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Negotiators to the Global Political Agreement met in Harare yesterday, ending a spat of finger-pointing over who was to blame for the failure to beat the 15-day deadline set by the Sadc Troika.
SIX suspected cholera cases have been recorded in Mabvuku, Harare, as the municipality battles to provide sufficient water to residents in the eastern and western parts of the city.
A 15-year-old boy was on Saturday night abducted by three men in Warren Park and forced to be intimate with a woman at knifepoint at a secluded spot in the suburb.
Government will soon revamp the Central Statistical Office into a semi-autonomous Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency that will see harmonisation of data collation and dissemination.
MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association are pressing ahead with the national conference to elect new executive members this weekend despite pleas from the current executive to defer the conference to next year.
A Norton businessman fatally shot his friend before turning the gun on himself after he allegedly found him and another colleague being intimate in his house with their girlfriends against his wishes during a party to celebrate his 55th birthday.
A Chitungwiza man who was allegedly found in possession of diamonds worth US$1 884,81 without a licence was last week dragged before a Harare magistrate.
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council was yesterday yet to issue statements of entry to candidates sitting for this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations just two days before the first paper is due to be written.
About 431 City of Harare workers were yesterday awarded with long service awards at a colourful ceremony held at the City Sports Centre in Harare.
THE Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation is expected to engage two more partners as it intensifies efforts to engage investors in the mining of diamonds in the Chiadzwa area as prescribed by the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme.
KINGDOM Financial Holdings Limited has confirmed that 183 workers have left the group under a voluntary separation package that is being implemented as part of an ongoing rationalisation and restructuring programme.
South African President Jacob Zuma has postponed his visit to assess Zimbabwe's troubled power sharing agreement after the feuding parties missed a deadline to kick start negotiations but his advisors have expressed impatience over delays to conclude the talks.
Parliament has urged the government to allocate more money to agrarian reform, saying SA cannot afford to postpone this any longer and the lack of sufficient funding would compromise its development agenda.
When Obed Mumba first came to the Zambian copper mining town of Ndola in search of work, it was still known reverently as "Ku kalale" - the land of the white man. In the decades since, he has witnessed his Kabushi township outgrow the limited dreams of its planners.
The country's three main political parties have finally begun discussing crucial outstanding issues in the Global Political Agreement to try to end the long running dispute between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai.
Leaders of the pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Monday took their message of peace to the White House in the United States, where they were presented with a prestigious human rights award by US President Barack Obama.
THE partial immunity from prosecution granted to the Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono through amendments to the Reserve Bank Reform Bill "is a safe exit strategy" for a man under immense pressure to throw in the towel, political analysts said last week.
South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Rwanda has joined Malawi as the next successful example of a green revolution in Africa.
Former National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli has reached an out of court settlement with the state.
So, where does Nelson Mandela reckon he'll end up when the moment we all dread comes and he leaves this life?
SABMILLER 's two main competitors in Nigeria, Guinness and Heineken, make nearly as much in that market as SA's brewing giant makes in 24 other African countries, excluding SA.
THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) says it will appoint independent auditors and lawyers to study the voters' roll, which it says contains discrepancies.
THE summary expulsion of three student leaders -- Vivid Gwede, Samson Nxumalo and Kurayi Hoyi, and the fateful, two-year suspension of six other student activists namely, Sheunesu Nyoni, Power Mabhoyi, Edius Mucheuka, Kudakwashe Maguchu, Nyasha Nyakura and Emmanuel Munyenyiwa, by the National University of Science and Technology administration is a classical instance of just addressing the ...
Concerns over slow implementation of the power-sharing deal that led to the formation of the unity government is preventing Britain from pouring more aid into the country, the UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mark Canning said last week.
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