Villagers safe from eviction: Mphoko
Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief THE government has assured close to 2, 000 villagers from Chemagora area in Gokwe who were facing eviction that they will not be moved. Addressing hundreds of...
View ArticleGoche sued for $9.5k in child maintenance
Prosper Dembedza Harare Bureau SUSPENDED Zanu-PF Politburo member and former Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche has been slapped with a $9,450 per month maintenance...
View ArticlePubs want in on Intwasa
Showbiz Reporter INTWASA Festival koBulawayo organisers have been challenged by city business people to engage them in organising the annual fete to help it grow. The festival, now in its 11th edition,...
View ArticleTransmedia monies spark church war
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter RIVAL Miracles Seed Faith Ministries church leaders in Bulawayo are locked in a fight over the control of church funds generated from rentals collected from...
View ArticleBands set for battle in Chibuku finals
Showbiz Reporter BULAWAYO group Makokoba Rhumba Sounds have promised to do their best when they represent the city at the Chibuku Road to Fame national finals taking place at the Glamis Stadium in...
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National water policy launched
Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri Prosper Ndlovu Business Editor THE government has approved the National Water Policy (2013) that provides a guideline on management and development of water resources....
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Non-Ndebele teachers concerns persist
Clemence Manyukwe News Editor THE issue of the increasing number of non-Ndebele teachers in Matabeleland schools was back in Parliament this week as concerns over the matter persist. The Deputy...
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Efforts to reform UN Security Council progressing slowly
Mabasa Sasa at the United Nations Efforts to reform the United Nations Security Council and revitalise the General Assembly are inching along, with Zimbabwe quietly confident that much can be achieved...
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Concern over low numbers of Science pupils
Member of Parliament for Gwanda Central Eddison Gumbo cuts a ribbon to officially open Ntepe High School A-Level Science laboratory block that was built by the Gwanda Share Ownership Trust in Ntepe,...
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Judge calls for property law reform
Justice Nicholas Mathonsi Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau THE High Court has called for an urgent reform of immovable property conveyance laws to protect scores of home owners and home-seekers who lose...
View ArticleIntwasa ends…Mixed feelings on week-long fete
Bongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent The curtain comes down today on Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo with festival people expressing mixed feelings over their experiences during the week. Some...
View ArticleSanitation concerns in rural communities
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent THE government has expressed concern at low investment in sanitation infrastructure, a development that has seen 31 percent of the country’s rural population...
View ArticlePuzzling STIs in Hwange
Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter HWANGE district recorded the highest number of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Matabeleland North province, yet it received nearly a half a million condoms,...
View ArticleChiefs meet over child marriages
Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter THIRTY seven chiefs met in Bulawayo on Thursday to deliberate on ways of ending child marriages within their communities. The chiefs as well as six District...
View ArticleFarmer awaits judgment for ‘shooting’ villagers
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau JUDGMENT in the case of Beitbridge West commercial farmer George Victor Watson who allegedly shot at five villagers whom he found herding cattle at his parents’ Double...
View ArticleMan spared jail for impregnating sister
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter A 20 YEAR-OLD Lupane man who impregnated his sister, 14, escaped custodial sentence when he was yesterday ordered to perform community service. Initially, he was...
View ArticleTelOne drags Byo college to court over $24k bill
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter TEL-ONE (Pvt) Ltd has dragged a Bulawayo college to court demanding payment of $24,000 in unpaid telephone bills. The company filed summons at the Bulawayo High...
View ArticleJealous boyfriend goes on the rampage, stabs 3
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter A LOWER Gweru man allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, his cousin and a workmate he suspected of having an affair with his lover, a court heard. Thembani Mabhena, 21, of...
View ArticleWife takes mental patient hubby to court over child upkeep
Melody Baya Chronicle Reporter A BULAWAYO woman yesterday dragged her husband, who is a mental patient to court demaing to be paid $69 a month for the upkeep of their three children. Kuthanda Ndebele...
View Article6,2kg gold smuggler implicates boss
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A KADOMA-based mine worker who was arrested while trying to smuggle 6,2 kilogrammes of gold valued at $241,282 into Botswana through the Plumtree Border Post...
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