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JOHANNESBURG – New South African banknotes will bear the image of former president Nelson Mandela, President Jacob Zuma announced in Pretoria on Saturday. The notes would make South Africans remember their achievements, Zuma told reporters at a press briefing attended by dignitaries including SA Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus and Finance Minister
Fake qualifications stir woes
Court Reporter
A Bulawayo man allegedly duped Modzone Enterprise Pvt Ltd officials that he possessed an Executive Masters in Business Administration degree and got employed as a managing director for nearly two years. Torarama Gutu (49) of Hadson Avenue in
Man jailed for attacking cops
Beitbridge Bureau
A 28-year-old man from Dulibadzimu suburb has been jailed for eight months after he attacked two policemen who wanted to arrest him for causing trouble at a local business centre. Tavaka Nyoni of House 427 was convicted on his own plea of guilty
Suspect ‘possessed’in court
Crime Reporter
A suspect forced a court session to adjourn at the Harare Magistrate Courts last week after she fell into a trance and a relative in the gallery started clapping, urging on the spirit. Presiding magistrate Ms Audrey Tarugarira stopped proceeding after warning
New twist in Trauma Centre case
Court Reporter
AFRICAN Medical Investments has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to quash a High Court judgment giving back Trauma Centre to its founder Dr Vivek Solanki. AMI, through its directors, allegedly seized the company from Dr Solanki through
Man denies rape, says manhood too small
Bulawayo Bureau
A BULAWAYO courtroom had to be cleared so that prison wardens could examine a man charged with rape after he claimed that his male member was so small there was no way he could have committed the crime. Joel Ndebele (34) of Dingumuzi
Court resumes after typhoid scare
Court Reporter
THE Harare Magistrates’ Courts, which were closed last Friday following a typhoid scare, will reopen today to only deal with cases that were postponed to today. Water was still a problem at the courts by yesterday although there were intermittent
Maldives turmoil worries India, threatens region
Jit Kumar, Wu Qiang
Russian literary master Leon Tolstoi once said that all happy families are alike whereas every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. South Asia or the Indian subcontinent somewhat reflects the latter as well, like many other parts of the world.
China: The roar of the dragon
Philip T Shingirai
Relations between Sadc and China are growing at a rapid pace, with the Asian giant’s footprint in both financial and non-financial investments in the region reaching nearly US$15 billion in 2011. The Chinese call 2012 “The Year of the
NGOs mustn’t dictate the pace
Tendai Moyo
I could not understand why a purportedly indigenous group like the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition would shun ongoing local initiatives to address our relatively manageable local challenges only to unashamedly lobby for external interference at the