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Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter THE construction of Mpilo Central Hospital’s three kilometre perimeter wall which is estimated to cost about $200,000 has started with the first 100 metres set to…
Food outlets fingered for Byo’s CBD litter
Sifundiso Ndlovu Chronicle Reporter Bulawayo City Council has fingered food outlets as the major culprits in littering the central business district. Speaking at the launch of the city’s solid waste…
Magistrates told to come up with right sentences on litigants
Kamangeni Phiri Midlands Bureau Chief CHIEF Magistrate, Mishrod Guvamombe, has called on magistrates to thoroughly study parts of the new constitution that are relevant to their work and come up…
Midlands Show begins on low note
Lovemore Zigara Midlands Correspondent THIS year’s edition of the Midlands Agricultural Show has been subdued in its first two days, Thursday and yesterday. The show, a traditional occurrence on the…
Union drags Chinotimba to court
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter Zimbabwe Urban and Rural Council Workers’ Union has taken Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba to court seeking an order barring him from masquerading as the union’s…
Fondling granddaughter’s breasts lands man in trouble
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A 72-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for fondling his granddaughter’s breasts. Mkiza Moyo of Thandawane Village in Masendu area shocked the court…
Intruder stabs cop
Plaxcedes Hove Court Reporter A POLICEMAN was left nursing a big wound after he was allegedly stabbed by an intruder. Tiyapo Ndebele, 24, a policeman based at Nkulumane Police…
Embassy seeks justice for Zimbabwe trucker in Zambia
Temba Duber Senior Reporter THE Zimbabwean embassy in Zambia is making frantic efforts to ensure the Bulawayo trucker who was allegedly falsely arrested for armed robbery in the neighbouring country…
Rapist herdboy jailed eight years
Senior Court Reporter AN Inyathi herdboy lured his neighbour’s 15-year-old mentally ill daughter into a bush and raped her after promising to give her money in exchange for sex, a…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: NGOs have finally seen the light
Civil society organisations have just announced that they have abandoned their oppositional stance. As reported by our Harare Bureau yesterday, the non-governmental organisations have suddenly realised how lost and anti-national…