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LONDON. — Barclays will launch a £5,8 billion rights issue next week to help meet a regulatory demand to plug a hole in its balance sheet, the British bank said…
Fighting a serious societal vice
Just after midnight, Bambo heard some serious commotion in the next room. First, were heavy thuds of blows being exchanged, coupled with muffled low voices coming out in gasps. As…
Of troops and dollars in DRC
Masimba Tafirenyika As the United Nations intervention brigade takes up positions to confront armed rebels in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expectations are high among…
Ghana MNP subscribers head for one million mark
ACCRA. — Ghana’s National Communications Authority projects the number of subscribers that ported networks to hit one million by next month. This follows the number of subscribers who successfully completed…
Miss Zim-UK on this Saturday
Tafadzwa Zimoyo Arts Correspondent The annual Miss Zimbabwe-United Kingdom will take place at the Quality Skyline Hotel in the United Kingdom where several women are expected to take part. Young…
‘Elysium’ lively and cheerful
Film review by Demetria Hamandishe “Elysium” is an American science fiction action thriller written, co-produced and directed by Neil Blomkamp, the same man responsible for the much praised “District 9”…
Why Church, State must join hands
Stephen Mpofu Features Correspondent CHURCH and State in Zimbabwe are not enemies but indispensable allies who must embrace one another and fight together to shame the enemy who wants to…
Olympus faces prosecution in UK
TOKYO. — Britain’s Serious Fraud Office will prosecute Olympus and its subsidiary over a huge loss cover-up scandal, the Japanese camera and medical equipment maker said yesterday. It is the…
Africom’s Guroo Business is good news for SMEs
Tonderai Rutsito Techspot Africom, arguably Zimbabwe’s leading converged ICT service provider, recently unveiled a “business in a box” concept set to revolutionise the way both SMEs and large corporates communicate.…
Samukange loses case
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter The High Court today threw out the US$5 million defamation lawsuit filed by Mudzi South legislator Mr Jonathan Samukange against losing candidate Cde Eric Navaya. Mr…