adminDeMbare eye Njube Academy players
Sports CorrespondentTHREE left-footed strikers and a midfielder from Njube Soccer Academy could be joining Dynamos in Harare.
Man kills friend in dispute over property
Chronicle Reporter
A 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his friend
Chikuni back from SA
Lovemore Zigara
FC Platinum coach Tendai Chikuni last week returned from a month long attachment in South Africa at Absa Premiership outfit, Platinum Stars.
Zesa reduces tariffs for consumers
Harare BureauZesa Holdings has won a minute 0,3 percent increase in average electricity tariffs
Councillors, Biti clash over Govt debt
Prosper Ndlovu
BULAWAYO councillors are headed for a collision course with Finance Minister Tendai Biti over Government’s failure to pay more than $5 million it owes the local authority.
The city fathers have threatened to confront Minister Biti seeking an explanation over the issue.
According to the council’s latest report, the councillors, a majority of them from MDC-T party whose secretary-general is Minister Biti, expressed concern over Government’s ballooning debt to council, saying the move was crippling service delivery.
This comes at a time when council is already in debt of up to $70 million it owes different service providers. The council is owed $87 million in rates and service charges.
Deputy Mayor Councillor Amen Mpofu has called for a meeting between council and Minister Biti.
He said Minister Biti should clarify the issue of payment of Government debts and make arrangements that would benefit council.
The Town Clerk, Mr Middleton Nyoni, said council was planning to send a delegation to meet Minister Biti in Harare over the issue.
In the report the director of financial services, Mr Kempton Ndimande, said the Government’s debt increased from about $5,4 million in early September last year to about $5,7 million at the end of the same month.Man rapes neighbour’s wife
Chronicle Reporter
A 26-year Beitbridge man allegedly sneaked into his neighbour’s bedroom and had sex with his wife after pretending to be the husband.
Rufaro Rovers seek sponsorship
Lillian Sibanda
HWANGE-based Zifa Southern Region Division One Soccer League outfit Rufaro Rovers is appealing to the corporate world to come to the rescue of their team sinking due to lack of funding.
Teachers rule out strike
Oliver Kazunga
Teachers will report for duty as normal when schools re-open next week despite concerns about this year’s salary increases, representatives of teachers’ unions said yesterday.
Schools open for the first term on 8 January.
“For now schools will open as scheduled without our disgruntled members going on strike over salary issues.
“We are waiting anxiously to see Government coming up with a very good package for the teachers before our membership embark on an industrial action later in January,” said the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association secretary-general, Mr Richard Gundani.
In his budget statement, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said the Government would award civil servants an inflation-based salary increment this year.
Kaindu back on Monday
Lovemore Dube
HIGHLANDERS Football Club head coach Kelvin Kaindu will return to Zimbabwe on Sunday to start work the following day as the Bulawayo giants prepare for what promises to be another exciting season.
Last push to avoid US ‘fiscal cliff’
US lawmakers have dragged the country to the edge of the “fiscal cliff” as they struggled to reach a last-minute deal that could protect the world’s largest economy from a politically-induced recession.