THE Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, a locally listed agro-processing company is seeking shareholders approval to change its trading name to AICO Africa Limited.

THE Environmental Management Agency has raised concern over the increase in veld fires, saying it would continue seeking a review of the fines being paid by offenders.

FIVE people died on the spot after a kombi they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck along the Harare-Masvingo Road on Wednesday afternoon.

A MAN who had just been sentenced to a 12-year term for raping his five-year-old half-sister and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease committed suicide in a prison van on the way to jail.

THE 2008 edition of the Wellington Nyatanga Wedza South Schools Tournament reaches its climax on Sunday with the finals at Anderson Mutiweshiri School.

A 32-year-old Makonde-based policeman was arrested last week for allegedly raping his 14-year-old niece over a period of six months.

A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Swereki Village in Beitbridge West was yesterday jailed for two years for poaching a giraffe and two impalas on the farm of Home Affairs Minister Cde Kembo Mohadi.

THE Local Government Board has approved the appointment of Mr Japhet Kabanga as Bindura town clerk.

TWO Zupco employees were yesterday arrested for allegedly stealing an assortment of spares and fittings valued at over $60 trillion from the company's workshop in Chinhoyi.

THE Budding Writers' Association of Zimbabwe is launching a new HIV and Aids awareness project targeting young artistes.

THE newly-elected non-executive mayor for Chitungwiza Municipality, Israel Marange yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts charged with criminal abuse of duty after he allegedly received US$1 000 from his former guard as "token of appreciation" for facilitating his allocation

THREE ambassadors from South Korea, Nigeria and Mauritania -- which has just established diplomatic ties with Zimbabwe -- presented their credentials to President Mugabe at State House in Harare yesterday.

GOVERNMENT is finalising the verification of the names of households in Mashonaland Central Province expected to benefit from the National Basic Commodity Supply Side Intervention programme launched by President Mugabe last week.

ADVISOR in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Dr Munyaradzi Kereke and a senior manager in the bank Mr Mirirai Chiremba are the latest additions to the European Union targeted sanctions list as it intensifies its hate campaign against Zimbabwe.

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has admitted that Zimbabwean workers were grossly underpaid, earning an equivalent of US$8-US$10 per month in 2007.

TWENTY-TWO newly-elected councillors for Marondera Rural District Council were sworn in yesterday.

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and two factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change begun formal talks on Thursday in South Africa in an effort to solve the country's political crisis.

WHAT kind of person is popular talk show hostess, Mai Rebecca Chisamba like in private?

NATIONAL vice-chairman of the Zimbabwe War Veterans' Association Cde Joseph Chinotimba has resigned from the Harare City Council where he was a chief inspector in the municipal police.

World Christian organisations have praised government and opposition leaders for signing the Memorandum of Understanding that paves the way for negotiations towards a lasting resolution of the difficult political crisis in Zimbabwe.