adminMan arrested for attempting to smuggle 19 kids
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge BureauPolice have arrested a 33-year-old Bulawayo man for attempting to smuggle 19 children aged between three and 17 into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post. The children had been collected from
Robbers fatally shoot taxi driver, injure cop
Masvingo BureauTWO suspected armed robbers last week allegedly shot and killed a taxi driver along the Jerera-Chiredzi highway before shooting and seriously injuring a police officer who was trying to flee from the scene of
Sadc pledges troops for eastern Congo
DAR ES SALAAM — Southern Africa has pledged 4,000 troops to hold the ring in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but there is uncertainty about who will pay and when and
Govt commended for updates on Mandela
JOHANNESBURG — Information on former president Nelson Mandela’s admission to hospital is being made available quicker than previously, a Rhodes University academic said yesterday. “Last time thereMP urges Swazi to hike witch doctor tax
A Swazi member of parliament has urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and soothsayers to help solve a funding crisis in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. The mediums, known as
Brace for Armageddon
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterDYNAMOS will have to negotiate past a minefield and clear explosive hurdles, including one likely to be erected by record Champions League winners Al Ahly of Egypt, for the Glamour Boys to return to
Govt bemoans high microfinance interest rates
Rumbidzai Zinyuke Business ReporterGOVERNMENT is concerned with the punitive interest rates charged by microfinance institutions at a time the tide of inflation has been tamed, Acting Secretary for Small and Medium Enterprises and
Corporate governance is real
Terrence N. Chimanya Business EthicsTHERE is a growing perception that I continue to come across whenever I engage in discussions involving corporate governance, corporate ethics and corporate compliance. It is a general belief
Smokes and Mirrors
Media RevolutionsCall it a perfect storm for Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry. At the same time as the Zimbabwean Government is riding roughshod for greater, more equitable, access by historically excluded groups to
ZSE industrial index falls on losses
Business ReporterTHE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange industrial index fell yesterday on losses in selected heavyweight counters while the resource shares remained unchanged. After trades, the mainstream index lost 0,4 percent or