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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 13:54
MASVINGO - Water Resources and Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has ordered local authorities in the country to immediately stop disconnecting residents failing to pay water bills. Speaking during a meeting with Runde and Save catchments councils over the weekend, Nkomo...Read More
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 10:45
MASVINGO - Water Resources and Development minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo has ordered local authorities in the country to immediately stop disconnecting residents failing to pay water bills. Speaking during a meeting with Runde and Save catchments councils over the weekend, Nkomo...Read More
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:32
HARARE - Two police officers who allegedly stole a plasma TV, laptops and other gadgets from the late Vice President John Landa Nkomo’s house in Bulawayo will continue languishing in remand prison. Bulawayo magistrate Witness Mtetwa yesterday dismissed the cops’ quest...Read More
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:04
HARARE - Water Resources and Development minister Samuel Sipepa-Nkomo has been hospitalised at the Avenues Clinic from yet an unknown ailment. Nkomo was admitted at the upmarket hospital on Monday, which was his 69th birthday. Nkomo’s wife Roslyn was at the...Read More
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Friday, 08 February 2013 16:01
HARARE - A truck which delivered toxic sodium cyanide to Morton Jaffray Water Works in Harare belonged to the late Vice President John Nkomo, a top cop said yesterday. Crispen Makedenge, a police chief superintendent, told a Harare magistrate during...Read More
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Friday, 25 January 2013 12:06
HARARE - If there are incidences that capture the low levels of value that the Zimbabwe government and the Harare City Council places on the lives of citizens and residents then the death of Vice President John Nkomo captures this in...Read More
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Thursday, 24 January 2013 11:56
HARARE - While attendance at Monday’s funeral service for Vice President John Landa Nkomo at the National Heroes Acre was high; some close family members said they are disappointed they did not get any grief support at home from the national...Read More
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013 09:56
HARARE - Vice President John Nkomo lost his battle with cancer on Thursday at the age of 79. The former ZAPU stalwart died at Harare’s St Anne’s Hospital after being admitted overnight. Here are some early reactions to his death: President...Read More
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:48
HARARE - Jabulani Nkomo, son of the late Vice President John Landa Nkomo, has lavished praise on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for the good relationship the premier enjoyed with his father. Delivering a speech at the national Heroes Acre yesterday, Jabulani...Read More
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:48
HARARE - An electrical glitch and a huge downpour dampened President Robert Mugabe’s peace speech at the burial of national hero and late Vice President John Nkomo yesterday. Mugabe’s speech, beamed live on State TV, was blacked out by a power...Read More
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Monday, 21 January 2013 11:56
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe was so shocked by Vice President John Nkomo’s death that he could not even stomach the courage to accompany the deceased body to Tsholotho and Bulawayo, Zanu PF national chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo said. Addressing about...Read More
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Sunday, 20 January 2013 10:44
HARARE - Tributes for the late Vice President John Landa Nkomo, who succumbed to cancer on Thursday, continued to flood in yesterday, with many describing him as a “true national leader.” Opposition leader Simba Makoni said he learnt with shock and...Read More
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Friday, 18 January 2013 12:05
HARARE - There was an outpouring of grief yesterday following the death of Vice President John Nkomo in Harare yesterday morning. And as news of his death filtered through the capital, and Zimbabwean countryside, some Western embassies — for long deemed...Read More
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Friday, 18 January 2013 11:37
HARARE - A dark cloud hangs over Zimbabwe as the nation bids farewell to one of the few level-headed political leaders of our time and a liberation icon, Vice President John Nkomo. He is a man who helped heal the country...Read More
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Friday, 18 January 2013 10:46
HARARE - The death of Vice President John Landa Nkomo – to a deadly cancer Thursday – has once again underscored a ‘sad’ Zanu PF culture where national leaders die in office. And as Zimbabweans mourn his demise, the 78 year-old...Read More
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