[The Herald] In a bid to cater for fashion tastes within the Christian community, local designer Edson Sibanda has launched a new label dubbed Christian Clothing and the designs will be sold in churches and retail shops throughout the country. The collection will include day wear and evening wear which include T-shirts, tracksuits and jerseys. The range will also be available in South Africa and United Kingdom in the next months.In an interview the graphic designer-cum-fashion designer Sibanda said their clothing is ti ......
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Zimbabwe: Christian Clothing Range Launched
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Zimbabwe: Chaos Rocks Jibilika Dance Festival Finals
[The Herald] THE Jibilika dance festival that was held in Mutare over the weekend was marred with chaos as some groups protested over the results, The Herald Review has learnt. Sources said the competition went well until final results were announced prompting people to throw missiles on stage. A Harare group Lethal Fam Crew were announced as the winners of this year's dance competition."People contested the results as they felt some groups were robbed. Things turned nasty resulting in a premature end," the source reve ......
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Five Bills Sail Through
[The Herald] At least five Bills have been passed while 10 are still under consideration as the curtain comes down on the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament. President Mugabe has announced October 4 as the date when the Fourth Session of the current Parliament would be officially opened. In a Statutory Instrument of a Government Gazette published last Friday, the Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces fixed October 4 as the day of the official opening of the Fourth Sessio ......
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Zimbabwe: Inaugural Classical Music Fest Begins
[The Herald] The inaugural Harare Chamber Music Festival will begin tomorrow and run until Saturday at The Venue in Avondale. HCMF offers a feast of top notch classical music and fills a classical music space in the capital,. It will also provide the opportunity to taste this enjoyable genre, for those not familiar with it with a line-up of eight concerts for the three days.Chamber music is an intimate style, which began as music written and performed by and for small groups of people. ......
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Zimbabwe: IDBZ Sets Target On Bad Loans Collection
[The Herald] THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe is targeting to collect at least 80 percent of its bad loans by year-end, finance director Cassius Gambinga has said. Mr Gambinga said the bank was targeting to reduce non-performing loans to $1 million from $8 million in December 2015. As at December 31, 2014, the NPLs stood at about $20,4 million."The expectation is that by end of the year we would have collected $8 million out of the $9 million (of the) outstanding loans," Mr Gambinga told a media and anal ......
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Govt in Control, Says Sekeramayi
[The Herald] Government is completely in control of the country with the police having managed to deal with MDC-T-led illegal demonstrations in Harare, Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi said yesterday. He said this while trashing claims in South African media that the country' security forces had joined the illegal protests.It is understood the intention of the sponsored stories was to create an impression that the country had become ungovernable. ......
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Include All Wheat Flour On SI 64 - Millers
[The Herald] Grain millers are lobbying Government for the inclusion of all types of wheat flour on Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 so that they be subjected to the same import control regime as other products listed under the measure as they seek to halt the continued decline in national bread consumption.National bread consumption has fallen sharply to under one million loaves per day from around 1,5 million about five years ago. This translates to a bread flour requirement of about 400 tonnes of flour against an agg ......
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Zimbabwe: Chinese National Up for Drugs
[The Herald] A Chinese national yesterday appeared in court after he was caught in possession of cocaine with an estimated street value of $60. Xu Yazhou (28) was charged with contravening Chapter 14 of the Dangerous Drugs Act when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe. He is out on $100 bailHe was remanded to September 22. As part of his bail conditions Xu was ordered to surrender his passport to the Clerk of Court, not to interfere with State witnesses and to report once every Monday at CID Drugs Secti ......
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Zimbabwe: 30 Presidential Scholarship Beneficiaries Off to China
[The Herald] Thirty students who have been selected to study in China under the Presidential Scholarship Programme, left the country for Qindao Province yesterday. They were sent off by the Executive Director of the Presidential Scholarship Programme, Dr Christopher Mushohwe. Twenty more students are expected to leave for China today.Addressing the students, their parents and guardians just before they left for the Harare International Airport, Dr Mushohwe, who is also the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcastin ......
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Amnesty Appeals for Commission of Inquiry into Activist's Abduction
[VOA] Amnesty International has made another appeal to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to establish an independent judge-led commission of inquiry into the abduction and likely enforced disappearance of activist Itai Dzamara about 18 months ago. ......
