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A Corby (UK) man has been jailed over stolen Boots, Argos, and Co-op gift cards worth thousands of pounds. William Johnson, 41, is a Zimbabwean national and now faces potential deportation. Johnson has 29 previous convictions including fraud and shoplifting.
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Chenayi Mutambasere: "As the passengers looked on their despaired faces peaking through their masks many thoughts running through their minds. Some were hopeful perhaps Mamvura took some driving lessons before his mind left him, others more realistic considered escape options, others considered to plot to rescue the bus from Mamvura and saved the passengers. Time unfortunately did not stand still as different thoughts went through their minds the reality of Mamvura driving the bus continued to unfold, fear forming a tangible mist amongst them."
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Polygamous journalist Maynard Manyowa who is now based in the UK is battling accusations that he assaulted his first wife, Mutsa Guta.
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Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs Job Sikhala and Godfrey Karakadzai Sithole will spend the weekend in prison after their arrest on Tuesday following clashes with Zanu PF youths in Chitungwiza at the funeral wake for murdered CCC activist Moreblessing Ali.
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A Ministry of Health and Child Care official has confirmed that Zimbabwe currently has 1,188 million people on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Dr Chiedza Mupanguri, National ART Coordinator in the Ministry, said the country was almost achieving epidemic control and was doing well in terms of HIV response.
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Senior doctors, nurses and radiographers, represented by the Health worker Associations leaders, said they had made numerous attempts to engage the employer with no success.
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The mine will inject US$2,5 billion in 10 years. Mnangagwa said this during a ground-breaking ceremony for a beneficiation plant to be built at the mine by Sinomine Resources Group after an injection of US$200m into the venture.
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The family of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba said Friday it hoped to finally turn a grim page of history as former colonial master Belgium prepares to return the last remains of the independence hero.
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Julian Assange's father and brother said Friday they were counting on European lawmakers to stop Britain from extraditing the WikiLeaks founder to the United States, and welcomed a promise of citizenship by French leftist politician Jean-Luc Melenchon.
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A Russian state TV channel aired videos on social media of two Americans who went missing last week while fighting alongside the Ukrainian army, stating they had been captured by Russian forces.
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Premier Soccer League's verdict to fine Bulawayo giants Highlanders US$6 000 following crown trouble might have compelled and awaken the club to look deep into its balance sheets. Highlanders have now paid US$68 142 in fines for crowd trouble over the last five years
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has awarded a local company, Glowtrack Auctions, a tender to auction seven passenger aircraft, Nehanda Radio has established.
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Harare magistrate Daniel Mangosi has denied applications for further remand for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s coup challenger Sybeth Musengezi and Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe president Obert Masaraure.
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Magistrate Daniel Mangosi on Friday granted the police a warrant for the further detention of Pius Jamba who is believed to have murdered opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali.
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The case is the latest recognition of historic racial injustices in the US legal system, which convicted and in several cases executed innocent Americans, many of them Black, in the century following the 1861-1865 Civil War.
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The US incarceration rate is among the highest in the world, with more than 1.2 million people held in state and federal prisons.
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Once dominant globally, Internet Explorer was widely reviled in recent years due to its slowness and glitches.
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Unemployment has long been a millstone around the Indian economy's neck, with joblessness figures at their worst since the 1970s even before the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on local commerce.
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Exiled former cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo has clashed with opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere after he questioned the party’s capacity to own members when it had no structures, ideology and "never held a congress".
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Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy national chairman Job Sikhala and fellow legislator Godfrey Sithole were brought to court movie style on Thursday before they were made to spend their third night in detention after court proceedings only ended after 7 pm.
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UK-based female sports journalist and sports administrator Chipo Sabeta has made history by becoming the first ever Zimbabwean female sports writer to scoop a coveted FIFA/CIES award.
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Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has announced that one of its members Edison Chinembiri of Zengeza was murdered by suspected Zanu PF thugs on Tuesday night after Moreblessing Ali's memorial prayer in Nyatsime.
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Despite a stellar football career in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Switzerland, France and England, former Manchester City striker Benjani Mwaruwari seems worried about his performances for the Zimbabwe national team, the Warriors.
