adminMighty Warriors take on Super Falcons at Rufaro
Harare Bureau
EIGHT-time African champions Nigeria flew into the country yesterday, setting the stage for their African Women’s Championships’ final qualifier against Zimbabwe at Rufaro tomorrow.
Villager assaults REA employees
Chronicle Reporter
A LUPANE man ran riot, severely assaulting Rural Electrification Agency (REA) workers with a knobkerrie and smashing their truck after demanding that the power utility’s lines should not pass over his homestead.
Austria-based Insingizi member working on album
Saturday Leisure Reporter
THE saying that a prophet has no honour among his kinsmen reads true of Austria-based Insingizi group member Vusa Mkhaya Ndlovu whose music is greatly appreciated in Europe but not at home.
Woman to wait a little longer for justice
Court Reporter
A WOMAN who was last year in September sentenced to 90 days in prison for chastising a boy who had let cattle stray into her fields might have to wait longer to know if real justice was done.
Senior Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Nicholas Ndou sitting with Justice Maphios Cheda as an Appeal Court, reserved judgment in an appeal against sentence by Pauline Moyo.
Suspected Zambian poacher shot
Victoria Falls Reporter
A SUSPECTED Zambian poacher is fighting for his life at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after he was shot while trying to run away from the police and parks rangers, police said.
Africa Day, wake-up call for all Zimbabweans
Stephen Mpofu
Yesterday, Africa (Freedom) Day — continuing today and on this day in the future, ad infinitum — should witness a hustle and bustle by the free peoples of Africa down memory lane to revisit the past to touch where the continent came from to be where it is today.
MPs necessary for development — Nkayi villagers
Hillary Marizani
MPS are very important to constituencies as they bring about development.
Some constituencies have however been prevented from realising development since they do not have MPs.
Nkayi South constituency MP’s position fell vacant after the then legislator, Mr Abednico Bhebhe, then of MDC was fired by his party for indiscipline and surreptitiously working with a rival formation MDC-T. Mr Bhebhe is now with the MDC-T formation and was elected deputy organising secretary.
Africa Day — celebrating ‘Africanness’
Yoliswa Dube
TODAY, Zimbabwe joins the rest of the continent to mark Africa Day. It is the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which is now known as the African Union (AU).
Children brought up by relatives are exposed to abuse
Vaida Mushangwa
Many children are brought up by relatives such as grandparents, aunts and uncles despite the fact that both parents, or one of them, might still be alive.
Byo to host 2012 Nama awards
Bongani Ndlovu
BULAWAYO will play host to the 2012 edition of the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) and a local organising task force will be set up to look for partners for the event.