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A farmer who instructed an estate agent to find a buyer for his property but later negotiated a separate deal was ordered to pay the agent $50 150 commission after…

According to residents of Masvingo, one of the reasons why Public Service Minister Eddison Zvobgo, has remained popular in both the town and the province is that he does not…

A senior government minister recently boasted that were it not for people like him and other politicians the President would be in the dark. President Mugabe, he said, did not…

Getting a new vehicle has become such a pain in the a… that a Bulawayo businessman is reported to have travelled all the way to Harare to knock some sense…

An idea mooted by former detainees while they were in detention before independence has turned into a multi-million dollar cooperative running supermarkets, shops and a small-scale farming plot. In the…

Zimbabwe is developing an animal vaccine against ticks and Australian scientists are doing the same thing "but Zimbabwe is unlikely to release its tick genes to the Australians for fear…

A visit to Namibia, the second last colonial bastion of Africa can be both exciting and frustrating, even nerve wrecking. Exciting by the degree of welcome from the ordinary people…

When one pledges something to you in return for a loan that thing is still not yours so you cannot dispose of it as you want. This is the bitter…

  Perks for chefs from the rank of deputy minister and above were substantially increased when the government raised the salaries of all members of the legislature from Member of…

In what amounts to blatant exploitation, the National Railways of Zimbabwe is deploying casuals to war-torn Mozambique to repair the Maputo-Chicualacuala line and then dismissing them once they have been…