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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Zimbabwe Star.com http://www.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:04:33 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:04:33 -0500 30 New Zealand cruised to a 141-run victory over Zimbabwe after amassing 372 for 6 at the Cobham Oval here in the second one-day international , and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265705/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:05 -0500 ANI http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265705/cs/1/ The family of retired General Solomon Mujuru wanted the remains to be re-examined by a South African pathologist, Dr. Reggie Perumel, alleging professional failures by local pathologist Gabriel ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288638/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:53:38 -0500 VOA http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288638/ The meeting closely followed President Mugabe's reappointment of Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri over the objections of Prime Minister Tsvangirai and his MDC ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288639/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:53:36 -0500 VOA http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288639/ Deputy Health Minister Douglas Mombeshora said the council should have taken more useful steps such as cleaning up the streets of the densely populated suburbs affected, and enforcing sanitary ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288640/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:53:33 -0500 VOA http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288640/ The Zimbabwe Investment Authority last year approved projects worth almost US$7 billion with most investors flocking to the mining and tourism sectors. But economists said only 10 percent of the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288641/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:53:32 -0500 VOA http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203288641/ Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker's fiery death ended Monday, leaving the last hours of Gen. Solomon Mujuru's life shrouded in suspicion he was murdered by ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278474/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:44:30 -0500 IOL http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278474/ The Sunday Times, Newspaper Mail and Guardian, Newspaper Business Day, Newspaper The Zimbabwean, Newspaper (MISA/IFEX) - 3 February 2012 - The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has reportedly ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203277086/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:24 -0500 IFEX http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203277086/ There are some days when one-day cricket can be a bit of a drag. Take yesterday's debut ODI for Cobham Oval, and Northland Cricket. At halftime, New Zealand had rattled up their third highest ODI ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203277085/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:30:20 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203277085/ where to Zimbabwe football? This is the question hovering in many soccer fans' minds following Zifa's decision to suspend 82 players who allegedly accepted bribes to lose matches in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278449/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:44 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278449/ Growing up admiring the marvellous lives of a number of successful athletes in the world, Netsai Lindiwe Sabao never thought that one day she would come face to face with the people she admired ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278451/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278451/ The year 1989 will for a long time be fondly remembered by many music lovers in Zimbabwe as "the year of the Khiama Boys". That was when the group released its lifetime hit song, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278450/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:40 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278450/ ZIMBABWE will not be sending representatives in the girls' Under-16 age group to the 35th ITF/CAT Africa Junior Championships (AJC) Under-14, 16 and Under after top players pulled out of the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278452/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:38 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278452/ ZIMBABWE Rugby Union (ZRU) have retained Brandon Dawson as the head coach for the Sables in a new set-up that will also see coaches for the backs and forwards coming in. The announcement is set to ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278453/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:36 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278453/ EMIRATES, one of the world's leading airlines, says there is an opportunity for Zimbabwean horticultural producers to reach out to the world by using its global network. Emirates' ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278455/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:35 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278455/ A group of about 50 rowdy Zanu PF youths recently threatened to shut down a petroleum project run by a human rights activist in Mbare accusing him of being an MDC supporter. The youths besieged ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278454/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:33 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278454/ THREATS to prosecute people debating the expiry of Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's term of office have no basis at law and doing so is stifling freedom of expression, legal ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278459/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:31 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278459/ TOWARDS the end of 2011, the media had articles quoting Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda urging city councillors to re-elect him to lead them for a second term at the helm of the capital city. What ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278458/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:30 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278458/ A National Security Council (NSC) meeting slated for last Friday was cancelled after a fierce clash between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the composition of the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278457/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:28 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278457/ RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono said on Tuesday the central bank is ready to process applications by new entries into the financial sector, as he upped the ante against haphazard ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278456/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:26 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278456/ WHEN Zimbabwe women football boss Mavis Gumbo came into