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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:59
HARARE - A High Court judge has dismissed an application to quash charges against a British-registered company, African Consolidated Resources Private Limited (ACR), accused of illegally mining diamonds in Marange. ACR is accused of fraud or alternatively contravening the Precious Stones...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:49
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is considering clearing an expelled Chitungwiza councillor to contest in primary elections as reward for blowing the whistle on corruption in the municipality. MDC sacked all the councillors it had in the dormitory town...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:48
HARARE - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says AfrAsia Kingdom Zimbabwe Limited (AKZL)’s banking unit Kingdom Bank Limited (Kingdom) is in a “sound financial position to continue normal business”. This comes on the back of media reports that Kingdom is...Read More
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:38
HARARE - At least 1, 6 million people in Zimbabwe rely on food aid, as the country only has about 92 000 tonnes of maize in stock and will have to import 150 000 tonnes of maize to meet its demand....Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Monday, 13 May 2013 10:30
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has given a smooth passage for securocrats and other civil servants keen to stand on the party ticket in the forthcoming elections. While the fate of these two groups is seemingly secure following the...Read More
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Sunday, 12 May 2013 11:52
MUTARE - An axed senior Zanu PF official in court for allegedly stealing party beasts has sensationally claimed she is being fixed for spurning party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa’s sexual advances. Through her lawyer, Dorothy Mabika, who was suspended as...Read More
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:18
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority board has appointed Edson Chidziya director–general with effect from May 1. Chidziya, who has been the director of Conservation, replaces Vitalis Chadenga who died in September last year. Chidziya is a...Read More
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 11:14
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has ruled that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s aide has a case to answer on charges of illegally possessing a firearm. The application for discharge at the close of the State’s case against PM’s aide Thabani Mpofu...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 15:08
LAGOS - Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state. Bama's police...Read More
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Wednesday, 08 May 2013 14:26
HARARE - A report carried in this paper last week – disclosing that an unnamed South African businessman had tabled a bid around $5 million for Zimbabwean football giants Dynamos – has broken deafening silence from a splinter faction which five...Read More
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News » Gugulethu Nyazema, Staff Writer
Wednesday, 08 May 2013 12:09
HARARE - Health experts have expressed concern over Harare’s streets being flooded with pethidine, a deadly pain killer which is addictive. Speaking at a Zimbabwe Medical Association function, health expert Walter Mangezi said pethidine is assigned for the treatment of moderate...Read More
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Monday, 06 May 2013 14:37
HARARE - Struggles for independence took different forms in various nations on the African continent. Following colonisation in the late 19th century, Africa’s quest for total freedom has been portrayed in many different ways. Some chose to write in prose...Read More
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Monday, 06 May 2013 11:37
HARARE - Government has issued a statutory instrument requiring high-end electricity consumers to purchase their own prepaid meters. Elton Mangoma, Energy minister, said the policy aims to speed up the implementation of the prepaid metering programme. He said power utility Zesa...Read More
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Monday, 06 May 2013 10:42
HARARE - “When you talk of gold you are talking of massive development in an area, affluence and joy, but sadly this is not the case here in Silobela,” lamented a man who only identified himself as Moyo at a shopping...Read More
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 14:43
HARARE - Zimbabwe most successful football club, Dynamos, could be sold for up to five million dollars if the club’s founders accept an offer tabled by a wealthy South African businessman, the Daily News can reveal. The club’s founding fathers, who...Read More
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