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ADDIS ABABA. – Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday swore in the country’s first female supreme court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to achieve gender parity in government.…
One ‘black box’ recovered from Indonesia jet
JAKARTA. – A black box from the crashed Lion Air jet has been recovered, authorities said Thursday, a find that could be critical to establishing why a brand new jet plunged…
ZTA decries high hotel price increases
Herald Reporter The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) on Wednesday met tourism industry players over pricing, the state of tourism and to find ways of manoeuvring the prevailing economic challenges in…
Fall armyworm control training for farmers
Emmah Chinyamutangira Manicaland Correspondent THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is training its facilitators to capacitate farmers on how to control the spread of fall armyworm and other pests that…
Music divas invade the ghetto
Arts Correspondent A number of female musicians will tomorrow join hands to prove their mettle in a show dubbed “Divas Ghetto Invasion” that takes place at Usahwira Bar in Highfield.…
Rand firmer
JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa’s rand traded firmer early yesterday, stepping back from a three-week low as investors pared some of their long dollar positions ahead of much-watched US jobs data.…
$700m for major highway rehab
GOVERNMENT will now rehabilitate and widen the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway over the next three years at a cost of $693 million, while dualisation will only take place on some sections of the road.
Retracing origins of the Chirandu clan: Part 4
Claude Maredza Correspondent These people today are found mainly in the Masvingo, Mberengwa and Buhera/Chivhu areas of Zimbabwe as the main original areas they settled in but with urbanisation, a…
Damn right Africans embrace nationalism
Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye For those Africans residing on the homefront, who are analysing the mood, sentiments and exact political temperature of their extended kith and kin languishing in the…
JSC grills acting PG Hodzi
ACTING Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi was yesterday grilled for allegedly not doing enough to effectively prosecute high-profile corruption cases in his first 93 days as head of prosecution.