adminAll in place for Children’s Party
Harare Bureau
ALL is set for the annual Children’s Party that President Mugabe hosts for schoolchildren from the country’s 10 provinces today.
Mbanje growers jailed one month
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Court Reporter
THE two villagers from Sipedza in Mtshabezi area of Gwanda District, one of them a village head, who were last week arrested for cultivating more than 1 800 plants of mbanje were yesterday sentenced to 13 months in prison.
Mbanje growers jailed one month
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Court Reporter
THE two villagers from Sipedza in Mtshabezi area of Gwanda District, one of them a village head, who were last week arrested for cultivating more than 1 800 plants of mbanje were yesterday sentenced to 13 months in prison.
BCC suspends attaching debtors property
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Leonard Ncube
THE Bulawayo City Council has stopped attaching debtors’ property as a way of recovering money it is owed, the Mayor, Councillor Thaba Moyo, said.
Asiagate hearings begin
Harare Bureau
HEARINGS into the Asiagate scandal began at Alexandra Sports Club yesterday with the prosecution team making opening statements to the Zifa Independent Ethics Committee.
Iran’s FM asks P5+1 to lift sanctions
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TEHRAN. — Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi yesterday asked the P5+1 to lift sanctions against Tehran before the next round of nuclear talks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in May, local media reported.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Come up with better ways to curb sand poaching
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THE degradation caused by sand poaching in and around Bulawayo has reached alarming levels and there is urgent need to find a lasting solution before it is too late. The worst affected are Methodist, St Peters and Robert Sinyoka villages on the outskirts of Bulawayo.
21 perish in bus accident
Harare Bureau
TWENTY-ONE people, including the driver and his conductor, were killed while 45 others were injured when a Beitbridge-bound bus veered off the road and crashed into a tree along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Road early yesterday morning.
Sudan denies its warplanes bombed disputed oilfield
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KHARTOUM — Sudan yesterday denied its warplanes had bombed an oilfield seized by forces from South Sudan and blamed the south for any damage to the facility during fighting that has raged since last week.
Fierce clashes in Syria as UN observers begin work
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SYRIAN forces were locked in fierce gunfights with rebels in one city and shelled another yesterday, hours after UN peacekeepers arrived to oversee a truce aimed at ending a year of bloodshed.