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Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:19
HARARE - Professor Gordon Chavhunduka, president of the Zimbabwe Traditional Healers Association of Zimbabwe (Zinatha) has died. According to George Kandiero, the Zinatha information and publicity secretary, Chavhunduka, 81, passed on yesterday at a Harare’s Avenues Clinic after a long battle...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:19
HARARE - University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is barring MDC youth leader Solomon Madzore from resuming his studies ostensibly because he has a pending criminal case. Madzore, along with 28 MDC activists, are jointly facing murder charges. Madzore was released late last...Read More
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Saturday, 12 January 2013 10:18
HARARE - Critical organisations and institutions in Zimbabwe should be taught Chinese to bridge the linguistic barrier between Harare and Beijing, a University of Zimbabwe (UZ) official said. Director of Confucius Institute (CI) Professor Pedzisai Mashiri said UZ would want to...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:43
HARARE - A councillor who was sacked after blowing the whistle on $1,6 million corruption in the Umguza rural district in Matabeleland North has dragged Local Government, Rural and Urban Development minister Ignatius Chombo to court for unlawful termination. Councillor Mxolisi...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:37
MASVINGO - About 43 vehicles belonging to the beleaguered Masvingo City Council will go under the hammer next Wednesday, the local deputy sheriff has said. The first batch of cars was attached last year while more were attached last week after...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 12:11
HARARE - Munyaradzi Kereke has denied that his bid to pump $100 000 to rebury 50 freedom fighters in Bikita was a vote-buying gimmick, claiming it was a government programme. The ANZ, publishers of the Daily News, received a letter...Read More
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Friday, 11 January 2013 11:59
HARARE - Harare City Council yesterday received borehole water purification gadgets valued at $150 000 from mining giant Mbada Diamonds. The donation of 235 inline chlorinators follows council’s appeal for corporates to assist in purifying polluted boreholes scattered around Harare’s suburbs....Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:50
HARARE - Matabeland Tuskers and Manicaland Mountaineers both completed seven-wicket wins over Mashonaland Eagles and Midwest Rhinos in Coca Cola Pro50 Championship matches yesterday. Tuskers bowled out Eagles for 157 inside 43.2 overs at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo with former...Read More
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Sport » Farai Machamire, Sports Writer
Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:41
HARARE - Rising Zimbabwean starlet Farai Mutatu, who is attached to TNT Under-13 Boys Red in Michigan, United States, is in the running to win the 2012 US Youth Soccer Goal of the Year following his stunning overhead kgoal. Mutatu’s strike...Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:11
HARARE - A 43-year-old murder suspect is battling for life after he was shot by police officers while fleeing from arrest. Magistrate Tendai Mahwe yesterday had to travel to Parirenyatwa Hospital to remand Richard Timba. The case will be heard again...Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:05
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court will next week set down a final appeal by a renegade Anglican bishop who is challenging the dismissal by the High Court of an urgent application to stop evictions from church properties he had unlawfully seized....Read More
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 11:05
HARARE - Police have nabbed over 50 touts in Harare city centre who will appear in court today. This comes after rank marshals and touts who had been removed from bus ranks last year begin to resurface. Provincial spokesperson Tadious Chibanda...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Thursday, 10 January 2013 10:59
HARARE - A repeated disregard of bilateral agreements may jeopardise Zimbabwe’s chances of co-hosting the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly this year, German ambassador to Zimbabwe Hans Gnodtke has said. Gnodtke said public press reports last year seemed...Read More
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:58
HARARE - Sungura musician Alick Macheso is happy with the quality of his latest album Kwatakabva Mitunhu (Kure Kwekure) which he believes matches the standards set by his previous eight albums. The sungura kingpin’s ninth album, which has not been officially...Read More
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:19
HARARE - “Cost of living is so high, rich and poor they start to cry, now the weak must get strong, they say, ‘Oh ,what a tribulation!’ Them belly full, but we hungry; a hungry mob is an angry mob.” I...Read More
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