A Zimbabwean PARLIAMENTARY committee investigating the impact of housing co-operatives in national housing development has exposed shocking evidence of abuse at Herbert Chitepo Housing Co-operative, which takes its name from one of the country’s outstanding liberation war icons. The Portfolio Committee on SME and Co-operative Development said the co-operative had not actually held annual general […]
Not sure if you recall the story of the sorry tale of the shooting of an African Harrier-hawk with a pellet gun in a garden of the suburb of Mandara, Harare back in May 2015? Luckily the bird did actually survive but we would like to let you all know that it will amazingly be able […]
Not for the first time or the last time, the world’s deadliest spider is once again feared to be on the loose in Britain after a family spotted a nest in a bunch of bananas. Don’t worry, I doubt it is going to go on a killing spree and kill hundreds of people, although the […]
Where there’s poop, there’s flies. Where there’s flies, there’s spiders. So what happens when there is a lot of poop and a lot of flies.. ? Maybe like a sewage treatment plant? Well, then, you could get a whole bunch of spiders like this: This is a photo of a section of a four-acre web […]
A touching story about a poor farmer who supported his son through college. He went without a lot of things we take for granted in life, suffered and endured to make sure his son got through college and could have a better life. On graduation day, the son said his father was his biggest pride […]
Some LAWYERS and MPs say they are increasingly worried by what appears to be the trivialisation of child sex abuse by the courts, with the age of consent in Zimbabwe being reduced to only 12 years, although it is 16 under the Constitution. Child sex predators are getting away with community service sentences rather than […]
South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services said a South African parole board is set to recommend that the disgraced athlete Oscar Pistorius, who was recently convicted of killing Reeva Steenkamp (his girlfriend at the time), be released from prison as early as August. Oscar, 28, was sentenced back in October 2014 to five years in prison […]
According the latest review of animals and plants by the world’s largest conservation network, the African western black rhino is now officially extinct The subspecies of the black rhino — which is classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) on the Red List of Threatened Species — was last seen in […]
Contrary to popular belief, numerous recent studies have found that artificial sweeteners (found in diet coke for example) such as aspartame can: – Stimulate your appetite – Increase carbohydrate cravings – Stimulate fat storage and weight gain Artificial sweeteners like sucralose, aspartame and sucralose also tend to do the opposite of what they are marketed […]