Two Credit Controllers And Three Accomplices ‘Defraud’ Bulawayo Tel One Of US$700,000

TWO TelOne employees and three other accomplices have been arrested in Bulawayo for allegedly defrauding the telecommunications company of nearly $700,000. The fraud was unearthed during an audit. The five suspects appeared before Magistrate Gladmore Mushove yesterday facing fraud charges. They were not asked to plead and were remanded in custody to today for bail application. Mushove heard how Thembile Sondida, 53, and Chelesile Nkatha, 33, who are employed as credit control clerks by TelOne,…

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Old Nic Mine Lift Operator Reduced To Pulp As, Cage, Jams Then Plunges 200 Metres

Old Nic Mine Lift Operator Reduced To Pulp As, Cage, Jams Then Plunges 200 Metres

A WORKER at Old Nic Mine in Bulawayo was crushed and reduced to a pulp when an underground cage he was operating jammed and plunged for about 200 metres. Dennis Gumbo, 53, was buried last Friday at his rural home in Mberengwa following his death on Monday last week at about 8PM. Gumbo’s body was retrieved at about 1PM the following day. Workers who spoke to The Chronicle said the cage Gumbo was operating was…

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