Source: Gold, the curse of Zimbabwe Can you imagine your pay being a fifth of the amount you need to survive, feed and educate your children? Gold smuggling in the beleaguered country involves a net of complicity where self-enrichment is the only goal, says the author. Image: Cynthia Matonhodze/Bloomberg These mid-April days it is cool […] …
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Zim elections | Chamisa pours heart out to SADC team
Source: Zim elections | Chamisa pours heart out to SADC team Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa sat down for over three hours with a SADC delegation. SADC’s Electoral Advisory Council is in the country ahead of crucial elections later this year. eNCA correspondent Pindai Dube reports …
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Feature: Brisk business for bicycle repairman
Source: Feature: Brisk business for bicycle repairman –Newsday Zimbabwe Joshua Mupfeki repairing a bicycle at Zengeza 2 shopping centre in Chitungwiza JOSHUA Mupfeki, a bicycle repairer everyday endures cacophony at Zengeza 2 shopping centre in Chitungwiza, a dormitory town for Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city. He has actually become accustomed to the noise, from foreign currency […] …
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2 CCC veteran MPs step down from race
Source: 2 CCC veteran MPs step down from race –Newsday Zimbabwe Trevor Saruwaka CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators for Mutare Central and Mutasa Central, Innocent Gonese and Trevor Saruwaka have stepped down from contesting in this year’s polls despite being nominated. CCC opted for a citizens-centric process to produce the party’s candidates as opposed […] …
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‘Good Samaritan’ up for culpable homicide
Source: ‘Good Samaritan’ up for culpable homicide –Newsday Zimbabwe The accused, Balamanja Made (31) was initially charged with murder before his charges were changed to culpable Homicide. A GOOD Samaritan who restrained a drunk Harare man from throwing himself out of a flat window, but tragically strangled him in an attempt to save him was […] …
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Chief Charumbira faces indecent assault for sexual advances on niece
As they drove past Mazowe Dam, Charumbira allegedly inserted his left hand inside his niece’s thighs and touched her private part. …
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The ‘hidden middle’: the transformation of agri-food systems in Africa
There is an unrecognised but vast ‘hidden middle’ of private sector businesses operating in Africa between agricultural producers and food consumers. This is made up of a range of private actors providing transport, trading, brokerage, finance, storage, warehousing, processing and … Continue reading → …
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18 killed in weekend road accidents
In a Sunday statement, police said out of the 18 fatalities, 12 were recorded in one bus accident along the Chivhu-Murambinda road early Sunday …
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Schools CALA here to stay
Nqobile Tshili GOVERNMENT is in the process of reviewing the Primary and Secondary Education competence-based curriculum with continuous assessment learning activities (CALA) being retained with possible adjustments. Under the new curriculum, CALA has been the major talking point which has seen some parents, pupils and even educators resisting it. Addressing journalists during a curriculum review […] …
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Emganwini residents spearhead clinic project
Rejoyce Sibanda WALKING long distances to access health facilities is going to be a thing of the past for Emganwini residents as they united to contribute towards building a satellite clinic in the suburb which is almost complete. For years, Emganwini residents went to other suburbs such as Nkulumane and Nketa for health services, but […] …
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