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Legislators exempted from tollgate fees
HARARE - Legislators have been exempted from paying tollgate fees. This follows a request tabled by parliamentarians seeking an exemption ostensibly because they would be performing parliamentary...
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National cultural policy, language council on cards
HARARE - Government is in the process of establishing a national cultural policy and setting up a language council with the mandate to protect the right of creators to their intellectual property, a...
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Zim designer sets up African fashion fund
HARARE - Daily News columnist Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri has used proceeds from the lucrative Nottingham Trent University Vice-Chancellor’s Award she won recently to set up a fund to assist emerging...
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Dreams To Fame ready to roll
BULAWAYO - This year’s edition of the Dreams To Fame, one of Zimbabwe’s biggest talent search shows, kicks off on Saturday at Amakhosi Cultural Centre in Bulawayo. The event, which is very popular...
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Tuku, Jah Prayzah to rock Harare Agric Show
HARARE - Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, crowd-puller Jah Prayzah and Zim Dancehall stalwart Winky D top the list of over 25 musicians who will perform at this year’s Harare Agricultural Show. Zimbabwe’s...
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Listed property firms depressed
HARARE - The weak performance of property firms listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) continues as high prices, debt and a tougher operating environment deters investment, analysts said....
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Is it ever going to be enough?
HARARE - When the Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba said that white farmers never used to be charged for electricity usage, I was tempted to go and ask Zesa Holdings (Zesa) to reimburse me for all the...
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It's high time laws are realigned
HARARE - A year after last year’s July polls, government has no positive message to communicate to the electorate about why we still hang on to vestiges of a constitution foisted on us decades ago....
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Somali woman killed for not wearing veil, relatives say
MOGADISHU - Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say. Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of...
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US economy grows by 4% after harsh winter weather
WASHINGTON - The US economy grew at an annual rate of 4% during the April to June period, latest figures released by the US Department of Commerce have shown. Consumer spending - which makes up over...
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UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
LONDON - The UK government has announced that driverless cars will be allowed on public roads from January next year. It also invited cities to compete to host one of three trials of the tech, which...
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Govt wary of cotton price fixing
HARARE - Government is wary of setting a cotton producer price due to a lack of funds to purchase the commodity, Agriculture minister Joseph Made said. “We must be careful when we set the price as...
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Zim must respect property rights: Mzembi
HARARE -Tourism minister Walter Mzembi says Zimbabwe must value property rights to ensure that the country attracts more tourists. Zimbabwe’s tourism sector hit an all-time low in the decade ending...
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Bubi River crash victims identified
HARARE - Police have named 16 people killed in a fatal road accident near Bubi River on Monday morning when a minibus collided with a truck. The fatal accident happened at the 206 km peg along the...
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Kadungure seeks relaxed bail conditions
HARARE - Harare business tycoon Genius Kadungure, who is facing R1,5 million fraud charges, is applying for relaxation of stringent bail conditions imposed during his initial court appearance in May....
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ZMC snubs Moyo's Impi
HARARE - In a surprising turn of events, the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has become the latest body to snipe at and query the need for Information minister Jonathan Moyo’s Information and Media...
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Conspiracy against Makandiwa?
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday denied that it was pursuing Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church’s (UFIC) incomes following reports that officers...
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Tsvangirai meets British Africa minister
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met yesterday with Britain’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds in London to try to push forward an internationally-brokered initiative to resolve the...
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Lawyer grills Minister Mpofu
HARARE - Top Harare lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday roasted former Mines minister Obert Mpofu and accused him of breaching the law by dissolving the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and...
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Gono remains our choice – Zanu PF
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF reiterated yesterday that it had picked former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono to become the new Buhera Senator despite opposition from some members of the...
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