Whodunnit? And Why?

Two of the country’s dumbest and dummest criminals — Alexio Chibwana and Obvious Tembo — will not only be in the slammer for the next two years, but they will definitely be immortalised in the Hall of Infamy as well.

On one idle day in April this year, these morons from Mkoba, Gweru, decided to arm themselves with a machete and waylaid a hapless Hilary Watsikiwa, who had just disembarked from a commuter omnibus.

Water crisis: Residents bear brunt of inept council

As the country is in the throes of the worst drought in the past four decades, provision of potable water  for human beings and livestock in both rural and urban areas, particularly urban settlements, has become desperately urgent.

The crisis is being keenly felt in the capital, Harare, where the Harare City Council (HCC) has since scaled back supplies ostensibly because of “failure by users (ratepayers) of municipal services to meet their end of the bargain.”

Chitungwiza budgets $1,5 million for boreholes

Chitungwiza Municipality, buoyed by a $1,5 million allocation from Treasury, has already activated plans to drill at least 35 boreholes and rehabilitate existing ones to make the resource available to increasingly desperate ratepayers.

Former First Lady seeks Govt help

FORMER first lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe is receiving Government assistance to protect part of her business empire — Gushungo Farm and Diary — she founded with former President Cde Robert Mugabe, which in recent months has been invaded by marauding illegal gold panners.

‘We had become radicals’

Cde Parker Chipoyera continues his war Chronicles. This week, the liberation fighter narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati, his first arrest and eventual plan to skip the country and join the armed struggle.

Could Ngezi be suffering from crisis of expectations?

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, then how incapable must man be of learning from experience.”

At least that is according to Karl Marx, but it is the current predicament that Mhondoro-based side Ngezi Platinum  find themselves in.

Selmor takes over dad’s role

SELMOR Mtukudzi’s appointment as Impala Car Rental brand ambassador is not a cap and t-shirt affair.

The deal, which will be renewed annually, involves a brand new PA system, a truck to ferry the sound system to and from gigs, funding for the singer’s upcoming album and a “five-star” album launch for the new release.

‘Prove abduction or go to jail’

HOME Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Ambassador Cain Mathema, has said Government will not hesitate to introduce new laws to regulate social media and warned individuals making false abduction claims to prove the allegations or face jail.

All roads lead to Avondale this weekend!

For 12 months now, the nation has  patiently waited, anxiously for that matter; but now the time for talk and sizing up the competition is over, as all roads lead to the 7 Arts Theatre for the 2019 Zimbabwe National Bodybuilding Championships this weekend.

Idai victims get IDs

GOVERNMENT has deployed teams from the Registrar General’s office to Manicaland on a month-long assignment to issue and replace national identity documents to people in areas affected by Cyclone Idai in March this year.

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