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Forex shortages, inflation hit mobile network expansion

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FOREIGN currency shortages and inflation have negatively affected network expansion across the country, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director general Gift Machengete has said. In the first quarter telecommunications sector performance report released on Wednesday, Machengete said foreign currency shortages had resulted in mobile network operators’ failure to import spares. “Foreign currency shortages will…

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Mnangagwa fires High Court judge

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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere for misconduct. This comes after he received a report from a tribunal he set up last year to investigate Ndewere on whether she was still fit to remain in office after a slew of misconduct allegations levelled against her. “The tribunal established in terms…

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Warriors brace for Lions of Teranga

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WARRIORS team manager Wellington Mpandare is delighted about the Cosafa Cup draw after Zimbabwe was paired alongside West African football giants Senegal in Group C. The Lions of Teranga are a guest nation at the 20th edition of the Cosafa Cup, which is returning after a one-year forced sabbatical owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and…

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Another lawyer faces deregistration

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A HARARE lawyer Lawman Chimuriwo is facing deregistration after a tribunal convened to investigate misconduct allegations against him ruled that he acted in an “unprofessional, dishonourable and unworthy” manner. The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) had instituted investigations against him after receiving two separate complaints claiming that he had withheld payment of trust money to…

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Fire guts police building

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By Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO SOUTHAMPTON Building that houses police officers in the Bulawayo city centre was yesterday gutted by a fire, which is suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault. The 13-storey building, which also houses Bulawayo West Police headquarters situated on Joshua Mqabuko Street and 9th Avenue, caught fire on its…

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Mutoriro now a threat to Zim: Chief magistrate

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CHIEF magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi has described crystal meth (mutoriro) as a great danger for Zimbabwe’s youth and called on the government to come up with ways to eradicate the illicit drug. Mutevedzi made the remarks while sentencing Mathew Hopkins to an effective two-and-half-years in jail for possession of the drug yesterday. The 29-year-old Hopkins pleaded…

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PSL players plead with government to lift ban

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A NUMBER of Premier Soccer League (PSL) players have implored the government to lift the new ban on sporting activities due to Covid-19 as it will derail all the hard work they have put in in recent months.  This comes after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the country’s Health minister — last week,…

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Freda Rebecca in ground breaking gold production

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MINING giant Freda Rebecca Gold Mine produced 300kgs of the yellow metal last month, cementing the country’s aim of creating a US$12 billion economy by 2023 as part of a broader macroeconomic roadmap towards an upper middle-income economy by 2030. The firm’s general manager Eliakem Hove told journalists in Harare yesterday that the latest achievement…

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Enact national e-waste policy, Parliament told

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Tamary Chikiwa  in BULAWAYO   THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has petitioned Parliament to enact a national electronic-waste (e-waste) policy.  On Tuesday, National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda confirmed to legislators that the august House had received the petition.  “I wish to advise the House that on May 20, 2021, Parliament received another petition from the…

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