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Brenda Phiri Arts CorrespondentIT was all glitz and glamour when Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe launched its products and a promotion to search for a person who will represent the company in Harare last week. The search for the Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe will begin this month where the winner will endorse cosmetics and skin
Family day delight
Problem Masau Arts Correspondent
The Police Commissioner-General’s Funfair held on Saturday is growing each year judging by the number of people who turned up for this year’s edition. The event lived to its billing as a family day fete, as parents came with their children for a day of fun, where they were treated to different
Masawara suffers US$4,2m loss
Golden Sibanda Business Reporter
LONDON Stock Exchange-listed Masawara plc lost US$4,2 million in the interim period to June 30 2012 on the back of losses in subsidiary and associate companies. Telerix Communications, Zuva Petroleum, Mauritius Energy Limited and Joina City suffered losses in the period under review.
Power tender cancelled
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
THE State Procurement Board has cancelled the tender for Kariba South’s US$700 million expansion programme, Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma said yesterday. A Chinese firm, Sino-Hydro, was the sole bidder for the project but failed to win the tender after
‘Marikana probe will be quick, thorough’
RUSTENBURG. — The judicial commission of inquiry into the shootings at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana will conduct its work with speed, retired judge Ian Farlam said in Rustenburg yesterday. However, Farlam said the inquiry would be thorough in its processes, in a bid to extract andVenezuela’s presidential aspirants to conclude campaigns
CARACAS. — Venezuelan presidential candidates Hugo Chavez and his rival Henrique Capriles on Sunday entered the last stage of their campaigns with rallies held in two of the largest cities, gathering thousands. On his second visit since last July, Chavez, the incumbent president, led a largeAfrican troops enter Somali port of Kismayo
MOGADISHU — Kenyan troops from the African Union force in Somalia entered the southern port of Kismayo for the first time yesterday, witnesses said, three days after launching a beach assault that led Islamist insurgents to withdraw. Local clan militia had filled the streets since Saturday’s rebelIranian jury finds Reuters scribe guilty
TEHRAN. — A Reuters journalist has been convicted of “propaganda- related offences” by an Iranian media court. A jury found Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi guilty of “spreading lies” in a video story about women training in martial arts. The report contained a headline saying that Iranian
McCain steps up attack on Obama
WASHINGTON. — Senator John McCain joined other top Republicans on Sunday in attacking Washington’s shifting explanations of the September 11 assault that killed the US ambassador to Libya. McCain, interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, hinted at “certain political overtones” in the
Axing Malema was wrong: Motlanthe
JOHANNESBURG. — Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has for the first time publicly revealed that expelling then ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema from the governing party was a mistake. Even putting Malema through a disciplinary process was “fundamentally wrong”, he explains.