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Arts Reporter Preparations for Culture Week commemorations are underway. This year’s theme is “Culture Week: Towards Increased Community Participation”. The commemorations will run from May 21 to May 27 and will…
Zimra official charged with abuse of office
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau A 28-YEAR-OLD revenue specialist employed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been charged with criminal abuse of office after he failed to surrender a date stamp when…
Shasha talent search preps begin
Sophia Chese Arts Correspondent Auditions for a new talent search show are under way with those interested already registering for the competitions which will kick start in May. Shasha Talent Search is…
Are refugee camps factories for terrorists?
Cora Currier Correspondent After gunmen attacked shoppers at Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013, killing 67 people and injuring dozens more, Kenyan authorities did not hesitate to blame the violence…
Govt to roll out pilot solar geyser project
Herald Reporter GOVERNMENT will next month embark on a pilot solar geyser project as the nation phases out electric ones. Addressing delegates at a national water heating stakeholders consultative workshop…
Ban Ki-moon’s diplomatic mask slips, with consequences
Simon Allison Correspondent In Western Sahara, Ban Ki-moon did something unexpected and decidedly undiplomatic: he said what he thought. But in describing the situation as an “occupation”, he infuriated the…
Imperial math: Counting the dead
Thomas S. Harrington Correspondent Last week, immediately following the bloody attacks in Brussels, Michael Morrell, the former number-two at the CIA, proclaimed that ISIS is “winning” its ongoing confrontation with the…
‘IMF to resume Malawi loan programme’
LILONGWE. — The International Monetary Fund will resume Malawi’s $150 million extended facility programme which was suspended last year after a scandal involving abuse of state money, the country’s finance…
MSU employee commits suicide
Munyaradzi Musiiwa Midlands Correspondent ANOTHER Midlands State University employee killed himself after a heated argument with his wife. Themba Manjoro, employed by MSU under the campus police department, hanged himself in Senga…
De-campaigning Zim through falsehoods
Bernard Bwoni Correspondent To say that opposition politics in Zimbabwe is unimaginative and wholly uninspiring is an epic show of restraint with words out of respect. There is this very…