Inferno razes judge’s farm
Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva was recently taken ill with hypertension (blood pressure) after his Sub-Division 5 Ally Slopter Farm on the outskirts of Gweru…
Low turnout blights BVR exercise
Elita chikwati Senior Reporter— AS the first phase of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) reaches midway, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has so far registered only 675 762 voters, which is 9,7…
Prepaid water meters for Zvishavane
Munyaradzi Doma in Zvishavane Zvishavane Town Council plans to spend $100 000 on prepaid water meters as the mining town augments revenue to improve service delivery. Council is struggling to…
AU dismayed by Libya ‘slave trade’
ADDIS ABABA. -The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has learned with dismay of reports on the auctioning of African migrants in Libya as slaves, according…
Africa must finance own civil registration: Mudede
Leonard Ncube Bulawayo Bureau— AFRICAN governments must come up with budgets to finance civil registration amid concerns that the continent is under siege from Western countries that use donor agencies to…
Netanyahu faces fresh grilling
TEL AVIV. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to be questioned by police yesterday for the second time this month over two alleged cases of corruption, media reports…
Sacked leaders named on Catalan electoral lists
MADRID. – Jailed and exiled figures from Catalonia’s separatist movement feature prominently in party lists unveiled by the region’s pro-independence factions, ahead of elections called for December 21.
Govts commit to reduce deaths from non-communicable diseases
Heads of State and Government and ministers from around the world today committed to new and bold action to reduce suffering and death from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), primarily heart and…
Tsikamutanda fined
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A ploy to defraud an ailing Beatrice man of $250 by a teenage tsikamutanda ended badly after he was caught red-handed trying to plant a fake goblin. Blessed…
80pc Nigeria crashes blamed on human error
LAGOS. – Nigeria’s road commission yesterday said 80 percent of road accidents across the country were as a result of human factor. People contributed to lots of crashes on the…









