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Russian courts yesterday ordered the temporary closure of three McDonald’s restaurants in Moscow over breaches of sanitary rules, news agencies reported, amid a standoff with the West over Ukraine. The restaurants…
Zesa wage dispute referred for arbitration
Harare Bureau ZESA Holdings might have accumulated a staggering $130 million in arrears arising from a 2012 collective bargaining agreement salary increase it has refused to honour and is contesting.…
Nico Orgo invests in new plants
ORGANIC fertilizer company, Nico Orgo, said yesterday it will invest $2 million in two new manufacturing plants to increase output to over 200,000 tonnes per annum. Nico Orgo is a fertilizer…
Girl,10, hangs -Horror shocks Byo suburb -Family suspects foul play
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter— A 10-YEAR-OLD girl has been found hanged from a tree in Bulawayo’s Emganwini suburb. The body of Zwivhuya Buhle Mulaudzi, a Grade Five pupil at Senzangakhona Primary…
Naison Ndlovu reconsiders VP stance
Nduduzo Tshuma Senior Political Reporter— ZANU-PF politburo member Cde Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu could be rethinking his decision not to enter the race for the party’s second vice presidency, despite initially…
Zim bags mega deals in China
From Lloyd Gumbo in BEIJING, China— Zimbabwe struck more mega deals in China with agreements over funding and feasibility studies of power projects, road dualisation and railway line construction being…
Mazwi Game Sanctuary invaders besiege court
Mpumelelo Nyoni Court Reporter— NEARLY 200 people who were illegally settled at Bulawayo City Council-owned Mazwi Game Sanctuary besieged Western Commonage Court yesterday where two alleged Zanu-PF supporters appeared facing…
Zesa tariff hike shot down
Nduduzo Tshuma Senior Reporter THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has turned down an application for a 5 percent tariff hike by a subsidiary of power utility, Zesa. The Zimbabwe…
Water activist Payne dies
Bongani Ndlovu Chronicle Correspondent VETERAN water activist Arnold Payne has died. He was 74. Payne who in 1992, pushed a wheelbarrow carrying 210 litres of water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo and…
Zanu-PF faction fights ‘hurt economy’: Msipa
Kamangeni Phiri Midlands Bureau Chief THE intra-party fighting and factionalism bedevilling the ruling Zanu-PF ahead of the party’s elective Congress is retrogressive and anti-developmental, former Midlands Governor Cephas Msipa has said. Cde…