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THE dispute between the Bulawayo City Council and the Zimbabwe Power Company over the ownership of the Bulawayo Power Station has taken a dramatic twist after it emerged that title deeds to the disputed property were transferred to the power utility without the knowledge of council.This comes despite the local authority previously boldly claiming they had the title deeds to the property and the power utility was in actual fact their tenant. It is not…

MORE than 10 000 villagers in Insiza District in Matabeleland South face eviction from their homesteads after the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement issued them with eviction orders alleging that they were occupying the land illegally.The affected area falls under Ward 22 in Insiza North constituency with all but a few homesteads in all 27 villages being ordered to vacate the area for illegally occupying the land. The eviction has, however,…

In his report during a provincial coordinating committee held in Marondera on Sunday, Zanu-PF’s Mashonaland East political commissar and Mutoko South legislator Hebert Shumbamhini said the mining company, called Reds or Sidingo, sealed the water sources and refused to renovate the houses of villagers that developed cracks caused by blasting despite having pledged to do so.“We have a mining company that wound up its operations in Mutoko district. They had sunk boreholes in the area,…

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds.President Maithripala Sirisena said he was using an emergency law to impose the restriction from Monday.Any face garment which “hinders identification” will be banned to ensure security, his office said. Muslim leaders criticised the move. The niqab and burka – worn by Muslim women – were not specifically named.The move…

At least five people including a Senior Pastor have died following an attack on a protestant church in Burkina Faso, Sunday.Security and local reports say the attack took place in Silgadji, 60 km from Djibo, the capital of Soum province in the north of the country.“Unidentified armed individuals attacked the Silgadji Protestant Church, killing four worshippers and the senior pastor. At least two other people are missing,” a security source told AFP on Monday. This…