admin‘Road runner’ deal backfires
Fungai Jachi Court Reporter A five-member gang last week appeared in court on allegations of fraud after it allegedly duped a prominent Ruwa businessman and commercial farmer Mr Joseph Mutangadura…
Jose blasts ball boys
NEWCASTLE. — Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho turned his ire on Newcastle United fans and even the ball boys on Saturday after his side’s 23-match unbeaten run was ended by a…
Typhoon Hagupit rips through Philippines
MANILA. — A powerful, slow-moving typhoon ripped through the central Philippines yesterday, bringing howling winds that flattened houses and toppled trees and power lines in areas still scarred from a…
Brainworks beefs up Dawn stake
Happiness Zengeni Business Editor Brainworks Capital has consolidated its position in Dawn Properties and is one step closer to getting alignment with African Sun following the purchase of additional shares…
14 poachers arrested in Kariba
Chinhoyi Bureau At least 14 suspected fish poachers were arrested recently and three fishing rigs recovered on Lake Kariba in an early morning raid that also saw the arrest of…
Govt okays new excise duty on cigarettes
Herald Reporter Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has gazetted a legal instrument that seeks to give effect to fiscal measures raising excise duty on cigarettes that he announced in the 2015…
Africa pinning its hopes on Lima
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story AS the annual climate talks opened in Lima, Peru, last week, the UN’s top climate change executive, Christina Figueres, highlighted that “consolidating of progress on adaptation…
War by media and propaganda
John Pilger Correspondent The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war — with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China.
Editorial Comment: Congress, what the doctor ordered
ZANU-PF’s 6th National People’s Congress has come and gone, leaving detractors at sixes and sevens, as they ponder a future without a listening post in the councils of Zanu-PF. This…
Fashionably coated in colour
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter Over 8 000 people from all walks of life thronged the Borrowdale Racecourse on Saturday for the Zimbabwe Colour Run amid pomp and fanfare. Men, women…