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BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE HIGH Court has quashed attempts made by the Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) and Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) to bar popular paternity test television show host, Tinashe Mugabe, from operating. The two boards had suspended Global DNA Zimbabwe’s (Mugabe’s company) operations after cancelling his registration…

By Hazel Marimbiza THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) says it is currently in the process of building strategic partnerships with the government in mitigating the effects of climate change. Over the past years, rainfall patterns have become increasingly unpredictable and erratic and droughts have become more frequent. Climate change has hit hard, particularly the…

BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE High Court has provisionally reversed Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka’s controversial decision to issue Release Power Investments (Private) Limited (RPI) with a 99-year lease for a piece of land in Goromonzi. This comes after it emerged that Kennedy Godwin Mangenje also held a valid offer letter to the same property, known as…

FORMER Cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye’s freedom bid has flopped after the High Court dismissed an appeal to set aside her two-year custodial sentence for theft. In June this year, a magistrate’s court found Kagonye, pictured, guilty of expropriating 20 laptops that were meant to benefit schools in her then Goromonzi South constituency through an e-learning…

By Brandon Josphat THE Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU), the umbrella body for civil service servants unions, says the introduction of competency-based bonuses in place of automatic bonuses is in contravention of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) agreement. The outcry by ZCPSTU, formerly called Apex Council, follows the recent announcement by…

By Dionne Kanyowa AWARD-WINNING author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga and democracy activist Julie Barnes have approached the High Court seeking to quash their conviction of inciting public violence. The duo was recently sentenced to a three months jail term or alternatively a $70 000 fine for staging a peaceful demonstration in Borrowdale two years ago…

By Rutendo Ngara THE Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) has launched an investigation into a leak of an “O” Level Mathematics Paper 1. Zimsec last night said it has since engaged the government and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to establish the source of the leak after some candidates were found to have accessed the…

THE Health Service Board (HSB) has dismissed an appeal by the Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (Zpnu) leader Robert Chiduku who was fired in August for conducting union business during working hours. In a letter dated September 28 addressed to Chiduku, HSB acting executive director, Angelbert Mbengwa, said the Gweru Provincial Hospital nurse’s appeal was dismissed…