Zimbabwe leads Africa in tobacco production
Wonder Chabikwa Elita Chikwati Harare Bureau Zimbabwe is the major flue cured tobacco producer in Africa and occupies fifth position in the world, as many communal farmers joined the lucrative farming...
View ArticleNust gets new Vice Chancellor
Professor Samson Sibanda Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter PROFESSOR Samson Sibanda has been appointed the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) acting Vice Chancellor following the...
View ArticleMillions ‘stolen’ from schools
Audits unearth massive levies fraud: Minister Professor Paul Mavhima Lloyd Gumbo Harare Bureau School authorities across the country could have embezzled millions of dollars from levies paid by...
View ArticleGangster too greedy to share loot shoots partner in crime dead
Hillbrow in Johannesburg, South Africa Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent A 26-YEAR-OLD Matobo man allegedly shot and killed his fellow robber in South Africa before fleeing to Zimbabwe with the loot....
View Article$14,5m windfall for GMB farmers
Minister Joseph Made Whinsley Masara Chronicle Reporter TREASURY has released $14,5 million to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to clear all outstanding payments to farmers for the 2014 to 2015 season,...
View Article‘Man drags wife out of church for slaughter’
Edmore Nyamazana Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter A MAN from Gokwe took his wife from a church in Nkayi and dragged her to a bush where he allegedly brutally stabbed her with a pocket knife...
View ArticleWhip your kids!…Chief Justice slams anti-corporal punishment advocates
Daniel Nemukuyu Harare Bureau CHIEF Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku yesterday took to task lawyers advocating the abolition of corporal punishment, asking them to explain the impact of such an action on...
View ArticleHooker gets community service for mutilating lover
Faith Mabuto Midlands Reporter A GWERU hooker who cut the foreskin off of her boyfriend’s manhood in anger after he caught her having sex with a client has been ordered to perform community service....
View ArticleUS paper says sorry to President Mugabe
Jeffery Gettleman Mduduzi Mathuthu Editor A FOREIGN journalist who published fabricated quotes of President Robert Mugabe has said he takes “full responsibility for the mistake” after Zimbabwe...
View Article‘Lion of Africa’…Outgoing US envoy heaps praise on President
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko bids farewell to outgoing US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton in Harare recently Clemence Manyukwe News Editor OUTGOING United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce...
View ArticlePresident caps 2,388 at Nust
Nust Chancellor President Mugabe confers a Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa on Obadiah Moyo who is a librarian and founder of Rural Libraries and Resources Development during a graduation ceremony at...
View ArticleIndian firm to set up $30m bottling plant
Minister Mike Bimha Funny Hudzerema Harare Bureau The government and an Indian company which makes Pepsi products yesterday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $30 million bottling plant in Harare,...
View ArticleDirty cops caught on camera
Fume Chibvuri and Aaron Zivuku Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent TWO Plumtree police officers were caught on camera demanding a bribe from a cross border transporter at the Plumtree Border Post....
View ArticleZRP in Massive shake-up
Snr Asst Comm Charity Charamba Takunda Maodza Assistant News Editor The Zimbabwe Republic Police has carried out massive transfers and redeployments of senior officers at Police General Headquarters in...
View ArticleBusinessman ordered to return seized mine assets
Justice Martin Makonese Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter THE High Court has ordered Bulawayo businessman, Graeme Jansen van Vuuren to immediately return about $1,3 million worth of mining...
View ArticleMarried teen mum ‘smothers’ new-born baby
Elizabeth Tsuro Midlands Reporter A 16-year-old mother who was in a forced marriage has been arrested for suffocating her newborn baby. The teenager, from Phihli Village under Chief Bunina in Lower...
View ArticleHISTORIC . . . Chinese leader set to visit Zimbabwe
President looks forward with ‘great interest’ Power . . . President Mugabe (second from left) joins world leaders, including the Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US...
View Article23 cops take Chihuri to court over transfers
Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter TWENTY-THREE police officers have taken Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri to court for “dissolving” an entire police...
View ArticleForthcoming Zanu-PF conference not about leadership change: Tyson
Cde Saviour Kasukuwere Felex Share Harare Bureau THE forthcoming Zanu-PF’s 15th Annual National People’s Conference is not about leadership change, but a crucial indaba meant to press forward the...
View ArticleMPILO INJECTION HELL . . . Cancer patient gets wrong jab . . . Arm rots,...
Austin Ndlovu’s rotting arm (top) and (above) after his arm had been amputated Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter A MAN has had his arm amputated after a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital allegedly...
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