Councils urged to come up with people-centred budgets
Local authority officials, among them Umguza Rural District Council Chief Executive Officer, Mr Collen Moyo, (right) follow proceedings during a 2016 Local Government Budget Seminar at a Bulawayo hotel...
View ArticleChief secretary slams corruption: Prevalence of graft in Govt stands in the...
Dr Misheck Sibanda Ray Bande in Nyanga THE prevalence of corruption in Government stands in the way of foreign direct investment (FDI) and stifles economic turnaround programmes such as Zim-Asset,...
View ArticleByo water supplies set to improve in five months
Thandeka Moyo, Chronicle Reporter BULAWAYO water supplies will improve in five months when the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) concludes the Epping Forest Project. The project will see water...
View ArticleInnscor manager up for theft
Tanaka Mrewa, Court Reporter A SIMBISA banking manager for the southern region who is facing theft of more than $90 000 has denied the charge claiming that he was forced to sign an incriminating...
View ArticleMan threatens to kill father over tomatoes
Tanaka Mrewa, Court Reporter A MAN from How Mine threatened his father with death after he was rebuked for giving away tomatoes and onions without his mother’s permission. Sipho Sibindi (22) appeared...
View ArticleChief Sivalo installed
Chief Sivalo Thandeka Moyo, Chronicle Reporter CHIEF Sivalo of Nkayi District has been installed. Mr Edwin Mahlangu (71) was installed as Chief Sivalo on Wednesday at a ceremony presided over by the...
View ArticleCharges against Cecil the lion killer dropped
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter THE High Court has thrown out charges against professional hunter Theodor Albert Christian Bronkhorst who allegedly assisted an American dentist Walter Palmer...
View ArticleArmed robbers pounce in Chivi
Walter Mswazie, Masvingo Correspondent THREE armed robbers raided two shops at Chinembiri business centre in Chivi and got away with $455, phones and groceries, police have confirmed. Masvingo police...
View ArticleWoman nabbed for infecting partner with HIV
Richard Muponde, Gwanda Correspondent A WOMAN from Gwanda who did not disclose her status and had unprotected sex with her lover has been arrested for deliberately exposing him to HIV. Sophie Ndlovu...
View ArticleAll set for gas extraction in Lupane
Vice President Mphoko accompanied by Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Development Cde Freddy Moyo yesterday during a tour of the Methane Gas Plant at Discovery Mine in Matabeleland North Province...
View ArticleMinisters meet to map bonus strategy
Minister Patrick Chinamasa Pamela Shumba, Senior Reporter Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa and his counterpart, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Cde...
View ArticleClinton defeat huge blow for Biti
Hillary Clinton Nduduzo Tshuma, Political Editor THE defeat of Mrs Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s United States Presidential elections has flown in the face of Mr Tendai Biti’s troubled People’s...
View ArticleSoldiers beat man to death. . . 3 arrested after fatal brawl over bicycle
Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter A MAN from Insiza man died after he was allegedly attacked by three soldiers on Saturday. Josiah Sithole (46) of Plot 26, Hamilton in Fort Rixon was found dead...
View ArticleBiti’s PDP directionless, Sipepa says
Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent FORMER People’s Democratic Party’s vice president Dr Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has likened his former party to a luxury bus without wheels and...
View ArticleWhite farmer in court for sodomy
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter A KWEKWE farmer has been arrested for allegedly sodomising two teenage boys at a fishing camp in Binga. Johanis Loader Vicus Pretorius (64) from Marshwell Farm...
View Article13 Zimbabweans injured during deportation
Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau THIRTEEN Zimbabweans were injured, one of them seriously, when a South African Home Affairs truck they were being deported in overturned near Musina town on Thursday...
View ArticleCPU disaster campaign starts
Khonzani Ncube Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Correspondent THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has started campaigns to conscientise members of the public on dangers of floods and storms expected this rainy...
View ArticleMan nabbed for trying to kill week-old baby
Cynthia Dube, Court Reporter A MAN from Bulawayo’s New Lobengula suburb has been arrested after he allegedly tried to kill his week old baby by throwing him on a road and stamping on the infant’s...
View ArticlePresident off to Morocco for Climate Change meeting
President Mugabe Cletus Mushanawani, Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday left the country for Morocco to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change currently underway in...
View ArticleZec moves to curb voting flaws
Justice Rita Makarau Harare Bureau The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has moved a gear up towards plugging electoral flaws such as double voting by embarking on a national mapping exercise that is...
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