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The Member of Parliament for Masvingo West Ezira Ruvai yesterday called on the government to revive Mashava Mine because some of the workers there had gone for 10 years without receiving their full salaries.

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The Whistleblower versus Robert Mugabe and the United Nations, read the headline of the latest article on the Zimbabwe president. The article was written by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Bandow is a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan…. These credentials, at face value, add credibility to what he writes.

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It’s illegal in Zimbabwe but it’s big business. The gay community is expected to spend more than US$200 billion on tourism this year according to FDI Intelligence and the world’s leading hotels are clamouring to lure them.

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Mutambara in trouble– Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is in trouble. According to The Herald he has been taken to court for failing to pay for furniture worth US$87 556.70 that he bought on credit from TN Harlequin. The furniture is reported to have been delivered to House Number 21 Steppes Road, Ballantyne Park, Borrowdale and was purchased on different dates in 2012. Although the paper said Mutambara had not responded to the claim, it shows what type of life our leaders live. US$87 000 worth of furniture alone? Maybe, I am just thinking like a poor ordinary Zimbabwean. Besides, he was using his own money and not the State’s. Was he?

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It is a lie that Zimbabwe’s land reform has been a disaster. But its critics are right. Zimbabwe’s agricultural revolution can never be a success when the country cannot feed itself.

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is suing TN Harlequin, the company that claimed he owed it US$87 556 for furniture that was bought in 2012. He wants US$1 million for defamation because the company portrayed him as an irresponsible person who did not honour contractual obligations when it was aware that the furniture was bought for him by the government.

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Zimbabwe has never been the same since Information Minister Jonathan Moyo exposed the rot at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation in November last year. Hardly a week passes without a major scandal being exposed, and most of the culprits are members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front.

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The government has suspended the important of agricultural produce with immediate effect much to the relief of local farmers who say the cheap imports were squeezing them out of business.

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Hurungwe West Member of Parliament and Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front chairman for Mashonaland West, Temba Mliswa, has been fingered in a US$165 million scandal that could rope in ZANU-PF’s fourth most powerful man Didymus Mutasa.

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I was not surprised by former Premier Services Medical Aid Society Cuthbert Dube’s victory at the Zimbabwe Football Association elections at the weekend- soccer is the bedrock of corruption right from the local football association to the international body itself, the International Football Association, FIFA.

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