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Entertainment Reporter
PREPARATIONS for this year’s Miss Universities Zimbabwe modelling pageant are now at an advanced stage with some of the
Policeman escapes 3-year jail term
Beitbridge Bureau
A Beitbridge policeman who threw a two-year-old child out of a moving vehicle while blind drunk has escaped a three years jail
Police keen to interview lawyer
Innocent Ruwende Senior Court Reporter
POLICE are keen to interview lawyer and Financial Gazzette columnist Vote Muza in connection with perjury and fraud charges
Stock losses drag ZSE lower
LOSSES in selected heavyweight stocks dragged the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange low last week as the main index dropped
Businessman accused of trying to sodomise dancer
Innocent Ruwende
A HARARE businessman has been arrested for allegedly trying to sodomise a dancer at knife point after a beer drinking spree
I’m clean: Marange
Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
ZIFA vice-president Kenny Marange is taking in his stride his suspension by the association over the Asiagate scandal and
Mayor ‘ditches’ top city managers
Municipal Reporter
HARARE Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda says he will no longer protect the city’s top managers from councillors who think they back the “wrong” party.
Last week, he said he had been blocking resolutions to suspend and fire senior city managers because he did not want a “Spanish inquisition” but results.
He said he had an unwritten pact with management to protect them from the councillors but has now undone it because the managers are not implementing council resolutions.
Mayor Masunda said he would no longer protect town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi and four of his directors “when councillors start baying for their blood”.
Politburo member Patel dies
Michael Chideme Senior Reporter
ZANU-PF Politburo member, businessman, philanthropist and nationalist Cde Kantibhai Gordanbhai Patel has died. He was 83.
Zanu-PF Harare Province met on Saturday and recommended that he be declared a national hero.
Provincial chairman Cde Amos Midzi said Harare was convinced Cde Patel deserved national hero status.
“We met yesterday as the provincial co-ordinating committee and recommended that he be declared a national hero. We await the Politburo decision,” he said.
Cde Patel died in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he had been receiving medical attention.
The Politburo member fell and broke a hipbone and sustained
13 new power stations get nod
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
ZESA Holdings has licensed 13 independent power producers with a combined capacity of 4 546 megawatts expected to be operational in about four years.
Zesa is producing about 1 400 MW which is about half peak demand.
Of the 13 licensed IPPs, four of the smaller ones in outlying areas are already operational with a combined capacity of 83MW, generally lighting up the Lowveld and keeping a sawmill running.
ZERC administrator Mr Peter Mufunda said the independent producers are working hard to complete their projects.
“We are happy with the pace at which the companies we have licensed are moving. They give us regular updates on
Jumbo kills mother, daughter (6)
Chinhoyi Bureau
A SIAKOBVU woman was trampled to death by an elephant before it turned on her six-year-old daughter and fatally injured the