Water shedding for western suburbs

Patrick Chitumba Senior Reporter BULAWAYO City Council has introduced temporary water shedding that will mainly affect residents in the western suburbs, council’s senior public relations officer, Nessia Mpofu, said yesterday.

A warm welcome for President in China

PRESIDENT Mugabe concluded his five-day visit to China on Thursday. The President, considered a “pariah” in the West, has been treated with utmost courtesy during his state tour in Beijing.…

$13,500 for John L Nkomo trust

Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter THE John Landa Nkomo Memorial Trust, set up to immortalise the vision of the late Vice President,  raised $13,500 at its launch. The trust’s board chairman,…

10-year-old ‘suicide’ victim burial today

Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter THE 10-year-old girl from Emganwini suburb in Bulawayo who was found hanging on Tuesday, will be buried at a city cemetery today. The girl received a…

Rousing welcome for President

Farirai Machivenyika  Harare Bureau MEMBERS of the Zanu-PF Youths League are mobilising to give President Mugabe a resounding welcome from his state visit to China and will take the opportunity…

Trio sentenced for gold theft

Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent THREE Zephyr Mine “employees” in Gwanda District yesterday appeared in court for stealing gold worth $17,200 from their employer. Allen Dube, 35, Gift Hungwe, 28, and…

Tsholotsho RDC officials face $32k fraud

Senior Court Reporter TWO Tsholotsho Rural District Council senior officials who allegedly connived with a Bulawayo car dealer to defraud the local authority of $32,000 appeared in court yesterday on…

Bosso fan languishes in prison

Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter A Highlanders fan who was arrested together with a friend for alleged malicious damage to property is still languishing in remand prison after failing to raise…

SA businessman, son fined for theft

Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent SOUTH African businessman Lourens Marthinus Botha, 65, and his son Lourens Junior, 41, have each been fined $300 after being convicted of theft of property worth…

Umarobane blames wife’s witchcraft

Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter A well-known elderly serial shoplifter popularly known as umarobane in Victoria Falls yesterday blamed his wife for bewitching him into being a thief.