Council owed $24 million
Senior Reporter CASH-STRAPPED Mutare City Council is owed more than $24 million by defaulting households and businesses, a situation that has greatly affected service delivery.
Bad times stalk small-scale farmers
Senior Farming Reporter THE 2014/15 tobacco season may turn out to be probably the worst for the bulk of small-scale tobacco farmers whose current crop has dropped in yield and…
Comment: Headlands people have spoken on Mutasa
The sizeable crowd of Zanu-PF supporters, estimated at over 4 000, which gathered at short notice in Headlands last week to endorse the dismissal from the ruling party of Didymus…
Nyanga villager jailed for assaulting policeman
Talent Simbi ASSAULTING police officers on duty earned a Nyanga man a six-month jail term. Simbarashe Masandudzi (29) of Kanyuru Village under Chief Saunyama was sentenced by Nyanga provincial
Armyworm outbreak hits Nyanga, Makoni
Samuel Kadungure Senior Farming Reporter A DEVASTATING army-worm outbreak has hit the province’s two major staple maize producing zones in Makoni and Nyanga — where efforts to control them have…
Bank liquidation challenged
Ngoni Dapira FERRO Consulting (Pvt) Ltd the holding company of Sanhanga Properties has challenged the liquidation of Allied Bank demanding its Mutare branch to handle its rental arrears case separately,…
I’ve slept in rooms more often with Roberto Carlos than women’
WITH all the glitz and glamour of being an international football icon, you may have thought comes a wealth of beautiful women. But former Brazil superstar Ronaldo would have you…
Health services decentralisation critical
Ngoni Dapira THE Ministry of Health and Child Care intends to decentralise health services by upgrading clinics with basic laboratory and diagnostic equipment to avoid congestion at district hospitals.
ISIS demands $200m ransom
ISLAMIC State this week released a video threatening the lives of two Japanese hostages and demanding a $200m (£130m) ransom from their government.
No threat to Mugabe’s AU, SADC reign
Mukachana Hanyani THE so-called political analysts tend to think that their views are so impeccable to the extent that they can sway the public opinion into believing their misguided perceptions.

