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10 yrs in jail for stealing cattle to raise money for preparation for pregnant wife

Bid to impress pregnant wife lands Somabhula man in prisonBy Dumisani NdlovuA Somabhula man who sold stolen cattle as a strategy to raise income for buying preparation for his 7 months pregnant wife was sentenced to ten years in prison for stock theft.Clive Ncube (26) of plot number 17 farm resettlement area, Somabhula, on the

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Man gets 3 years for attacking 3 people with kitchen knife

Lower Gweru man jailed three years for fatal assault By Dumisani Ndlovu A lower Gweru man, Nkosilathi Moyo from Mabaya village, Headman Mkombo under chief Bunina was recently sentenced to three years in jail for assulting three different people using a kitchen Knife on several occasions. Gweru Magistrate Nixon Mangoti landed him the three year

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Action Aid Zim highlights effects of Water shortages on Women and girls

ActionAid Zimbabwe highlights water shortage effects on women and girls.By Memory MudzaniAs the world was commemorating World Water Day on 22 March under the theme “Leveraging Water for Peace,” ActionAid Zimbabwe was spotlighting the pressing issue of water scarcity and its disproportionate effects on women and girls.According to ActionAid ,Zimbabwe faces a complex array of

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Harare Poly students protest over blocked 2023 exam results

Harare Poly students up in arms with college administration over blocked 2023 examination results By Delicious Mathuthu Over 300 students from Harare Polytechnic College are up in arms with college administration over November 2023 examination results which have been withheld allegedly for cheating and missing course work files. Most affected students are those doing Programmable

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Russia donates 23 000 tonnes of fertilizer to Zimbabwe

By Delicious Mathuthu Russia’s leading agricultural chemicals company, Uralchem JSC, has donated 23 000 metric tonnes of fertiliser to Zimbabwe with the assistance of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The donation, which is part of the company’s global humanitarian policy, consists of potash and NPKS (Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Sulphur) fertilisers. In a statement,

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Zimplats on retrenchment drive as low PGM prices continue

By Delicious Mathuthu One of Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producers, Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Pvt) Limited (Zimplats) is on a retrenchment drive as global prices for the Platinum Group of Metals (PGM) continue depressed. A subsidiary of Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd (Implats), Zimplats boasts of over 8000 workers which could see massive restructuring as a result. The

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