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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.
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.
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.
The transport manager Pascal Gwezere who is accused of stealing weapons from Pomona Army Barracks was granted US$500 bail on Friday but will remain in custody after the state invoked Section 121 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act.
Any serious farmer gets worried when rains are delayed, even by a short while.
THE feuding parties in the unity government have still not scheduled meetings to resume negotiations to conclude the outstanding issues in their power-sharing agreement despite pressure from South Africa to resolve their disputes by December 5.
IT is now becoming clear that the parents of the teenage Ruwa boy suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy had rejected seeking competent medical help and instead destroyed the family, brought about their own deaths and almost destroyed their son through superstitious beliefs in witchcraft.
SOUTH Africa-based investment firm, African Global Capital, believes now is the time to invest in the local mining industry to avoid losing opportunities to suitors also eyeing the sector.
THE eagerly-anticipated 2010 National Budget will be presented in Parliament on December 2 when the House resumes sitting next week, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.
NOT so many local artistes can speak of their work with as much authority as award-winning filmmaker, Rumbi Katedza.
DINO Mudondo's fans were left wondering if he learnt any lesson from his disastrous affair with Cecilia Dapeta after he made a "move" on another "sugar mummy" during a live performance last weekend.
COSTLY blunders by management at the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) have raised fresh doubts that results for the "O" Level and "A" Level examinations starting on Friday will be released on time.
Attempts by Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro to carry out an audit of the country's civil service are already being frustrated by elements within ZANU PF. Last week Wednesday the Minister held a press conference to announce a physical count of all state employees in order to weed out ghost workers and those earning multiple salaries.
The terrorism trial of the MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett continued in the High Court on Monday with the first State witness, Chief Superintendent James Makone, concluding his testimony.
When Father Wolfgang Thamm SJ went to Darwendale on November 15 to fetch a sick parishioner admitted at a clinic, he thought it was business as usual.
THE Global Fund to fight Tuberculosis, Aids and Malaria (GFTAM) has extended the country's Round 5 grant with additional funding of about US$37.9 million after the country failed to meet its targets.
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