by Nothando Mpofu Sunday, 29 April 2012 15:26

Police stopped a Radio Dialogue roadshow outside the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo on Saturday.

The roadshow, which was organised in conjunction with Churches and Civil Society Forum, had just been on for less than 4 hours when riot police ordered the roadshow to be stopped citing lack of space.

This is despite the fact that Radio Dialogue has used this space the past 5 years and had been cleared by the city …

Over recent years, Matabeleland region has been hard hit by recurring droughts resulting in poor harvests and lack of pastures for livestock. Water supplies for human consumption have also suffered.

Apart from Matabeleland North and South, Bulawayo which gets its water supplies from the five dams in the drought prone Matabeleland South has also faced biting water shortages, forcing the city council to introduce water rationing.

“The rural water fund is basically for addressing sanitation and borehole rehabilitation to help struggling communities,” said Salama.

Asked if UNICEF will …

A ZBC TVnews reporter in Bulawayo, Fletcher Ndlovu, who is based at Montrose Studios, is on the police wanted list for raping an under-age girl.

Bulawayo police spokesman Inspector Mandlenkosi Ndlovu confirmed Thursday that the journalist is on the run for having sex with a 15-year old girl without consent.

“We have received a report of a journalist who raped his girl friend’s sister and we are investigating the matter,” he said.

Sources close to the matter revealed that the incident happened on Sunday morning when Ndlovu raped …

The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) School of Medicine is set to reopen its doors to aspiring medical students four years after it was shut down by the Health Professions Authority for failing to meet standard training requirements.

The dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the NUST Medical School, Dr Noma Ndiweni told the visiting EU delegation at an EU organised roundtable on migration issues that the school will in the next three months become operational.

“Please watch your Sunday papers, we should be …