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Pedzisai Ruhanya is a human rights researcher
News / Opinion

Unpacking the political madness of Michael Sata

Sata is of the view that because Mugabe is one of the many Zimbabwean nationalists who participated in the liberation struggle his leadership, irrespective of egregious human rights violations, lawlessness, economic ruin and stolen elections, should not be challenged.

Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi (right) seen here with his wife
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Tourism Minister Mzembi attracting controversy

COMPTROLLER and Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has ordered an investigation into the procurement procedures by the Ministry of Tourism of Liquid Electronic Display (LED) television sets from China which were supposed to be installed at fan parks during the 2010 World Cup.

Zanu PF founding member and former Defence minister Enos Nkala
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Zanu PF officials accuse Nkala of distorting history

SENIOR Zanu PF officials in Matabeleland have accused Zanu PF founding member and former Defence minister Enos Nkala of committing atrocities against the people of the region before and after Independence.

The cash-strapped government bought a new fleet of V6 Toyota vehicles for President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade following a string of fatal road accidents.
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Mugabe’s motorcade in double accident

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade was yesterday involved in two separate accidents on a single trip to Zvimba. The Zanu PF leader was on his way to Zvimba for a funeral when one of his outriders knocked down a vagrant before a land cruiser in his motorcade burst a tyre moments later, injuring security details.

Roy Bennett (c.) leaves the High Court in Harare, after he was acquitted of terrorism charges in Zimbabwe. To his right is the MDC-T National Organising Secretary Nelson Chamisa
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Bennett going back to Zimbabwe for elections

Exiled MDC-T Treasurer General Roy Bennett says he will go back to Zimbabwe and campaign for his party, but only if conditions for free and fair elections have been created. Bennett was a guest on SW Radio Africa’s Question Time programme.

Chivayo with the singer Sean Paul (left) and posing in front of a Rolls Royce (right)
News / Showbiz

Harare businessman denies dating Maneta

Zimbabwe’s Big Brother StarGame housemate Maneta Mazanhi says she is dating businessman Wicknell Chivayo. Maneta, who was described by her sister Tendai as “eye candy”, told her fellow housemates that she was deeply in love with Wicknell.

Man who married 11 wives seeks protection order
Bizarre / News

Man who married 11 wives seeks protection order

A HARARE man who divorced 10 wives one-after-the-other yesterday sought a protection order against the 11th one whom he accused of beating him up each time they argue. It emerged at the Civil Court that Admire Chivhunga was taking anti retroviral drugs behind the back of his current wife and that was one of the sources of their arguments.

REDEMPTION TIME . . . Khama Billiart wants the Warriors to revive their World Cup campaign in Mozambique
News / Sports

Warriors abort training after stadium lock out

Just when they sought to shift their full attention to their next assignment against Mozambique, the Warriors were yesterday forced to abort their late afternoon training session after being locked out of the National Sports Stadium in questionable circumstances.

Business tycoon Sam Levy dies
Business / News

Business tycoon Sam Levy dies

PROMINENT business mogul Sam Levy has died. He was 82. Levy died on Tuesday night at his Avondale home after a long battle with cancer. His son Isaacs yesterday said his father had been battling cancer for the past three years.

A man walks past the church being built by Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s UFIC near Chitungwiza Town Centre
News / Religious

Did Makandiwa build his way out of trouble?

The Chitungwiza Municipality has cleared Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church to complete construction of its mega church in the town. Only last week the Chitungwiza Housing Director Jemina Gumbo was fired over the deal that saw Makandiwa’s church getting the land.

William Masvinu, the reigning Mr Ugly
News / Showbiz

No joy for man who was crowned ‘Mr Ugly’

William Masvinu, the Epworth man who became a celebrity overnight after being crowned Mr Ugly Harare, is a disappointed man. While his female counterparts earn their living from lucrative endorsements this is not the case with Masvinu.

Youths in Zimbabwe gripped by Facebook
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Youths in Zimbabwe gripped by Facebook

Spending hours a day at local Internet cafés, many youth in Zimbabwe say they feel out of touch if they don’t check their Facebook accounts regularly. Some admit to spending as much as $3 per day in order to keep up to date with their Facebook pages.

Drunk son stabs father, then rapes mother
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Drunk son stabs father, then rapes mother

A Western Cape mother in South Africa says she wishes her own son was dead after he allegedly raped her in a drunken rage. The 42-year-old mom was sleeping with her husband in their home on Saturday night when her 19-year-old son kicked their bedroom door open.

Professor Tony Hawkins is from the University of Zimbabwe's Graduate School of Business
News / Opinion

Why targeted sanctions should remain in place

To claim that the vulnerable and poorest segments of the country’s 11 million people are suffering because of financial and travel sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his closest supporters is misguided.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) ex-advisor to Gideon Gono, Munyaradzi Kereke (pictured)
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Gono, Kereke feud takes new twist

HARARE – The feud between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono and his ex-advisor, Munyaradzi Kereke, took a dramatic turn after a man claimed he was offered money to forge a medical affidavit for Kereke’s personal driver.

Tracy Mutinhiri, a former ZANU PF deputy minister and MP for Marondera East joined the MDC-T a few days after she was expelled from the former ruling party in August last year
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Mutinhiri held sjambok as white farmer packed

The family of the late tobacco farmer Guy Cartwright have spoken out about how former ZANU PF MP Tracy Mutinhiri and her ex husband, a retired army brigadier, violently took over their Waltondale Farm in Marondera. Mutinhiri was the ZANU PF Women’s League Political Commissar before her expulsion from the party.