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Oswell Moyo Chronicle Reporter THE Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Cde Lazarus Dokora yesterday allayed fears that the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) had scrapped this year’s June Ordinary and…
Ex-convict steals from prison farm
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent AN ex-convict from Plumtree has been jailed for stealing a goat from Plumtree Prison Farm, a week after he was released from the same prison. Levison Khumalo, 35,…
Scores killed in suicide bomb attacks on mosques during rush for prayers
Suicide bombers have attacked two mosques in the Yemeni capital during the rush for yesterday’s prayers, killing 90 people and injuring 280 others, sources have said. Three blasts were heard in…
Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to lock down 2.5 million people
Freetown – Sierra Leone said on Thursday it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at…
Libya warns of ISIL threat against Europe
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya will inflitrate Europe if the West fails to support Libyan forces with arms and ammunition, a top…
HIV/Aids breakthrough as drug makes men resistant to virus
A US drug, Truvada, currently under trials has proven to be effective in giving men 100 percent resistance from contracting the virus. Results of the PROUD and IPERGAY trials show that…
Netanyahu backtracks from Palestinian state
Jerusalem – Days after winning Israel’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be backtracking from hard-line statements that ruled out the establishment of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu says in a…
Sierra Leone replaces sacked VP
Freetown – Sierra Leone leader Ernest Bai Koroma has appointed and sworn in a new vice president, the presidency said on Thursday, a day after the sacked deputy vowed to…
Death penalty: Most cruel, inhuman and degrading form of punishment
Opinion Cuthbert Mavheko When Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, there were firm prospects that the new government would abolish the death penalty, which was described by then Prime Minister Cde Robert…
What an experience!
Showbiz Correspondent WHAT a launch, what a performance and what an experience! These words resonated from everyone’s lips as they came out of the venue of Sandra Ndebele-Sibindi’s seventh album launch. The…