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THE Sadc Parliamentary Forum (PF) has heightened its calls for the Zimbabwe Government to ensure that local women participate in all processes of the upcoming general elections. Speaking yesterday at a regional high-level dialogue on women’s participation, the Sadc PF secretary-general, Boemo Sekgomo, said there was need for more effort to ensure women took part…

By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has partnered with a local engineering company to build a 50 megawatt (MW) solar plant at its Ncema farm as part of sustainable measures to have alternative power sources. This is in the face of recurrent power cuts which have been destabilising water supplies to residents and…

FORMER Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s incarcerated son, Siqokoqela, 44, has filed an appeal against the 20-year jail sentence that was handed to him early this month after being found guilty of three counts of raping his niece and escaping lawful custody. He filed the appeal at the Bulawayo High Court yesterday through his lawyer, Zibusiso…

Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw MOST HIV-positive youth are reluctant to approach public health centres to receive their antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment due to stigmatisation, and health experts have called on the government to find alternative solutions to make the drugs easily accessible. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI) research day in Harare…

LAWYERS representing Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior member Job Sikhala and Chitungwiza North MP Godfrey Sithole yesterday grilled the State’s witness over statements contained in State papers. The two lawmakers are currently on trial on charges of inciting public violence after Sikhala allegedly posted a video which led to disturbances that broke out in…

Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO TWO security guards deployed at a gold mine in Hope Fountain, on the outskirts of Bulawayo, appeared in court yesterday for allegedly fatally shooting an illegal miner who had sneaked into the premises. Musabvunza Mabumure, 40, and Jabulani Nyathi, 53, appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Joseph Mabeza, facing a murder charge. They…

OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora says his party, the MDC, is a genuine political movement fighting for a level playing field ahead of this year’s general elections. This comes after Mwonzora has received widespread criticism from different quarters and accused of being a puppet of the ruling party, Zanu PF, as he filed court applications seeking…

A HIGH Court judge acquitted a woman who killed her estranged husband in Waterfalls, Harare, while suffering a mental illness in 2021. Leoba Muzondo fatally struck Farai Tsatsa, with a metal hoe during an argument over the now deceased’s shoes that the accused was holding as security for payment for her plastic dish and a…