Private & State Companies Allegedly Coerced Into Bankrolling Grace Mugabe’s Lavish 50th Birthday

Private & State Companies  Allegedly Coerced Into Bankrolling Grace Mugabe’s Lavish 50th Birthday

HARARE – Some Zanu PF officials are moving around the country coercing stressed private sector and State-owned companies to allegedly bankroll a lavish 50th birthday bash for increasingly influential First Lady Grace Mugabe who reaches the significant milestone on July 23. This is not the first time that controversy has been ignited in the country regarding birthday celebrations for members of the First Family. Earlier this year, there was widespread unhappiness after the same modus…

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Vendors Living With Disabilities, Call for City Fathers To Be Sensitive To Their Plight

Vendors Living With Disabilities,   Call for City Fathers To Be Sensitive To Their Plight

AS the local authority battles to remove vendors operating in central Harare, people living with disabilities said the designated places being allocated which are on the outskirts of the city are not conducive to their needs. They called on the City Fathers to be sensitive to their plight, listen to their grievances and come up with solutions. Most of the disabled vendors said they went into informal trading because they were no longer accessing their…

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SCOAN Reduction Of Church Services &Foreign Attraction Threatens 10 000 Hospitality Employees Jobs

SCOAN Reduction Of Church Services &Foreign Attraction Threatens 10 000 Hospitality Employees Jobs

According to a report from Nigerian newspaper, ‘The Nation’, up to 10,000 hospitality workers in the Ikotun-Egbe suburb of Lagos State are faced with imminent unemployment. The Pilgrims Hostels Operators Association of Nigeria (PHOAN) said their troubles in the region are connected to the collapse of a guest-house belonging to The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) last year. The chairman of the association, Prince Adekanbi Adedayo John, explained: “PHOAN is the biggest employer of…

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Ex Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union, ‘Lovemore Matombo’s’ Property Attached

Ex Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union, ‘Lovemore Matombo’s’ Property Attached

  Former ZCTU president Lovemore Matombo(left) speaks to Deputy Messenger of Court Mr Farai Banga over the attachment of his property in Harare yesterday There was drama at the residence of former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Mr Lovemore Matombo in Greendale, Harare, yesterday when his wife locked in the Deputy Sheriff who sought to attach property to recover nearly $600 owed to Harare City Council for rates.After the Deputy Sheriff managed to unlock…

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Nightclub owner ‘Smile Madhaka’, (34) ‘Kidnaps, Drugs, & Sodomises’ Two 11 And 12 years Old Boys

Nightclub owner ‘Smile Madhaka’, (34) ‘Kidnaps, Drugs, & Sodomises’ Two 11 And 12 years Old Boys

A FAMOUS Gweru businessman allegedly kidnapped, drugged and sodomised two primary school boys aged 11 and 12 years. Smile Madhaka, 34, of Mkoba 19 suburb, who runs night clubs in Mkoba 1, 9 and 11 and a Pool Club in the Midlands capital, allegedly picked the boys from school and abused them for a period of three months. He appeared briefly before Magistrate Judith Taruvinga yesterday facing two counts of aggravated indecent assault. The court…

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0400 Hours Harare Municipality Police Raid & Burning Of Vendors Wares On Speke Avenue footbridge

0400 Hours Harare Municipality  Police Raid & Burning Of  Vendors Wares On Speke Avenue footbridge

The Harare city council  war against vendors was stepped up a gear, after  a variety of vendors wares,such as blankets, shoes, clothing bales and electronic goods  on the Speke Avenue footbridge, went up in flames in scenes reminiscent of the Zanu PF 2005 Murambatsvina clean up operation after, Harare municipality police, at    0400 hours this morning raided the storage and  set everything alight. Goods valued at thousands of dollars were lost in the vicious and uncompromising  dawn raid, which…

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Police Eject Vendors But Harare Mayor Concedes Defeat As Most, Troop Back

Police  Eject Vendors But Harare Mayor Concedes Defeat As Most, Troop Back

MINOR scuffles broke out as Harare municipal cops made good on a pledge to drive vendors from the capital’s crowded sidewalks on Wednesday with the ZRP keeping a watching brief on the developments. By the end of the day, Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni was admitting defeat as most of the vendors simply returned to their spots once the cops moved to clean up another section of the city. Most of the informal traders defiantly vowed they…

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Zanu-PF Militants Invade,Loot, Evict Employees& Seal Ian Ferguson’s, Denlynian Game Ranch

Zanu-PF Militants Invade,Loot, Evict Employees& Seal  Ian Ferguson’s, Denlynian  Game Ranch

A game ranch in Zimbabwe’s Beitbridge district on the border with South Africa has been invaded by militants believed to be supporters of the Zanu-PF party of President Robert Mugabe, with the reported backing of Matabeleland South Angeline Masuku and Minister of State Security Kembo Mohadi, sources said. Ian Ferguson says despite the courts declaring the invasion of Denlynian Game Ranch illegal, a Beitbridge lands officer identified as Mtulisa Moyo continued to parcel out plots….

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Highlanders (No9) ‘Mnangagwa’ Wants Zimbabwe To Use ‘Yuan’ As Legal Tender

Highlanders (No9) ‘Mnangagwa’ Wants Zimbabwe To Use ‘Yuan’ As  Legal Tender

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday proposed to have the Chinese currency, the RMB/Yuan, as a legal tender in Zimbabwe when he met his Chinese counterpart Mr Li Yuanchao behind closed doors at the iconic Great Hall of the People in Beijing. VP Mnangagwa, who is on an official five-day visit to China at the invitation of Mr Li, said such a development would ease and boost business transactions between the two countries. A senior official…

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Zim Woman ‘Spelogia Chimwemwe Bhasikoro’ Jailed 25 years In Hong Kong For Drug Traffick

Zim Woman ‘Spelogia Chimwemwe Bhasikoro’ Jailed 25 years In Hong Kong  For Drug Traffick

A 22-year-old Zimbabwean woman has been imprisoned for 25 years in Hong Kong after being convicted of drug trafficking. Spelogia Chimwemwe Bhasikoro was convicted by the Hong Hong High Court after being found in possession of 2kgs of heroine. Bhasikoro initially professed ignorance over her luggage contents, alleging that she was sent by a Nigerian in South Africa to deliver the parcel in Hong Kong for a reward of $12 000. The woman later pleaded…

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