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Ex-ZFU chief Hungwe dies

Elita Chikwati Harare Bureau FORMER Zimbabwe Farmers’ Union president Silas Hungwe has died.He was 92. Hungwe died at his Mabelreign home in Harare yesterday after a long illness. Zimbabwe Farmers’...

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Man rapes, impregnates daughter

Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent A MAN who turned his 18-year-old daughter into a sex slave with the knowledge of his wife has been jailed for an effective 13 years. The 46-year-old dad of six, who...

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Killer driver handed year-long ban

Richard Muponde Gwanda Correspondent A WOMAN has been banned from driving for a year after running over and killing a motorcyclist. Sibonisiwe Ndlovu, who runs a popular restaurant in Gwanda, was on...

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MDC-T plans Bulawayo protest

Morgan Tsvangirai Nduduzo Tshuma Political Editor THE MDC-T is planning a demonstration on Bulawayo streets next month in a bid to prop up its councillors who are under attack for alleged corruption...

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No talks with Mujuru: Tsvangirai

Mr Tsvangirai Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said his party is not involved in any coalition talks with the Joice Mujuru-led Zimbabwe People First....

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Zim students get SA residence permits

Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter ZIMBABWEAN students graduating from South African universities in critical skills areas will soon qualify for permanent residence permits. In a statement, the...

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Vic Falls, open-air churches strike deal

Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter VICTORIA FALLS Municipality has said aside 10,000 square metres of land for open-air worshipping, as part of an out of court settlement with worshippers who were...

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MP wants charges chalked off

Cde Wadyajena Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Reporter GOKWE-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena wants court proceedings halted in his trial for criminal insult after taking his case to the...

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Midlands factionalism inquiry

Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief ZANU-PF Midlands province has appointed a seven-member taskforce that will move around the province looking into the causes of rampant factionalism. The decision...

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Nyathi’s wife laid to rest

  Members of the Seventh-Day Church carry the body of the late Elizabeth Nyathi to its final resting place after a church service at Beacon of Hope SDA Church in Bulawayo yesterday.  Whinsley Masara,...

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100 trees planted at schools

Whinsley Masara, Chronicle Reporter A HUNDRED indigenous trees have been planted at five schools in Cowdray Park suburb as part of belated World Earth Day commemorations. World Earth Day falls on...

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Man escapes prostitute rape charge

Ernest Chicheko Thandeka Moyo, Court Reporter A BULAWAYO man has been acquitted on charges of raping a prostitute after his alleged victim failed to positively identify her attacker. The woman said she...

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Man sells sister’s household goods, jailed

Melody Baya, Court Reporter A MAN from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo has been jailed for a year for stealing his sister’s household property worth $300. Caroline Ncube, 33, called the police on her...

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Schoolboy sodimises grade 1 pupil

Leonard Ncube in Hwange A FORM three pupil at Zwangendaba Secondary School in Lupane has been arrested for sodomising a six-year-old neighbour after promising to give him a memory card. The...

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Kombi driver stabbed in fare rage

Melody Baya, Court Reporter A MAN from Bulawayo’s Cowdray Park suburb has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a commuter omnibus driver four times with a pocket knife after refusing to pay the fare....

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Construction halted as villagers steal Victoria Falls airport generator

Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter CONSTRUCTION works at the Victoria Falls International Airport were temporarily halted last week after four villagers stole a generator that is used for back up...

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Kereke’s Telecel call history fix

Munyaradzi Kereke Fungai Lupande Harare Bureau ZANU-PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday claimed he was in a dilemma after failing to obtain a call history from Telecel Zimbabwe,...

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President back from high-level New York events

Harare Bureau PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe returned home on Monday from New York, the United States where he joined other heads of state and government at two high-level events at the United Nations...

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Man beats father, wife

Noleen Makhurane Court Reporter A MAN from Mbembesi appeared in court yesterday for assaulting his wife and 79-year-old father. Jackson Chishombe, 28, pleaded guilty to two counts of physical abuse...

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Community service for teen mom baby dumper

Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporter A PREGNANT teenage mother from Gweru has been ordered to perform 210 hours of community service for dumping her one-year-old child at a flea market to please her new...

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