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BULAWAYO South MP Eddie Cross has said Government should slash civil servants allowances to reduce Government expenditure.   The MP said this in Parliament on Tuesday during a debate on the recently presented 2016 annual budget review and the 2017 economic outlook statement.   Mr Cross said the country has to reduce expenditure on salaries to less than 60 percent of revenue.   “Mr Speaker, that could be achieved quite easily by simply cancelling allowances…

A FAWCETT security guard was involved in a scuffle with police officers after an accident involving his cash in transit vehicle and a pirate taxi Honda fit along Old Victoria Falls Road in Bulawayo.   The Honda fit driver made a sudden U-turn in front of the oncoming Fawcett security van near Mzilikazi High School and the security vehicle rammed into the former’s driver’s side at around 10AM on Friday.   The Honda Fit driver…

TWO Gweru socialites died in a horrific road accident after a vehicle they were travelling in rammed a haulage truck’s trailer.   Tinashe Wena (30), an operations manager at Larochell Quarry and his friend John dos Santos (34) were in a Mazda 3 that rammed a haulage truck which was reversing from Zuva service station along Robert Mugabe way at around 5AM on Saturday.   The two friends were coming from a popular night spot…

On Thursday, some of our staffers spent valuable productive time trying to free journalists Obey Manayiti, Abigail Matsikidze and Shepherd Tozvireva and driver Ralph Phiri, who had been arrested by clearly rogue police officers.   Manayiti, for good measure, was assaulted with fists — and he suffered a bruised lip and swollen cheek — by a police officer, who clearly does not have a clue what his job is, what human rights are and what…

War veterans boss and former Cabinet minister Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday said President Robert Mugabe’s memory was now failing, describing him as a “revisionist” bent on rewriting the country’s history.   Mutsvangwa was responding to Mugabe’s statements in his address to the Zanu PF women’s league annual national assembly on Thursday that the 93-year-old received the war veterans’ chief along with his colleagues when they arrived in Mozambique to join the liberation struggle.   The war…

JOURNALISTS from different media houses yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration against police brutality on reporters, who will be reporting demonstrations and sensitive stories.   Nearly 40 journalists marched from New Ambassador Hotel to Harare Central Police Station with their lips taped in protest over the arrest of reporters on duty.   At Harare Central Police Station they sought audience with the officer commanding Harare province, but only managed to meet with an Inspector Zibudubudu, the…

DEFENCE MINISTER Sidney Sekeramayi is (73) is slowly seen now a potential successor to Mugabe in the now open again race   ZIMBABWE’S DEFENCE MINISTER Sidney Sekeramayi is (73) is slowly seen now a potential successor to the embattled Zanu PF stalwart, Vice President and Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (74) in succeeding Robert Mugabe as the next president.   The two have tainted history in relation to the murderous gukurahundi genocide of the early 80s…

NEW debt-free Phoenix rising out from Air Zimbabwe – is in advanced talks with a Brazilian company to lease five aircraft to service under served regional routes. Government said last negotiations were ongoing but would not name the lessor.   However, sources told The Sunday Mail Business that the firm in question could be ECC Leasing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brazil’s Embraer.   Embraer established ECC in 2002 to manage and market its pre-owned aircraft.   The Brazilian…

 The Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo allegedly looted approximately US$500 000 from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund,   She went on to announce that only President Robert Mugabe can remove Professor Jonathan Moyo from his Cabinet post while addressing the fifth Presidential Youth Interface in Chinhoyi on Saturday.   Grace Mugabe then waded into the debate over the embattled Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere by telling the…

Mnangagwa has always been a stumbling block to justice over gukurahundi and all other Zanu pf attrocities including, murambatsvina, Chiadzwa genocide, murderous white farmer eviction and land grabs, AIPPA, POSA victims, Itai Dzamara’s disappearance, arbitrary arrest without trial and murder and disappearance of journalists, activists and opposition, including Zanu pf stalwarts. He has always been an untouchable ‘criminal’ with Mugabe’s backing as he was Mugabe’s personal security during the liberation struggle and thats why he…