office in 2010 she promised to turn around the fortunes of the girl child in the world of local and international football. True to her word, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278463/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:24 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278463/ Jamaican musicians' great trek to Zimbabwe continues following an announcement Jah Mason is heading for Harare over the Easter holiday. Eddie Gwenzi of Biggman Entertainment, who is hosting ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278461/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:20 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278461/ A new fad has hit Harare pole dancing and strip-tease and pundits reckon Harare is well on its way to matching the sleaze and sloth of Las Vegas and other western cities infamous for X-rated ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278460/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:17 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278460/ ZIMBABWE'S economic outlook for 2012 is favourable, but is clouded by significant downside risks and remains highly vulnerable to a number of local and exogenous shocks, the World Bank (WB) has ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278464/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:15 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278464/ Attorney - General (AG) Johannes Tomana's futile attempt to block debate over Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri's term of office that expired at the end of last month cannot go ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278465/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:13 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278465/ The granddad of athletics in Zimbabwe, Freddy Kashiri, is still flying high at 55 and has made it clear that he is not planning to hang up his spikes anytime soon. However, his mark in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278473/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278473/ THE family of the late Rtd General Solomon Mujuru says it will not rest until the truth surrounding his death is known by Zimbabweans. Joel Mujuru, brother to the late General who died in a ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278472/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:08 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278472/ REIGNING Soccer Star of the Year Washington Arubi has bought himself out of a contract with Highfield United ending a long-standing contractual dispute and has set sights on joining the Polish ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278471/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:06 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278471/ News of Bornwell Chakaodza's death came as a crushing blow for me last week. Only a few days earlier, Chakaodza told me from his hospital bed at the Avenues Clinic that he was waiting to be ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278470/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:04 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278470/ GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to "export" unemployed nurses to work in other countries, mostly in the Sadc region. Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Douglas Mombeshora, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278469/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:01 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278469/ WARRIORS head coach Norman Mapeza and his assistant Joey Antipas have been ruled out of Zimbabwe's Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Burundi as the two gaffers were also ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278468/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:35:58 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278468/ THE management committee of the Constitution Select Committee (Copac) has agreed to 26 principles to the new constitution, chief among them that security forces must be non-partisan and that they ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278467/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:35:56 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203278467/ RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, has advised government to harness the country's real estate sector in a bid to unlock international capital and quicken economic growth. ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273111/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:32 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273111/ CONTROVERSIAL businessman, Raymond Chamba, last week declared his intention to run in the coveted race for Zimbabwe's presidential polls likely to be held either this year or in 2013. Chamba, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273117/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:30 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273117/ The recent outbreak of typhoid within the capital city, Harare, has brought with it immeasurable stress to both communities and the still-unwholesome public health delivery system, which is likely ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273116/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:27 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273116/ A UNIT of frontier markets business giant, Renaissance Group, has aborted its plans to acquire a local stock broking firm over controversial indigenisation and empowerment regulations, The Financial ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273115/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:25 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273115/ Bulawayo - A four-day working visit by a European Union (EU) delegation to the second city, which ends today, has put ZANU-PF in a tight corner as it attempts to gain the Matabeleland vote ahead of ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273114/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:23 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273114/ Whether General Solomon Mujuru's death did or did not have criminal intent, is not yet conclusive. It is still to be ascertained by the ongoing inquest. But what is already conclusively ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273112/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:18 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273112/ HARD times continue for Zimbabwe's foreign missions amid concerns regarding the terrible state of most of the country's embassies across the globe. A Parliamentary report reviewing the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273118/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:16 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273118/ Gweru - The country's biggest shoe manufacturer, Bata Shoe Company, is to increase output in the next six months after importing new shoe manufacturing equipment. The company is currently ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273127/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:14 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273127/ COMMISSIONS to run the country's troubled cities, including Harare, are on the cards