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When President Robert Mugabe rigged the July 2013 elections he thought it was going to be business as usual for him and his cronies. They would pick up where they left off in 2008 when they were forced to form the “two headed monster called the GNU”, as Mugabe called it.
UNITED KINGDOM – Northumbria Police said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the death of a Zimbabwean student on a popular cycle route. Officers confirmed there was “no third party involvement” after Sijabuliso Nkala was found with a stab wound and later died close to the Oval.
A BITTER wrangle has erupted within the Ndiweni family over the Ndebele paramount chieftaincy that was left vacant following the death of Chief Khayisa Ndiweni in 2010.
MASVINGO – A man from Zaka allegedly stripped naked before feigning madness after being caught red-handed, stealing money from a 10-year-old boy at Jerera Growth Point.
GOKWE – In a suspected act of witchcraft, a Gokwe man was found in possession of 13 women’s panties and a black mamba during a cleansing ceremony after 13 women from Mubvumbi village under Chief Njelele in Gokwe woke up without their undergarments.
BULAWAYO – A local pastor says small houses are from the underworld and are the work of evil spirits that torment people into these unholy unions.
HWANGE – The battle for the control of Hwange urban between the Hwange Local Board (HLB) and Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has reached fever pitch with the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing appointing a team on a fact finding mission to ascertain the discord.
ZVISHAVANE and Gokwe, as well as areas surrounding the two towns in the Midlands Province, have gone for close to a decade without Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) radio and television transmission.
BULAWAYO – Spumelele Mbambo, a member of award -winning South African gospel outfit Joyous Celebration Choir, was deported on arrival at Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport last Thursday for flouting Zimbabwe’s immigration laws.
HARARE – Econet Wireless (Econet) – Zimbabwe’s largest mobile network operator – plans to grow its contract subscriber base by 21 percent during its financial year ending February 2015. Currently, the telecoms firm has around 70 000 contract subscribers.