BCC to come up with framework on undeveloped stands
Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporter THE Bulawayo City Council has said it will come up with a framework to deal with people who fail to develop their stands after noting the difficulties faced by residents...
View ArticlePregnant Grade 6 drops out of school
Adelaide Moyo, Chronicle Reporter A GRADE Six pupil has dropped out of a school in Victoria Falls after she was impregnated by a man twice her age, a court heard yesterday. It is alleged that the...
View ArticleSuspended Mpilo boss bunks disciplinary hearing
Dr Lawrence Mantiziba Temba Dube, Deputy News Editor SUSPENDED Mpilo Central Hospital Lawrence Mantiziba may have escaped an ongoing disciplinary hearing on a technicality after his contract with the...
View ArticleDad hires hitman to kill son
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent A MAN from Masvingo allegedly hired a fellow villager whom he provided with weapons to kill his son for causing discord in the family through allegations of...
View ArticleMSU student drags dad to maintenance court
Melody Baya, Court Reporter A 21-year-old Midlands State University student yesterday dragged his father to the maintenance court demanding that he finances his studies. Kelvin Chuzu who is supposed to...
View ArticleState opposes ‘killer’ doctor’s bail application
Thandeka Moyo, Court Reporter PROSECUTORS have opposed bail in the case of a Mpilo Central Hospital doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly killing a nurse. Alexander Ndlovu, 28, who is facing...
View ArticleBacklash for Trevor Noah as he is accused of stealing jokes
Trevor Noah It has been a tough first month for Trevor Noah as host of The Daily Show. He took over the reins from Jon Stewart on 28 September and received mixed reviews from US critics. Now, three...
View ArticleHarare Carnival to be hosted in all 10 provinces
Bongani Ndlovu, Showbiz Correspondent TOURISM Minister Walter Mzembi has revealed plans to spread the Harare International Carnival (HIC) to other provinces as part of their efforts to have tourists...
View ArticleZanu-PF youth resignation claims dismissed
Cde Pupurai Togarepi Nduduzo Tshuma Political Editor ZANU-PF yesterday dismissed as mischievous a report in a private newspaper claiming that the party’s provincial youth chairpersons had resigned...
View ArticleHead office lifts safe: NRZ
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has said elevators at its head office in central Bulawayo are safe following inspection and certification by government...
View ArticleMore powers for RBZ to form companies
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe building in Harare Clemence Manyukwe News Editor THE RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is set to get additional powers to form companies through the Banking Amendment Bill that...
View ArticleDoctors forget piece of cloth in womb
Idah Ny-ka Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent A BULAWAYO woman yesterday said she will never conceive again due to negligence by United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) doctors who left a piece of cloth in...
View ArticleSodomite kombi driver gets 30 years
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A BULAWAYO kombi driver who showed two primary school boys a pornographic video on his cellphone before luring them into a bush where he sodomised them before...
View ArticleZanu-PF sets national conference dates
Minister Simon Khaya Moyo Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday set December 7 to 13 as the dates for the party’s crunch 15th annual national people’s conference to be held in...
View ArticleMinister drags farmer to court over land
Minister Mombeshora Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter THE Minister of Land and Rural Resettlement, Douglas Mombeshora, is locked in a legal wrangle with a white commercial farmer over the ownership of...
View ArticleTot dies after drinking thinners instead of water
Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl died after she drank thinners which she mistook for water at Makokoba Market Square in Bulawayo. Thobekile Moyo died in less than an hour after...
View ArticleElectrician electrocutes adopted son
Faith Mabuto, Midlands Reporter A VICTORIA Falls electrician connected power to a high pressure spray, electrocuting his 20–year-old adoptive son who was inside an empty petrol tank which they were...
View ArticleZNA members in SA for AU training exercise
Lieutenant General Philip Sibanda Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) arrived in South Africa yesterday morning for an African Union peace keeping training...
View ArticleFarm worker jailed for raping firewood poacher
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A FARM worker who raped a woman from Pumula South suburb in Bulawayo after finding her poaching firewood at his employer’s property was yesterday sentenced to...
View ArticleMan jailed for raping granny, 81, at knifepoint
Marvelous Moyo, Gwanda Correspondent A GWANDA man who raped an 81-year-old granny at knife point before shoving sand into her private parts has been sentenced to 12 years in jail. Mlolozi Nkala, 27,...
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