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‘BULAWAYO DRIVER, swerved to avoid a pothole and landed in ditch, instead of slowing down and negotiating cautiously past the danger’ THE Bulawayo City Council has explained the accident in which a truck plunged into a ditch in the city yesterday resulting in the image going viral on social media platforms. It is alleged that the driver was avoiding another pothole and swerved into the ditch. He did not have any visible injuries and no…

‘Zimbabweans are suffering, but chill while Mnangagwa delivers the change the country needs’ Patrick Chinamasa Zanu-PF national secretary for finance and politburo member Zanu-PF national secretary for finance and politburo member Patrick Chinamasa has said that his party knows that the masses are suffering but announced that they are working on a raft of measures to make sure that they rescue people from the economic hardships.Chinamasa said he understands why some people are beginning to…

FROM DOG AND DONKEY MEAT IN BULAWAYO, several Harare butcheries closed down for using embalming chemicals as meat preservatives,-take away anyone? The love of money has led to dog and donkey meat being sold previously in Bulawayo but now, several Harare Butcheries have been closed down while their owners and some meat vendors were arrested this week during a joint raid by police and city authorities on butcheries selling uninspected meat believed to be contaminated….

ISRAELI PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU CHARGED with fraud, breach of trust ,corruption and bribery Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit issued an indictment on Thursday charging Mr Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and bribery. Mr Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing and said he is a victim of a witch-hunt. He is due to make a statement on Thursday evening. But the decision to charge him is likely to deal a heavy blow to Mr Netanyahu’s hopes of…

High Court Judge has granted the application made by  Former Cabinet Minister, Ignatius Chombo’s, to have his passport released after a Magistrate Court had dismissed the application in September this year. Chombo made the application on the grounds that he has to travel to neighboring South Africa where he needs to visit his doctor as he has a ‘life-threatening’ medical condition. The former cabinet minister who was represented by Professor Lovemore Madhuku and Tungamirai Muganhiri’s…

FORMER SAOUTH AFRICA STATE SECURITY MINISTER Bongani Bongo was arrested on Thursday on charges of corruption.South African media reported that the corruption charges relate to him allegedly attempting to bribe a parliamentary employee, Ntuthuzelo Vanara, in 2017 by offering him an unlawful gratification.In 2017, Bongo and the then South Africa’s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula were sent to Zimbabwe to meet the late President Robert Mugabe and the Command Element during the…

LIST OF RENAMED BULAWAYO AND HARARE roads after Emmerson Mnangagwa, John Landa Nkomo, Queen Lozikeyi and South Africa’s Oliver Tambo. Read the full list below: BULAWAYO Street names6th Avenue ——————-ED Mnangagwa9th Avenue ——————-SV Muzenda4th Avenue——————-John Landa Nkomo12th Avenue ——————Joseph Msika5th Avenue ——————-Maria Msika10th Avenue ——————Nikita MangenaFife Street——————Queen LozikeyiCollenbrander ————Lookout MasukuNew Harare Street namesEnterprise Road————-ED MnangagwaSelous Avenue—————-John Landa MkomoCameron Street—————Joseph MusikaKirkman Drive——————Solomon MujuruLivingstone Avenue ———-Oliver Tambo Charter Road——————Fidel CastroFive Avenue——————-Leonid BrezhnevMore news to follow, Sibusiso Ngwenya

BULAWAYO DOMINICAN CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL shocking announcement of the 2020 fees structure for pupils learning there or intending to enrol for next IN 2020. In a letter to the parents the school said the SDC EGM had adopted the following fees structure: Form 1-4: $12 500 Form 5-6: $15 000 The school said the parents must deposit an amount of $3 600 by 29 November 2019. Parents who cannot afford to pay the school fees…

A SENIOR SCOTLAND YARD officer has been convicted of possessing a video showing a child being sexually abused.Novlett Robyn Williams, 54, was found guilty of possessing an indecent image of a child but cleared of corruption on Tuesday.The Old Bailey heard that she was among 17 people sent the video by her sister Jennifer Hodge, who had received it from her partner.Williams is a high-ranking superintendent at Scotland Yard and had been commended for her…

A Swedish court ruled in June that Assange would not be extradited from Britain, but at the time said the investigation would continue.WikiLeaks has welcomed the decision by the Swedish authorities to drop the investigation, after prosecutors announced the case has now been “discontinued”.Assange, from Australia, had always denied the rape-related allegations against him.Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said, “Sweden has dropped its preliminary investigation into Mr Assange for the third time, after reopening it without…