15 killed as violence erupts in Iraq

BAGHDAD. — Up to 15 people were killed and 65 wounded in shootings and bomb attacks, including seven car bombings, across Iraq on Thursday, the police said. In Baghdad, five car bombs and two

ZEC rolls out new voter registration

Bulawayo Bureau
TREASURY has released US$11,6 million towards a fresh voter registration exercise to be rolled

Zambian grain imports start trickling in

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
THE 150 000 tonnes of maize imported by Government from

Poll date judgment today

Fidelis Munyoro Assistant News Editor
THE Constitutional Court will today rule on the appropriate date or period for the holding of harmonised elections, roughly a month before the expiry of the life of the Seventh Parliament on

His is a pseudo-union

Court Reporter
AN ailing man in Chitungwiza left the court in stitches when he denied paying maintenance towards his wife of two days, accusing her of forcing him into a “pseudo marriage” taking advantage of his

Victims identified

Beitbridge Bureau
Police have identified the six victims who were killed in a road accident on Tuesday night when a Pioneer bus they were travelling in ploughed into a herd of cattle 40 km out of Beitbridge town along the

Bashed for bed-wetting

Lovemore Meya Court Reporter
A CHITUNGWIZA man who seriously assaulted his two minor children aged (8) and (11) respectively for wetting blankets, has been spared a jail term. Peter Manhomboni (36) of Unit H was on Tuesday

Ruwa board chairman cleared of graft charges

Tendai Rupapa Senior Court reporter
RUWA Local Board chairman Pinias Rabson Mushayavanhu, who was facing allegations of stealing more than US$2 000 from the municipality, was set free after the State was unable to present enough

10 highway robbers nabbed

Senior Reporter
POLICE have arrested 10 suspected armed robbers allegedly targeting travellers and motorists along the country’s highways. The suspects were arrested in separate incidents in Chinhoyi and Murehwa,

Man gets 2 life terms

Bulawayo Bureau
A Zimbabwean man employed at a farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa, who three years ago stabbed his employers to death before burning their bodies beyond recognition, has been sentenced to 50 years

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