adminPolice quizzed in suspect’s escape
Crime Reporter The suspected burglar who escaped from Harare Central Police Station holding cells on Sunday evening could have been assisted by some police officers.
Leather industry gets boost
Rumbidzai Zinyuke Business Reporter Government has stepped up measures to curtail the exportation of raw hides by introducing a US$0,75 export tax on every kilogramme of raw hide in a…
Older Persons’ Board faces mammoth task
Conrad Gweru IMAGINE living in a community for say 80 years, and the next day someone knocks on your door and accuses you of witchcraft. Accusations can be due to…
Jeep Man actor Raymond Hall dies
RAYMOND Hall, who played Jeep Man in the 1978 movie Rockers, died last Saturday at age 68. Hall was pronounced dead at the Kingston Public Hospital, his niece Patrice Minott…
Economic impact of land reforms in Zim: Part II
Pranjal Bajaj When Zimbabwe got independence in 1980, 4 500 white farmers — that is five percent of population — owned 70 percent of the productive cultivable land.
Guide Maphosa dies
Sports Reporter ONE of the most highly qualified female athletics coaches in Zimbabwe, Guide Maphosa, has died. She was 46.
Robbers gun down foreign currency dealers
Freeman Razemba and Munyaradzi Musiwa A Boxing Day shooting at Ngundu Business Centre left a foreign currency dealer dead and three others seriously injured when two armed robbers pounced on…
Curing colonial hangovers
Nkwazi Mhango The Zimbabwean ruling party Zanu-PF recently passed a resolution to rename the Victoria Falls. “Institutions bearing colonial names must be changed and be given indigenous names . .…
Kallis quits Test cricket
DURBAN .— It turned out to be an emotional 12 months for Test cricket as South Africa’s indefatigable warhorse Jacques Kallis quit the format, having cemented his place as statistically…
How Mine speak on Mbada subsidy
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter HOW Mine are dragging their feet on the Mbada Diamonds subsidy with speculation coming out that the Bulawayo side are taking their time to look into…