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From Lloyd Gumbo in MUTARE Beneficiaries of the fast track land redistribution exercise and traditional leaders in Mashonaland East province say corruption and underhand dealings are rampant in land allocations,…
Mobile money promotes bank accounts growth
Matsvimbo Dida : Financial Inclusion Matters The recent growth of mobile money world-wide enabled millions of people who were otherwise excluded from formal financial systems, to now perform financial transactions relatively…
Europe’s ‘Bought Journalists’
Thomas S. Harrington : Correspondent Not that long ago in Europe, one had to go to a church, a temple or a mosque to imbibe industrial quantities of religious doctrine. Since the…
Zim explores alternatives to flue-cured Virginia tobacco
Small-scale tobacco farmers in the Burma Valley embarked on a cigar wrapper tobacco project this season. Cigar wrapper is tobacco leaf used as the outermost covering of a cigar, surrounding the…
Fight the good fight
VATICAN CITY. — Pope Francis yesterday urged athletes heading to the Rio Olympics to fight the “good fight”, aiming not for medals but solidarity in a world “sick with cruelty”.
Chapungu edge Sugar Sugar Boys
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Neymar under the spotlight
RIO DE JANEIRO. — Brazil has barely got over its World Cup soccer disaster and now it is counting on Barcelona star Neymar to finally deliver a treasured first football…
Chitiga appointed NSSA GM
Business Reporter THE National Social Security Authority has appointed former Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe chief executive Elizabeth Chitiga as substantive general manager on a fixed three term renewable contract,…
Theo wants wing position
LONDON. — He was once hailed as the next great thing in English football, a teenage wonder-kid with the world at his feet. Ten years later, after a difficult journey of…
Zlatan believes in Rooney
MANCHESTER. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes Wayne Rooney can be his “perfect partner” in attack for Manchester United this season. The Swedish forward was expected to make his first appearance at Old…