THE Government has challenged the media to help in sensitising and publicising the need to control pollution, as the law alone is not adequate to curb the problem.
Labour and Social Security Minister Austin Liato has appealed to multinational group of companies operating in Zambia to stop denying their employees the right to join a union of their choice.
SOME members of the Community Welfare Assistance Committee (CWAC) in Eastern Province have been accused of demanding money from the beneficiaries of Social Cash Transfer Scheme.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda is tomorrow expected to leave Lusaka for the Copperbelt Province and participate in the 10th anniversary of the Zambia National Marketeers Association (Zanama) in Kitwe.
The sentencing of a woman who threw boiling water over her husband's lover almost resulted in a brawl in the Khayelitsha Regional Court between the families of the convict and the victim on Thursday.
Instead of preventing crime, Du Noon's neighbourhood watch are a bunch of thugs enforcing a curfew and beating innocent people up, say residents.
IN a scene in the film "Blood Diamond", an elderly man surveys a village destroyed in Sierra Leone's vicious civil war and laments the violence tearing his country apart as rebels and government forces fight for control over access to diamonds and the wealth and power they bestow.
GEORGE MAGWANYA of Hillside, Harare, has just received his bonus.
BOTSWANA's new ambassador to Zimbabwe Ms Gladys Kokorwe has pledged to look into Botswana's hosting of a pirate radio station that has been broadcasting hate language into Zimbabwe in contravention of the Sadc-guaranteed Global Political Agreement.
ZIMBABWE'S humanitarian situation has significantly improved although continued assistance is still needed to maintain the positive gains achieved so far, a visiting senior United Nations official has said.
THE Parliamentary Constitutional Select Committee yesterday unveiled its secretariat and logo, with the administrative team being headed by Mr Peter Kinjeku.
HARARE City Council intends to borrow US$500 million from the open market next year to fund its operations, Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda has revealed.
THREE people died while 16 others were injured - eight of them critically - when a private car and a commuter omnibus collided along the Mazowe-Mvurwi Road on Sunday night.
AT least 150 000 hectares of maize and small grains have so far been planted in Masvingo since the start of the rainy season.
Vanessa Sibanda who is representing Zimbabwe in the Miss World 2009 Pageant to be held tomorrow in Johannesburg, South Africa remains hopeful that she will make an impression.
AFRICAN governments should adopt labour market policy interventions aimed at creating self-employment and establishment of enterprises, Labour and Social Services Minister Paurina Mpariwa has said.
TOURISM, environmental and entertainment issues are set to be taken to another level following the re-opening of Spillway Pub and Restaurant situated along Lake Chivero tomorrow.
WE are encouraged by statements made by the new United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Charles Aaron Ray, that he is inclined to talk over differences with Zimbabwe as long as people are willing to talk.
CELEBRITIES and social leaders should spearhead HIV and Aids awareness in their communities to fight the stigma that still lingers around the pandemic, award-winning American actress Debra Messing has said.
DANDE Capital Holdings former chairman, David Butau has regained control of the company after an extraordinary meeting of the company resolved to fire all the four directors who had unsuccessfully tried to wrest control of the company from him.
OBJECTIVITY characterised the critique of Finance Minister Tendai Biti's 2010 National Budget with legislators from all political parties openly highlighting its shortcomings.
DELEGATES to the Zanu-PF Fifth National People's Congress started arriving yesterday with some saying the congress should revamp the party and gear it to face present challenges.
CHEETAHS' coach Liam Middleton is confident his side will perform better than what they did last week in Dubai when the Zimbabwe Sevens rugby side returns to action here this morning.
DELEGATES attending the ongoing Zanu-PF Fifth National People's Congress in Harare have described Cde Simon Khaya Moyo as a "competent leader" who is fit for the party's national chairmanship.
Despite a fighting innings of 70 from Greg Strydom, Mashonaland Eagles dominated the first day's play of their match against Matabeleland Tuskers at Harare Sports Club yesterday.
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