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President Mugabe seals Saviour Kasukuwere’s fate after nasty fallout with First Lady Grace Mugabe

President Mugabe seals Saviour Kasukuwere’s fate after nasty fallout with First Lady Grace Mugabe

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is this week expected to seal Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere’s political fate following his nasty fallout with First Lady Grace Mugabe amid growing calls for the Local Government minister’s ouster from the party’s revered post. Kasukuwere’s issue is expected to feature prominently at both the politburo and central committee meetings […]

Panic as state owned National Railways of Zimbabwe moots 2 000 job cuts

Panic as state owned National Railways of Zimbabwe moots 2 000 job cuts

THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workers say they are in a panic mode following reports that 2 000 jobs were on the line, with the victims likely to go home without terminal benefits. The planned job cuts were expected to have taken effect starting March 31, following a similar move in 2015, where NRZ […]

Forensic audit exposes rot at National Railways of Zimbabwe

Forensic audit exposes rot at National Railways of Zimbabwe

SOME managers at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) do not have qualifications for their posts while the parastatal’s wage bill is not in tandem with the size of the workforce, a top company official revealed yesterday, citing findings of the company’s forensic audit. At present, NRZ employs about 4 000 workers from close to […]

Shock Over U.S$8,50 Prize for Zimbabwe’s Miss Deaf Winner

Shock Over U.S$8,50 Prize for Zimbabwe’s Miss Deaf Winner

Miss Deaf 2017 winner Chiedza Hukuimwe in silver dress, flanked by her princesses Ruth Mukome, Natasha Sibanda and Thandynkosi Sibanda Twenty-three-year-old tailor Chiedza Hukuimwe was crowned for Miss Deaf 2017 over the weekend beating other 13 contestants, but walking away with $8.50 was a shock in the history of beauty pageants. Organisers had no cash […]

Roughly a month’s worth of rain in a night destroys homes in Bujumbura

Roughly a month’s worth of rain in a night destroys homes in Bujumbura

At least six people have died in Burundi in a night of torrential rain and flooding that triggered landslides and caused widespread damage. Gaston Sindimwo, the African nation’s vice president, said “torrential rains and strong winds struck several provinces last night. In the northwestern town of Mabayi, a landslide smothered several houses, and rescuers found five […]

Nigerian pimp gets 20 years for drugging, raping and trafficking SA teen

Nigerian pimp gets 20 years for drugging, raping and trafficking SA teen

Ugochukwu Eke was on Monday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Johannesburg High Court for drugging and sexually exploiting an underage girl and living off the earnings of sexual exploitation, being an accomplice to her rape and trafficking. The Nigerian national committed the crimes in 2015. Judge Majake Mabesele read out the charges that […]

‘Just let me hang’: Convicted robber, rapist slapped with additional 50yrs

‘Just let me hang’: Convicted robber, rapist slapped with additional 50yrs

A vile robber and rapist serving 20 years at Khami prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo, yesterday demanded to be sentenced to death after he was slapped with an additional 50 years in prison. Xolisani Nkala (30) – described as a drama king by State-certified pyschiatrists for feigning mental illness – was convicted of two […]

Affirmative Action Group slams minister Jorum Gumbo for ‘burying’ NRZ

Affirmative Action Group slams minister Jorum Gumbo for ‘burying’ NRZ

BLACK empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG), has castigated Transport minister Dr Jorum Gumbo accusing him of declaring the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) a “dead” company. The minister, last week, told Senate that it was proving “difficult” to revive the parastatal. “We presented a paper to Cabinet to look at options to resuscitate NRZ, but the […]

Zimbabwean activist clergyman Patrick Mugadza calls for jail ‘sex cubicles’

Zimbabwean activist clergyman Patrick Mugadza calls for jail ‘sex cubicles’

Activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza has challenged the government to build special “conjugal rights cottages” in jails to allow prisoners to enjoy intimacy with their partners. The unorthodox Remnant Church pastor, who earlier this year made a controversial “prophecy” which claimed that President Robert Mugabe would die later this year, has just spent six weeks […]

Government Satisfied With Zambia Railways Rehabilitation Programme

Government Satisfied With Zambia Railways Rehabilitation Programme

The Zambian government has indicated that it is satisfied with the progress made by Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) in implementing their recapitalisation and rail rehabilitation programme, after the repossession of the railway company from an unsuccessful concessionaire in 2012. Minister of transport and communications, Brian Mushimba, stated that the capital injection of US$120 million from […]

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