JUST IN: Intratrek wins $25m ZPC contract lawsuit

Intratrek Zimbabwe has won its lawsuit against the Zimbabwe Power Company for breach of contract, with the High Court declaring a multi-million dollar contract signed between the parties for the Gwanda solar project valid or alternatively payment of $25 million damages for the breach.

Woman strangles new born baby, dumps it in latrine

Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent A 26-YEAR-OLD Gwanda woman has appeared in court for allegedly strangling her new born baby to death and dumping the body in a pit latrine at…

Turkey train crash: At least nine dead in Ankara

A crash involving a high-speed train at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara has killed at least nine people and injured 47, Turkey’s transport minister has said. Images from…

Stock theft cops imprisoned for 24 years

Tendai Bhebe, Sunday News Reporter TWO police officers stationed at Fort Rixon in Insiza District, Matabeleland South who were recently arrested for stock theft and bribery have each been slapped…

JUST IN: Gvt processing 50-plus investment applications

An interim board tasked to establish the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Authority is assessing more than 50 investment applications which it will forward to President Mnangagwa for approval.

SA joins African Tripartite Free Trade Area

JOHANNESNURG. — South Africa has deposited the instrument of ratification of an agreement establishing the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said on Thursday.

Thousands of voting machines in DRC gutted by fire

KINSHASA. – Democratic Republic of Congo says thousands of voting machines have been destroyed in an overnight fire just 10 days before the presidential election, but officials vow it will not disrupt the vote.

Election-related uncertainty tends to hurt African economies: report

CAPE TOWN. — Political instability tends to peak around election time for some African nations, which affects economic growth, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Gandhi statue removed after student protest in Ghana

ACCRA. – A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from Ghana’s most prestigious university after complaints that he was racist against black Africans.

How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues

Lee Smales Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in…

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