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Zimbabwe, like other countries in the African Union, has gone overdrive to ensure equal representation of men and women in the legislature and elsewhere. Our Senior Repor-ter Michael Chideme (MC) caught up with Gender Links chief executive Ms Colleen Lowe Morna (CLM) to shed more light on the 50/50 equal representation in politics and all spheres of lifeGhetto Blast: Local’s lekker, but can be suicidal
Rosenthal MutakatiWe thought Jacob had landed the jackpot when he married Sharon, a ghetto belle whose chocolate cream legs, milky white teeth and gait, drove almost every township boy crazy. In Sharon was a real woman. A black beauty with well-defined body
DeMbare’s injury horror
From Goodwill Zunidza in Al Marsa, Tunisia
THE Dynamos camp was yesterday rocked by a number of injuries that cast a shadow on the Glamour Boys’ epic battle against African football kings Esperance in a Champions League showdown at Rades today. More than half of the members
Call to improve prison conditions
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter
PRISON conditions in Zimbabwe are appalling and there is need for stakeholders to collectively improve them, Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamsa said yesterday. Receiving a donation of uniforms for prisoners worth US$10 000 from
Mortuary rape case dismissed
Tendai Rupapa Court Reporter
THE Parirenyatwa hospital nurse aide who claimed she was raped by a mortuary attendant in a mortuary willingly had sex with the man, but reported the issue as rape when a deal they entered into turned sour. Regional magistrate Ms Memory
Escalating load-shedding riles Government
Senior Agriculture Reporter
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over escalating load-shedding by Zesa saying the development is denting efforts to
Boyfriend charged for lover’s murder
Lovemore Meya Court Reporter
A 24-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza man, who reportedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend 15 times in the chest
Former ANZ editor awarded Z$15m
Labour Reporter
The Labour Court has ordered Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe to pay dismissed deputy editor, Tendai Nyakunu, Z$15 220 000 for loss of employment. ANZ was also ordered to pay Nyakunu Z$578 492 in accrued allowances. Both amounts will be
Chief Negomo contests PM ruling
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter
CHIEF Negomo yesterday filed an appeal at the Supreme Court contesting a High Court decision that set aside his ruling that found Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai guilty of marrying in the scared month of November.
On Wednesday, High Court judge Justice Bharat Patel nullified Chief Negomo’s judgment that ordered PM Tsvangirai to pay two cattle, two sheep, a piece of white cloth and a ball of snuff as penalty for marrying Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo in November last year.
Chief Negomo is from Mashonaland Central Province.
The chief approached the superior court, seeking to have the High Court decision nullified.
PM Tsvangirai has since engaged Ms Elizabeth Macheka, daughter to Zanu-PF Central Committee member and former Chitungwiza executive mayor Cde Joseph Macheka.
In papers filed at the Supreme Court yesterday morning, the appellant is Morris Nyikadzino, who is said to be the ancestor of the Negomo
Africa must fix itself, says Sata
Bulawayo Bureau
AFRICAN companies need to be innovative and adapt to the changing business environment to compete on the global market, Zambian President Michael Sata has said.
Officially opening the 2012 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair here yesterday, President Sata said Africa needs to develop sustainable economies through value addition.
He told thousands of people at the ZITF grounds that there was need for local companies to develop entrepreneurship skills and value addition strategies to improve the quality of their products.
“The importance of trade fairs cannot be overemphasised as it is through such events that businesses interact and disseminate information on new business ideas.
“We need to explore ways of developing new technology and research. Allow me to challenge companies here to develop innovative ideas and adapt to the changing business environment in order to compete in the global market and achieve