Trade Union henchmen cut off worker's ear
Trinamool Congress workers, in India allegedly chopped off the ear of a worker in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Thursday because he had joined the two-day nationwide strike by major trade uni...
View ArticleGoche appoints new board for Air Zimbabwe
Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche has appointed a new board for Air Zimbabwe.The new board has been tasked with coming up with innovative ways to revive ...
View ArticleZimbabwe and China sign three bilateral agreements
Zimbabwe and the Republic of China have signed three bilateral agreements in the areas of information communication, agriculture and transport.A Chinese delegation led by that country's Minister of Co...
View Article'Jesus didn't say that' priests shouldn't marry, urges senior Catholic cleric
London - Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric says priests should be allowed to marry and have children.Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, says the requir...
View ArticleZimbabwe Electoral Commission prints 12 million ballots
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will print 12 million ballots for the Constitution referendum to be held on March 16. ZEC presented copies of the ballot paper to stakeholders and members of the publ...
View ArticleMajority-white US school gives pupils maths homework that used killing and...
Two teachers in Manhattan, USA are in trouble over giving pupils offensive maths homework that used killing and whipping slaves to teach subtraction and multiplication, the NY Daily News reported.Pu...
View ArticleLate Sam Levy honoured
THE late prominent businessman Mr Sam Levy was yesterday honoured as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in post independent Zimbabwe at a colourful ceremony in Harare. Event organiserEmpretec Z...
View ArticleCondoms, cockroaches found in 'Scud' beer
Delta Beverages has been dragged to court for contravening the Public Health Act after a Mbare man allegedly found condoms, grass and cockroaches in a sealed opaque beer container popularly known as "...
View Article'We need to do something to restore professionalism in the education sector '...
THE Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture David Coltart said the public examinations pass rate can only improve if more resources are channelled to the education sector.In an interview after...
View ArticleTwo men arrested for attempting to smuggle 1 000 cigarette boxes
DETECTIVES from the police's Border Control Unit have intercepted a South African registered truck with a contraband of 1 000 boxes of export quality cigarettes worth $190 000 that were being smuggled...
View ArticleGold dealer loses $2 400 to toy-gun wielding robbers
A Shurugwi gold dealer lost $2 400 and a cellphone after three toy-gun wielding robbers pounced on him while on his way home, police have said.The man, whose name could not be immediately availed, but...
View ArticleByo residents accuse councillors of incompetency and corruption
BULAWAYO residents yesterday took city councillors to task accusing them of incompetency and corruption.Speaking during a consultative meeting on the amendment of the Urban Councils Act at the Small C...
View ArticleMissing 10-yr-old girl found dead, police suspect she was raped before being...
The post-mortem for the 10-year-old girl who went missing in Rugare, Harare, last Sunday and was found dead on Wednesday was conducted yesterday at Harare Central Hospital mortuary. Sources close to t...
View ArticleZim man bashed with a baseball bat in SA
CAPE TOWN - Police are searching for two young men who beat up an ice cream vendor with a baseball bat on Sea Point Promenade on Wednesday afternoon.Luke Dausi (22) was knocked unconscious and lost a...
View Article'Come to build your own industries and revive the economy' of the city, BYO...
YOUTH Development, Indiginisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has implored Bulawayo youths to take the city's economy back to its feet.Addressing youths during the handover of the com...
View ArticleMan (30) confesses to having 2-year love affair with Grade 3 girl
30-YEAR-OLD Mathias Mbonyeya stunned a Chipinge court on Monday when he admitted that he had a two-year love affair with a Grade Three pupil.Mbonyeya appeared before Mr Makamera Waini facing statutory...
View ArticleSex-crazy teen lands mother in trouble
A SEX-CRAZY teenager landed her mother in trouble after she was arraigned before a Chipinge court facing malicious damage to property after she went berserk and destroyed property belonging to her lov...
View ArticleMan butchers step mum over a chair, buries her in a shallow grave
A Chipinge man, 24, is on the run after he allegedly butchered his step-mother over a chair which was allegedly broken by the latter before he buried her in a shallow grave in a maize field on Monday...
View ArticleMan hangs himself over missing overalls
A Chimanimani man, Charles Simango, 48, last week committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree branch after his pair of overalls went missing.Police confirmed the death of Simango who before cutti...
View ArticleGwanda defies Chombo's ultimatum to appoint 'Zanu-PF apologist'
GWANDA Town Council has reportedly defied Local Government, Rural and Urban Development Minister Ignatius Chombo's ultimatum to appoint Priscilla Nkala, an alleged Zanu PF apologist, by Thursday as th...
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