Looming Airtime Scratch Card Ban In Environmental Clean Up Operation

Looming Airtime Scratch Card Ban In Environmental Clean Up Operation

  Government has given mobile phone companies six months to phase out recharge scratch cards and told food shops that kaylite packaging for food will be banned at the same time.Mobile phone companies should promote technologies that can be used instead of recharge cards, while food outlets were ordered to use biodegradable materials that were environment friendly. Litter was the biggest problem. EDITORIAL COMMENT: Litter disposal measures must be sustainable The Government also wants a…

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‘Bulawayo Police Arrest CIO (36), Who Supplied Poacher With Guns Which Killed 2 Police Officers’

POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a suspected member of the Central Intelligence Organisation, who allegedly supplied guns, one of which was used by a poacher to kill police officers in Chipinge recently. Police raided a flat between 4th Avenue and Samuel Parirenyatwa Street, where Munashe Mugwira, 36, was holed up on Saturday.He was allegedly arrested without incident and is said to be assisting police with investigations. Sources said a poacher, John Chisango, who survived a shootout with…

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Ex-Newcastle United Goalie, Pavel Srnicek In Induced Coma After Suffering Cardiac Arrest

  Former Newcastle keeper Pavel Srnicek on a visit to the Chronicle office Former Newcastle United Stopper Pavel Srnicek-who was in Newcastle, last week-is in an induced coma, where he will be kept until Wednesday. Former Newcastle United goalkeeper Pavel Srnicek is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest while running in the Czech Republic. As messages hoping for a speedy recovery flood in from his old clubs and former team-mates, it emerged that…

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The Missing, Itai Dzamara Wins Overall Human Rights Defender Award For 2015

The Missing, Itai Dzamara Wins Overall  Human Rights Defender Award For 2015

The ZimRights Female Human Rights Defender of the Year award  was given to Afro-jazz sensation Nyaradzo Mashayamombe at a function held in Bulawayo last Friday. At the same function Itai Dzamara was the overall winner of the Human Rights Defender Of the year award in Zimbabwe for 2015. Itai Dzamara disappeared inexplicably on  Monday 9th March 2015 after being kidnapped by a group of men suspected to be Mugabe’s Zanu PF security forces and has not been seen…

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People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Statement On ‘Zimbabwe’s Unity Day’

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Statement On ‘Zimbabwe’s Unity Day’

Celebrating ‘Unity Day’ is Celebrating Genocide: PDP It is with a profound sense of patriotism and a deep sense of duty that on behalf of my party; the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), I make the following remarks on the occasion of Zimbabwe’s ‘Unity Day’: It has been 28 years now since the Unity Accord was signed between the leaders of PF ZAPU and ZANU PF. Yet no full disclosure has been made of who did…

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“I Dedicate This Honour To The Girl Child” -Nyaradzo Mashayamombe’s Album Scoops Human Rights Award

“I Dedicate This Honour To The Girl Child”  -Nyaradzo Mashayamombe’s Album Scoops Human Rights Award

After beating popular Afrojazz musician Selmor Mtukudzi to clinch the ZimRights Female Human Rights Defender of the Year award at a function held in Bulawayo last Friday, Afro-jazz sensation Nyaradzo Mashayamombe could not hide her joy.   “I dedicate this honour to the girl child,” she said.   Apart from being the founder and current executive director of Tag-a-Life International Trust (TaLI), an organisation that advocates for the rights of girls and young women, it…

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Govt Orders The Destruction Of Homes And Structures 70 Metres &45 Metres Of Railways & Roads Respectively

Govt Orders The Destruction Of Homes And Structures 70 Metres &45 Metres Of Railways &  Roads  Respectively

Govt Orders The Destruction Of Homes And Structures 70 Metres &45 Metres Of Roads & Railways Respectively   Soon after the unceremonius demolition of at least 100 family homes in Budiriro, of illegally built structures on wetlands and land reserved for a clinic and school, earlier on this month on ‘International Day Of Human Rights’, the Zanu PF regime has announced that all illegal structures built within 70 metres and 45 metres on either side…

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Breaking News: Blatter And Platini Banned For 8 Years

Breaking News: Blatter  And Platini Banned For 8 Years

BREAKING NEWS: BLATTER AND PLATINI BANNED FOR 8 YEARS from all football related activity. We bring to you breaking news on the highly publicised and politicised football drama going on in FIFA. The ethics committee has found Blatter guilty and banned him and Platini with immediate effect because of a payment made by Blatter to Platini, a former captain of France, in 2011 which lacked transparency and was typically in violation of the Football Ethics…

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‘Heartless Grandma Helps Grand Daughter’s Rapist Escape Arrest’

‘Heartless Grandma Helps Grand Daughter’s Rapist Escape Arrest’

A heartless Epworth grandmother assisted her juvenile granddaughter’s suspected rapist flee arrest, after the victim had threatened to spill the beans.   The granny gave the suspect a verbal warning and gave him US$10 to flee to Mt Darwin.   On Friday, the 18-year-old suspected rapist, Andrew Kahungwa, appeared before Harare magistrate Elijah Makomo, who remanded him to January 13 on US$50 bail.   According to State papers, on an unknown date in September this…

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Tout (19) Opts For Jail For Having Sex With 14 Year Old

Tout (19) Opts For Jail For Having Sex With 14 Year Old

  A 19-year-old rank marshal in Chitungwiza opted to go to jail for having sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend.   Trust Mushoni had an option of performing community service instead of being jailed.   He will now serve eight months behind bars.   He said “I am a rank marshal, doing community service would not allow me time to look for money. I would rather pay a fine.”   According to the Herald, Mushoni pleaded…

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