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The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) here is on high alert for floods and heavy storms, as rains continue pounding most parts of the district, an official has said. Acting District Administrator Mr Jahson Mugodzwa, who chairs the local CPU committee, said they were rolling out floods awareness campaigns to educate communities living in low-lying areas on disaster and risk management methods.
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau A 29-year-old Zimbabwean man was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Lephalale High Court in Limpopo Province for killing a South African doctor. Petrus Standford Moyo was also sentenced to 15 years for attempted murder, another 30 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances, one year for trespassing, 13 years for […]
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Traditional leaders in Chiredzi have exhorted Government to set aside funding for the rehabilitation of dysfunctional irrigation schemes which have the potential to add more than 2 000 hectares towards food production in the district.
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Traditional leaders in Masvingo have hailed Government over its plans to repossess and operationalise all mining claims that have been lying idle for decades across the province.
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The Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo has thrown its full weight behind austerity measures introduced by President Mnangagwa’s Government, saying they were a bitter pill to swallow, but necessary to cure, and would set the country on a positive economic trajectory.
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Zanu-PF has turned down an application by former Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs and Gutu South legislator Dr Paul Chimedza to rejoin the party following his expulsion in December 2017.
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A 25-year-old woman from Beitbridge was yesterday jailed for an effective six months after she was caught smuggling 19 people, among them seven minors, into South Africa.
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More than 34 000 households in Chiredzi are in dire need of food assistance, while over 50 000 cattle need supplementary feeding following a prolonged dry spell which is pointing to yet another drought.
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A Bikita man allegedly fatally stabbed a commercial sex worker with an Okapi knife at Nyika Growth Point last week after a dispute at her house.
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The Cotton Producers and Marketers Association has challenged its members who benefited from the Presidential Free Cotton Inputs Scheme Programme to redouble their efforts to stand a chance to win top honours.
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A 30-year-old Zimbabwean man was last week jailed for an effective 15 years for smuggling explosives worth R200 000 into South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post.
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Faith for the Nation Campaign national chairperson Reverend Andrew Wutaunashe has castigated the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and other civic organisations for causing deaths and destruction of property during the recent violent demonstrations.
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RESIDENTS have petitioned Masvingo City Council demanding that action be taken against two councillors who defrauded the municipality of $800 in the run-up to harmonised elections last year.
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Scores of women who sell artefacts at the Great Zimbabwe National Monuments have been thrown a lifeline by Government after it availed a $50 000 grant to upgrade their craft centre into a state-of-the-art facility.
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Smallholder irrigation farmers here have been challenged to embrace contract farming and consider joint ventures to attract capital and boost productivity.
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