Zimbabwe Electoral Commission receives $31m for polls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has received US$31,5 million from Treasury to cover the constitutional referendum slated for Saturday.ZEC acting chairperson Mrs Joyce Kazembe, who is holding fort ...
View ArticleCSC to breed 14 000 cows and 360 bulls
The Cold Storage Company will soon embark on a project to breed 14 000 cows and 360 bulls at its ranches countrywide, a Cabinet minister has said.In a report presented before a Parliamentary Portfolio...
View Article' We have to make the 'Yes' vote solid' says Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai last night [Monday] urged party supporters to go out in their numbers and vote for the draft Constitution on Saturday.Addressing party supporters at Sunningdale Hall, Ts...
View ArticleGovt increases fuel excise duty by 25%
Government has increased excise duty on fuel with 25% with effect from last Saturday.This is likely to push fuel prices up by at least US5cents per litre.The increase in the excise duty is a deliberat...
View ArticleBoy (8) marries woman (61) to appease ancestors
An eight-year-old schoolboy has married a 61-year-old woman because the ghost of his dead ancestor told him to.Sanele Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is already married and a mother-...
View ArticleTeacher fired after getting kids to taste her blood
A Norwegian kindergarten teacher was fired this week after she brought a vial of her own blood to class and allowed children to touch and taste it, the head teacher of the kindergarten said last Frida...
View ArticleDisused mine collapses, 4 gold panners feared dead
Four people believed to be illegal gold miners are presumed dead after an abandoned gold mine shaft in Gwanda, Matabeleland South Province, collapsed Saturday while they were looking for gold.Accordin...
View ArticleNRZ workers go on strike, protest over salaries
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) train operators yesterday went on strike in protest over management's failure to pay their salaries. The 450 workers claimed they have not been paid over the past e...
View ArticleEx-manager fined for harassing female subordinate with blue movie
Former Premier Optometry general manager Delan Nyandoro, who showed his female subordinate a pornographic video recorded in his laptop, has been fined US$200.In the event Nyandoro (36) fails to pay ...
View ArticleZimbabwe surpasses revenue target
Zimbabwe surpassed its revenue target for February this year, after collecting $278 million against a target of $250 million as government seeks to consolidate efforts to raise funds for capital and r...
View ArticleEconet slashes EcoCash tariffs
Econet has slashed the cost of sending money through EcoCash by as much as 34%, with transactions of less than a dollar now completely free. The new tariff regime is expected to accelerate growth of a...
View ArticleMugabe agrees to UN poll plan
FINANCE minister Tendai Biti yesterday said President Robert Mugabe has agreed that a United Nations fact-finding mission should visit Zimbabwe to assess funding requirements for the forthcoming elec...
View ArticleZimbabwean men denied bail in Botswana
Two Zimbabwean men are languishing in a Botswana jail after being arrested for being linked to a store robbery.One has been freed. The three were linked to a robbery at a major store where P61 470 was...
View ArticleMan bitten on face by cobra
Johannesburg - A South African man from Kempton Park has been bitten on the face by a Mozambican spitting cobra while sleeping at a lodge in North West, it was reported on Tuesday.A severe pain in his...
View ArticleBiti appeals for diamond money
Finance minister says he will ask President Robert Mugabe to order diamond mining companies to pay millions of dollars into the nation's treasury.Finance Minister Tendai Biti told reporters Monday he...
View ArticleNelson Mandela 'suffers memory loss'
JOHANESBURG - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is doing well after spending a night in hospital over the weekend, a friend has revealed.But human rights lawyer George Bizos, who defended...
View ArticleMDC-T minister concedes that referendum notification too short
Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga yesterday said he was personally not supportive of the idea of holding the referendum this Saturday.He said the timeframe allocated fo...
View Article'Body parts and blood make powerful muthi'
A GROUP of striking workers at South Africa's Marikana mine allegedly used body parts and the blood of one of two security guards found hacked to death to make a "powerful muthi".A sangoma had allege...
View Article477 referendum observers accredited so far
Accreditation of observers to the constitution referendum is proceeding smoothly with some 477 observers having been accredited since the process began on the 7th of this month.In an interview with Z...
View ArticleWildlife officials issue lion alert again
Harare - Wildlife officials say they have renewed a lion alert at the northern tourism and fishing resort town of Kariba after the reported sighting of two more lions near the suburb where two people ...
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