adminEDITORIAL COMMENT: Proposal to reduce retirement age noble
THE proposal by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare that the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) should reduce retirement age to be in sync with…
Cecil: Fame in Africa’s zoological garden
Cecil is dead, killed by James Palmer, an American dentist. He was 13. He has followed the death-steps of his namesake, John Cecil Rhodes, who left this earth in 1902. Rhodes…
August 8: Happy and sad historic day
ON this historical day, 52 years ago, the party of liberation and part of the current ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union was born, as an offshoot of the…
Quakes rattle DRC, Rwanda
KIGALI/KINSHASA. — A strong earthquake struck Rwanda and shook most of the capital Kigali yesterday morning. The magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Rwanda at 3:25am local time, the United States Geological Survey…
Vaccines in short supply as meningitis epidemic erupts
LAGOS. — International health officials are scrambling to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon. The first large-scale outbreak of the C strain…
Habitual armed robbers nabbed
Freeman Razemba Crime Reporter A gang of 12 armed robbers released from prison recently, was on Thursday arrested in Norton and Zengeza following a spate of armed robberies committed countrywide. The syndicate…
Rapist dad (39) jailed 18 years
Daniel Kachere Herald Correspondent A Harare man, who raped his 13-year-old daughter after giving her a glass of Mazoe Orange Crush juice laced with an unknown substance that made her lose…
Vendor kills partner over movie language
Bulawayo Bureau A Matobo vegetable vendor allegedly fatally attacked his friend and business partner with a stone following an argument on the language used by characters in a movie they…
Boy (5) exposes sex scandal
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A five-year-old boy from Chitungwiza sold out his assailant to his grandmother by telling her how he was allegedly sexually abused by her landlord’s son aged 14. The…
Failure to meet targets reflection of economy
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been failing to meet successive revenue targets set by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, which has impacted on Government’s ability to function effectively.…