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- June 14, 2020
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Weekend behind bars for Nguwaya
Delish Nguwaya, a country representative for Drax Consult SAGL and Drax International (LLC), yesterday appeared in court on allegations of defrauding the Government of US$42 million in a botched medicinal products deal.
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- June 14, 2020
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Parliament and the death penalty
NEXT month, Zimbabwe will mark 15 years since the last execution of a prisoner on death row.
As a result, Zimbabwe is considered a de facto abolitionist State, despite retaining capital punishment on its statutes.
There are 84 prisoners on death row right now.
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- June 14, 2020
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Chikoko’s big year
IN his wildest of dreams, Zimbabwe basketball captain Vitalis Chikoko might not have envisaged waking up one day being the French league’s best player.
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- June 14, 2020
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300k cattle succumb to drought, disease
At least 300 000 cattle died last year owing to drought and disease, a latest national report has revealed.
According to the Second Round Crop and Livestock Assessment Report 2019/2020 Season, over 66 000 cattle died because of shortages of water and pastures.
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- June 14, 2020
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Lobola hasn’t been banned: Ziyambi
The Marriages Bill does not outlaw the payment of bride price (lobola), but it seeks to prohibit marriage officers from requesting proof of payment of the same when solemnising a customary marriage, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.
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- June 14, 2020
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Telling a ‘black’ story
TEEN dramas are a dime a dozen (so abounding as to be valueless).
But the 2018 film “The Hate You Give” proves to be one of the best and eye-opening instalments of the genre.
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- June 14, 2020
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A case for adopting the Rand
Calls have been made by various economic agents on how the country should resolve the prevailing local currency ($) instability epitomised by a depreciating exchange rate.
The official rate is pegged at $25:US$1, while the parallel rate has gone beyond $60:US$1. It is important to distinguish the peculiar challenges Zimbabwe faces when coming up with a plausible route for achieving currency stability.
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- June 14, 2020
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Boterekwa collapse a tip of the iceberg
SEVEN years ago, reports surfaced that a two-roomed house in “Scenic Shurugwi” had disappeared into a sinkhole after a mine tunnel collapsed.
Although no one was inside the house, the hair-raising incident left the community shocked.
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- June 14, 2020
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Govt mulls fuel price hike
Fuel prices might be reviewed upwards in order to address biting “artificial shortages” of the commodity on the local market, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has hinted.
In an interview with Zimbabwe Television Network (ZTN) on Friday, the Minister said the current price is heavily subsidised and not market-led.
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- June 14, 2020
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‘A year into Uhuru, we remained in Mozambique’
He was still training in Mozambique when the war in Rhodesia ended in December 1979. That period saw a majority of freedom fighters return from foreign camps to Rhodesia to prepare for a new Zimbabwe. Those who operated in the country moved to Assembly Points. But Cde Alfred Mushaninga (AM) is one of the fighters who remained holed up in Mozambique for more than a year after independence. The former liberation fighter narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati (LM) what was going on.