HARARE – Zimbabwe’s hospitals are failing to conduct forensic pathology examinations as there are no gas chromatograph machines to conduct the processes which are used to ascertain the cause of death of individuals and assist in solving crime. Health deputy minister Aldrin Musiiwa said government had already placed an order for one gas chromatograph which…
JOHANNESBURG – A waitress suffered a miscarriage after she was pushed by Robert Mugabe Jnr as he fled his mother Grace Mugabe’s violent attacks at a Sandton Hotel last week. The waitress at Capitol 20 West was delivering food on that floor of the Sandton Hotel when Robert pushed her out of the way and…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is proposing a $300 000 underground bin project as a way of improving the face of the city following poor refuse collection. According to director of works Phillip Pfukwa, council would enter into a deal with local company Probin for the project. Pfukwa said Probin had already installed a…
HARARE – The two-year-old feud between Cimas Medical Aid Society (Cimas) and Corporate 24 Hospital Group (Corporate 24) is raging on with the former in the eye of a storm from its members after using $46 000 to conduct an investigation to recover $35 000, which they said was wrongfully claimed by the hospital, court…
HARARE – A daring Mbare couple has left a Kuwadzana man heart-broken and ruined after they connived to fake being brother and sister before luring him to fall in love with the supposed sister. The Harare man went on to pay lobola amounting to $3 000 after a year of dating while the supposed brother,…
HARARE – Controversail former MDC director general, Toendepi Shonhe, who made headlines recently for predicting a landslide victory for Zanu PF in next year’s general elections, has lost a 1,2 hectare plot over an unspecified debt owed to a local bank. The property, located in the prime farming area of Goromonzi about 30 kilometres east…
HARARE – Civil society organisations have called for regional solidarity from southern African partners in ensuring that the 2018 elections in Zimbabwe meet the Sadc standards for free and fair elections. During a session on human rights and elections at the Sadc People’s Summit on August 17, in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), Zimbabwe Human Rights…
HARARE – Something is certainly amiss with the way Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo is thumbing his nose at journalists who will be going about their duties. Like a teaser bull seeking to frighten a more potent opponent, he belligerently kicks dust in all places at the sight of inconvenient questions from members of the…
HARARE – The 2018 elections are taking place in a threatening environment hostile to free speech and genuine political participation, again raising the spectre of elections that will neither be free nor fair. There is a massive wall of fear built for the rural people — who constitute 75 percent of the Zimbabwean voter bloc…
HARARE – Controversial businessman Frank Buyanga has been appointed as chief executive of House of Mandela African Royal Mint (HoM-ARM) – a medallion and related products manufacturing company founded by the late South African president Nelson Mandela’s daughter Makaziwe in 2014. The development also comes as the flamboyant entrepreneur’s African Medallion Group (AMG) has purchased…
