Family in flowery cancer fight after loss

DEDICATING a percentage of your income to aid children with cancer is a noble cause that can change the lives of children with the chronic condition and a Bulawayo family…

Byo Polytech diarrhoea outbreak confirmed

A RECENT diarrhoea scare that hit the Bulawayo Polytechnic and saw hundreds of students being treated for varying degrees of the ailment, has seen the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) fingering…

Senegal prime minister sacked after losing election

Senegal’s president has sacked Prime Minister Aminata Toure, who has only been in power since September, less than a week after her ruling party was beaten in local elections.

South African metal workers ‘reject wage offer’

Striking South African engineering and metals workers have rejected an improved wage offer to end the country’s largest-ever strike, firms say, as the stoppage begins to affect the vital car-manufacturing…

Car bomb kills two near Somali parliament

A suicide car bomb has killed at least five people in an attack at the entrance of the Somali parliament, witnesses told AI Jazeera. The blast yesterday killed at least…

Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison

CAIRO – An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison yesterday, the court’s judge said, for inciting violence that erupted after the army deposed Islamist…

400 fuel trucks set ablaze in Afghanistan

A massive fire has destroyed more than 400 vehicles carrying fuel and oil for US-led forces near Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, police say. Afghan police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanekzai said…

Moyo on Dr Joshua Nkomo

HE was reported by the Rhodesian Press as being the first “native millionaire” and was the first transport operator to bring a diesel-powered bus to the Matabeleland region.

Future not bleak after all, says ZNCC 2014 Businesswoman of the Year

BUSINESSES in Zimbabwe especially Bulawayo have been scaling down operations or closing down due to financial constraints but the future is not all that bleak as witnessed by the performance…

Makomo targets to export 90 000t to SA

THE country’s biggest coal mine — Makomo Resources — is targeting to export 90 000 tonnes of coal to South Africa once it commissions its $14 million washing plant as…

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