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The security company’s Alarms Reaction Team reacted to a break-in at a company in Bulawayo’s industrial area where five armed robbers had broken into the company’s premises and attempted to blow open a safe.The company’s managing director, Andrew Liang, in a letter to clients on Tuesday, said “two of our staff were injured, fortunately not serious. One was shot in the head, apparently with an AK47 rifle, though the bullet creased the skull, and the…

KARIBA, HURUNGWE AND KWEKWE, have been identified as hotspots resulting in them being placed under localised lockdown to stem the spread of the corona virusThe current Covid-19 outbreak in Kariba has pushed the demand for vaccination, resulting in stock-out of the critical preventive and protective jabs. All the Sinopharm doses have been dispensed for the first and second jabs while only the second jab remains for the Sinovac vaccine.Kariba, together with Hurungwe and Kwekwe have…

MNANGAGWA’S NEPHEW TEMBA MLISWA FACES, contempt of Parliament for allegedly abusing other Members Parliament. Norton Member of Parliament, Mr Temba Mliswa might have landed himself in trouble this afternoon after Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Tsitsi Gezi said she will rule tomorrow whether the legislator is not in contempt of Parliament for allegedly abusing other Members Parliament.Deputy Speaker Gezi ejected Mr Mliswa this afternoon for disorderly conduct and said she will make a ruling on…

15 JUNE 1919, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, CAPTAIN JOHN ALCOCK AND ENGLISH PILOT ARTHUR WHITTEN BROWN flew across the Atlantic, the First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight with the help of a sextant, whisky and coffee in 1919 just eight years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight. The journey, by Alcock and Brown, both military pilots and prisoners of war during World War I was a 16 hour flight, in a rudimentary airplane in fog, clouds and snow with…

SIMBA MASVAURE 44-a Milton Keynes UK based Zim man found guilty of 11 sex offences against children after a 10-day trial at Northampton Crown Court. Simba Masvaure, from Kingsfold, Bradville, Milton Keynes, was found guilty of sexual assault by penetration, attempted rape, and sexual activity with a child. The offences took place over a twelve-year period, in Northampton. The jury delivered their verdict last Friday (June 11) and Masvaure was remanded in custody for sentencing…

ZIM University of Namibia student jailed for lying to copd that his laptop and mobile phone was stolen in VicFalls after he sold the gadgets. Allan Nyamuziwa of 1724 Landpark in Marondera pleaded guilty to deliberately supplying false information to a public authority before Victoria Falls magistrate Ms Lindiwe Maphosa. He said he was travelling to his home town from Namibia when he disembarked from a bus to relieve himself in Victoria Falls. Nyamuziwa said…

RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE NAMES companies abusing the foreign exchange auction system THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has named 18 companies that have been abusing the foreign exchange auction system. The RBZ released a statement and said the companies that were found out by the Financial Intelligence unit will be fined. The companies include National Foods (Pvt) Ltd, Georgia Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd, Tettola Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Africa Steel (Pvt) Ltd, Westville Investments (Pvt) Ltd (T/A…

On Monday Siphosami who is the son of the late PF Zapu stalwart and national hero, Sydney Malunga said the Lands Ministry notified him that they are coming on Tuesday to take the farm, peg it and give it to people they have allocated it to. “Today we received a call from Mr. Dodzi at the Lands Office in Bulawayo to tell us that the Zim Govt has acquired our privately owned farm and tomorrow…

STATE FUNERAL FOR SIX ROAD DEATH victims in head on collision between a Toyota Wish car and an Inter Africa bus along the Chivhu-Roy highway last Saturday morning.Government, through the national Civil Protection Unit has granted state assistance for the burial of five Chagweda family members of Gutu who perished in a road accident along the Chivhu-Roy highway last Saturday morning.The family members namely, Francis Chagweda (33) who was the driver, Lloyd Chagweda (31), Viola…

He will now have to serve his three-year-jail term after the High Court on appeal, found overwhelming evidence proving that he concealed his prior involvement in the Gwanda Solar Project.The ruling yesterday comes after Kazhanje appealed against conviction and a three-year imprisonment imposed on him for failure to declare to his principal, a US$10 000 personal transaction involving him and Intratrek Zimbabwe, fronted by Mr Wicknell Chivayo.Now that Kazhanje has lost his appeal, he will…