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Rumbidzai Ngwenya ngwenyar@dailynews.co.zw THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), one of the five biggest referral hospitals in the country, has suspended surgical operations with immediate effect due to lack of medication that is administered to prevent pain during surgery. In a memorandum addressed to consultants, doctors and wards, UBH acting director of clinical services Tawanda Mushawarima…

A 50 -YEAR-OLD man from Mbare, in Harare appeared in court facing allegations of breaking into the ministry of Foreign Affairs office and a law firm with the intention to steal laptops. Lesley Muderedzi appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda last Friday facing two counts of unlawful entry into premises in aggravating circumstances. He will…

Dionne Kanyowa STAFF WRITER kanyowad@dailynews.co.zw NORTON town secretary Kizito Muhomba together with 12 councillors have been charged with criminal abuse of duty after they allegedly passed a resolution to sell residential stands to themselves at a low value at $30 per square metre. The accused were granted $50 000 bail by regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje…

Dionne Kanyowa A WOMAN has been nabbed for impersonating a police officer in a scheme where she allegedly planned to extort money from a landlord lying that he had purchased his house illegally and therefore was facing arrest. Glayds Matope, who approached the property buyer pretending to be a police officer, was remanded in custody…

THREE men were last week arrested for fraud for allegedly selling non-existent stands by using forged ownership certificates through a housing cooperative. Moses Takavadiyi, Edwin Samboko and Loveson Jakaza were not asked to plead to the charge when they appeared in the Harare  magistrate court. They were however remanded to September 21 and since they were…

POLICE have dismissed a report circulating on social media alleging that they intercepted a large shipment of weapons in Matabeleland that were…

POLICE in Matabeleland North Province have arrested a pharmacist for theft of family planning pills at Victoria Falls Hospital. Tafadzwa Mudyiwevhu, 41, was arrested after he cunningly devised a plan to steal family planning tablets which he intended to later sell for personal gain. National police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said: “The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)…

LEGISLATOR Job Sikhala will appear in court again on Monday for the ruling of his application for recusal after he challenged the impartiality of the magistrate presiding over his fresh charge of obstructing the course of justice. Sikhala, who is facing another charge of inciting public violence together with fellow legislator Godfrey Sithole, was slapped…

THE government says it is preparing a new collective bargaining platform to replace the National Joint Negotiating (NJNC) forum which civil servants…