City secures US$600 000 loan
Municipal Reporter Harare City Council’s business committee has approved a request to borrow US$600 000 as seed capital to commence commercialisation of its farms under the Sunshine Meats Project....
View ArticleUse US$75m wisely, residents tell council
Zvifadzo Lubombo Herald Reporter Residents have urged Harare City Council to effectively use the US$75 million grant from India to revamp the city’s ageing water and sewer reticulation system. Scores...
View ArticleWarrant of arrest for cigarette smugglers
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau A Beitbridge magistrate has issued warrants of arrest for two men who are part of a gang of cigarette smugglers that fatally assaulted a 25-year-old man at Dite along...
View ArticleGoodbye to hung Parliament
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa presents the 2014 National Budget statement in the august House on December 19 last year. The July 31 elections ushered in a different composition with Zanu-PF...
View ArticleIndicators for success
Tafadzwa Zimoyo Lifestyle Writer Welcome to 2014 and here is hoping that you have already started living your New Year resolutions.You might have failed it last year but taking it from the start is the...
View ArticleMDC-T backtracks on mayors
Mr MwonzoraSenior Reporter MDC-T has given its Gweru mayor Clr Hamutendi Kombayi more time to resign from his post after he ignored the party’s decision to stand down by December 31.Clr Kombayi won the...
View ArticlePoll amendments gazetted
Senior Reporter Government has started aligning laws with the new national Constitution after the gazetting of the Electoral Amendment Bill, H.B 7, 2013 that will amend the Electoral Act so that it...
View ArticleSenior cop Moyo laid to rest
Senior police officers carry the casket bearing the body of Assistant Commissioner Emilia Moyo in Harare yesterday.Crime Reporter POLICE Assistant Commissioner Emilia Moyo who died on New Year’s Day,...
View Article19 killed in fresh Egypt clashes
Mohamed MorsiCairo. — At least 19 people have been killed in fresh clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, across the North African country.The clashes broke...
View ArticleViolence in CAR displaces nearly 1 million — UN
Violence in the Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people, a fifth of the population, and is hampering aid efforts, particularly in the capital Bangui, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR)...
View ArticleS. Korea remain cautious about DPRK’s calls for improved ties
Kim Jong UnSEOUL. — South Korea’s top officials recently maintain a cautious stance over the unusual peace appeal offered by the top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in his...
View Article2013 deadliest for Iraq since 2008
Nikolay MladenovBAGHDAD. — A total of 8 868 people, including 7 818 civilians, were killed in violent attacks across Iraq in 2013, the United Nations reports — the highest annual death toll in the...
View ArticleEx-minister wins presidential run-off
Henry RajaonarimampianinaAntananarivo. — Madagascar’s former Finance Minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina won the presidential run-off to replace his backer Andry Rajoelina, who came to power in a coup...
View ArticleSA woman convicted for drug trafficking
Court reporter A South African woman was last Friday convicted by a Harare magistrate of importing 2,108kg of cocaine into the country in envelops glued on text book covers. Ncombo Theodorah Tobeka...
View ArticleReckitt closes Zim factory
Martin Kadzere and Tinashe Makichi RECKITT Benckiser, the manufacturer of Nugget shoe polish, Dettol and Cobra floor polish has closed down its Harare plant amid fears that many local manufacturers may...
View ArticleMasimba DeMbare
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter IT’S a move that has been in the pipeline for sometime now and yesterday Dynamos officially confirmed that they have captured Zimbabwe international forward Masimba...
View ArticleMurder cases reign new Legal year
Senior Court Reporter The 2014 Legal year starts on January 13 with the High Court expected to hear 55 murder and two fraud cases in the first quarter of the year. The first term will run from January...
View ArticleUS$30m gold mine gets nod
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter WONDER Bay Company, a local mining firm, has received approval to open a medium sized gold mine in Hope Fountain, about 85 kilometres north of Bulawayo at a cost...
View ArticleIllegal migrants worry Zim
Somali illegal immigrants who were recently arrested in Bulawayo being taken to court.Thupeyo Muleya in BEITBRIDGE The Department of Immigration has raised concern at the influx of undocumented...
View ArticleGovt to reinstate postal vote
Senior Reporter Government will scrap the Special Vote and reinstate postal voting if the Electoral Amendment Bill published in the Government Gazette last week is passed into law.The Special Vote...
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