[The Herald] Eighteen vehicles worth thousands of dollars were yesterday burnt to shells by veld fire at a garage along Seke Road amid reports that Harare Fire Brigade officials who attended the scene watched helplessly allegedly because their fire tender did not have water. ......
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Zimbabwe: Veld Fire Guts 18 Vehicles
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Zimbabwe: Annan, Tutu, Machel Urge Smooth Transition
[The Herald] TWO or so days ago Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general; Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Graca Machel, the former wife of Nelson Mandela (and a couple of other men) released a statement concerning Zimbabwe. ......
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‘No One Is Safe’: Zimbabwe Threatens to Seize Farms of Party Defectors
In a nation where land is used as a tool of control, many former officials who were beneficiaries of seizures of white-owned farms now find themselves potential victims. ......
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Zimbabwe: Could Football Star Billiat Move to Europe?
[The Herald] KHAMA Billiat might have overshadowed Keegan Dolly in Super Diski last season, with the Zimbabwean forward making a clean sweep of the individual honours, but the South African midfielder could be the first of the dynamic Mamelodi Sundowns' duo to make a move to Europe. ......
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Zimbabwe: 'No UK Taxpayers' Money Will Be Used to Fund Mugabe's Govt'
[News24Wire] Britain has been forced to take the unusual step of insisting that it is not "bailing out" cash-strapped Zimbabwe following a media row over revelations that a former cabinet minister had held secret talks with Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. ......
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Zimbabwe: Dancers Meet in Mutare for Jibilika Festival
[The Herald] The ninth edition of Zimbabwe's biggest annual national dance competition, Jikinya Dance Festival, will take place this weekend in Mutare and will be headlined by electro house singer Takura Tendayi and World Championships gold medalist Denzel "Probeatz" Mashonganyika. ......
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Prison Services Turns to Biogas to Curb Waste
[The Herald] The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has adopted the use of biogas to curb waste woes at the country's overpopulated prisons, an official has said. ......
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'Insurance Sector Should Adopt Dynamic Mindset'
[The Herald] The insurance sector should adopt dynamic mindsets in order to survive the prevailing economic climate, Insurance Institute of Zimbabwe (IIZ) president Dr Edward Gomba has said. ......
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Zimbabwe: Broke Govt to Hire More Teachers
[News24Wire] Zimbabwe's education department is set to employ more mathematics and science teachers in the next two years, despite an ongoing government job freeze, state media reported on Monday. ......
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Zimbabwe: Junior Hockey Braces for Tough Tourney
[The Herald] UNDER-21 women's hockey team assistant coach Tendayi Maredza says they are bracing up for a tough competition at the Junior World Cup later this year where they were drawn against defending champions Netherlands, United States and Korea in Pool A. ......
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Zimbabwe: Council Rakes in $1,2 Million From Informal Traders
[The Herald] HARARE City Council has pocketed $1,2 million from informal traders operating from its markets including Mupedzanhamo and Mbare Musika between January and May this year. ......
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Zimbabwe: Prophet Magaya Cleared
[The Herald] A KWEKWE coroner has cleared the leader of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries Prophet Walter Magaya, his church and the police of any wrongdoing following the death of 11 people in a stampede at the end of a crusade at Mbizo Stadium in Kwekwe. ......
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Zimbabwe: 8 Drivers Set for World Competition
[The Herald] Eight bus and truck drivers from across the country will participate in the 2016 world professional driving championships to be held in Finland on Thursday. ......
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Zimbabwe: Liberation Struggle Is a Fight for Life
[The Herald] Last Week Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Cde Ignatius Chombo delivered an address at the 7th ordinary congress of the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). ......
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Zimbabwe: Banks to Continue Funding Agriculture
[The Herald] BANKS have committed to continue providing funding towards agriculture sector while discussions over the use of 99-year leases as collateral continue. The 99-year leases have been a bone of contention between farmers and banks, with the latter holding back on advancing loans in the absence of bankable collateral. Resultantly, newly resettled farmers have struggled to access adequate funding ......
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Zimbabwe abolishes 8,000 jobs in agriculture ministry to cut wages
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s government plans to abolish about half the jobs in the agriculture department, a government official said on Wednesday, as President Robert Mugabe’s administration struggles to pay public service wages. The southern African nation is facing a biting shortage of cash, its worst since 2009 when it dumped its...
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Zimbabwe: Ruling Party MPs Snub Anti-Police Brutality Motion
ZANU PF MPs on Tuesday refused to support a motion moved by Kuwadzana MP, Nelson Chamisa who wants the Home Affairs Minister called by the august house to launch a full investigation into cases of police brutality against peaceful protesters. The motion was introduced a week ago but could not go through parliament's preliminary stages for debate after Zanu PF MPs filed out of parliament one after the other leaving the house with no sufficient members to make a quorum. ......
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13 Die in Road Crashes
[The Herald] THIRTEEN people died, including five family members, in separate road traffic accidents that occurred between Friday and Monday in Mvuma and Mvurwi. Police said 10 people were seriously injured during the accidents. Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba, said the force was concerned over an upsurge in road accidents countrywide especially along the highways. ......
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Zimra Official Up for Stealing Cigarettes
[The Herald] A 33-year-old Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official deployed to a State warehouse in Beitbridge has been arrested for conniving with a suspected smuggler to steal 84 boxes of cigarettes placed in his custody. Brian Shereni, of 176 Eland Road in the border town, is accused of stealing cigarettes valued at $25 620. Through his lawyer, Mr Reason Mutimba of Nyikadzino Legal Practice, Shereni denied a charge of theft when he appeared before Beitbridge resident magistrate Ms Gloria Takundwa. ......
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When MDC-T Employs 2008 Violence Template
[The Herald] IN my last instalment I wrote about how public utterances and lack of cohesion risked destroying Zanu-PF's integrity. This week I would like to talk about how the 2008 violence template is now being used by MDC-T and other opposition political parties to cause anarchy and mayhem in Zimbabwe I do not want to propose and limit Zimbabweans to notions which are articulated in spoken or written words. In this article I am concerned with basic political ideas in our contemporary Zimbabwe and with the vocabulary ......
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