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Emmerson Njanjamangezi  SENIOR STAFF WRITER  njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw  THE 2021 tobacco marketing season will get underway on April 7 with Zimbabwe expecting a bumper harvest of the crop after good rains and adequate supplies of inputs to farmers.    Outgoing Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) chief executive Andrew Matibiri made the announcement in a circular seen by the Daily…

Tariro Sajeni  STAFF WRITER  sajenit@dailynews.co.zw  GWERU Provincial Hospital (GPH) has been hailed for conducting Zimbabwe’s first successful total hip replacement surgery.  This comes as an 82-year-old female patient is said to be recovering well after undergoing the delicate procedure which was conducted under the leadership of GPH medical superintendent, Fabian Mashingaidze, and conducted by orthopaedic…

Godknows Matarutse SENIOR WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is stepping up the chase for talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. Speaking in Harare yesterday at a meeting organised by Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Chamisa revealed that he had written several letters and also sent a…

Blessings Mashaya  SENIOR STAFF WRITER  mashayab@dailynews.co.zw  POLICE yesterday said they will increase surveillance to deal with people who are blatantly violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations.  This comes as authorities arrested at least 14 938 people for violating the regulations this month alone.  Cumulatively, since March 2020 when the first lockdown was decreed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa,…

Emmerson Njanjamangezi  SENIOR STAFF WRITER  njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE World Food Programme (WFP) says 5,6 million people in urban and rural areas are still in need of food assistance before the bumper 2021 harvest comes in.  This comes as the United Nations agency already delivers monthly cash transfers to 326 000 Zimbabweans and plans to scale up…

Nyasha Dube  STAFF WRITER  duben@dailynews.co.zw  HIGH Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi has dismissed an application by the prosecutor-general’s office that sought to revoke bail granted to suspected notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul.  Abdul, who had been on the run from police for nearly two decades, was arrested on August 24 last year following a…