adminDefaulting cotton farmers lose property
ByTakunda Maodza recently in CHIREDZI
FARMERS in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces are crying foul after the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe attached their property and livestock following their failure to honour contracts they entered into under an inputs support scheme.
Be masters of your destiny: President
Midlands Bureau Chief
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday reiterated the need for Zimbabweans to embrace the indigenisation of the economy as it seeks to empower people.
All stars Big Brother Africa Munya make or break
Entertainment Editor
THE nomination of Munyaradzi Chidzonga, the Zimbabwean representative in Dstv’s reality show Big Brother Africa All Stars, for eviction this Sunday, is a make or break for him.
Zim singer faces deportation from UK
Entertainment Reporter
Zimbabwean aspiring musician Gamu Nhengu whose dropping from the music X Factor ITV talent show in the UK on Sunday sparked worldwide condemnation
Banks accused of failing to support up-and-coming businesspeople
Masvingo Correspondent
FINANCIAL institutions have come under fire from Masvingo businesspeople for allegedly not living up to the expectations of the local business community.
Econet to introduce free life insurance cover for subscribers
Business Reporter
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe and insurance giant First Mutual Life have entered into a deal
Surveying of new irrigation scheme complete
Government has completed preliminary surveying and pegging of the proposed Nhema Irrigation Scheme in the drought-prone Zaka District.
Allowing pupils maternity leave would be setting bad precedent
By Nancy Nyamhunga
WHILE the Government’s efforts of finally recognising the discriminatory nature of the education system which only punishes the girl child for falling pregnant while remaining silent on the boy child must be applauded, the prescribed solution on how to make things right, is in my humble opinion, wrong.
Vanity of alienated knowledge
ON September 18, Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister wrote a piece titled “It’s All About The Zanu-PF DNA” in the Saturday Herald, and he made a detailed analysis of Nathaniel Manheru’s September 4 piece published by the same paper and titled “Privileged proletarians: when the beautiful ones are not yet enough”.
Girl (16) burnt for ‘infidelity’
By Pamela ShumbaA 16-year-old girl sustained serious injuries on Tuesday when she was kidnapped, burnt on the face, chest and between her legs