THE Public Service, Labour and Social Services ministry owes $64 million in unpaid school fees for students under the Basic Education Assistance Module (Beam), the Senate was told on Thursday.Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora made the disclosure following reports that Beam students were being denied access to their public examination results over outstanding tuition fees by v

LUPANE State University has reportedly employed the services bouncers to bar students who have not paid their fees from attending lectures.The university first installed swiping machines hich did ot yield results, and then resorted to hiring bouncers. A student who goes to Raylton campus, said even lecturers were refusing to take assignments from those who had not registered as of yet.LSU public r

THE Matabeleland Chapter of the Affirmative Action Group (AAG) wants two Bulawayo City Council senior officials to be investigated for alleged criminal abuse of office following a botched ambulance tender in which the local authority paid a briefcase company about $200 000 and it disappeared without supplying the "state-of-the-art ambulances " it had promised.The AGG suspects that this was a

THE Government has unveiled plans to upgrade the monument at Pupu in Lupane, where King Lobengula's warriors had their final battle with colonial forces led by Major Allan Wilson in 1893,  by fencing it and building a museum. Rural Development, Preservation and Promotion of Culture and Heritage Minister Abednico Ncube said this in an interview at Pupu, about 50km east of Lupane Centre, on Thu

A Lupane woman allegedly strangled her newly born baby and hid it under neath her matrimonial bed.Sandile Mdlongwa from Nzwananzi Village in Lupane under headman Robson Lusinga allegedly gave birth to a baby boy.The woman, without notifying anyone strangled the child and hid its body underneath her bed awaiting a chance to dispose of it.Mdlongwa confided in neighbor who had promiced not to tell an

A couple has been arrested for abusing a baby who was a result of the husbands one night stand with a stranger. Tyson Njanji, 34,and his wife, Lucia Chekenyere,20, of Mwenezi were found guilt of physically abusing and starving a two year old child. The child is a result of Njanji's one night infidelity encounter with an stranger only known as Rudo from Triangle.The couple is alleged to have colla

A female soldier's attempted to use her army skills to steal clothes at Meklies shop ended dismally when the latter was caught.Michelle Chitekuteku,29, allegedly took a pair of ladies printed viscose slacks an infants's party dress and a knit top from the shop situated at Corner Leopold Takawira and Jason Moyo. She then stuffed them in her ruck sack without paying.She then attempted to leave the s

Members of the Zimbabwean Prison and Correction Service have been nabbed for allegedly stealing $51 000 from their staff canteen whilst the forth one is on the run.The four are alleged to have siphoned the cash from the canteen where they were responsible for buying and selling of goods over a period of one year.The scam was exposed after a ZPCS internal audit conducted in December. Sources f

A Bulawayo man who deliberately infected his tenants 15 year old daughter with the HIV virus is likely to receive an additional charge.Michael Muchenjekiwa, 32, of Bulawayo's Sizinda suburb is being charged with sleeping with a minor. The State cited that it wanted an additional charge of deliberately infecting the minor with HIV.Muchenjekiwa and the minor are allegedly in a relationship.Muchenjek

A Bulawayo Council Cop has been fingered as the cause of a Commuter Omnibus crash which destroyed a shop in the Bulawayo CBD. Witnesses allege that a struggle between a kombi driver and Municipal policeman led to the Kombi zig zaging along Robert Mugabe way,near Stunts Sports Bar resulting in the crash.Josphat Khumalo,the kombi driver,told a local publication that the council cop entered the

A newly born baby was dumped in a forest to be eaten by animals by its mother soon after birth.Sibonokuhle Ntini allegedly dumped the baby at Chamabondo forest in Victoria Falls which is home to lions, leopards and snakes on Wednesday last week. Ntini was arrested a day later after police launched a manhunt following a report by David Sibanda of Mkhosana suburb, who rescued the baby.Ntini is still

A 92 year old gran survived a fire that gutted down a house that she was sleeping in while the rest of her family had gone for an all night prayer.Nikiwe Sibanda of Sipepa under Chief Mathuphula in Tsholotsho was pulled out by residents from a burning bedroom hut on Sunday at around 1AM.Sibanda had passed out in her sleep due to suspected smoke inhalation.The fire, whose origins are unknown, burnt

Two Indian men yesterday appeared in court for attempting to steal 548,25 carats of diamonds at the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe and smuggle them out of the country.Amitkumar Vinibhai Patel and Amarkumar Jashwantbhai Rana of Belvedere, Harare, appeared before the courts facing charges of unlawful dealing in precious stones, attempted theft and smuggling.It is alleged that the pair wa

Members of the Zimbabwean house of Parliament have reportedly turned into beggars in Harare after the august House failed to secure fuel for them to return to their respective constituencies.Reports claim that the most affected were rural legislators who depended on parliamentary allowances to travel to and from their constituencies.Senators told Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday during

A Harare man bashed his former wife, demanding $5 he had paid as notification for lobola (tsvakirai kuno) after she dumped him. Gift Wadzingaira allegedly gave his ex-wife, Dorcus Mhike a thorough beating for terminating their relationship.Mhike, who was seeking a protection order against Wadzingaira, said he vowed not to stop until his in-laws refunded him the money he paid as notification for lo