Mugabe properties riddle solved

Title to the Mugabe family’s Borrowdale home commonly referred as the Blue Roof, and the Mount Pleasant property given to Bona Mugabe-Chikore — the late former president Cde Robert Mugabe’s daughter — as a wedding gift in March 2014, will be transferred to the former First Family, Zanu-PF has reiterated.

Santa or no Santa, it’s still Xmas

IN years gone by, the festive mood associated with Christmas could be felt from the end of November.

The 13th cheque, company shut-downs and Christmas parties for workers were some of the tell-tale signs that the time-honoured Christmas celebration was around the corner.

Josta’s star shines

FIFTEEN minutes before midnight on Friday, the nation and even the Diaspora community were waiting for the announcement of the new king of domestic Premiership football.

However, his identity was not exactly a huge surprise when the Masters of Ceremony finally let out the well-kept secret.

Zim lobbies US against trophy imports ban

Zimbabwe has engaged United States wildlife management agencies to help lobby against the proposed law (Cecil Act) seeking to ban trophies from Africa, conservation advocates have revealed.

The US House of Natural Resources Committee in September this year passed the Cecil Act — a law that is likely to have serious ramifications to the country’s wildlife earnings.

Govt working on measures to climate-proof agric sector

Government has intensified efforts to reduce the effects of climate change on the country’s agro-based businesses following persistent droughts and cyclones in the recent past that left companies posting heavy losses.

Life can never be weighted, even with gold

“A united family eats from the same plate.”

So says a proverb from the Baganda, a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda (Uganda).

It might as well encapsulate values held by most, if not all Africans.

We have people’s concerns at heart: Zanu-PF

Deliberations at the annual indaba of the ruling party scheduled for Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, this week will mainly focus on “challenges facing the country”, particularly prices of basic commodities and improving people’s standards of living, Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has said.

Boxing’s judgment night

BESIDES being a former boxing champion, he is also a lawyer and a member of the Zimbabwe National Boxing Board of Control who does some sparring sessions during his free time, just to keep in shape.

But this time around, 40-year-old Modicai “Big Fish” Donga — a former Zimbabwe super welterweight champion who retired from the sport in 2011 — is back to some serious training for a “big purpose”.

Wife-beating sometimes justified: Study

About one in four African women — and even more African men — say wife-beating is at least sometimes justified, according to the latest Afrobarometer survey.

Milestone investment law imminent

After instituting reforms that saw the country move 15 places up global rankings that measure the ease of doing business this year, Government is on the cusp of another major milestone as the Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) Bill now awaits Presidential assent, it has been learnt.

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