Release Money for Grade Seven exams urgently

The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) early this year received accolades from parents, pupils and other stakeholders for releasing the 2011 O-level and A-level results in a record time. The A-level results were out on 19 January while the O-level results were out on 31 January. This good record which had restored confidence in the examinations body was unfortunately short lived.

Inheritance dispute turns ugly, man forced to flee amid threats

Peter Matika, Chronicle Reporter A bitter inheritance dispute has emerge in Chegutu, Mashonaland West Province, which has thrust Fungai Jokonya and his family into a nightmarish ordeal. What began as…

Israel ‘admits’ killing Arafat’s deputy

Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a 1988 seaborne raid in Tunisia.The operation was planned by the Mossad spy agency…

Police smash cigarette smuggling ring

Mashudu Netsianda

POLICE in Beitbridge have smashed what appears to be a well-organised smuggling syndicate when they raided a local businessman’s homestead in Tshapfutshe village and recovered more than 1 000 boxes of an assortment of export quality cigarettes worth R3,1million.

The consignment was hidden inside five huts, which were being used as warehouses to store the cigarettes haul while waiting to be smuggled into South Africa through undesignated entry points along the Limpopo River.

The officer commanding police in Beitbridge District, Chief Superintendent Lawrence Chinhengo, confirmed the incident, saying they found 1 081 boxes of different cigarette brands hidden at Mr Edzisani Muleya’s homestead following a tip-off.

Jilted Africa cool to US vote after Obama fever fades

KOGELO, Kenya/JOHANNESBURG — In the tiny Kenyan village of Kogelo, US President Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland, some people talk of hurt feelings of the kind experienced when a favourite relative has failed to get in touch.

Speaker blasts Biti for undermining Parly

Harare Bureau

Speaker of the House of Assembly Mr Lovemore Moyo yesterday slammed Finance Minister Tendai Biti for undermining the institution of Parliament by inadequately financing the house.

Summary of Copac issues to be released on Monday

 

Harare Bureau

A summary of issues raised during the Copac Second All Stakeholders Conference will be released on Monday, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga has said.

Minister Matinenga yesterday said the three rapporteurs drawn from the political parties were finalising reconciliation of the views.

“There is no final report yet but I am told that the technical committee, consisting of three senior rapporteurs, from the three political parties is working to refine the report.

Masvingo ‘locked’ man a pastor

Walter Mswazie
There are reports that the man who became stuck to a married woman after sex in Masvingo’s Rujeko C suburb is a pastor at a pentecostal church.

Upgrading of Bulawayo-Plumtree highway almost complete

Chronicle Reporter

THE upgrading of the Bulawayo-Plumtree Highway is almost complete with contractors left with a few kilometres

Mayor grilled over Millenium houses

Chronicle Reporter

A fierce war of words has erupted between Bulawayo Mayor Councillor Thaba Moyo and the Bulawayo Progressive Residents’ Association (Bupra) over the ownership of Millennium houses in Emganwini suburb.