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Linking Scientific Solutions With Socio-economic Needs Leads To Successful Environmental Conservation
Johannesburg - The world, including South Africa's Gauteng Province which includes the City of Johannesburg, is increasingly acknowledging that scientific solutions to environmental challenges can onl...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 21:27hrs | 110 | by Emmanuel Koro
Is Justice Chinamora's comeback a bad omen for Zimbabwean justice?
In Zimbabwe, we have become accustomed to those embroiled in controversy and transgression in their professional conduct being somehow rewarded by the ruling establishment. However, the choice...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 20:54hrs | 1072 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
List of renamed places in Zimbabwe
Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of indepen...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 16:46hrs | 11 | by Wikipedia
Zimbabwe Judge's sudden resignation opens a Pandora's box
FORMER High Court judge Webster Chinamora allegedly left a huge backlog of reserved judgments, with Delta Corporation continuing to haunt him despite his recent resignation, the Zimbabwe Independent r...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa protects judge facing a series of corruption scandals
SOMETIME in February The NewsHawks reported that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) had recommended that President Emmerson Mnangagwa must set up tribunals to investigate High Court Justices Webste...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Judge under probe for making phantom ruling
JUDGE President Mary Zimba-Dube is now investigating a case in which High Court judge Webster Chinamora gave a ruling in a case he never heard involving Balwearie (Pvt) Ltd, and has written to lawyers...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa violates law'
PROMINENT lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of failling to "uphold, defend, obey and respect the constitution" after he failed to appoint a tribunal to look into the suit...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's integrity continues facing a litmus test
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's integrity continues facing a litmus test with him violating his constitutional obligation to establish a tribunal to investigate the suitability of Justice Webster China...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 13:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Judges Chinamora and Makonese face tribunals
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has recommended that President Emmerson Mnangagwa sets up tribunals to investigate the suitability of Justice Martin Makonese of the Bulawayo High Court and Justi...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:11hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwe High Court judges facing removal from the bench for unprofessional conduct
Two High Court judges are facing removal from the bench for unprofessional conduct, ZimLive revealed.Justice Martin Makonese of the Bulawayo High Court and Justice Webster Chinamora of the Har...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 13 | by Stephen Bates
Pumula Arts Awards nominees unveiled
It is awards season and excitement among artistes is at a fever pitch as they wait with bated breath to see who will triumph. With nominees being unveiled for the Roil Bulawayo Arts Awards, another aw...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Econet launches 5G in Victoria Falls
Econet Wireless on Friday officially launched its 5G network in Victoria Falls as the listed telecommunications company expands its rollout of the super-f...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 19:39hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Armed robbers ambush Company, get away with US$105 410
A 43-year old man from Gwanda's Magwe Irrigation Scheme under Chief Mathe and his accomplices have been accused of raiding Poly Packaging Pvt Ltd in Bulawayo at gunpoint and getting away with US$105 4...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Pomona Project: All thunder, lightning flashes, no strike!
Pomona stink in newsroomsIlliterate newspapers are being pummelled back and forth by buffeted Mafume and his clueless Triple C councillors. It is all thunder, blinding flashes but no strike. A...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Delta loses multimillion rand appeal
THE Supreme Court has confirmed as legitimate, a multi-million dollar agreement in which a South African conglomerate, Blakey Plastics Investments, signed a contract to supply plastic products to Delt...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer piles pressure on High Court judge
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is piling pressure on embattled Zimbabwean High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora, who is facing a series of accusations ranging from conflict of interest, judicial miscondu...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'No individual can be bigger than Zimbabwe' Kasukuwere readily admits, now - 'Terror the human form divine' W Blake foretold
Anyone who read the latest remarks from Zanu PF former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere must have laughed their head off. What is the idiot wittering about, they must have asked themselves!...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:38hrs | 7 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zemura offered new deal
BOURNEMOUTH manager Scott Parker has urged the club's leadership to secure a new contract for Warriors rising star Jordan Zemura as his profile continues to grow after an impressive start to his profe...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to launch music distribution platform
JACARANDA Media Group is set to launch an on demand digital music distribution service for both local and continental artistes at the end of this month.With the platform, artistes and record l...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
End of the road for Makusha
SPRINTER Ngoni Makusha's journey at the Tokyo Olympics ended in disappointing fashion after he finished 7th in heat 6 of the men's 100m race in a disappointing time of 10.43 seconds yesterday....Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK Home Minister unapologetic for deporting Zimbabweans
UNITED Kingdom Home Office Secretary Priti Patel says she remains unapologetic for overseeing the deportation of 14 Zimbabwean this week.She made the remarks in response to an enquiry over the...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I would rather miss Olympics than get COVID-19 vaccine'
OLYMPIC champion sprinter Yohan Blake of Jamaica has said he would rather miss the Tokyo Games than get the COVID-19 vaccine, although getting vaccinated will not be required of the athletes competing...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta Beverages loses case against SA firm
DELTA BEVERAGES has failed to make a case against a South African company that supplied it with plastic packaging for its beverages business after the High Court upheld the agreement between the two p...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mabvuku old lady relieved
IT is almost lunch hour and several people are sitting outside their houses along Toronto Street, Old Tafara Mabvuku to escape from the sweltering summer heat.Among them is an 80-year-old woma...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:32hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Should I Stay or Should I Go to Arbitration Proceedings?
