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Pretoria – ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was one of the “concerned MPs” who leaked information on the 1999 arms deal, the Seriti Commission of Inquiry heard yesterday. “One of the…
Mozambique ballot papers stolen
Maputo – Twenty-six boxes of ballot papers to be used in local elections in Mozambique this month have been stolen from a truck, the country’s national election authority said on…
Colombian tribe members killed by lightning
Eleven members of a remote indigenous tribe along Colombia’s Caribbean coast have been killed after a lightning bolt struck a thatch-roofed hut where they were gathered. Military officials said that another…
Street battles as ISIL enters Syria’s Kobane
Fighters from ISIL have penetrated the Syrian town of Kobane for the first time, sparking street-to-street fighting and an order from its Kurdish defenders for all civilians to flee. Two black…
MDC- T withdraws from future by-elections
Harare Bureau— The MDC-T has withdrawn from participating in all future by-elections in the wake of heavy defeats that it has successively suffered at the hands of Zanu-PF, party insiders…
Baba Jukwa trial: Chief investigating officer back from United States
Harare Bureau The chief investigating officer working on the alleged terrorism case implicating Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi and his brother, Phillip, has returned from the United States of America…
Axe-wielding sodomite,13, given 6 strokes
Midlands Reporter AN axe-wielding 13-year-old boy from Zvishavane ambushed and sodomised a five-year-old girl on her way from school, a court heard yesterday. The boy from Mukwekwe village under Chief Wedza…
Horror crash victims identified
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau POLICE have identified the eight people, among them three infants, who were killed when a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision…
NRZ loses $2m to defaulting suppliers
Zvamaida Murwira Harare Bureau THE National Railways of Zimbabwe could have been prejudiced of $2 million after suppliers paid to provide goods failed to do so, an audit has shown. The NRZ…
Pupil, 17, up for assault, attempted murder
Thubelihle Mabhena Court Reporter A 17-year-old former Hlangabeza High School pupil was yesterday arraigned before a magistrate’s court for allegedly attempting to kill a schoolmate by striking him with a brick…