adminHwange stun CAPS
Harare Bureau
CAPS United (0)1; Hwange (1)2
A CRACKING long range from Hwange defender Eric Chipeta three minutes before full time, rich in quality, a rare goal in the Castle Lager Premiership, stunned a packed Gwanzura Stadium, made a mockery of the goalkeeper and drew appreciation from the neutrals as the Green Machine went down again yesterday.
Council to conduct job evaluation exercise
Chronicle Reporter
Bulawayo City Council will, before the end of this year, conduct a job evaluation exercise that could result in the scrapping of some posts as the local authority battles to reduce costs.
Zim participates in Chinese chorus fest
Daisy Jeremani in Beijing, China
Zimbabwe’s representatives at the 11th China International Chorus Festival (CICF), Zimbabwe College of Music’s Divine Jewels Choir arrived here on Saturday.
Safari firm to build two major roads in Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls Reporter
VICTORIA Falls municipality has received a timely boost ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly 2013 following an offer by Khanondo Safaris to construct two major roads in the town.
Artistes make beerhall relaunch unforgettable
Bongani Ndlovu
JEYS Marabini gave a first-rate performance during the relaunch of MaMkhwananzi Beerhall on Saturday evening, leaving his 400-strong audience satisfied entertainment-wise.
DCCs dissolution must not discourage party members — Mpofu
Chronicle Reporter
THE dissolution of Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) should not discourage party members
Cop, taxi driver on rape charge
Victoria Falls Reporter
IN a bizarre incident a policeman has landed himself in trouble for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in a taxi with the help of the driver.
New gold prospecting technologies worry EMA
Midlands Correspondent
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has approached the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development to urgently come up with policies that curb serious land degradation brought by new technologies in the gold mining sector such as metal detecting machines, director Mr Aaron Chigona said.
Calls for UN firm action after Syria massacre
Syria’s opposition has urged the UN Security Council to pass a binding resolution against Damascus following reports by activists that regime forces massacred at least 150 villagers in the central province of Hama.
Fighting veld fires everyone’s responsibility
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
It is most heartening to note that the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Management, Francis Nhema, has launched a national anti-veld fires campaign.
The country is currently in the middle of what we may call “the veld-fire season”, when entire country-sides usually go up in uncontrollable flames much higher than the tallest tree, producing black, suffocating smoke that billows into the sky as it is carried westwards by the wind as far as the human eye can see.