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Runesu Gwidi Herald Correspondent Traditional leaders in Bikita have come under fire for allowing the mushrooming of illegal settlements that are being blamed for deforestation as a result of rampant…
Son axes mother (88)
Midlands Correspondent Police in Gokwe are investigating the murder of an 88-year-old woman who was allegedly axed by her son, who accused her of witchcraft. It is believed that on…
Chitungwiza Fair returns with a bang
Yeukai Karengezeka Herald Correspondent The ongoing Chitungwiza Trade Fair, which was organised by Chitungwiza Publicity Association (CPA), has returned on a high note, with more than 25 companies exhibiting at…
Kariba ramps up solid waste strategies
Mash West Correspondent Kariba Municipality will soon launch an integrated solid waste management plan as part of its long-term solid waste management strategy. The municipality’s director of housing and social…
Harare sticks to its guns on maternity fees
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Harare City Council has rejected Government’s directive to scrap maternity fees at its clinics, arguing that its health services are underfunded, hence it cannot afford to…
Lawyers, councils clash over by-laws
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Court Reporter Lawyers are challenging local authorities’ by-laws and resolutions compelling law firms to pay for traders’ licences in order to offer legal services. Such by-laws and…
City to probe fatal high-speed crash
Nyore Madzianike Manicaland Bureau Mutare City Council has launched an enquiry into circumstances surrounding the accident that claimed the lives of three municipal officers and injured four other people along…
Bogus cop, accomplice jailed
Manicaland Correspondent A bogus police officer and his accomplice will spend a year behind bars after being convicted of assaulting two women whom they accused of stealing a cellphone. Simbarashe…
R500 bribe lands 2 SA cops in trouble
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau South Africa’s organised crime-busting unit, the Hawks, have arrested two police officers for demanding a R500 bribe from an illegal Zimbabwean migrant they intercepted in Mokopane…
Retired headmaster not entitled to car, rules court
Manicaland Correspondent. A Mutare court last week dismissed a civil suit by Mutare Junior School’s ex-headmaster Mr Roger Sithole, who wanted the School Development Committee (SDC) to give him a…