Giving life to mbira: Embracing change and innovation

Pathisa Nyathi THIS is the last instalment on the mbira musical instrument. The emphasis of this article is to bring to the fore the pitfall or dangers that the mbira…

Editorial Comment: National housing scheme welcome

THE provision of housing has been one of the most critical issues of our Government’s social policy since the attainment of independence in 1980. The Government has come up with…

Pharmacies smuggle unregistered drugs

Tinomuda Chakanyuka  Sunday News Reporter LOCAL retail pharmaceutical companies say they are being compelled to smuggle unregistered life-saving drugs from neighbouring countries, noting that regulations imposed by the Medicines Control…

Masvingo records 24 000 STI cases

Walter Mswazie  Masvingo Correspondent MASVINGO province has recorded 24 000 cases of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in the year 2014, a slap in the face of efforts to reduce HIV…

Did you know? – Cancer risk factors

Tobacco WORLDWIDE, tobacco use is the single largest causative factor for cancer, accounting for 30 percent of all cancer deaths in developed countries. Tobacco smoke contains approximately 4 000 chemical…

New court for Esigodini

Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC), through funding from the Danish Government, has constructed a new magistrates’ court in Esigodini, at a cost of $80 000. The…

Mysterious fire burns two Entumbane houses

Mncedisi Buhali Sunday News Reporter A MYSTERIOUS fire which reportedly started out of nothing in two adjacent houses in Entumbane in Bulawayo destroyed property worth thousands of dollars. The incident,…

Chief Hobodo installed

Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent ADOLPH Ncube has been appointed as the new chief of Hobodo area in Mangwe district to mark an end to a two-year-long wrangle over the chieftaincy.…

Four illegal Ethiopian immigrants arrested

Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau POLICE have arrested four illegal Ethiopian immigrants in Beitbridge who were enroute to South Africa through an illegal crossing point along the Limpopo River. A Bulawayo…

Razor blade rapist languishes in remand prison

Tinomuda Chakanyuka Sunday News Reporter A 19-YEAR-OLD man from Mberengwa suspected of waylaying schoolchildren while wielding a razor blade and a knife before raping them, is languishing in remand prison…

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