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Zimbabwe international Nyasha Mushekwi on Thursday afternoon netted his first goal of the season for his side Hangzhou Greentown who now play in the Chinese Super League after securing their promotion last season.
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A US district judge has dismissed a rape lawsuit against football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, castigating the legal team behind the complaint.
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Grace Kwinjeh: "Moreblessing Ali is has been found dead. Her body was dumped in a well in Nyatsime. An eerie cloud of premeditated spitefulness has hovered ominously over the Ali family. The trauma is real and unimaginable, what her children are enduring, what she went through - the brutal manner she was murdered.
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Clayton Gonese: "It is on a Sunday afternoon, l'm feeling hungry as l'm trudging my way home from church. I have just been talking to an acquaintance so l'm now alone. As l'm walking slowly, l just think of checking my Instagram account for any updates. When l open, l first see Hopewell Chin'ono's new post but l see Dr Alex Magaisa's picture. Sometimes, l say to myself, Hopewell Chin'ono writes some items eulogizing Dr Magaisa as his great friend. I just think that this one is probably one of those posts."
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A British judge on Friday rejected an emergency bid to block deportation flights of asylum-seekers to Rwanda set to start next week under an agreement with the east African country, ruling politicians must manage immigration policy.
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A US woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her partner during romantic encounters in his car has been awarded $5.2 million in damages from his vehicle insurance company.
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Zanu-PF barred Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda from attending its politburo meeting, punishing him for calling for a diaspora vote and the appointment of a second vice-president.
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Equatorial Guinea last year closed its London embassy after Britain accused Teodorin Obiang of siphoning off state assets to fund a jet-setter lifestyle.
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Sungura musician, Gift Amuli, who is now a full time traditional healer, has invited people with broken marriages and those who divorced and are on the verge of divorce to visit his shrine.
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Former High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere has approached the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe seeking an order to stop the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) from seizing a Mercedes Benz E300 she was issued by the government two years ago.
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Former Public Service minister Petronella Kagonye has been sentenced to 36 months in prison following her conviction on charges of corruption and criminal abuse of office after she allegedly stole 20 laptops donated to schools in Goromonzi.
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The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have banned citizens from holding a candlelight commemoration of the late academic, Dr Alex Tawanda Magaisa, in the Harare Gardens this Saturday.
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Grace Mugabe’s ex-husband Stanley Goreraza, a retired air force officer, has died according to reports.
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The armed men entered St Francis Xavier church in the town of Owo during a Sunday service. They fired into the congregation and then kidnapped a priest as well as some other church-goers, witnesses said.
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Police in Bulawayo have confirmed the death of Tennyson Hlabangana High School headmaster Lwelizwe Edson Bhebhe (42) who is thought to have committed suicide.
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Datlabs Limited announced the retirement of its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Todd Moyo after serving the company for 37 years.
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UK based Zimbabwean academic and law lecturer Dr Alex Magaisa has died. According to reports he suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday at Margate Hospital around 10 am. Magaisa was a lecturer of law at the Kent Law School of the University of Kent and served as the Advisor of the then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai from 2012-2013.
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Bulawayo giants Highlanders FC have appointed a new communications and marketing officer, the club announced.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commanded mining companies in Zimbabwe to pay their workers good salaries following mine workers' outcry over poor wages and their description of the recent 100% wage hike as “double nonsense".
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The Mexican head of a huge church admitted sexually abusing children in the United States on Friday, days before he was scheduled to stand trial.
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Highlanders FC have appointed Jose Mourinho's former assistant Baltermar Jose De Oliveira Brito, 70, as their new substantive head coach, until December 2023.
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The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Daniel Kalira (39), a cashier at NetOne, after he allegedly stole approximately ZWL150 000 000 (around US$8 823 529 according to January 2020 officials rates) from the mobile network services provider in an airtime voucher scam orchestrated over two years.
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Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has praised former COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa for his 'successfully' contribution towards the development of football across the Southern African region.
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DSTV Premiership outfit Sekhukhune United has announced the departure of three Zimbabwean footballers namely; goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini, forwards Evans Rusike and Charlton Mashumba.
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