suburb.…
Zesa flouts tender laws
Felex Share Harare Bureau— Zesa Holdings has started selling prepaid electricity tokens through three government enterprises in deals not sanctioned by the State Procurement Board. Thirty-eight other companies had bids…
Editorial Comment: Teachers’ stance on incentives regrettable
With the exception of the elite in the private sector, salaries and working conditions for most workers in the country are generally poor. The wages in both the private and…
Jumbos feast on villagers’ harvest
Leornard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter A herd of about 13 elephants is reportedly causing havoc in Jambezi where it has destroyed numerous fields leaving scores of villagers facing hunger. Villagers…
Girl buries new-born baby at employers’ house
Plaxcedes Hove Chronicle Reporter A 15-YEAR-Old from Bulawayo’s Lobengula West suburb allegedly gave birth to a baby and buried it under a guava tree at a house where she was…
Unki contractor fires workers over pension demands
Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent Dohne Construction, a contractor hired by Unki Mine in Shurugwi to construct part of the 950 houses in Shurugwi town has fired seven employees who are…
Armed robbers tie up guard, raid varsity girls’ hostel
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent THREE armed robbers pounced at Great Zimbabwe University’s Zimdef girls’ hostels in Masvingo, tied up a security guard and then ransacked the hostels before getting away…