MPs Alarmed By Rise In Beggars, Street Kids, Mothers, Fathers , Youths & Prostitution

MEMBERS of Parliament have expressed concern over the alleged increase in prostitution both in urban and rural areas. In a motion before the National Assembly, the lawmakers said they were concerned by the increasing number of “beggars, street kids, street mothers, fathers and youths” at road intersections and pavements in urban areas. They also said they were disturbed by the wanton abuse of alcohol and other intoxicants by the younger generation. The motion, which is…

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Army & Airforce Get New Vehicles Plus 90 Vehicles Allocated To Lieutenant-Colonels

Government last week received the second batch of vehicles – including all-terrain troop-carrying trucks, water cannons, buses and equipment, mostly used by the military and police – bought from an Indian automobile manufacturing company, Ashok Leyland, under a $50-million loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of India. The Independent reported that it is reliably informed that the military vehicles were dispatched to various units on Thursday and Friday. The remainder of the vehicles were officially…

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Mt Selinda, ‘UCCZ’ Run High School Rocked By Militant Students Demonstrations

A STUDENT unrest has rocked the United Church of Christ (UCCZ)-run Mt Selinda High School in Chipinge where militant pupils took to the streets protesting against church officials for illegally confiscating a vehicle from their headmaster. The irate pupils want their headmaster, Mr Watson Bundwa, to be handed back a Toyota D4D twin cab truck, which was taken by the church early this year Business in Chipinge’s Central Business District came to halt as close…

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Mugabe Claims: ‘Wifey Leads No Faction,..People Are just Jealous Of Grace’

Mugabe Claims: ‘Wifey Leads No Faction,..People Are just Jealous Of Grace’

President Robert yesterday defended his wife, First Lady Grace Mugabe, saying she did not lead a faction and her critics were jealous because of her work and had nothing to offer. Addressing the Zanu-PF central committee, Mugabe said neither Grace nor Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa led factions, saying this was fictitious and imaginary. “I want to pay tribute to the Women’s League … they have criss-crossed the country drumming up support. “They have shown that there…

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Mugabe’s Chinese Friend Who Allegedly Funded CIO Detained In Beijing

Mugabe’s Chinese Friend Who Allegedly Funded CIO  Detained In Beijing

Sam Pa, the enigmatic figure who allegedly helped finance the Central Intelligence Organisation before Zimbabwe’s elections, has been detained in Beijing according to a report in The Financial Times. The Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported that his detention was connected with an investigation into the former Chairman of the Chinese state owned oil company, Sinopec, by the Chinese ruling party’s anti-graft body. In 2012 Global Witness investigations revealed evidence that Zimbabwe’s feared and highly partisan…

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Minister Mombeshora Wants Michael Norman Connolly To Vaccate Boxwell Farm

THE Minister of Land and Rural Resettlement, Douglas Mombeshora, is locked in a legal wrangle with a white commercial farmer over the ownership of a farm in Bulilima district. The commercial farmer is allegedly refusing to vacate Boxwell Farm of McGee which was acquired by the government in terms of the Land Acquisition Act under the Land Reform programme. Mombeshora, through the Civil Division in the Attorney General’s Office, this week filed summons at the…

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Zanu PF Legislator ‘Justice Mayor Wadyajena’ Demands US$200,000 From Chiyangwa

Angered by gay jibe … Justice Mayor Wadyajena ZANU PF Gokwe Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has demanded US$200,000 from Philip Chiyangwa for allegedly defaming him through a video recorded during a rally by First Lady Grace Mugabe in Chimanimani two weeks ago. In a letter of demand sent to Chiyangwa, party colleagues Acie Lumumba and deputy Manicaland provincial youth chair Mabuso Chinguno, Wadyajena through his lawyers, Machingauta and partners, demanded an apology and $200,000 from…

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‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick Zhuwao .

‘Gvt Won’t Tolerate Debate On Economic Empowerment Law!’- Patrick  Zhuwao .

YOUTH and indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao says government is not going to tolerate any debate on the economic empowerment law. A furious Zhuwao who appeared to be taking a dig at finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, told hundreds of cheering Zanu PF sympathisers attending his economic empowerment conference in Harare Friday that those wishing for the reversal of the law were ‘dreaming’. Chinamasa is on record saying that government was revising the controversial black empowerment law…

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Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Particularly Towards (11-16 Yr Olds), Plus HIV, Rise

Sexual & Gender-Based Violence, Particularly Towards (11-16 Yr Olds), Plus HIV, Rise

CASES of sexual and gender-based violence are on the increase and, in most cases, victims are young girls aged between 11 and 16 years, according to the country’s health management information system. This was revealed during the official launch of the Sexual Gender Based Violence clinic at Wilkins hospital Thursday. National Aids Council (NAC) Harare Provincial AIDS Coordinator Adonija Muzondiona said by the end of 2014, NAC recorded a significant number of sexual violence cases…

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‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

‘Zimbabwe’s Education System Is A Deadly Human Conveyor Belt Into An Ailing Economy’

AS an educationist with extensive teaching experience at university level, I feel particularly saddened that the young people who are graduating in their thousands every year from all manner of colleges in the country are unable to obtain formal employment through which they can put their skills to use in assisting with the development of the country. Zimbabwe is churning out no less than ten thousand graduates every year from its many universities and colleges….

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