as Local Government, Urban and Rural Development Minister, Ignatius Chombo, moves to stamp out rampant ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273126/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:12 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273126/ THE termination of funding by the Global Fund could jeopardise Zimbabwe's under-funded health sector in the next two years, stakeholders cautioned this week, amid fears of a reversal in the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273125/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:08 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273125/ Over 50 years ago, in 1961, Pope John XXIII reminded the world of the need to care for Creation when he explained, "Genesis relates how God gave two commandments to our first parents: to ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273124/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:04 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273124/ In continuing with the discussion on the major issues to mediate the business environment in 2012, I highlighted in my seminal article that Zimbabwe continues to make inroads in the use of ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273123/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:30:00 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273123/ OVER the years, vast tracts of land have been dug up and gaping holes left in the earth as panners scour the country for its vast gold resources. More finds of the yellow metal along rivers and the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273122/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:58 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273122/ THE Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG) says it is on the verge of agreeing a deal with an unidentified foreign investor to inject capital into the troubled banking unit. The bank, owned by ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273121/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:55 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273121/ THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has embarked on a compulsory retrenchment programme after a significant number of its workers did not respond to a voluntary retrenchment exercise announced last ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273120/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:53 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273120/ Comrades, I am back and as effervescent, strong and flourishing as ever! Whoever invented this wonderful thing called annual leave was a real genius, I can tell you. After a few weeks away from ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273119/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:50 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273119/ Bulawayo - Leading South African-based recreational service provider, Decor8, is to set up base in Zimbabwe buoyed by increased corporate expenditure on leisure activities in the country. The ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273128/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:47 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273128/ VETERAN newsman and The Financial Gazette's prolific columnist Bornwell Chakaodza (59) has died, following a courageous fight against cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2008. Chakaodza died ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273129/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:45 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273129/ AFTER receiving an early Christmas present last year, cotton farmers are once again faced with a tough year as the volatility of the cotton markets has led to the decline in international pri-ces, ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273131/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273131/ Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, has dismissed fears of severe food shortages in most drought-prone areas of the country, assuring the nation of adequate grain reserves to feed everyone despite a ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273130/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:40 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273130/ CHINA, through its private sector, has expressed interest in rehabilitating the 262km Harare-Mutare highway. Chinese ambassador, Xin Chunkang, said private sector investors from his country were ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273132/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:38 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273132/ Business organisations thrive on the goodwill of customers. But how efficient are organisations in serving customers? The level of customer satisfaction in your organisation is directly related to ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273133/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:35 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273133/ THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) this week warned that the country's ballooning external debt will undermine efforts to mobilise lines of credit which are critical for economic recovery. RBZ ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273134/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:29:33 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273134/ The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273136/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:48 -0500 afrol News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273136/ Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273137/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:46 -0500 afrol News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273137/ Up to 1.3 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa risked deportation during the coming weeks, many because Harare authorities did not have the capacity to provide them with passports. Now, they ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273138/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:45 -0500 afrol News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273138/ Equatorial Guinea has emerged as one of Zimbabwe's main creditors following massive unpaid oil deliveries since the surrender of coup plotter Simon Mann from Harare to Malabo in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273141/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:42 -0500 afrol News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273141/ In a 2007 report from the US Embassy in Harare, a possible national unity government in Zimbabwe is described as "less attractive." President Robert Mugabe is called "the devil" ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273140/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:02:40 -0500 afrol News http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203273140/ HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker's death is ending, leaving the last hours of Gen. Solomon Mujuru's life shrouded in suspicion he ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268270/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:09:06 -0500 Sun-Sentinel