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RBZ lays off nearly 1 500 workers
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe today laid off 1 455 workers to cut costs. The massive retrenchment will leave the bank with 493 workers and will cost $70 million. Each…
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Twenty years ago- Kwidini’s hot dog
A dog, though man’s best friend, can also be his worst enemy especially when one is called one. But one dog, Ice Breaker, a greyhound, has catapulted David Kwidini from political doldrums back into the limelight since the start of the dog racing season on 28 December 1990.
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Black mother sentenced to prison for sending kids to white school district
An Ohio mother of two was this week sentenced to 10 days in jail for sending her children to a better school in a white school district. Kelly Williams-Bolar who also wanted to do a teaching degree can no longer do so because of the conviction.
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IMF on wages
The International Monetary Fund says Zimbabwe should put a tight lid on rising wage demands in the public sector where civil servants are demanding salary increases of up to 200…
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Why the Daily News was shut down
Two years after the Daily News had been shut down a former sub-editor came up with a theory why the paper had refused to register leading to its being shut…
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Life getting better
Zimbabweans have for a change said life is getting better according to a poll by the international polling agency, Gallup, which was released today. And they are a rare exception…
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Zimbabweans say life is improving for a change
Zimbabweans have for a change said life is getting better according to a poll by the international polling agency, Gallup. And they are a rare exception in sub-Saharan Africa as more people said they were finding it difficult to get by on their present incomes.
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Jonathan Moyo exposes dictatorial tendencies of ZANU-PF leadership
Jonathan Moyo is back in the limelight, overshadowing ZANU-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, yet only five years ago he said the ZANU-PF leadership was dictatorial. It did not abide by the…
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British author wrong about Chinese weapons to Zimbabwe
British author Gordon Thomas who claims that Britain’s military intelligence agency, MI6, stopped the delivery of Chinese arms to Zimbabwe is wrong. The arms were in fact delivered by a company owned by a former British army officer, who according to the London Sunday Times is “a pillar of the community in the peaceful Wiltshire village where he lives”.
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Mangoma under fire
Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma today came under fire over the ongoing diesel shortage that threatens to cripple industry and has resulted in an increase in the prices…