Month: May 2015
Main News Money & Markets

Govt rules out pay increase

Government cannot afford to increase civil servants’ salaries as its annual employment costs have risen steeply from $550 million in 2009 to $3.

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Arts & Lifestyle Crime & Courts Main News

Concourt outlaws prostitute arrests

The Constitutional Court yesterday outlawed the arrest of women on charges of soliciting for sex in the absence of men confirming they were.

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Health & Fitness Main News World News

Kenyan hospital ordered to pay for failed birth control

A court in Kenya has ordered a hospital to pay $48,000 (£31,000) to a woman who became pregnant despite having a contraceptive implant.

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Arts & Lifestyle Entertainment Main News

Wole Soyinka dismisses claims he is too grand and old for Oxford poetry chair

Nobel laureate hits back at criticisms from former supporter Melvyn Bragg, who has now switched allegiance to his rival, Simon Armitage Wole Soyinka.

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Main News World News

Kenyan lawyer offers livestock to wed Obama’s daughter

A Kenyan lawyer has offered US president Barack Obama 50 cows and other assorted livestock in exchange for his 16-year-old daughter Malia’s hand.

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Main News

Bus Accident Claims Three

Three people died while several others were seriously injured when a Tombs Cross-border Bus they were travelling in sideswiped with a haulage truck,.

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Main News Sports

Arrested FIFA officials face extradition to U.S.

Six high-ranking soccer officials, including two vice-presidents of world governing-body FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition to.

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Main News Zimbabwe

Prof Moyo under fire over Mugabe debt story

ZANU PF apologist, Goodson Nguni has lashed out at Information minister, Jonathan Moyo over a story published in The Herald claiming he had.

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Main News Politics Zimbabwe

Bhasikiti to stand as an independent candidate in Mwenezi East

FORMER Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, who was fired from Zanu PF last week, says he is ready to contest as an.

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Main News Politics

Mangoma hints at MDC-Renewal split

MDC-Renewal treasurer general Elton Mangoma has indicated that the political outfit could be headed for a split. Mangoma told a press briefing in.

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