adminConfusion over grain loan scheme in Midlands
Midlands Correspondent
Grain Marketing Board depots in the Midlands are reportedly turning away many communal farmers seeking assistance under the Government’s grain loan scheme demanding that they produce offer letters.
Many of the affected villagers are facing starvation and are now turning to the office of the Midlands Provincial Governor, Cde Jason Machaya for assistance.
Gumbo calls for completion of Zanu-PF verification exercise
Midlands Bureau Chief
Zanu-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Cde Rugare Gumbo has called on all provinces to complete the verification of all their structures ahead of the DCC elections scheduled for next weekend.
In a Press release yesterday, Cde Gumbo said the commissariat department had advised all the provinces that there was an urgent need to have all structures, that is cell/village, branch and districts verified by a Politburo verification team before the DCC elections are held next Saturday and Sunday.
Gweru City Council warns urban farmers
Midlands Correspondent
GWERU City Council has expressed concern over the high levels of illegal urban farming taking place in the city and threatened to slash the maize crop cultivated in prohibited areas.
The city fathers said the illegal cultivations had become an eyesore.
Illegal gold panners descend on Kwekwe
Midlands Bureau Chief
ILLEGAL gold panners invaded a mining claim in Kwekwe in their numbers following the discovery of some gold alluvial in the mineral rich district, police have said.
Lightning fatally strikes two
Beitbridge Correspondent
TWO villagers from Matabeleland South province were fatally struck by lightning in two separate incidents last week which also left a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler with serious burns all over the body.
Matabeleland South police spokesman Inspector Tafanana Dzirutwe confirmed the incidents yesterday.
Man gets suspended sentence for chopping off wife’s lover’s fingers
Court Reporter
THE man who chopped off the fingers of his wife’s lover with a machete escaped jail when he was sentenced to five months wholly suspended.
Unpaid guards take children, spouses to work
Midlands Correspondent
EMPLOYEES at Guardian Security Company in Gweru reported for duty in the company of their spouses and families on Tuesday in protest over non-payment of their November and December salaries.
The employees said they went for the Christmas break without pay.
Celebs ponder on 2012
By Auxilia Katongomara
The curtain came down on 2011 on Sunday and we are now seven days into a New Year.
Gori wants to add law to her beauty
By Auxilia Katongomara
MODELS have in the past often been referred to as “beauty without brains”.
Former CBZ Academy finalists combine talent
By Givemore Muzariri
Sound of Inspiration, a group formed by Bulawayo-based musicians who once dominated in the CBZ A Academy, is looking ahead to a bright future, two years after formation.