adminEditorial Comment: Find alternative funding to build schools
The pace of infrastructural development in the primary and secondary education sub-sector has failed to keep pace with demand. There has been slow investment since 2000 because of limited resources…
Ministry approves $8.8m Beitbridge council budget
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau THE Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing has approved Beitbridge Town Council’s 2016 $8,8 million budget that will see tariffs remaining unchanged.
Bad practices blamed for farmers’ plight
Harare Bureau Bad practices by farmers are partly to blame for their plight as they are making agricultural production difficult in some areas. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister…
20 cops detained over Whatsapp chat
Harare Bureau At least 20 police officers in Bindura were on Wednesday last week questioned after they allegedly made “bad” comments over delayed salaries and bonuses on a WhatsApp group…
War vets blast Coltart over ‘reckless’ utterances
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent ZANU-PF and war veterans yesterday blasted MDC senior member David Coltart for his “reckless” utterances that President Robert Mugabe must apologise for the Gukurahundi disturbances.
Heavens open up at last
Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Reporter AT LAST the heavens opened up yesterday. Rains fell in some parts of Matabeleland, giving relief to many who had suffered under the heatwave over the…
Look up to God: VP Mphoko
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent ACTING President Phelekezela Mphoko has called on the people to look up to God to spare Zimbabwe the effects of hot weather conditions being experienced countrywide.
Killer bees claim 2 lives
Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Reporter A NKAYI granny and her granddaughter died after they were stung by a swarm of bees near their homestead. Nomakhasa Mkhoko, 71, died while trying to…
‘Man, 60, puts girl, 8, through sickening sex attack’
Melody Baya Court Reporter A 60-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been arrested for anally raping his ex-wife’s eight-year-old daughter on three occasions last month. Prosecutors say a medical report will be…
Biti fights for death row 16 . . . Murder convicts’ bid to escape hangman’s noose
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau At least 16 death row inmates, who have spent between four and 18 years awaiting their fate, have challenged their pending executions on the basis that…