Graft lands ex-mines minister in jail
Lusaka — Zambia’s former mines minister Maxwell Mwale last Friday was jailed for a year on graft charges linked to the irregular issuing of a mining licence to a Chinese…
Putin condemns Nemtsov murder
The Russian president has vowed to bring to justice those behind the murder of opposition figure Boris Nemtsov. “Everything will be done for the organisers and executors of this vile and…
Brotherhood members get death sentences
An Egyptian court has handed down death sentence to four members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement while condemning 14 other to life in prison. The men sentenced to death are…
Mexico captures drug lord
Mexico City — Mexican police nabbed most-wanted drug lord Servando Gomez last Friday, a former schoolteacher whose Knights Templar cartel tormented western Michoacan state, smuggled drugs to the US and…
Council to retrench workers
Vusumuzi Dube Municipal Correspondent THE Bulawayo City Council has set itself on a collision course with its workers with reports that the local authority is revisiting a previous failed resolution to…
Two killed, 37 injured in Mbalabala accident
Tinomuda Chakanyuka Sunday News Reporter TWO people died and 37 others were injured early yesterday morning when a bus they were travelling in from Masvingo to Victoria Falls collided with a…
Beitbridge avails 400 housing stands
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau THE Beitbridge Rural District council has started allocating 400 residential stands as it moves to ease accommodation challenges which have become perennial in the border town. Mr Albert…
RBZ donated equipment lies idle
Dumisani Nsingo Senior Reporter THREE state-of-the-art grinding mills and heavy-duty generators to power each of the mills have been lying idle in Hwange District for the past six years after the…
Woman discovers hubby’s other marriage in court
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent A DECISION by a Masvingo woman to drag her “irresponsible” hubby to the civil court for child support earned her more than what she had bargained for…
Baby killer mother dies
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A TEENAGE mum who killed her seven-month-old baby before trying to kill herself by drinking termite poison has died after a six-day stay at Plumtree District Hospital. Thokozile…




