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Sports Reporter
ZIFA intends having the Zimbabwe Under-17 and -20 teams playing Botswana in Bulawayo next month.
Amateur golfers head for Bulawayo tournament
BULAWAYO Golf Club will hold the first amateur tournament of the season when they play host to this year’s edition of the Dugmore Trophy this weekend.
Mpilo detains new mothers over bills
By Leonard Ncube
AT least a dozen mothers are detained at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo with their newborn babies for failing to pay maternity fees, amid reports one of the babies died during the mother’s detention last week.
The women spoken to yesterday alleged they were moved to the benches in the discharge ward and told to find their own means of getting food or place to sleep.
The bills range between $100 and $200 depending on the method of delivery and period spent at the hospital.
Hospital officials are reportedly demanding payment upfront before they can be discharged.
Those who undertake to make payment plans were being forced to produce proof of residence and $50 cash to be released.
Although the hospital’s acting chief executive officer Dr Wedu Ndebele declined to comment demanding to be given names of the detained women, this reporter visited the hospital and talked to the women who confirmed that they were detained.
Mohadis, villagers land wrangle spills into High Court
Court Reporter
THE land wrangle involving the son of co-Minister of Home Affairs, Kembo Mohadi, and four villagers has spilled to the High Court with the villagers seeking an order that they be allowed to stay on the piece of land peacefully.
In an urgent chamber application, Given Mbedzi, Sorofia Ndou, Aifheli Nare and Kumbirai Ncube want Campbell Trevor Mohadi, his mother Senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Danisa Muleya and Samuel Sibanda to remove all their property and locks they installed at Mbedzi’s plot Number 1 of Lot 9 of Jopembe.
Mbedzi wants the respondents to be restrained from interfering with the gates, doors and fence on his plot.
According to papers filed by their lawyer, Mr Zibusiso Charles Ncube, of Phulu and Ncube Legal Practitioners they want the respondents to refrain from, either themselves or through persons under their control,
placing any cattle or other livestock on their plots or from any way interfering with the farming operations they are carrying out on the Plots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Lot 9 of Jopembe, Beitbridge.
Women develop cold feet in gender-based violence cases
Chronicle Reporter
A majority of gender-based violence cases are withdrawn from the police and gender organisations as victims fear losing economic gains from their abusive husbands.
Councillor forcibly parks vehicle at police post
Victoria Falls Reporter
POLICE in Victoria Falls have arrested an MDC-T councillor for Ward 15 in Hwange on allegations of forcibly parking his vehicle at a police base in a manner that disrupted police operations.
The councillor is also being accused of swearing at police officers.
Residents assault Zesa crew
Chronicle Reporter
THERE was mayhem in Mabutweni at the weekend when residents ran amok and assaulted a Zesa crew that was disconnecting power in the suburb.
War vet collapses, dies during workshop
Chronicle Reporter
THE nurse-in-charge of Mtshayeli Clinic in Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province collapsed and died during a workshop.
Mat North acquires audiometric equipment
Chronicle Reporter
MATABELELAND North Province has acquired audiometric testing equipment worth thousands of dollars to be used in determining pupils’ hearing levels.
Audiometric tests are used to diagnose hearing loss or diseases of the ear.
Siganda teacher’s trial deferred
Court Reporter
THE Bulawayo regional court has deferred the start of the trial of a teacher at Siganda Secondary School in Bubi District who stabbed the headmistress of the school 15 times before turning to a 15-year-old pupil who he stabbed twice.