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THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has developed a range of medical products using a local herb with antiviral properties, currently on clinical trials, to assist in the fight against the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19), the Daily News reports.

AUTHORITIES yesterday pooh-poohed the alleged recent abduction and torture claims by MDC Alliance youth leaders who had participated in a flash demo in Harare, the Daily News reports.

RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the country is importing adequate fuel not to warrant shortages, but there is indiscipline in the oil sector, the Daily News reports.

MDC acting president Thokozani Khupe has agreed to hold a meeting of the party’s 2014 structures to consider the March Supreme Court ruling directing it to call for an extraordinary congress to choose a substantive leader.

A 100-YEAR-OLD Marange granny was robbed of over US$5 000 by her 31-year-old nephew which she kept in her bra.

AFRICAN Sun Limited has advised its shareholders that they are in talks with Dawn Properties Limited to acquire 100 percent of their share capital in exchange for African Sun shares.

KAROI Town Council has begun repossessing more than 200 residential stands in three of its suburbs which have not been developed for years, the Daily News can report.

TEACHERS’ unions yesterday came out guns blazing, accusing the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) of prematurely declaring June examinations dates when the country is still battling to contain the spread  of Covid-19, the Daily…

HIGH Court judge Phildah Muzofa yesterday ordered Health minister Obadiah Moyo to improve living conditions in quarantine centres across the country, after an application filed by the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights…

POLICE have blocked a planned Zanu PF demonstration tomorrow at the United States (US) embassy in the capital against the killing of African-American George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis.

THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has set new fees for legal practitioners, which will see litigants forking out up to $17 500 an hour in order to get the assistance of a lawyer.

UNDER pressure MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, yesterday caved in to his MPs’ demands and made a U-turn on an earlier decree ordering them to withdraw from Parliament.

©️ VICE PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday admitted that the current administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a “junta” regime, appealing for patience from long-suffering Zimbabweans as the country’s economy has hit rock bottom.

©️ AUTHORITIES appeared to have further beefed up security in Harare yesterday, with more police officers and soldiers visible around the capital — as Covid-19 infections and political tensions continue to rise in the country, the Daily…

ZIMBABWE has never needed a stronger political opposition than now, a time of worsening economic challenges that portend an imminent regression to the calamitous crisis of a decade ago.

PROSECUTORS yesterday said prominent lawyer Thabani Mpofu faced up to 20 years in jail if convicted of charges of corruption and defeating the course of justice he is facing.

OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s style of leadership is worse than that of the late former president Robert Mugabe, adding his time is up.

FOREIGN Affairs secretary James Manzou yesterday told Parliament that government no longer has resources to repatriate Zimbabweans affected by the coronavirus pandemic abroad.

HIGH Court judge Joseph Mafusire will on Monday rule on an application by two MDC Alliance legislators who are seeking an order barring the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T and Parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda from replacing them as lawmakers…

MEDIA rights advocacy groups yesterday expressed concern over the barring of journalists from getting into Harare’s central business district by security agents enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures.

ZESA Holdings (Zesa) customers yesterday expressed outrage over failure to buy electricity tokens after the power utility’s payment platforms were overwhelmed, the Daily News reports.

UNIDENTIFIED people on Monday evening painted the offices of a law firm belonging to Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda with threatening red graffiti, in a development that observers said was politically motivated.

INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday announced that Zupco buses are set to increase their carrying capacity to alleviate transport woes for passengers, while privately-owned commuter omnibuses (kombis) stay banned.

©️  THE MDC’s latest ructions have now reached a point of no return, after the party’s interim leadership expelled Nelson Chamisa from the movement — in a development that could have far-reaching implications on the future of the country’s…

©️ AUTHORITIES yesterday barred tens of thousands of people from entering Harare’s central business district (CBD) — creating chaos during the morning rush hour in the process, the Daily News reports.