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Award Winners to Rock BBA
The Big Brother launch show is expected to come alive when multiple award-winning musicians from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa take centre stage at the opening show of the Big Brother Africa slated for Sunday. The big night will also see 28 new housemates being revealed to audiences in over 50 African countries for Season 8 of Big Brother Africa subtitled "The Chase". With the live ...
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Mhende Quits International Rugby
SABLES, Cheetahs and Harare Sports Club winger, Tafadzwa Mhende, has quit international rugby to concentrate on his club career. A serious injury forced Mhende out of the game in August 2010 when he suffered a broken leg in the final of the Castel Sevens rugby tournament in Zambia where Zimbabwe beat Northern Region 19-12 to lift the Cup. This was the last time Mhende played the game, before ...
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200 000 Register As First-Time Voters
About 200 000 Zimbabweans registered as first-time voters under the national mobile voter registration blitz that officially ended on Sunday evening though there are indications that more people might have failed to register. Registrar-General of Voters Mr Tobaiwa Mudede yesterday said lack of resources constrained his office from executing its mandate as it had envisaged when the exercise was ...
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MDC-T Primary Elections Kick Off This Saturday
MDC-T voters will this weekend begin their internal process to choose the makeup of the team to contest the harmonized elections, the party's deputy national organizing secretary Abednico Bhebhe said on Tuesday. The elections have attracted huge interest on the political front as cabinet ministers and senior parliamentarians could be among the casualties of the internal selection process. ...
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Two Implicated in DJ Munyas Murder Case
Police have picked up two more people in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a Harare man who was allegedly forced to drink a pesticide by Star FM Dj Munyaradzi Milimo. Taurai Janhi (34) and Mahommed Matare (31) were arrested by police after Dj Munya was picked up last week on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Andrew Phiri confirmed the development. "Police have picked ...
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Mudedes Office to Be Overhauled Under MDC-T Government
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party has said when it gets into power it will overhaul the registrar-general's office, a key government department long blighted by accusations of inefficiency and corruption. Led by Tobaiwa Mudede the department is viewed by many as a threat to democracy. Mudede is a controversial figure who has been criticized for falsifying voting records to ...
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Civic Groups Call for Decentralised and Inclusive Electoral Process
Civic groups in Zimbabwe Tuesday called for a new decentralised voter registration exercise, saying the just ended one was fraught with anomalies. The civil society organisations (CSOs) made the call at press briefings held simultaneously in Harare and Bulawayo, in the first of what are expected to be regular updates conducted at the same time at selected centres across the country. In a ...
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Playwright Seeks Legal Intervention Over Banning of Peace Play
An award winning playwright in Zimbabwe is seeking legal intervention after his play, whose central theme is peace, was banned last year. 33 year old Tafadzwa Muzondo has been fighting for almost a year to try and have his production unbarred. The play, 'No Voice No Choice' is about two youth leaders from different political parties who both own up to their roles in violence, and form ...
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Tsvangirai Lies Over Official Mercedes-Benz
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai took delivery of a band new Mercedes-Benz S350 model worth US$163 196,35 when he joined the inclusive Government in 2009, contrary to what he told some sections of the private media on Tuesday that he got a second-hand vehicle. Mr Tsvangirai -- who in a public relations piece sought to deflect attention from increasing reports of his love for the good life that ...
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Tobacco Sales Gross U.S$470 Million
TOBACCO growers have so far earned US$466,1 million from the sale of 125,7 million kg since the opening of the selling season in February. This is an increase from last year's US$366,7 million raised after the sale of 97,5 million kg. Of the 125,7 million kg, 44,7 million representing 35 percent of the total mass was brought in by farmers from Mashonaland West followed by Mashonaland ...
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American Journalists Turned Away
Two American journalists were yesterday denied entry into Zimbabwe soon after their arrival at the Harare International Airport. The pair had travelled to Zimbabwe for unknown business but were turned away by the Immigration Department. Assistant Regional Immigration Officer Francis Mabika confirmed the incident but declined to give reasons for the denial of entry. "I can only confirm ...
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Zimbabwe Chinese VP Jets in
Chinese Vice Premier Mr Wang Yang arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday on an official visit to boost business and bilateral relations between Harare and Beijing. Mr Wang was welcomed at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Minister of State in the Vice President's Office Mr Sylvester Nguni. Speaking to journalists soon after ...
