adminMat North braces for huge investments
Prosper Ndlovu
Chronicle Reporter
MATABELELAND North is bracing for massive investments with seven companies dealing in coal, gold and methane gas mining and tourism expected to start operations soon.
Mutare student teachers complete arts refresher course
Entertainment Reporter
A TOTAL of 33 student teachers from Mutare Teachers College on Tuesday completed a four-day, arts and crafts refresher course at Mzilikazi Arts and Craft Centre.
Workers down tools
Pamela Shumba in Gwanda and Patrick Chitumba in Victoria Falls
WORKERS from Gwanda and Victoria Falls municipalities yesterday went on strike to press for payment of salaries.
Both municipalities owe their workers three months’ salaries.
Workers given shoes in lieu of wages
Prosper Ndlovu
WORKERS at Salelani Shoe Company and Pathfinder in Bulawayo have clashed with their employer over outstanding salaries amid reports the company has been giving shoes as payment for the past three years.
Family seeks missing child
Chronicle Reporter
A family from Matshobana suburb in Bulawayo is looking for its nine-year-old son who went missing about two weeks ago and reportedly escaped from a police station after he was picked up.
Squabbles stall finalisation of draft constitution
Harare Bureau
NO draft constitution is expected soon as squabbles among Copac co-chairpersons and Global Political Agreement negotiators have stalled the finalisation of the new supreme law.
DeMbare, Hwange match result nullified
Ricky Zililo
THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee has nullified Dynamos’ 4-2 win over Hwange, in which the miners played their game without their coaches who were assaulted by DeMbare marshals.
‘Fast-track retail businesses ownership to indigenous blacks’
Prosper Ndlovu
THE Government should fast track the transfer of ownership of retail businesses to black people in line with the country’s indigenisation policy, the chairperson of the Bulawayo Indigenisation Committee, Cde Eunice Sandi Moyo, said.
19 killed in clashes at Congo army base
GOMA (Democratic Republic of Congo) — Congolese soldiers and rebels clashed at an army base in eastern Congo, the government and a rebel said yesterday, killing at least 19 people in the latest outbreak of violence that has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.
Huge rock falls from Matopos hill, blocks road
Leonard Ncube
Chronicle Reporter
A huge rock, one of the balancing rocks at a hill at Matopos National Park, fell off and rolled down before landing on one of the roads, blocking the way.