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10/30/2012 4:06:00 PM
HARARE - Motor Action have had little to cheer about in a season they have fallen from grace from the lofty standards they set themselves in the last two years. League winners in 2010, and runners up the following year in...
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10/30/2012 4:06:00 PM
HARARE - Ecobank are this year’s Bankers Soccer League (BSL) knock out tournament champions after they edged a battling CBZ team 1-0 over the weekend. The final match started at a fast pace with CBZ dictating the pace. Ecobank took the...
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10/30/2012 4:02:00 PM
BULAWAYO - The Southern Region Division One championship race continues to be a ding-dong affair with ZPC Hwange wresting the top spot from How Mine after the gold miners suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to lowly Sizane at the weekend. ...
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Business »
10/30/2012 4:00:00 PM
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Australia Business Council (ZABC) says Zimbabwe needs to aggressively market itself to the international community to attract meaningful investment while creating a market for its products. “Zimbabwe has an opportunity to set up local manufacturing industries on...
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Business » Roadwin Chirara, Business Editor
10/30/2012 4:00:00 PM
HARARE - The Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) says proposed capital levels for insurance companies by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) are too high. “ICZ is in agreement with Ipec that the current levels of capital for short-term insurers is...
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Business »
10/30/2012 3:49:00 PM
HARARE - Zimplow chief executive officer Zondi Kumwenda has taken over reigns at Tractive Power Holdings (TPH) as group chief executive following its acquisition of a 57,21 percent controlling stake in the company. Kumwenda take over from Charles Nyambuya who steps...
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Opinion & Analysis »
10/30/2012 3:45:00 PM
HARARE - The Global Political Agreement (GPA) was signed between the MDC formations and Zanu PF in September 2008 after an internationally condemned and bastardised presidential election run-off in June of that year that was accompanied by colossal pre and post-election...
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Opinion & Analysis »
10/30/2012 3:34:00 PM
HARARE - Most disputed elections in Africa have occurred after incumbents who were not prepared to accept defeat have resorted to various forms of fraud and cheating to forcibly impose outcomes that enabled them to cling to power illegally while overturning...
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Opinion & Analysis »
10/30/2012 3:28:00 PM
HARARE - The organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration (NHRI) has embarked on a research into the genealogy of political violence in Zimbabwe. “The main question about this project is to find out if Zimbabweans are a violent society. The...
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Opinion & Analysis »
10/30/2012 3:24:00 PM
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe today officially opens the fifth session of the Seventh Zimbabwe Parliament after an inexplicable and inordinate delay. Mugabe’s opening of Parliament comes barely a week after his unsolicited declaration at the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference that the...
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News »
10/30/2012 3:19:00 PM
HARARE - As Zimbabwe’s political parties up the campaign ante ahead of what pundits have billed as yet another watershed poll slated for 2013, the rural vote has become the focal point with traditional leaders coming under scrutiny. Investigations by the...
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Features »
10/30/2012 3:16:00 PM
KADOMA - A blocked sewer system producing a foul-smell in Old Ingezi’s high density suburb tells the story of imprisoned residents. It is in this suburb where World War Two prisoners of the war from Italy and Poland were jailed. ...
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10/30/2012 3:08:00 PM
HARARE - It is not over for three Mbare men who were acquitted on charges of taking turns to rape a teenage girl, after the State appealed against the magistrate’s decision to free them. The trio of Allan Chitimbe, 21, Itai...
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Sport » Enock Muchinjo, Sports Editor
10/30/2012 2:08:00 PM
HARARE - “A prophet has no honour in his own country” is an age old adage, but one that rings true in every sense to the Tsimba brothers, Richard and Kennedy. It’s a pity few people in Zimbabwe appreciate the...
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Entertainment » Sharon Muguwu, Entertainment Writer
10/30/2012 11:09:00 AM
HARARE - Talented urban grooves musician Enoch “Nox” Guni won his first ever award at the Zimbabwe Music and Arts Awards (Zimaa) held over the weekend in the United Kingdom. Nox won the Touring Artiste of the Year Award. The artiste...
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News »
10/30/2012 11:06:00 AM
HARARE - The War Veterans Pension Fund should be availed to all Zimbabweans because the liberation war was a collective effort and not the preserve for a select few, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said. Tsvangirai was addressing a group of...
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
10/30/2012 10:49:00 AM
HARARE - High Court Judge Ben Hlatshwayo has re-imposed a media gag on the nasty divorce case involving Defence Forces commander Constantine Chiwenga and estranged wife Jocelyn after it was temporarily suspended. The gag order bars the media from reporting on...
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10/30/2012 10:49:00 AM
HARARE - Six people left homeless after their houses were demolished in Epworth are demanding $60 000 as compensation from government. The six have now approached the Supreme Court to fight the “constitutionally reprehensible” actions of the police and Epworth local...
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10/30/2012 10:49:00 AM
HARARE - Finance minister Tendai Biti has told President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to keep violence at bay ahead of forthcoming elections, warning that the economy will suffer terribly if a repeat of the 2008 bloodshed happens. He...
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News » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
10/30/2012 10:49:00 AM
HARARE - Zimbabwe does not need handouts, but a strong economy to spearhead economic revival, Industry minister Welshman Ncube said. Ncube, also a leader of the smaller MDC, said the country needs clearly-crafted policies to grow the economy and subsequently wean...
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10/30/2012 10:41:00 AM
HARARE - Scores of residents in Chinhoyi converged for a road show held by the Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) at Gwaya Gwaya Business Centre to get an update on the constitution-making process and preparations for the forthcoming polls....
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10/30/2012 10:28:00 AM
HARARE - In a bizarre case, two men attempted to steal a corpse — from a funeral parlour — of a Tanzanian national who had swallowed 1,4 kilogrammes of heroin. The two men: a South African national, Mlawa Jumanne Ndumbogane, 33,...
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10/30/2012 10:25:00 AM
HARARE - A human rights activist denied access to treatment while in detention is finally having his day in court. Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested on February 19, 2011 and charged with committing treason together with 44 other social justice, trade union...
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10/27/2012 12:42:00 PM
HARARE - Next Tuesday, President Robert Mugabe presides over one of those lavish ceremonies when he uses centuries-old British pageantry to open Zimbabwe’s Parliament. The State opening of Parliament, announced in a government gazette last weekend, will as usual be full...
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Sport » Dakarai Mashava, Senior Sports Writer
10/27/2012 12:29:00 PM
HARARE - Two former football greats — David George and Douglas Mloyi — do not believe Sunday’s top-of-the-table Castle Premiership tie between Dynamos and Highlanders is the 2012 title decider. With the league just five games away from the finale, log...
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