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SOUTH African football legend and Kaizer Chiefs owner Kaizer Motaung has become the latest influential figure to back Zimbabwean teenage sensation Knowledge "Smiling Assassin" Musona to become a big hit in the game.
REMEMBER the song Tula Bhechulude, about goblins (tokoloshis) which wreaked havoc to the people who wanted to make quick money through juju?
Buhera North House of Assembly Member Cde William Mutomba's constituency healthcare programme has seen more than 1 500 people accessing free medical treatment to date.
THE Zimbabwe Olympic Committee - through their Medical Commission -successfully conducted a three-day Olympic Solidarity-funded sports medicine course in Harare last weekend.
JENAGURU Music Studio - owned by musician Clive Malunga -has finally opened its doors to artistes wishing to record their music.
THE Grain Marketing Board has raised US$1,6 million through grain bills issued last week to finance grain purchases.
A 15-YEAR-OLD Battlefields boy was recently clobbered to death with a knobkerrie in the head in a dispute with his friend over a burst condom they were playing with as a balloon.
Zanu-PF Politburo committee member and Zimbabwe's Ambassador to South Africa, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, yesterday landed the party's national chairmanship after four more provinces endorsed his candidature for the position.
Brazil is ready to strengthen ties with Zimbabwe and help the country develop its vast mineral resources, the head of a visiting delegation from Brasilia has said.
Police have arrested a city lawyer after he allegedly teamed up with a client, her brothers and husband to kidnap, assault as well as shave the beard of a man who is a member of an Apostolic faith sect after he failed to pay a US$2 000 debt.
DEBATE on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Amendment Bill in the House of Assembly was yesterday postponed to allow further consultations on the prospective legislation.
HARARE Municipal Police have downed tools in protest over management's "indifference" towards their colleague who was arrested on allegations of killing a vendor last week.
Police did not torture arms dealer Peter Michael Hitschmann, a key State witness in Roy Bennett's terror trial, to induce him to implicate the MDC-T treasurer, the High Court heard yesterday.
Government is finalising its National Health Strategy for 2009 to 2013 meant to identify priority areas and financing for the sector, Health and Child Welfare Secretary Dr Gerald Gwinji has said.
Three Chiweshe men will each spend five years in prison for stealing shelled maize from their employer.
A taxi driver here was last Saturday night robbed of his Datsun 1200, R250 cash and a cellphone by two unknown assailants who tried to strangle him near the Limpopo River.
THE road tolls are starting to produce some serious money for highway maintenance with US$3,1 million taken since they started being collected in August this year.
FC Victoria won the Zifa Eastern Region Division One championship after they beat Maningi 2-1 at Mucheke while their rivals Masvingo United were held to a goalless draw away in Hippo Valley.
ZIMBABWE batsman Charles Coventry hit exactly 100 to help Matabeleland Tuskers pile 418 in the first innings on the second day of their Logan Cup tie against Midwest Rhinos at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday.
THE inter-party Global Political Agreement, signed between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations on September 15 last year, envisaged a process of healing the wounds spawned by the political acrimony of the past decade.
Call it luck or perfect manoeuvring, Itai Makumbe has been through it all and now he appears like a proverbial cat with nine lives.
A HARARE man was arrested on allegations of raping his 20-year-old housemaid as she slept last week.
THE Public Service Commission has blocked an attempt by the World Bank to access the personal data of State employees, which it claims it needs for an audit of the civil service.
Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has urged party negotiators to the Global Political Agreement to speed up talks in order to end the deadlock over unresolved issues.
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