Everyone must fight graft: ED

Zimbabweans should untiringly fight corruption as it is currently deep-seated in most State institutions such as the police, National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Judiciary, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday.

Sulu teases Sekuru Ndunge’s followers

DENDERA crooner Suluman “Sulu” Chimbetu has fired a salvo at the late well known traditional healer, Charles Makhuyana Ndunge’s followers.

Interrogating the national debt

Zimbabwe is currently hamstrung by debt to an extent that if a robust debt-management strategy, buttressed by fiscal discipline, is not adopted to manage both the foreign and domestic debt, this may affect our pursuit of Vision 2030.

Chakabva makes it count

REGIS Chakabva insisted on practicing despite carrying ‘niggles’ from the first ODI against UAE last Monday.

After making light work of UAE in the first ODI, Zimbabwe coach Lalchand Rajput called for an optional practice the next day.

Preps for civil service registration complete

Government has completed preliminary work for a planned head count of civil servants through a biometric registration system that will be rolled out before year-end.

Jesuits launch Cyclone Idai appeal. . . Catholic bishop relives mass trauma

AS the Jesuits in Southern Africa launched a fundraising appeal for victims of Cyclone Idai at Aruppe University recently, a strong sense of trauma played out in a room that was filled with a number of Roman Catholic clergy.

Revisiting the Mavonde battle

The Battle of Mavonde, also known as the Battle of Monte Cassino, was a duel fought during the Lancaster House talks that pitted a supposedly superior white Rhodesian Air Force against crack Zanla artillery, where the Rhodesians intended to weaken the Patriotic Front’s Zanu and Zapu’s bargaining power at the talks. This was, without doubt, the most decisive battle of the liberation struggle.

Of Wilfred Mugeyi, Boateng and MDC

Up until May 6 2015, arguably the most embarrassing episode in world football history was that last-gasp miss by Wilfred Mugeyi on January 25 2004 at Zimbabwe’s first appearance at the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals in Tunisia.

VP Chiwenga in Rwanda for key event

VICE PRESIDENT Dr Constantino Chiwenga arrived here yesterday for commemorations to mark the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, which saw Ethnic Hutu extremists slaughter over 800 000 minority Tutsis in just 100 days in 1994.

A rare million-dollar facelift for Mbare Flats …Singaporean firm promises to fix surrounding roads

When the 112-year-old Matapi Flats were scarred by a fiery fireball on July 24 last year, two days later its traumatised residents got an unlikely visitor — President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who visited the high-density suburb to get an appreciation of the scale of the calamity that had befallen the area.

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