adminGandhis offer to resign after defeat, party refuses
INDIA’S Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, leaders of India’s defeated Congress party, offered to resign yesterday after last week’s election debacle, but colleagues rebuffed their offer, a senior party figure said.
Ex-NRZ workers defy eviction order
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter FORMER National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees who were recently given a week’s notice to vacate the parastatal’s houses in Westgate, Bulawayo, have vowed not to…
Byo a security time-bomb
Cont Mhlanga FOR many years now, the people of Bulawayo and indeed the region of Matabeleland, have been raising concerns that the government of Zimbabwe, since independence, has been on…
Catholics snub priest ‘secret lovers’
Patrick Chitumba Senior Reporter THE Archbishop of Bulawayo Diocese Alex Thomas says the church is not going to change its policy on celibacy, following a petition submitted to the Pope…
US indicts five Chinese for hacking
THE United States yesterday indicted five members of the Chinese military on charges they stole US secrets through hacking to help state-run companies, the Justice Department said.
June 24 trial for ZBC boss
Tendai Rupapa Harare Bureau A HARARE magistrate has set June 24 as the trial date for suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Happison Muchechetere, who is facing charges of swindling…
Editorial Comment: New investment in rural sanitation critical
A 2010 study by Unicef established that 50 percent of our rural population does not have toilets. With at least 67 percent of our 13 million national population, or 8,7…
President consoles Sekeramayi, Zingoni families
Chronicle Reporter PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday sent his message of condolences to the Sekeramayi family following the death of Shungu Sekeramayi, son of Defence Minister Dr Sydney Sekeramayi in a car…
Gumbura bail bid fails
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau THE High Court has thrown out a bail application by jailed RMG End Time Message Church leader Robert Martin Gumbura because there are no prospects of…
11 charged over mine shaft death
Sifundiso Ndlovu Chronicle Reporter PROSECUTORS yesterday charged 11 men with murder after a gold panner was killed following clashes over a disused mine shaft in Hope Fountain last week.