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YVONNE NCUBEin BULAWAYO THE Traditional Medical Practitioners Council (TPMC), a faith-based regulator under the Health ministry, has urged the public to consult certified traditional practitioners only for accountability purposes as some fake healers were using endangered species to treat patients. Speaking at a meeting, focusing on ways to curb the poaching of vultures with traditional…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has poohpoohed claims by his challengers in the opposition that he has captured the courts ahead of next month’s national elections. Speaking yesterday at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, upon his return from the Russia-Africa summit, Mnangagwa said the accusations were completely unfounded. “Those who claim that I am using the courts…

KETTY NYONIStaff Writer THE European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) says it is committed to working undeterred in observing Zimbabwe’s general elections set for August 23. This comes as the EU EOM last week deployed its 46 long-term observers to all the country’s provinces. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, the EU EOM deputy…

SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, has vowed to continue fighting to take part in next month’s elections as an independent presidential candidate. This comes despite the devastating blow that he received yesterday after the Supreme Court confirmed an earlier High Court ruling barring him from participating in the poll. In dismissing Kasukuwere’s appeal against…

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that viral hepatitis could kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV combined by 2040 if not checked. The alert comes as WHO commemorated World Hepatitis Day yesterday, calling on governments to scale-up testing and treatment for the disease. “Millions of people are living with undiagnosed and untreated…

GOVERNMENT says it has so far licensed at least 50 foreign media houses to cover the 2023 general elections as global interest in the upcoming polls continues to grow. Addressing journalists attending a two-day Media and Election Reporting Training Workshop in Kadoma yesterday, ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services chief director Jonathan Gandari said…

A HARARE family tried to kill their son-in law for abusing their daughter before forcing him to file a fake police report, a Harare magistrate heard on Thursday. Castain Gusha, 49, his wife Fungai Chivige, 44, and their daughter Define, 25, were arraigned before magistrate Taurai Manuwere on an attempted murder charge. Gusha and Chivige…

Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw IT IS a matter of time before Zimbabwe has its first woman president, the leader of the United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA), Elisabeth Valerio, says. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Valerio said it was very disappointing, in this regard, that fewer women…