Bus Ferrying Blakiston Primary School Grade 4 Pupils Rolls Over 3times In Kariba Makuti Area

A BUS ferrying Blakiston Primary School pupils from Harare for a field trip in Kariba was involved in an accident near Karoi on Monday morning, sending parents into panic, as social media networks broke the news.When NewsDay visited the school, restless parents and guardians were demanding clarification from authorities after learning of the news via several social media platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp.   Blakiston-Primary-School-overturned-bus   A school official, who declined to be named, confirmed…

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French Millitary Plane Emergency Landing In Masvingo, Explained

  Sceptics had questioned the motive as to why it passed through Zimbabwe from South Africa en route to Zambia. The 10 military personnel from France—including one woman—aboard the flight, were not injured after one of the aircraft’s engines and a gearbox developed faults. They had to spend the night holed up in Masvingo before engineers, who were aboard the plane, fixed the problem and they proceeded to Harare at around 11am. Diplomatic sources said…

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Zimbabweans Choking Under Unjustified Levies

Zimbabweans Choking Under Unjustified Levies

THE spat of levies being introduced by government, the latest of which is the recent gazetting of a farm levy on A1 and A2 resettled farmers, is a sign of bankruptcy, lack of foresight and planning that reigns supreme in the Zanu PF government.   It is ironic that Zanu PF is only finding it necessary now to tax these farmers, after all these years of parceling out land to buy their votes and in…

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Zimbabwe Prisons 12% Overpopulated And Unable To Feed Prisoners

Zimbabwe Prisons 12% Overpopulated And Unable To Feed Prisoners

THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) says it is overwhelmed by prisoners’ population which has exceeded the holding capacity by 12% causing them to struggle to feed inmates. The country’s prisons have a population of 19 000 inmates against a holding capacity of 17 000. Early this year, inmates at Chikurubi maximum security prison rioted over hunger resulting in the death of more than five prisoners and the injury of  scores of others after the authorities…

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Riot Police Break Up Retrenched NRZ Worker’s Protest

The embattled National Railways of Zimbabwe, have now had to deal with defiant dismissed workers, who staged a demonstration, demanding their termination of employment service packages. The angry, former employees, were dismissed in July but now allege that NRZ has failed to deliver on their terminal benefits. Mugabe’s ruthless riot police aka ‘rovai’ swiftly descended on the protesting workers and broke up the gathering at the NRZ Bulawayo offices. By Sibusiso Ngwenya. photo-bulawayo 24

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Police And National Parks Team Arrest Eight Over Hwange Elephants Cyanide Poison

Police And National Parks Team Arrest Eight Over Hwange Elephants Cyanide Poison

.   In what is a big breakthrough in tracking those responsible for the mass killing of elephants through the use of cyanide poison at watering holes at least people have been arrested by a team of Border Control Unit police and Parks and Wildlife Management.   A total of 23 elephants were killed in Hwange national park just last month through cyanide poisoning.   The group face charges relating to the possession of a…

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Chiredzi Sugar Cane Farmer (60) Raped His Two Year Old Daughter

Chiredzi Sugar Cane Farmer (60)  Raped His Two Year Old Daughter

A 60 YEAR old man from Chiredzi who is the chairman of the Chipiwa Sugarcane Farmers’ Association in Chiredzi raped his two-year-old daughter. The man (60), who cannot be named to protect the minor’s identity, is a divorcee. He threatened to kill the minor if she told anyone about the abuse. The victim now suffers complications of her urinary system following the attack. The accused was not asked to plead when he appeared before Chiredzi…

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Section 97 Of Zim Constitution: ‘President Can Be Removed From Office Due To Physical Or Mental Incapacitation

Section 97 Of Zim Constitution: ‘President Can Be Removed From Office Due To Physical Or Mental Incapacitation

An opposition Member of Parliament says Zimbabwean lawmakers fed up with President Robert Mugabe’s 35 year rule can unseat the president if a secret ballot is used in a motion to impeach him. Godfrey Sithole of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai claims that there are some Zanu-PF parliamentarians who no longer support the president saying he is no longer capable of properly running the country. According to Section 97 of the…

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Grace Mugabe Who Skips Meals In Solidarity With Zims, Says Power Cuts Also Affect Her Family??

Grace Mugabe Who Skips Meals In Solidarity With Zims, Says Power Cuts Also Affect Her Family??

FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe has once again tried to endear herself with the long suffering Zimbabweans after she told Zanu PF supporters on Saturday that she was also a victim of the incessant power cuts being experienced throughout the country with most consumers going for 18 hours a day without supply. Addressing party supporters who braved the scorching sun at Murewa Growth Point, Grace said power cuts were also unbearable to her. She said while…

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