adminFirm ordered to reinstate 296 workers
Labour Reporter
The Labour Court has ordered Lifestyles Zimbabwe Furnishers (LZF) to reinstate 296 workers it laid off in 2005. The workers were employed in four different companies owned by LZF and were made to sign weekly contracts. The employment periods
Prison guard kills self in front of inmates
Itai Mazire Herald Reporter
A PRISON guard stationed at Chikurubi Prison Farm blew his head off in front of inmates he was guarding last Tuesday.
The inmates at the correctional facility are said to have scurried for cover while screaming for help after hearing the gunshot.
Police smash housebreaking syndicate
Beitbridge Bureau
POLICE in Beitbridge have smashed a housebreaking syndicate and arrested four suspects in connection with 10 cases in the border town. Three members of the group were arrested last Sunday while the master-mind was netted midweek when he broke
Why the West killed Lumumba
Later this year, the Belgian Parliament is due to report on the murder of the Congo’s first prime minister after independence, Patrice Lumumba, in January 1961. The circumstances of Lumumba’s death have been shrouded in mystery for 40 years, but as the Congo’s vast mineral wealth is once again becoming a focus for imperialist rivalries, documents long hidden in official
Bid to defeat course of justice backfires for granny
Noah Pito Hurungwe Correspondent
A Karoi magistrate last Friday sentenced a 60-year-old woman from Nyangawe area, Hurungwe, to two months in jail for trying to defeat the course of justice. Magistrate Robson Finsin had sentenced Maud Dzepasi to three months in jail before suspending a
Econet engineers up for murder
Crime Reporter
SOME Econet engineers have been implicated in the murder of an undisclosed number of security guards manning network boosters in Harare and subsequently stealing the company’s diesel and equipment. This was revealed after the arrest of six
ANC upholds Malema suspension
CAPE TOWN – A disciplinary appeals committee of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress dismissed an appeal by Youth League leader, Julius Malema, against a charge that he brought the party into disrepute because of his comments relating to Botswana. The decision was announced by Cyril Ramaphosa, head of the committee, at a Press conference in
44 Egyptians to be tried in NGO funds case
CAIRO – Egypt is to try 44 people, including Americans, over the funding of non-governmental organisations, a day after the United States said aid to Cairo will be reviewed over the crackdown. “Forty-four people, including Egyptians, 19 Americans and other nationalities, have been referred to the Cairo criminal court in the NGO funding case,” the source told AFP, adding
Death toll from Europe cold snap nears 300
KIEV – The Arctic cold snap that has hit Europe for over a week had claimed nearly 300 lives by yesterday, brought air travel chaos to London and dumped snow as far south as Rome and even North Africa. The grim winter toll rose in Ukraine, Poland, Italy and France, where two homeless people found frozen to death were the latest victims, with authorities across the
Mass evacuations in Australia
SYDNEY – Mass evacuations were under way in northern Australia yesterday as record flooding that has cut off thousands of people threatened to engulf areas devastated by wild weather last year. Authorities urged residents of St George, a town of 3 800 people in the state of Queensland, to leave their homes as rising floodwaters threatened to isolate the area, with time