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BULAWAYO Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) has partnered with a private insurance company and will offer the first-ever package for informal traders in the second capital. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the BVTA director, Michael Ndiweni, said informal traders have over the years been recording losses through natural and man-made disasters and have failed to recover…

POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested three security guards for allegedly sodomising a 23-year-old man from the Nguboyenja suburb, whom they accused of stealing a radio speaker from Zanu PF provincial offices, Davies Hall. Bulawayo police spokesperson Abednico Ncube yesterday told the Daily News that last Tuesday, Philisani Khumalo, Shelton Luphahla and another suspect only identified…

TWO armed robbers will spend the next eight years in prison each after a Harare magistrate on Friday found them guilty of robbery in aggravating circumstances. Joseph Phiri and Clever Mununudzi Nengomasha appeared before Harare magistrate Clever Tsikwa. They received a 10-year jail term with a two-year suspension for good behaviour. The two were initially…

SHAMVA Gold Mine’s US$126 million expansion project, which will see the mining firm embark on opencast mining on Shamva Hills and construction of a processing plant, is well on course. The open pit project has an expected life of mine of 14 years. Shamva’s has been processing at least 45 000 tonnes annually, and producing…

A BEER drinker was heavily assaulted by three bouncers at a Harare nightclub after he drank alcohol there and failed to pay, a magistrate heard last week. The matter was brought to court after the employees of Holies Nightclub were arraigned before Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda on an assault charge. The three, Benjamin Chaperuka, 43,…

By Brendon Josphat AN aspiring Zanu PF candidate for Gutu West, Mutonho Mutonho, who was barred from contesting in the party’s primaries for alleged indiscipline, has declared his intention to run as an independent in the upcoming elections. Mutonho was supposed to lock horns with the ruling party’s deputy youth secretary, John Paradza, in the…

PARLIAMENT has pleaded with Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe to allow people with temporary national identification cards to use them to apply for e-passports while their plastic discs are being processed. Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Zanu PF MP for Chakari constituency Andrew Nkani said people in need of passports were being turned…