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HARARE – Telecommunications regulator Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is supporting local health facilities to access specialist services through its innovative tele-medicine programme, a Cabinet minister has said. Minister of Information Communication Technology and Cyber Security Supa Mandiwanzira told delegates and residents of the resort town of Nyanga during an official opening…

HARARE – In a ruling that is set to peg back politically-motivated violence and intimidation, two main MDC supporters have been slapped with a combined 24-month jail term for assaulting a Zanu PF sympathiser for wearing the ruling party’s T-shirt. The two brothers — Robert and Itai Kabvunza who are resident in Mutasa Central —…

HARARE – Amnesty International (AI) has challenged presidential aspirants in the upcoming harmonised elections to commit themselves to addressing impunity for human rights violations. In a brief released this week, the global rights group said the July 30 elections in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are emerging as the…

HARARE – The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has formally expelled members who defied the party’s directive by registering to stand as independent candidates in the July 30 polls. Over 30 candidates are standing on the MDC Alliance ticket, despite losing the party’s primary elections held recently. Consequently, these have been dismissed from the party, including outgoing…

HARARE – A number of teachers are unhappy at their exclusion from participating in the forthcoming elections as polling officers. During harmonised elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) enlists the services of teachers and other civil servants to work as polling officers. The Daily News can, however, report that while the ministry of Primary and…

HARARE – The chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Justice Luke Malaba has warned newly-appointed magistrates to refrain from corrupt activities. Sixty magistrates were recruited by the JSC recently to plug serious staff shortages that had hit the commission after government had imposed an employment freeze. On Monday, Malaba — who is also the…

BULAWAYO – ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa has been guaranteed to be MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa’s mentor and advisor in case the latter wins the next election due in less than three weeks. Poll surveys recently predicted a two-horse race between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Chamisa in the 2018 elections. A political memorandum of agreement…

HARARE – Irate Harare residents have threatened to dump putrid refuse bags at municipal offices around the city to protest delayed rubbish collection over a period of a few weeks. Residents are threatening to take the law into their own hands after rubbish piled up by roadsides in the city, often spilling over to block…

HARARE – Lord Carrington, Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign minister and one of the chief architects of a peaceful outcome to the 1979 Lancaster House Conference that ushered Zimbabwe’s independence, has died. He was aged 99. The Conservative politician, who was also Britain’s former defence secretary, masterminded an agreement that led to the first one person-one vote…

HARARE – Four villagers could face up to three years’ imprisonment after being convicted of killing a specially protected animal. Godfrey Makechemu, 47, Ignatius Maiga, 30, Farai Chauno, 27, and Celestino Shate, 35, were convicted by Masvingo magistrate Peter Madiba after a full trial. Madiba ruled that the quartet, not being holders of a valid…