First Mutual profit down 75 pct
FIRST Mutual Holdings’ profit after tax plummeted by 75 percent to $1,1 million in the four months to April, from $4,4 million compared to last year, reflecting a depressed market, the group’s chief...
View ArticleVic Falls to tax individual tourists
FOREIGN tourists, who must shell out $40 to get into the Victoria Falls national park, will now have to give the local authority a dollar each to help the council pay off government debt.A world...
View ArticleWar vets vow fight over mineral find
SOME 20 war veterans in Masvingo have vowed to fight moves by a company linked to the provincial minister to force them off a farm where tantalite has been discovered, insisting the mineral belonged to...
View ArticleZBC boss suspended over sadza theft
THE penny literally dropped recently for a ZBC canteen manager after he was caught selling subsidised company grub to farmers at Boka Tobacco Auction Floors for more than double its price.Gabriel...
View ArticleMan kills mother over sister’s estate
A NYANGA man went berserk last Friday and allegedly strangled his mother, 72, to death in a dispute over rentals for a house left behind by his late sister.Shingai Hamukwadi, 38, is said to have...
View ArticleUnpaid Chitungwiza workers down tools
HARARE’S dormitory town of Chitungwiza came to a grinding halt Tuesday after workers downed tools over outstanding salaries.Angry workers besieged town clerk George Makunde’s office demanding that he...
View ArticleWoman kills newly born grandson
IN a shock incident, a Chivi woman helped her pregnant daughter give birth in the dead of night and killed her newly born grandson, apparently to dodge the responsibility of raising the child.Jane...
View ArticleBroke Gweru fails to pay workers
THE cash-strapped Gweru City Council has failed to pay April salaries to its workers, raising the prospect of a strike in the Midlands capital.Town clerk Daniel Matawu had, last week, indicated that...
View ArticlePrisons to add 11,000 to 230k civil service
THE prison service plans to recruit 11,000 new officers, adding to the government’s bloated 230,000-strong workforce which it is already struggling to pay.Just last week, finance minister Patrick...
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24 Vapostori cop bashers denied bail
TWENTY-FOUR Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic sect members accused of assaulting police officers and journalists, have been remanded in custody by a Harare court which felt their immediate release...
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UK woman claims sectioned after finding hubby in bed with lover
UK-BASED businessman, Byron Fundira, won the entrepreneur of the year award at the prestigious Zimbabwe Achievers Awards in 2013.But this week he found himself the target of torrents of scorn and...
View ArticleManicaland diamond centre on the cards
GOVERNMENT will construct a diamond cutting and polishing centre in Manicaland after lobbying by the local industry, mines minister Walter Chidhakwa has said.Zimbabwe already has plans to set up a...
View ArticleZimbabwe needs to lower risk profile, bank
ZIMBABWE needs to lower its risk profile and improve its business climate to unlock funding opportunities provided by international bonds, a leading investment bank has said.Eurobonds have become an...
View ArticleOscar winner Lupita joins Star Wars cast
IT continues to be the year of Lupita Nyong'o.The Oscar-winning actress has joined the cast of "Star Wars: Episode VII," it was announced on Monday.Also joining the J.J. Abrams-directed film cast is...
View ArticleChris Brown released from LA jail
GRAMMY winning R&B singer Chris Brown was released on Monday from a Los Angeles jail where he was serving a one-year sentence for violating probation from his 2009 assault of pop singer...
View ArticleBob Marley music rights row settled
A MUSIC company has lost a High Court fight with a rival over the rights to 13 Bob Marley songs, including one of his most famous, No Woman, No Cry.Cayman Music and Blue Mountain Music went to trial in...
View ArticleCara loses French Open quarter finals
CARA black and Indian playing partner bowed out of the French Open after losing their women's doubles quarter-final here Tuesday.The Indo-Zimbabwean fifth seeds went down 2-6, 6-3, 3-6 in two hours to...
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Chigova says ready for Supersport
NEW SuperSport United goalkeeper George Chigova has told supersport.com that he is ready for his new challenge at the team.The Warriors international, who plays for defending league champions Dynamos,...
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Zimbabwe in UK Afcon quarter finals
THE Zimbabwe UK Diaspora national team is through to the quarterfinals of the 2014 UK African Nations Cup Tournament which kicked off last weekend in London.The Warriors top Group A with nine points...
View ArticleProsecutor charged with step-child’s rape
A MASVINGO prosecutor has appeared in court charged with two counts of raping his 8 year-old step daughter.Tafirei Tandirai, 42, denied the charges when he appeared before magistrate Sibonginkosi...
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