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Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said a rapist who was released when the government granted amnesty to 3 000 prisoners recently should not have been set free because the amnesty did not cover rapists, murders and robbers.

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A South African youth website,YouthVillage, has compiled the following about Zimbabwe’s telecommunications giant, Strive Masiyiwa, who was recently named one of the world’s greatest leaders by Fortune magazine.

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The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises Sithembiso Nyoni was embarrassed that Zimbabwe was importing pins, nails, needles, toilet paper, water and tooth picks. This could, however, change with the formalisation of the informal sector and the drive to promote manufacturing in small and medium enterprises.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been barred from visiting the Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims at their holding camp at Chingwizi according to his spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka.

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The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperative Development Sithembiso Nyoni yesterday announced plans to formalise the informal sector which she said generates about US$7.4 billion.

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Movement for Democratic Change Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Lillian Timveous yesterday said the Commissioner-General of police Augustine Chihuri should be arrested for legalising and habituating corruption.

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The government cannot protect tobacco farmers from makorokoza- unscrupulous people that take advantage of the farmers by duping them into selling their crop to them after claiming that they offer higher prices than the auction floors-because this will be very difficult to enforce.

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It looks like there is competition among our politicians to obtain doctorates. I have just noted that we now have Dr Joram Gumbo, Dr Tapiwa Mashakada, Dr Obert Mpofu, Dr Phillip Chiyangwa just to name a few. I remember that former deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe was going the same direction a few years ago but I have not heard her being called Dr yet.

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Buhera South Member of Parliament Joseph Chinotimba said when Parliament buys cars for legislators they should only be given to those who come to parliament and contribute to debates.

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A member of the British House of Lords yesterday said two Movement for Democratic Change activists who were returned to Zimbabwe because it was safe were tortured to death at the airport within a few hours of being returned by the United Kingdom.

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