New awards for Nama

Winstone Antonio Entertainment Reporter
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe has introduced new categories in the National Arts Merits Awards, bringing the number to 35. Several other awards were scrapped off, while other awards were

Involve men in fight for gender equality

ZWRCN Desk Women Empowerment
The growing calls to engage men and boys to advance gender equality have been met with resistance and labels of it being a donor- driven agenda from many feminists and women’s rights

Zim, Australia renew economic ties

Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Australia Business Council was re-launched last week in a development that is expected to enhance commercial ties between the two countries. The council was established in 1994

Dawn EGM off

Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
AFRICAN SUN has withdrawn its call for an extraordinary general meeting of Dawn Properties later this month to replace three directors after reaching a compromise on the firms’ long drawn-out wrangle.

Dendera gala in Chinhoyi

Innocent Ruwende Herald Reporter
All is set for the Simon Chimbetu memorial gala scheduled for Chinhoyi today. The gig — which is the brainchild of the widow of the late Simon, Angela Chimbetu, his children, and siblings is expected to

Egyptian army presses anti- Islamists op

CAIRO. — Egyptian security forces killed six gun-men in a raid on a village of North Sinai yesterday, witnesses said, as the military pressed a campaign against Islamists in the lawless peninsula neighbouring Gaza and Israel.

Syrian journalist killed

DAMASCUS. — An armed group assassinated Saturday a Syrian journalist who worked for the state-run SANA news agency, the state TV said. Ali Abbas was shot dead Saturday at his house in Damascus’

Relief aides still at work in Iran

TEHRAN. — Iran said the rescue and relief operations in the quake-hit areas in the country’s north-western province of East Azarbaijan had ended, but massive operations were underway to meet the

Government reverses renaming of streets

Municipal Reporter
GOVERNMENT has reversed the renaming of Enterprise Road after the late national hero and retired army general Cde Solomon Mujuru

Community service for setting lover’s property alight

Court Reporter
A SEKE man who set alight his girlfriend’s clothes valued at US$350 after accusing her of infidelity has been sentenced to 208 hours of community service. The man was also convicted of resisting arrest.

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