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Fungai Muderere HWANGE Football Club players have gone on strike action amid revelations that they are owed two months salaries, winning bonuses, signing on fees and camping allowances. The industrial action started on Tuesday and it entered into day two yesterday and the players who spoke to this publication on condition of anonymity were adamant […]
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Dr Masimba Mavaza The CCC members have been left wondering where their party is going to as daggers and battle lines are drawn in blood. The absence of the opposition party’s constitution has raised a question. Are citizens willing to tolerate violations of democratic rules and norms by incompetent political leaders? It happened there: how […]
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Tadious Manyepo in JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A host of former Zimbabwean footballers based in South Africa have not taken up professional careers around the game. Some are into transport and logistics business while others have become industry technocrats. But they are still united by the game which sustained themselves back in their heyday. It is […]
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ADDIS ABABA. – Barely 3 percent of Ethiopian high school students have passed the university entrance exam, the education minister has announced, a score similar to that of last year. “Of the 845,188 students who took part in the entrance exam, only 27,000 obtained the average required to be admitted to university”, explained Berhanu Nega, […]
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KAMPALA. – Ugandan lawmakers have rejected a government proposal to allow 15-year-old girls to access birth control pills to reduce high levels of pregnancy. Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa called the idea “devilish”, saying it would “formalise [the] defilement” of girls. A senior health ministry official said the “stigma” around young people using contraceptives should end. […]
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GAZA/JERUSALEM – Despite rising worries that its action may exacerbate the situation and involve additional parties in the Israel-Gaza conflict, the US is reportedly considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East region while more countries attempt to deescalate tensions as the war has reportedly claimed at least 1 900 lives on both […]
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Herald Correspondent Kunashe Foundation, a female and youth-led non-profit and non-political organisation, will this Saturday present a play on ‘period poverty’, starring renowned radio personality, influencer and brand ambassador Becky K. The play – entitled ‘Periodically Correct’ – was written by Nokuthula Chari and directed by Jasen Mphepo, and will be staged in Harare this […]
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Prosper Ndlovu in GABORONE, Botswana THE exhibition of high quality products and the huge presence of Zimbabwean companies participating at the 2023 Global Expo Botswana, which kicked off here today, has charmed President Eric Mokgweetsi Masisi. A total of 23 local companies drawn from different sectors of the economy are exhibiting their goods and services […]
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Blessing Malinganiza VETERAN table tennis player Vikram Singh is happy to have been crowned Mashonaland East Open Table Tennis tournament champion. The two-day event, which was held at Winwood College in Ruwa from October 7-8, attracted more than 100 table tennis players from around the country. Singh defeated Tinotenda Fambira, who had to settle for […]
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Prosper Dembedza Herald Correspondent A 43-year-old Harare man who masqueraded as a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company ZETDC employee and defrauded rural residents US$5 055 has appeared in court. Simbarashe Gurumombe was facing 11 counts of fraud when he appeared before Harare Magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi. It is the State’s case that sometime in May, […]
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Blessings Chidakwa Herald Reporter NEWLY appointed Prosecutor General Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo has taken oath of office before President Mnangagwa today promising to ensure cases are concluded timeously. Speaking after taking her oath, at the State House, Justice Matanda-Moyo said her job is to institute and conduct criminal trials. “So, I will be leading the team […]
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Tendai Rupapa in SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain MOUTHWATERING Zimbabwean dishes, famed for their high nutritional value and medicinal properties, were the toast of the Food Market Day during the 8th United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNTWO) Forum on Gastronomy Tourism here where people scrambled taste food prepared by winners of First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa’s cookout […]
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Sifelani Tsiko Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth magazine, in association with Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA) will release the first edition of the State of Africa’s Environment Report 2023 this week in Nairobi ahead of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
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Joseph Madzimure Senior Reporter FORMER Citizen Coalition for Change candidate for Hunyani constituency Cde Terrence Kumbula has dumped the opposition outfit to re-join the ruling Zanu PF party citing inconsistency within its rank and file. Cde Kumbula contested as a CCC National Assembly candidate in the August 23 harmonised elections He announced his defection in […]
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Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) says discussions with all foreign investors it has engaged to recapitalise operations remain on course amid high expectations that the parastatal will get a new lease of life soon. NRZ has in recent years been knocking on the doors of many potential investors, pitching […]