Arbitration is often viewed as a better suited forum than litigation to make use of when a dispute arises. However, not all parties are swayed by this appeal, as was the case in the recent decis...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:41hrs | | by John Bell
Mugabe's farm equipment auctioned
Former president Robert Mugabe's farm equipment and vehicles are set to go under the hammer in what could signal a collapse of the once thriving diversified business empire. A local auction fi...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister slams 'USD Service Stations'
ENERGY and Power Development Minister, Joram Gumbo, said service stations cannot demand customers to pay exclusively in US dollars.He said this amid reports that some service stations, especia...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO informer case takes new twist
The case of a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, who is accused of extorting $15 000 from a local businessman has taken a new twist after one of the State witnesses, a po...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pseudo-Reformists: When Beasts of England Roar
A cryptic but interesting response to my piece last week came from one "yowe" who advised me to read George Orwell's classic, Animal Farm. I can only surmise that "yowe" is unaware that literature, En...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tytan Exposes Stunner Affair
Valentines day 2017, Tytan surprises his fans with the midnight release of "Bho" a new single and accompanying "movie" of his soon to be releases Album.The movie stars Tytan the charming knigh...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 21:41hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Masimba Musodza up for two gongs at the Zimbabwe Music & Arts Awards 2016
UK-based Zimbabwean writer, Masimba Musodza, has been nominated in two categories in this year's edition of the Zimbabwe Music & Arts Awards, to be held in Maidenhead, Windsor, on the 26th of ...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 07:39hrs | | by Agencies
Mugabe sued over debt
President Robert Mugabe's family business, Alpha Omega Dairy, has been taken to the High Court by a South African company, Blakey Investments, over a $38 000 debt for packaging materials supplied ...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When a Nation lacks self-belief
I AM conflicted. I would have wanted to deal with David Coltart's book or, better still, deal with the whole debate around bond notes, both of them quite urgent and substantive. But I find myself havi...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
UK based Zimbabwean Phil Noble makes a mark in the British Television Shows
Sunday Night 21st February 2016 saw Phil Noble a 39 year old Zimbabwe simultaneously appearing in two British ITV shows Vera & Beowulf, which, incidentally come one after the other on the ITV prog...Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 21:55hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
God fails to Save the Queen? UK debates new England anthem
London - Is it goodbye to "God Save the Queen"?British lawmakers are debating a proposal to replace the royalist song as England's anthem for sporting events.At contests where England,...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
The unspoken story of the ANC
After the Wankie and Spolilo campaigns of the late 1960s, it was apparent that Rhodesia was at war.The boundaries shared by Rhodesia and her neighbours became porous conduits for guerrilla inf...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 05:54hrs | | by Tjenesani Ntungakwa
Prominent businesswoman fails to pay for meals, taken to court
ZimBuild chief executive Monica Kanyepi yesterday appeared in court on charges of failing to pay $1 300 worth of meals supplied by Westside Grill in Westgate.Kanyepi (52) of Blakeway Drive, Be...Published: 07 Jan 2016 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Fungai Lupande
The 10-point plan will deliver, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I think we have allowed anarchy to go unchecked in this country. Surely, how could those miscreants, the urchins and the scoundrels that constitute ...Published: 03 Sep 2015 at 12:08hrs | | by CZ
'Ruthless' landlord's son kills tenant
HARARE - A 30-year-old man Simbarashe Chimuka allegedly assaulted his father's tenant Clemence Chitete with bricks and fatally burnt him with a hot electric iron before stealing his vehicle ...Published: 11 Nov 2014 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Court Reporter
All politicians are ugly
When you really want to stoke the furnace of misanthropy, the thought-ages to visit are the Augustans and the Romantics. But that is to reckon time by way of literary movements, something decidedly es...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:18hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Woman demands $3 000 for unfulfilled marriage
A BULAWAYO woman who is accusing a company director of reneging on a promise to marry her, is now demanding $3 000 a month maintenance. Ms Jade Falon Jeffery, age not given, of 19 Pennith Roa...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 04:27hrs | | by Court Reporter
UK family immigration rules 'unjustified'
UK family immigration rules are not unlawful but are "onerous… and unjustified", the High Court has ruled. Three claimants had challenged the new measures which set earnings thr...Published: 06 Jul 2013 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Brazilian amputee shutters Pistorius' world record
BERLIN - Brazilian Alan Oliveira has become the world's fastest amputee after breaking Oscar Pistorius' 100m T43 record.The 20-year-old ran the record time of 10,77 seconds at the IPC Athleti...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Angel denies buying 'fake' online business degree
LONDON - Flamboyant Zimbabwe preacher Prophet Uebert Angel has angrily denied buying a fake online business degree with a 'diploma-mill scheme' that was eventually shut down by authorities in the U...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Usain Bolt beaten by Justin Gatlin in 100m
Justin Gatlin beat Olympic champion Usain Bolt by one-hundredth of a second to record a surprise 100m win in Rome.Bolt, 26, was fastest out of the blocks at the Diamond League meeting but Ame...Published: 07 Jun 2013 at 10:02hrs | | by BBC
British businesswoman jailed for having sex at the back of a taxi
A 30-year-old British businesswoman and an Irish man have been sent to two months in prison after they were arrested for having sex in the back of a taxi in Dubai last year.Rebecca Blake and ...Published: 14 May 2013 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The day Charamba fell pregnant
Putting your ideas in the public domain always has its pains. You are called names, given jabbing identities, misread...you name it. And you have to bear it all, meekly as behoves a humble columnist. ...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:27hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
Bolt retains his title as the fastest man on Earth
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Mugabe is a fearless man who can stand against Western arrogance says Harlem Mayor
The Community Mayor of the City of Harlem of the United States, Queen Mother Dr Delois Blakely, has hailed President Robert Mugabe, for his speech at the United Nations summit on Sustainable Devel...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 14:17hrs | | by Dorothy Mavolwane in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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