Number of tobacco growers drop

Noble Ncube, Farming Reporter THE number of new tobacco farmers for the 2015/16 growing season has declined by at least 45 percent with Matabeleland recording the lowest at two, data…

‘President Mugabe is the voice of Africa’

Dumisani Sibanda HATE him, love him but you cannot deny that President Mugabe who hands over the chairmanship of the African Union to the President of Chad, Idriss Deby, today,…

Human-wildlife conflict : A new model has to be developed

THE dust around Cecil the lion has blown and ultimately settled with lots of heat generated and cash perhaps for the conservationists and overnight lion advocates.

Bosso Heritage Tour to cost $440

HIGHLANDERS Football Club members and supporters will have to part with the princely sum of $440 to be part of the entourage that would visit one of the club’s founders’…

Almost 40 dead after migrant boat sinks off Turkey

Almost 40 people drowned and 75 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey’s western coast on Saturday, according to local officials and the Turkish Dogan…

We sent a bunch of no-hoppers to Chan

THEY went to Rwanda for the African Nations Championship (Chan). And prior to their departure they were touted as having the potential to bring us the long sought after joy,…

Girls Affair at Borrowdale

Mandla Moyo Racing Correspondent IT will be a girls’ only affair this afternoon at Borrowdale race course when eight, three-year-old horses lock horns for the Fillies Classic race.

The sweetest poison

The most dangerous evil under the sun is that which presents itself to humanity as the good news. It is deadly, that weapon which comes to its victim as a…

Schools to recite national pledge, as teachers hail Minister over salaries

TEACHERS have hailed the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, for setting the record straight on the purported proposal to dock salaries from non-performing teachers.

Tsikamutandas loot homesteads

A FAMILY in Siboza village, more than 100 kilometres outside Gwanda town will rue the day they decided to hire tsikamutandas (witch doctors) to rid evil spirits at their homestead…

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