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Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo’s public spats with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa have intensified since the minister’s arrest last year on charges that he abused money from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (ZIMDEF). Moyo (JM) spoke to Zimbabwe Standard chief reporter Everson Mushava (EM) on his beef with Mnangagwa. Below are excerpts of the interview. […]
By Bruce Thain | Mirror.co.uk | Former heavyweight boxing champion Dereck Chisora escaped a driving ban after successfully appealing a sentence for having no insurance. Croydon Crown Court heard the former Commonwealth champion was left nearly £50,000 out of pocket by the case. Chisora, 33, was stopped by police in his £120,000 black Bentley Continental […]
Barcelona sporting director Robert Fernandez insists he is sure Lionel Messi will sign a new deal with the Catalan giants despite continued speculation over the five-time World Player of the Year’s future. Messi has just 18 months left on his current contract and would have no shortage of lucrative offers should he decide to leave […]
US authorities have seized $20m (£16m) in cash discovered in a bed frame under a mattress in a Massachusetts flat. The cash is believed to be linked to a $1bn pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a company that claimed to provide internet phone services. Investigators uncovered the cash while following a Brazilian man, who was charged […]
The number of people mistakenly killed last week in an air attack on a camp for those who have fled conflict in north-east Nigeria has been revised to 115, an official has told the BBC. Camp residents and aid workers were among those killed when the air force bombed Rann, in Borno state, thinking it […]
South African police say they are investigating the illegal donkey skin trade after seizing 5,000 hides in a recent raid east of Johannesburg. Police suspect the skins found at a farm in Benoni last week came from illegally slaughtered animals whose hides were destined for China. They described the raid as a major breakthrough against […]
An opposition party of South African radical leftists has urged President Robert Mugabe to step down, saying he is no longer capable of discharging presidential duties.
Former vice president and now Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader, Joice Mujuru — who is still smarting from her party’s crushing defeat at the hands of Zanu PF in Saturday’s Bikita West by-election — says she still has enough fuel in the tank to topple President Robert Mugabe from power in 2018.
As Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional and succession wars reach alarming levels, there are growing fears that the country, particularly government business, will soon grind to a halt if the mindless bloodletting continues unabated.
By Bernard Chiketo Two Dangamvura brothers have been jailed for a combined 16 months after they manhandled a cop who wanted to arrest their brother on a prostitution-related charge. Hebert Mapanga, 28, of Chisamba village in Dora under Chief Zimunya and his 43-year-old brother Munyaradzi Mapanga, of Gimboki Phase 1, were convicted after a full trial […]