LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday’s New York Times under…
HARARE – “Our majority rule could easily turn into inhuman rule if we oppressed, persecuted or harassed those who do not think like the rest of us,” once said President Robert Mugabe on his inaugural independence address in 1980. True to Mugabe’s remarks, his prophecy appear to have come true, a little bit late of…
HARARE – Crowd trouble marred the Midlands derby between Zvishavane Bulls and Gweru Sports in a Lion Larger National Rugby League match at Gweru on Saturday leading to the abandonment of the match five minutes from time. The match was called off five minutes from time with Gweru Sports Club leading 20-13 when an unruly…
HARARE – A High Court judge has dismissed an application to quash charges against a British-registered company, African Consolidated Resources Private Limited (ACR), accused of illegally mining diamonds in Marange. ACR is accused of fraud or alternatively contravening the Precious Stones Trade Act. It is alleged that between April and June of 2006, ACR misrepresented…
HARARE – Police have launched a manhunt for a gang of armed robbers who pounced on foreigners in Harare’s Avondale suburb over the weekend, getting away with over $44 000. Police spokesperson, Paul Nyathi, warned people operating businesses in Zimbabwe to avoid stocking huge sums of money in their homes as this could expose them…
HARARE – Police have continued their onslaught on civil society members, following the arrest of Tawanda Chimhini, director for Election Resource Centre yesterday. Chimhini was summoned and detained at Harare Central Police Station on allegations of running an illegal voter education exercise in Harare through his organisation. He joins three of his workmates who are…
HARARE – Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu, who is also the Zanu PF political commissar, has been roundly condemned for his recent utterances in which he allegedly said the country would “not be taken through a pen.” Addressing hundreds of bishops drawn from the Apostolic Church at the party’s headquarters on Friday, Shamu…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s new constitution which allocates 60 “affirmative action” seats to women for the first two terms is a systematic opportunity of preparing women for leadership. The 60 female MPs would add to the 210 parliamentary seats and the 88 Senate seats that the country currently has. While women have been demanding that there…
HARARE – Flamboyant rhumba and sungura musician Energy Mutodi has claimed he is being intimidated and threatened for bidding to stand on a Zanu PF ticket in Goromonzi constituency. On Saturday, the Chigorodanda hit-maker claimed two men threatened to force their way into his Charlotte Brooke home demanding to see him or his wife, warning…
HARARE – Kutting Edge Sport Consultancy, organisers of Celebrate The Children Sports and Arts Festival, have been invited for the inaugural World Cup for Children from Care Homes to be hosted by Poland next month. The sport consultancy successfully hosted the festival last year that was attended by nine children’s homes drawn from across the…
