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At a time when cholera is ravaging the capital city, Harare City Council officials have chosen to attend a workshop in Nyanga where they are said to be blowing an astonishing US$24 000 in hefty allowances funded by ratepayers.

Two Harare men who were terrorizing residents in the capital have been sentenced to 95 years in jail each by Harare regional magistrate Fadzayi Mthombeni.

Gweru, one of Zimbabwe’s heavy industrial hubs continues with its tailspin after the Bata Shoe Company retrenched 106 workers this past week on Monday. Except for Bata, most of Gweru’s industrial area is now a ghost town with large companies like Zimasco, ZimAlloys and even the National Railways of Zimbabwe having closed shop in the last two decades.

A 22 year old Harare man was arrested and appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court facing armed robbery allegations after he teamed up with his accomplices to rob a motorist of US$128 932 in cash.

A cement dealer lost more than 4000 bags of cement after he was duped by two suspected fraudsters who lured him into delivering his cement after being promised cash on delivery before they sent him a fake bank transfer.