adminTsholotsho RDC ‘scammed $32k’
Auxilia Katongomara Court Reporter TWO Tsholotsho Rural District Council employees connived with a Bulawayo car dealer to fleece the local authority of $32,000, a court heard yesterday. Jericho Moyo, 48,…
Dark clouds that bear no water
You have probably realised how the elderly in our communities rejoice when there is a dark cloud in the sky. They rejoice in anticipation of some rains to wash away…
Sable Chemicals consider change in technology
Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent THE country’s sole Ammonium Nitrate (AN) fertilizer manufacturer, Sable Chemicals, is mulling introducing coal bed methane (CBM) technology to replace the electrolysis plant at its Kwekwe…
Victoria Falls Council increases rates by over 200 percent
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter THE cash-strapped Victoria Falls Municipality has increased commercial and low density rates by between 200 and 500 percent depending on location and zoning of property.…
Driver disappears with employer’s car
Plaxcedes Hove Court Reporter ON the very day he was employed as a driver, a Bulawayo man allegedly disappeared with the vehicle only to be caught after two months. Nkosentsha…
Binga ivory dealers arrested
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter POLICE have arrested two men from Binga for illegal possession of ivory. Moses Mutale, 37, and his uncle Richard Siatema, age unknown, but both from…
BULAWAYO HOUSES GO FOR A SONG
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter FIVE houses from Bulawayo’s eastern suburbs that were part of the 23 houses on sale, were sold for a song during a public auction conducted at…
Police block AAG demonstration
Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter POLICE yesterday blocked the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) from demonstrating against the auctioning of 23 houses and residential stands to recover varying amounts owed to banks,…
Bata to open new retail outlets
Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent THE country’s biggest shoe manufacturer, Bata Shoe Company, will open new retail outlets to regain market share after increasing production in the first six months of…
San language faces extinction
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter ONLY four people in the country speak Tshwao, a language spoken by the San people, amid fears the language is on the brink of extinction. Mthandazo…