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Zimbabwe: Local Wrestler Off to World Champs
[The Herald] TOP Zimbabwean wrestler Herbert Mururi is unfazed by the Herculean task which lies ahead of him in the bi-annual World Belt Wrestling Championships in Kyrgyzstan from September 2 to 9. The fighter, who is the only Zimbabwean to contest in the premier world championships, left for Johannesburg yesterday where he was scheduled to team up with other Southern African participants before connecting to the Asian country.Mururi will compete in the open category of the Alish style. ......
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Zimbabwe: Zimra, VID Staff Redeployed
[The Herald] The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (zimra) and the Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) have redeployed staff across the country amid reports that the move is one of a raft of measures to curb corruption at the two parastatals. Although officials tried to play down the matter saying the reshuffle was a directive to transfer those who stayed at one station for more than five years, insiders said that Government was not happy with rampant corruption cases that were being reported. ......
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Zimbabwe: Women Tell Their Story At Theatre in the Park
[The Herald] The title could not be anymore self-explanatory. "Naked Girls Reading" brings to the forefront issues of women that are usually hidden and not openly spoken about in an intellectual and sassy way. "Naked Girls Reading" is a cheeky two-women show blending skin and text, which premières tonight and runs until Friday at Theatre in the Park.Written by women, the production voices their stories and anxieties in their professional and private lives. It puts in the open subjects that are usually swept unde ......
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Zimbabwe: Anti-Govt Protesters Off the Hook
[The Herald] Ten suspects from Epworth accused of public violence against police roadblocks last month were yesterday removed from remand. This followed failure by the State to provide them with a trial date. Magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe advised the prosecutor, Mr Peter Kachirika, to proceed by way of summons when ready for trial.The 10 are Luckson Bamusi (22), Simbarashe Tiyanane (20), Madanhi Fachi (24), Wellington Mugule (41) and Everson Jonasi (26). Others are Knowledge Chipitso (24), Sylvester Dhlamini (32), Terrenc ......
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Zimbabwe: Achieving Highest Health Standard, a Fundamental Right
[The Herald] The right to health includes access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care of appropriate quality. Entitlements to such rights include the right to a system of health protection that gives everyone an equal opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable level of health. There have been good strides to improve health services delivery, to meet global goals and benchmarks such as Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) in Zimbabwe. However, the country still faces a huge burden of diseases -- emerging, r ......
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Zimbabwe: Metallon Mulls Arcturus Mine Disposal
[The Herald] Metallon Gold Corporation, Zimbabwe's largest gold miner may consider disposing Arcturus Mine, which is currently under care and maintenance following a string of losses, corporate affairs executive Ambassador Zenzo Nsimbi said. Metallon, owned by South African businessman Mzi Khumalo owns five gold mining operations in Zimbabwe, namely; How Mine, its most profitable unit, Shamva Mine, Mazowe Mine, Redwing Mine and Arcturus Mine."If we get an offer from investors for Arcturus Mine, Metallon would consider ......
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Zimbabwe: Boxing Champion Manyuchi Honoured
[The Herald] THE Government has honoured World Boxing Council welterweight silver champion, Charles Manyuchi, for his achievements by giving him a diplomatic passport. Manyuchi was handed the diplomatic passport yesterday by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko at ceremony held at Rainbow Towers for Team Zimbabwe which will compete at the Paralympic Games.The Games will run from September 7 to 18 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Zimbabwe will be sending a delegation of 14 people - six athletes and eight officials. ......
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Zimbabwe: Diabetics At High Risk of Contracting TB
Sithabile Mpofu is among thousands of people who have experienced a phase of infection by Tuberculosis while living with diabetes in Southern Africa. The 52-year-old woman from Lobengula, Bulawayo in Zimbabwe's second largest city has been diabetic for the past decade. ......
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Zimbabwe: Harare City Edge Bulawayo in Premiership Encounter
[New Zimbabwe] HARARE City staged a dramatic come-back from behind to see off 10-men Bulawayo City 2-1 in a Castle Larger Premier Soccer League tie at Rufaro Stadium on Friday. ......
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Makes Emergency Singapore Trip, Abandons Summit
[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Tuesday abandoned the ongoing Sadc summit in Swaziland after his health reportedly deteriorated. ......
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