Man battles for life after jumbo attack
Leonard Ncube and Adelaide Moyo Chronicle Reporters A MAN from Victoria Falls is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo after being attacked by an elephant early yesterday morning....
View ArticleSoldier tells court of undying love for cop wife
Melody Baya Court Reporter A POLICE officer in Bulawayo yesterday dragged her army officer husband to the maintenance court for the upkeep of their child. Lerato Svosve, who is stationed at Bulawayo...
View ArticleMet office predicts heavy rains
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted rainfall activity across the country with heavy rains expected in Matabeleland South, Masvingo and...
View ArticleMassive school dropouts cause for concern
Boithatelo Mnguni Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter MORE than 47,000 Form Four and Form Six pupils either dropped out of school or failed to register for public examinations countrywide last year, mainly...
View ArticleZanu-PF fires Masvingo chair
Mr Paradzai Chakona Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent THE Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo has passed a vote of no confidence in acting chairperson Cde Paradzai Chakona. He faced allegations that...
View ArticlePresident leaves for Africa India summit
President Mugabe PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe left Harare yesterday for New Delhi, India, to attend the third India-Africa Forum Summit, which will tackle various issues including finding ways of increasing...
View ArticleDoor to door HIV testing starts
Cde Cain Mathema Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter RANDOM door to door HIV and Aids testing started in Binga yesterday as part of the Zimbabwe Population Based HIV Impact Assessment (ZIMPHIA)...
View ArticleInvestment authority greenlights Dangote
Aliko Dangote Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau THE Zimbabwe Investment Authority has issued the Dangote Group with licences for three projects worth $1,2 billion, paving way for Nigerian billionaire Aliko...
View ArticleThief takes dump in kitchen
Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporter A Chirumhanzu man, 19, allegedly broke into a house where he stole property worth $1,000, ate the complainant’s food after which he relieved himself in the kitchen....
View ArticleAunt threatens to evict niece raped by husband
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter A Lalapanzi man who raped and impregnated his 14-year-old niece will spend the next 12 years in prison. Regional Magistrate Morgan Nemadire threw the book at Kenneth...
View ArticleLandlady pours boiling oil on tenant
Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter A BULAWAYO woman allegedly scalded her tenant on the neck and arm with boiling cooking oil after an argument over disciplining her three- year-old child who had broken...
View ArticleBilharzia mass treatment launched
Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter THE government launched a mass bilharzia treatment programme on Monday targeting children aged between one and 15 years. Health officials say the objective of the...
View ArticlePrimary school robbers arraigned
Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter TWO Bulawayo men — one of them a former security guard at the Bulawayo City Council — suspected to be behind a wave of break-ins and theft at city schools, yesterday...
View ArticlePupil stabs mate 4 times over music disc
Shilomu Ndlovu and Busani Khumalo Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A FORM Three Tokwana Secondary School pupil in Bulilima District stabbed his classmate four times, leaving him severely...
View ArticleChaos mars council elections
Sikhangele Zhou Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent THERE was chaos at committee chairpersons’ elections in the Bulawayo City Council after councillors walked out in protest when the acting Town...
View ArticleParirenyatwa sued
Dr Parirenyatwa Harare Bureau Two government ministers have been sued for ordering the reinstatement of suspended Premier Service Medical Aid Society managing director Henry Mandishona, who is facing...
View ArticleIndia firms eager to invest in Zim
President Mugabe Cletus Mushanawani in New Delhi, India At least 21 Indian companies have expressed interest in investing in Zimbabwe in various sectors of the economy ranging from energy to medical...
View ArticleContraceptives for teens debate rages
Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau Girls of at least 16 years should be allowed access to contraceptives to reduce maternal mortality among adolescents, Parliamentarians heard yesterday. Medicines Control...
View ArticleWomen sharing husband in sex-roster fight
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter A sexually starved Mvuma woman who is in a polygamous marriage went berserk and assaulted her 69-year-old senior accusing her of monopolising their 75-year-old husband, a...
View ArticleTeen girl, 18, stabs lover
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested an 18-year-old girl who stabbed her 31-year-old boyfriend in a row over a cell phone. Monalisa Sibanda of Pumula East suburb...
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