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©️ A BINDURA magistrate has sentenced businessman Fradreck Utsiwegota to an effective seven years in jail after finding him guilty of swindling his Singaporean partner of mining equipment worth over US$500 000.

©️ AT LEAST 118 people disappeared from various isolation centres throughout the country since the onset of the lockdown, the police have said.

©️ INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, pictured, has upped the ante in the war for the control of the country’s main opposition — vowing yesterday that she will eject her rivals from the party’s iconic national headquarters in Harare as…

ALMOST half of the people who have contracted the feared coronavirus in Zimbabwe have fully recovered, the Daily News reports.

PARLIAMENT has reverted to using its premises as it resumes today with only the National Assembly sitting and using the Senate chamber as well to ensure social distancing is observed amid coronavirus (Covid-19) fears, the Daily News…

INTERNAL conflicts and lack of unity among Africans have blighted the continent’s annual commemoration of Africa Day, which fosters the desire to work together and speak with one voice, political analysts have said.

©️ PRESSURE is mounting on the country’s political leadership to put their differences aside and hold much-needed dialogue to help end the country’s deepening economic crisis, the Daily News reports.

©️ DESPERATE motorists are set to endure more anguish at fuel pumps, after authorities admitted at the weekend that they were struggling to get foreign currency to import petrol and diesel, the Daily News reports.

©️  CIVIL servants have made a new call for the government to pay their salaries in United States dollars (USD) following a fresh wave of price hikes that hit the country at the weekend.

©️ Government has given returnees in Covid-19 quarantine facilities the option to have their Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests done at authorised private laboratories.

LONG suffering Zimbabweans will have to dig deeper into their pockets to survive, after prices of basic goods went up sharply again at the weekend — on the back of the collapsing Zim dollar.

©️ THE former Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson, Lovemore Moyo, has warned brawling MDC officials that they risked losing their relevance unless they urgently heal their rift.

©️ ZIMBABWE’S confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have shot up to 56 as five new people tested positive on Friday.

VARIOUS women’s organisation have petitioned the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to launch an independent investigation into the…

©️ AUTHORITIES are appealing for calm amid warnings by doctors that the shortage of coronavirus test kits and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) in the country could see more local infections, the Daily News reports.

THE Econet group yesterday handed over personal protective equipment (PPE) worth $730 738 to two of the country’s major Covid-19 referral hospitals, with three more hospitals scheduled to receive their consignments early next week.

THE Human Rights Institute of South Africa (Hurisa) has petitioned the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights over the alleged abduction and torture of three MDC youth leaders — Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova —…

©️ HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo has revealed that malaria cases have gone down by 18 percent countrywide this week following government’s interventions in hardest hit areas.

©️ WITH Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises deepening, the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) have once again implored authorities to engage the MDC to end the country’s myriad challenges, the Daily News…

©️ THE battle for the control of the MDC took a new twist yesterday after  Nelson Chamisa’s allies convened a meeting in Harare that was attended by many of the party’s 2014 members, the Daily News reports.

©️ CHITUNGWIZA Municipality yesterday ordered philanthropist Samantha Murozoki, who was feeding thousands of people daily through her Kuchengetana Relief Kitchen, to close down citing health hazards and contravention of town by-laws.

©️ THERE was drama in Parliament yesterday when Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara clashed with the portfolio committee on Agriculture after it denied him the right to legal representation while…

©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally lost patience with Energy Mutodi, pictured, — summarily firing the gaffe-prone Information deputy minister last night, following a string of recent incidents which embarrassed the government.

THE government says it needs a whopping $21 billion to ensure the safe re-opening of schools, in the wake of the havoc that has been caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports.

©️ ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) executive director Roselyn Hanzi has petitioned police commissioner general Godwin Matanga to investigate the circumstances surrounding the leaking of pictures of a female MDC official, who was…