http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268270/ BODY Fitness Centre owner Knox Mapfungautsi has dismissed the rumour spreading in the city that his gym is closing. Mapfungautsi said the gym is still operating and encouraged its members to come ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268973/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:18 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268973/ Mutare - MANICALAND Province has stepped up preparations for the 21st Movement Celebrations to be graced by secretaries general of liberation movements from Sadc. The commemorations are held ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268974/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:14 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268974/ Mutare - A CHIPINGE chief's live-in girlfriend last week reportedly fatally struck him with a machete, accusing him of infidelity. Chief Mpungu of Chisumbanje was buried last Wednesday after ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268975/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:12 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268975/ Masvingo - A 43-YEAR-OLD Bikita thief and jailbird has been sentenced to an effective 15 years for breaking into 108 houses as he unleashed terror in Masvingo city. An ex-convict, Smart Taru of ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268976/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:09 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268976/ If we go by Zifa's formula of handling Asiagate, then Pakistan would not have a cricket team today simply because there was match-fixing when they last toured England. But, in the Pakistan ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268977/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:07 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268977/ AN MDC-T Domboshava councillor Dominic Shongedza will perform 350 hours of community service for stealing US$1 240 mobilised by villagers to buy farming inputs. Shongedza (50) who has previous ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268980/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:05 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268980/ FORMER Chronicle, Manica Post and Southern Times editor Makuwerere Bwititi who died in Namibia last Sunday will be buried in Concession today. A church service was held at a local funeral parlour ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268979/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:58:02 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268979/ Zvishavane - BOTSWANA Meat Commission, who arrived in Zvishavane on Thursday evening, say they are going to give FC Platinum a good run in a friendly at Mandava this afternoon. The team has three ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268981/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:57 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268981/ ZIMBABWE-BORN eighthman David Denton will this afternoon make his inaugural starting XV appearance for Scotland when they host rivals England in the RBS Six Nations rugby opener at Murrayfield. The ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268983/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:55 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268983/ AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 2000 news and information items daily from over 130 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268982/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:52 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268982/ TWO visiting Iranian high-ranking officials have pledged to strengthen ties between their country and Zimbabwe. Iranian Vice President responsible for Management and Human Capital Development Dr ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268984/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:57:48 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203268984/ I am still around because now I am 26 years. I hope to play as long as I am injury-free and in good health. I am concentrating on my game and if the call-up comes, obviously I will embrace it. Who ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266814/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:33 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266814/ GENERAL Solomon Mujuru was alive when fire gutted his farmhouse and might have died from inhaling carbon monoxide, a local pathologist said yesterday. However, a South African pathologist hired by ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266815/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:29 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266815/ A PREACHER shouted messages of hope and deliverance on one end, while on the other a woman donning dingy and sun-baked clothes used her piercing voice to draw customers to her cellphone recharge ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266816/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:25 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266816/ Thank God the rules require the winner to enjoy two-third support of Africa. Ping was far from getting that, thanks largely to Sadc which voted as a block on both occasions. Then Zuma gracefully ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266817/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:20 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266817/ By granting the Zimbabwe Newspaper Group and known ZANU (PF) supporters broadcasting licenses the already compromised Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has shown its patronage and the voice it ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266819/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:16 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266819/ The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has reportedly enlisted the service of the police in a bid to stop foreign newspapers without local offices from circulating. Publications that might be affected ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266190/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:00:40 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203266190/ Opener Rob Nicol smashed 146 and allrounder Jacob Oram hounded Zimbabwe mercilessly with bat and ball as New Zealand cruised to a 141-run win in the second one-day match in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264396/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:01:59 -0500 SBS http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264396/ WHANGAREI, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by 141 runs on Monday in the second limited-overs cricket international at Cobham Oval: New Zealand: 372-6 (Rob Nicol 146, Martin Guptill ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265007/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:32:55 -0500 General Sources http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265007/ From times past, it has been impossible to get a good man down, yet it is in this instance that an issue arises that pertains to the qualities that do determine or define a good man though these ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264995/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:37 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264995/ FARMERS have accused the Grain Marketing Board of conniving with politicians and other influential people to abuse inputs meant to benefit the majority of Zimbabweans. This has affected production ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264994/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264994/ Zambezi Express roared at Harare's Reps Theatre when it opened last Tuesday and delighted an appreciative crowd. The 90-minute musical opens with the introduction of a young boy named ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264993/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:32 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264993/ THE Harare International Festival of the Arts will soon upload video clips of performances staged over the last three years on the Internet as it seeks to bring the festival to wider audiences. ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264996/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:30 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264996/ Beitbridge - POLICE in Beitbridge have smashed a housebreaking syndicate and arrested four suspects in connection with 10 cases in the border town. Three members of the group were arrested last ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265002/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:25 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265002/ UTAKATAKA Express band leader Peter Moyo has agreed to sell off two of his band members, Spencer Khumulani and Gift "Shiga Shiga" Katulika, to Energy Mutodi's Real Sounds of Africa in ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265001/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:23 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265001/ Former Orchestra Mberikwazvo rhythm guitarist Innocent Mjintu, who left Alick Macheso's band after being fired for secretly recording an album, is expected to return into the Extrabasso's ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265000/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:21 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265000/ It is gratifying to note that the national Gallery of Zimbabwe has spread its tentacles beyond the capital city of Harare and are commemorating the works of a great Bulawayo-based Zimbabwean artist ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264999/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:19 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264999/ A Karoi magistrate last Friday sentenced a 60-year-old woman from Nyangawe area, Hurungwe, to two months in jail for trying to defeat the course of justice. Magistrate Robson Finsin had sentenced ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264998/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:17 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264998/ A PRISON guard stationed at Chikurubi Prison Farm blew his head off in front of inmates he was guarding last Tuesday. The inmates at the correctional facility are said to have scurried for cover ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264997/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:15 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264997/ The Cold Comfort Primary School saga rages on amid revelations this week that the Trust no longer owns the property. This is contrary to claims by former Cold Comfort Farm Trust chairman Cde ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265005/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:13 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265005/ The Red Cross Society has donated blankets and soap valued at US$2 000 to disabled children at Danhiko Project. Speaking at the handover ceremony last week, Red Cross nat-ional president Mr ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265004/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265004/ Zimbabwe's third secretary at its Moscow embassy in Russia, Ms Mavis Mabuya, has died. She was 46. In a statement yesterday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Ms Mabuya died while on duty ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265006/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:12:09 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203265006/ Chinhoyi - GOVERNMENT says the typhoid outbreak is under control, but is worried that some of the cases could have evolved to carrier state, making prospects of further outbreaks imminent. More ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264372/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:54 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264372/ In the past, Harare had several wetlands and very critical to the drainage system, yet, when you travel around the city and its suburbs today, the poodles have disappeared and now manifest ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264383/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:52 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264383/ WE find it difficult to accept the Grain Marketing Board's claim that the distribution of inputs in the provinces was above board. The outcry from the provinces is too pronounced to be ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264373/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:51 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264373/ SOME Econet engineers have been implicated in the murder of an undisclosed number of security guards manning network boosters in Harare and subsequently stealing the company's diesel and ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264149/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:37 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264149/ For the sustainable growth of any economy to be achieved, it is desirable to create an enabling environment to ensure that the objectives are met. While economists may come up with varying ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264387/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264387/ Masvingo - THE Masvingo Rural District Council has approved a US$13 million mini-hydro power project at Lake Mutirikwi Great Zimbabwe Hydro-Power Company had applied for the establishment of the ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264240/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:31 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264240/ The Labour Court has ordered Lifestyles Zimbabwe Furnishers (LZF) to reinstate 296 workers it laid off in 2005. The workers were employed in four different companies owned by LZF and were made to ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264388/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:29 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264388/ A SHOWDOWN is looming between Innscor Africa and some of its workers that were running its Total Zimbabwe-franchised fuel dealership over alleged attempts to transfer them to new franchisees without ... http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264389/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:11:23 -0500 All Africa http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a6d634cbccbbfe2/id/203264389/