Empowerment projects continue to falter
LONDON - Zimbabwe’s economic revolution — encapsulating the transfer of land and business ownership to blacks and the empowerment of communities — has been plagued by a plethora of problems. First was...
View ArticleHong Kong crowds rally for democracy
HONG KONG - Tens of thousands of protesters are taking part in what organisers say could be Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy rally in more than a decade. The annual rally, marking the day Hong Kong...
View ArticleChitukuto Zambia dance group shines
HARARE - Members of the Chitukuto Zambia group who won this year’s edition of Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival Harare provincial competitions, said determination and sheer hard-work was...
View Article3 cops to hang
HARARE - The High Court has sentenced three police officers to hang for robbery and murder. The ruling was handed down by High Court judge Justice Mwayera in Harare yesterday. Police officers Kudzai...
View ArticleKenya's buses to go cashless
NAIROBI - Public transport in Kenya is going cashless as buses switch to new electronic fare payments. From now on, the country's famously chaotic matatus, the minivans and buses that are used widely...
View ArticleRenewal Team's kindergarten politics
HARARE - The blatant contempt of court by expelled MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti’s rebels who went ahead with a purported disciplinary hearing against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on...
View ArticleSables ring changes for old nemesis Namibia
HARARE - Zimbabwe have made two tactical changes from the team that hammered Madagascar 55-27 on Saturday for Wednesday’s second World Cup qualifiers clash with rivals Namibia in Antananarivo. Hooker...
View ArticleSAA pilot arrested for stripping
HARARE - A South African Airways (SAA) pilot, only identified as W Van Ginkel, was today arrested at Harare International Airport for stripping down to his underwear in protest at being thoroughly...
View ArticleHow to look good effortlessly
LONDON - The fashion week season is almost upon us. For many it can be a dilemma! Fear not because our Style Panel is here to show you some key pieces that can help you pull off that desired look....
View Article'Nkomo must be turning in his grave'
HARARE - THE late Vice President Joshua Nkomo could be turning in his grave as “vultures” are after his Nuanetsi ranch, and his medical centre in Bulawayo, a town so dear to him, has failed to take...
View ArticleHarare yet to slash mega salaries
HARARE - Harare City Council senior management is still earning mega salaries despite a government directive to slash them, it has emerged. Management is yet to implement a new pay schedule for senior...
View ArticleVapositori challenge placement on remand
HARARE - Twenty four men from Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani’s Johanne Masowe sect currently facing public violence charges after assaulting police and journalists, have notified the court of their...
View ArticleGumbura's fresh rape trial continues
HARARE - The trial of jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura on a fresh rape charge continued yesterday with the State leading its second witness, the complainant’s uncle....
View ArticleAbducted Chimanimani girls returned, one still missing
HARARE -Two of the three girls abducted in Chimanimani were returned to a local police station on June 29, by an unidentified person. Hazel and Tatenda Marirwana are reported to have been released to...
View ArticleZanu PF youths seize Johane Masowe shrine
HARARE - Youths in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF have turned the shrine of Johane Masowe weChishanu leader Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani in Harare’s Budiriro high-density suburb into a brick moulding...
View ArticleRanger on deathrow freed
HARARE - The Supreme Court has removed from death row and freed a condemned senior game ranger in the department of National Parks and Wildlife who shot a poacher dead. Maxwell Bowa was sentenced to...
View ArticleCon-Court to hear Wadyajena's tax case
HARARE - The Constitutional Court will today hear Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Wadyajena’s urgent chamber application seeking to stop the taxman from bankrupting his business. Wadyajena’s Mayor...
View ArticleBiti under fire
HARARE - The wisdom or otherwise of Tendai Biti’s MDC rebels going ahead with a disputed disciplinary hearing against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday, despite the High Court putting the...
View ArticleArtist fails to raise money for exhibition
HARARE - Gweru-based sculptor Forbes Mushipe could fail to exhibit his works at the National Art Galleries in Bulawayo due to lack of funds. Mushipe, who is scheduled to exhibit alongside...
View ArticleAssegai Crew bounces back
HARARE - Assegai Crew, widely regarded as one of the best bands to emerge out of Mutare, will launch a new album Tauyahe (The Comeback) at the Book Café tomorrow. The reggae band from the Eastern...
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