2 days 5 murders: Cops say most suspects still at large
Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter FIVE people have been murdered in two days countrywide, police have confirmed. National police spokesperson Senior...
View ArticleBrawl over machete sees man beaten to death
Walter Mswazie, Masvingo correspondent A CHIREDZI man allegedly fatally assaulted a fellow imbiber following a dispute over the use of a machete, police have confirmed. Tozvireva Tozvireva (38) of...
View ArticleTrio buried alive: Zim sand poachers suffocate in SA truck mishap
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter THREE brothers from Gokwe died in South Africa when a truck they were loading with river sand overturned and buried them under a mound of sand. The incident occurred...
View ArticleMan in remand gets 24hrs to raise $1k upkeep arrears
Florence Ncube, Chronicle Reporter A MAGISTRATE has given a driver at the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara), who owes $1 000 in maintenance arrears, 24 hours to pay the money while...
View ArticleVP Mnangagwa appeals for agric partnerships
VP Mnangagwa Paidamoyo Chipunza, Harare Bureau THE Government is appealing to development partners for collaboration in the agriculture and agro-industry value chain sectors to ensure food and...
View Article32pc of rural pupils drop out of school
Mrs Tumisang Thabela Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent ABOUT 32 percent of children in the country’s rural provinces have dropped out of school due to their parents’ failure to pay school fees, a...
View Article29 aspiring judges flunk interview, 4 chicken out
Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku Daniel Nemukuyu, Harare Bureau TWENTY-NINE aspiring High Court judges have proved that they cannot write a judgment, an elementary skill that every judge must possess....
View Article80 percent of population debt-ridden, survey reveals
Minister Prisca Mupfumira Pamela Shumba/ Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporters NEW data from the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Zimvac) 2016 Rural Livelihoods Assessment survey shows that...
View ArticleRural food insecurity set to worsen
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent FOOD insecurity levels are rising in rural areas and are expected to reach 42 percent by the end of March next year, the worst of its kind since 2009. About 4...
View ArticleAirZim bans Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7
Minister Joram Gumbo Patrick Chitumba, Midlands Bureau Chief NATIONAL airline Air Zimbabwe has banned Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone from its flights with immediate effect. After reports of Galaxy...
View ArticleWork begins on condemned transmitter sites
Cde George Charamba Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporter THE Government has started working on three sub-standard transmitter sites in Midlands and Matabeleland North provinces. Consulting engineers hired by...
View ArticleTeenager ‘sells’ stolen baby for $150
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A FOREIGN currency dealer commonly known as usiphatheleni allegedly bribed a 17-year-old girl with $150 to steal an 18-month-old baby for her, a magistrate...
View ArticleCall to probe Kasukuwere
Saviour Kasukuwere Zvamaida Murwira, Harare Bureau THE Zimbabwe Republic Police, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Auditor General should move in to investigate Local Government, Public Works...
View Article‘Cops not ready to arrest Prof Moyo’
Professor Jonathan Moyo Daniel Nemukuyu, Harare Bureau Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is under fire over allegations of abusing...
View ArticleByo water crisis deepens
Bulawayo City Council decommissions Umzingwane Dam Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter A SECOND supply dam has been decommissioned in Bulawayo, deepening the city’s water crisis, the worst in five...
View Article$110 cellphone smashed in 50c ‘brawl’
Andile Tshuma, Court Reporter A MAGISTRATE has slammed a Bulawayo resident for “monkeying” around and behaving like a baboon for assaulting a man over 50 cents, destroying his phone worth $110....
View ArticleEx-Bulawayo mayoress dies
Mrs Belinda Ndlovu Auxilia Katongomara, Chronicle Reporter WIFE to the late former Bulawayo Mayor, Jareth Ndlovu, Mrs Belinda Ndlovu has died. She was 87. She died on Sunday after a long illness. Her...
View ArticleCop in $2 000 maintenance arrears
Cynthia Dube, Court Reporter A WOMAN from Nketa 7 suburb in Bulawayo has dragged her husband to court for maintenance arrears amounting to $2 000. Ms Anna Foroma, a member of the Johane Masowe church,...
View ArticleWidow sues NRZ for $25 000
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A BULAWAYO woman has taken the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to court over her late husband’s outstanding salaries and terminal benefits amounting to...
View Article‘Rejected’ Gwanda transmitter tower gets the nod
Richard Muponde, Gwanda Correspondent A GWANDA transmitter tower which foreign engineers once deemed unfit for digital transmission was yesterday given a thumbs up by local engineers. The development...
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