adminCity council to launch housing scheme
Municipal Reporter Harare City is set to introduce a new housing scheme in which the local authority will service and sell residential stands to home-seekers in partnership with financial institutions…
Kombi driver gets $50 bail
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A commuter omnibus driver allegedly attempted to run over a police officer as he tried to evade arrest for picking up passengers at an undesignated point…
What did Jesus really look like?
Meredith J. C Warren Correspondent Currently making the news is a report on a reconstruction of what is being called Jesus’ face. The reconstruction, by British anatomical artist Richard Neave, is…
James Anderson ruled out
LONDON. — England paceman James Anderson has been ruled out of the first Test cricket against South Africa with a calf injury, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.
Dawn explores new business model
Business Reporter Dawn Properties has started exploring a business model that leverages on the balance sheet in a bid to unlock value after recording a 14 percent slump in revenue…
Black unemployment still a crisis
Less than half of working-age people in South Africa are employed, with black people still bearing most of the brunt of unemployment, the South African Institute for Race Relations latest…
Silicon Valley’s secretive start-up raises $880m
Palantir Technologies, an ultra-secretive “big data” start-up in Silicon Valley, has raised a whopping $880 million, according to a filing from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday.
Huawei hits 100m smartphones in 2015
BEIJING. – The Huawei Consumer Business Group shipped more than 100-million smartphones worldwide in 2015. Over the last five years, shipments of Huawei’s smartphones have increased more than 3 000 percent,…
Players boycott camp
LAHORE. — Pakistan cricket yesterday braced for another storm when former Twenty20 captain Mohammad Hafeez and current one-day skipper Azhar Ali refused to train with tainted paceman Mohammad Amir in…
90pc shop at informal markets: Deloitte
South African brands dominate the formal African retail landscape, but around 90 percent of Africa’s population still shops at informal markets, supporting informal traders rather than formal shopping centres, according…