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Senegalese footballer, Krepin Diatta who is currently representing his country at the 2019 African Cup of Nations in Egypt, has spoken about the insults he has been receiving online because of his physical appearance. The 20-year-old midelder who plays for Club Brugge KV, became a notable figure after scoring a screamer, his first goal for
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Before NASA had plans to send women to the moon and beyond, ambitious Edward Festus Mukuka Nkoloso was well ahead of them with a plan to send a woman and two cats into space. Nkoloso, a grade-school science teacher and the director of Zambia’s National Academy of Science, Space Research
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Midfielder Amr Warda has been sent home from the Africa Cup of Nations for disciplinary reasons by hosts Egypt. The decision to remove Warda, who plays for Greek club PAOK, was announced on the day Egypt play DR Congo. The Egypt Football Association said he was withdrawn "to maintain discipline, commitment and
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Chinese mining firm, San He Zimbabwe, had its property attached by the sheriff after it failed to settle over US$218 970 in salary arrears and non-payment of overtime. The mine, based in Guruve, had failed to pay workers their full salaries, forcing employees to sue and eventually winning the case. The award
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Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has exposed another case of corruption and mismanagement at struggling power utility ZESA. In her latest report, the Auditor General revealed that 9 years ago, ZESA subsidiary ZETDC paid US$4.9m to a firm called Pito Investments for transformers. Up till now, the transformers were never delivered. She went on
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Zimbabwe is in the middle of a seemingly unsolvable economic crisis. The economic meltdown is so severe that several families have been finding it hard to send their children to school. The brains are there, but the money is absent. Entrepreneur Kuda Musasiwa has taken it upon himself to
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A jealous man from Bulawayo has been arrested after beating up another man whom he saw talking to his ex-girlfriend. As if that was not bad enough, the man went on to attack his ex-girlfriend’s brother with a knobkerrie. The Chonicle reports that Fidelis Mpofu of Nkulumane 5 suburb was later
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has changed its stance on withdrawals from the Foreign Currency Accounts (FCA) Nostro Accounts for individuals. A few days after saying that individuals could withdraw up to US$1 000 per day from their FCA accounts, the central authority has now changed its tune, saying that Cash
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There are strange happenings at the Chimoio Shrines in Mozambique, which hold several mass graves of thousands of liberation war fighters and refugees who were massacred by Rhodesian forces on November 23, 1977 in an air force operation code-named “Dingo”. “When we started working here, we would lock the gates at
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JAILED former Zanu-PF legislator for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kerere has been moved from Chikurubi Maximum Prison to Harare Prison, to pave way for investigations into reports that he impregnated his younger wife while in prison. Besides having access to his wives while in jail, Kereke reportedly was also allocated an office from which to conduct
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