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Minister Faces Eviction Over Rent Arrears
MEDIA, Information and Publicity Deputy Minister Murisi Zwizwai is facing eviction from his Borrowdale rented house after he failed to pay rentals and utility bills amounting to US$19 318,63. Deputy Minister Zwizwai, who is MDC-T legislator for Harare Central constituency, reportedly failed to pay US$750 monthly rentals from March 2012 to date and the bill now stands at US$10 623. As part of ...
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Murder Case - Zimondi Denies Charge
The trial of Pritchard Zimondi accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in Chitungwiza last year opened yesterday at the High Court with the man denying the murder charge. Zimondi entered a plea of not guilty before the trial judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera saying the woman could have been killed by his ex-lover identified as Vitalis with whom she was having squabbles with. In his defence ...
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I Wont Rule By Decree - President
PRESIDENT Mugabe has said that he does not want to rule by decree after the tenure of Parliament expires on June 29 and the only way out is to have harmonised elections before the date to avoid a constitutional crisis. Responding to a Supreme Court application by a Harare man, Mr Jealousy Mawarire, for an order compelling him to proclaim an election date by June 29, the President said the ...
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Water Situation in City Improves
THE water situation in some parts of Harare's western suburbs improved yesterday after council repaired one of the pumps at Morton Jaffray Water Works. Acting director for Harare Water Engineer Simon Muserere said the pump had been repaired though final touches were under way to restore supply to other areas. "We have worked hard the past week to ensure that we fixed the burst pump ...
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Zimbabwe President Mugabe to Endorse New Constitution Today
PRESIDENT Mugabe is today expected to sign Constitutional Amendment (No. 20) Bill into law at State House at a function to be attended by Principals to the Global Political Agreement. Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba confirmed the development yesterday. "Once the signing is done, the document goes for gazetting and in terms of coming into force, there are two critical dates, ...
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SA Zanu-PF Relations Strained Ahead of Poll
Relations between the South African government and Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF are said to be under severe strain, with the former ruling party in Zimbabwe intensifying its anti-SA rhetoric. This historically loyal relationship has been steadily souring in recent months, to the point that ZANU PF loyalists have been calling for the SADC bloc to revisit Zuma's facilitation role in ...
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Man Forced to Service Four Women
Chinhoyi Bureau - A KADOMA man endured a hellish two days at the hands of four women who reportedly kidnapped him at gunpoint and locked him up in a room where they would take turns to be intimate with him before giving him trinkets and later dumping him on the side of the road, police have said. Before going on gruelling sessions of sexually satisfying the women, they would give him a meal of ...
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Zimbabwe Mutasa On Indiginisation
Zimbabweans living in the United States have appealed to Government to ensure they also benefit from the indigenisation programme that has seen many people venturing into areas previously dominated by foreigners. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Diaspora Engagement conference held in Washington DC on Monday, the diasporans said were eager to engage the Government on the matter. This comes at a time ...
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Zambia Zimbabwe US envoys cycle for tourism
United States Ambassador to Zambia Mark Storella riding a bike on a20 km stretch from Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula International Airport toNsongwe in Livingstone to promote internationaltourism, economic growth, and wildlife conservation in Zambia andZimbabwe THE United States ambassadors to Zambia and Zimbabwe today began a three-day cross-border bike ride between the two countries to promote ...
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Zimbabwe Civil Society Condemns Mobile Voter Registration
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensively failed to reach all prospective registrants. In a joint statement, the civil society groups lists some key concerns about the process that ran ...
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China vows continued support for Zimbabwe
HARARE -- China will continue supporting Zimbabwe in its quest to fend off international threats on its sovereignty and economic prosperity, visiting Chinese vice Premier Wang Yang said ...
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China Vows To Continue Support For Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 22 (Bernama) -- China will continue supporting Zimbabwe in its quest to fend off international threats on its sovereignty and economic prosperity, visiting Chinese vice Premier Wang Yang said Tuesday. Yang is in Zimbabwe, his first foreign trip as vice Premier, to seek ways of strengthening bilateral ties between the two friendly nations, Zimbabwean news agency, AIM, ...
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Few Winter Wheat Farmers Meet Planting Deadline
Agriculture experts predict a very low wheat harvest this year due to the decline in winter wheat production as most farmers failed to meet this year’s planting deadline of May 15. The farmers could not buy inputs on time as they failed to access funds from banks and the government. Last week, the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe said banks were failing to lend the agricultural sector ...
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