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Prosper Ndlovu Senior Reporter MDC-T’s attempts to use the Mtshabezi pipeline project to gain political mileage ahead of the forthcoming harmonised elections on 31 July has angered Bulawayo and Matabeleland…
Midlands Show moved to next month
Midlands Bureau Chief The Midlands Show has been postponed to next month due to harmonised elections to be held on 31 July. In an interview on Monday, the show manager,…
Cuba admits sending weapons to North Korea
Cuba has said a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama was loaded at one of its ports with 10 000 tonnes of sugar and 240 tonnes of “obsolete defensive…
Liberation war vet Moyo dies
Thandeka Moyo Chronicle Correspondent LIBERATION war hero Cde Nathaniel Moyo has died and was yesterday buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Heroes Acre in Nkulumane. Cde Moyo died at Mayfair Hospital…
F1 boss indicted on bribery charge
GERMAN prosecutors have indicted Formula 1 motor racing boss Bernie Ecclestone on a bribery charge. The charge relates to a $44m (£29m) payment to German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky of Bayern…
Lower Gweru woman assaulted over sex slur
Midlands Correspondent A Lower Gweru woman is reportedly battling for life at Gweru Provincial Hospital after she was allegedly attacked by her husband when she told him that he was…
Widows sue Mbada Diamonds for hubby’s death
Peter Matambanadzo Senior ReporterTWO widows who lost their husband after he was fatally run over by a dumper at Mbada Diamonds in Chiadzwa last year are now claiming US$700 000 as compensation from the mining firm. The two, Mrs Egnia Nyanzou and Mrs Mwanyara Njanji, blame the company for the death of their husband, Netsai David Matsika last year. He was working at the mine
Woman burns baby
Prosper Dembedza Herald ReporterA 29-YEAR-OLD woman from Sadza in Mashonaland East province last week allegedly threw her newly born baby in a kitchen hut and set it ablaze in a bid to conceal the baby’s death, police have said. Evelyn Madzima of Dekera homestead in Muzhanje Village under Chief Neshangwe was arrested for contravening Section 48 of the Criminal Law
Dissolution of Parly left me broke: MDC-T MP
Lovemore Meya Court ReporterFORMER Chitungwiza South MDC-T legislator Misheck Shoko has said the automatic dissolution of Parliament on June 29 robbed him of income and wants a downward variation of the maintenance he is paying for his three children from US$400 to US$180. In his application for the variation, Shoko said he was no longer able to pay the money for the
President lauds progress of poll processes
Morris Mkwate recently in MASERU, Lesotho
PRESIDENT Mugabe says processes leading to the July 31 harmonised elections are moving smoothly in full view of poll observers drawn from different progressive nations, including Sadc and the African Union. Speaking at a State banquet hosted on the eve of King Letsie III’s 50th birthday celebrations in Lesotho on Tuesday, Cde Mugabe said