admin4 ex-convicts gang back in court
Thandeka Moyo Court Reporter FOUR ex-convicts went back to their old ways and robbed a Hope Fountain miner of his pistol and goods worth nearly $1,000 at gunpoint, a court…
Redcliff council unveils 10,000 stands
Timoth Makohliso Midlands Reporter REDCLIFF Municipality has unveiled 10,000 residential stands to beneficiaries on the housing waiting list, the mayor Councillor Fred Kapuya has said. He said the residential stands…
Death toll up as looting spreads across Gauteng
Johannesburg – National police yesterday put the official death toll during looting of foreign-owned shops across Gauteng at five. This is despite seven people being killed in violence involving foreign…
Choppies targets 60-plus stores in Zim
Charity Ruzvidzo Business Reporter RETAIL supermarkets giant Choppies Enterprises says 2015 is the year for broadening its empire and opening more outlets across the country. Siqokoqela Mphoko, the company’s director,…
Microfinance trust to avail $12m for on-lending
Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter THE Zimbabwe Microfinance Wholesale Facility Trust (ZMWWFT) targets to grow cumulative loan disbursement to microfinance institutions to about $12 million this year from $6.7 million…
Namibia parly wants to legalise wife swapping
Wife swapping among Namibia’s nomadic tribes has been practised for generations but a legislator’s call to enshrine it in law has stirred debate about women’s rights and tradition in modern…
AfDB hopeful meets President
AFRICAN Development Bank presidential candidate Thomas Zondo Sakala yesterday paid a courtesy call on President Robert Mugabe at his Munhumutapa offices to appraise him on his campaign to land the…
Editorial Comment: Don’t put commuters’ lives at risk
Kombis have replaced buses in urban areas and are providing a vital service to city commuters. Workers rely on kombis that ferry them to work and back. What the kombi…
500k artisanal miners to benefit from $100m equipment facility
Senior Business Reporter CLOSE to half a million small-scale miners are set to benefit from the government’s $100 million mechanisation facility with operators now working on organising themselves into syndicates…
The blessing phenomenon
Snr Rev Sarah Nyathi Open Heavens IT may happen that after we have observed all the commands of God, prayed, fasted, given and even sought deliverance, we may note that…