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LARGER than life MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala was last week released on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after spending nearly five weeks in remand custody on allegations of inciting public violence before the foiled July 31 demonstration. The Daily News on Sunday Senior Staff Writer Blessings Mashaya caught up with Sikhala who…

THE suicidal bloodletting consuming the main opposition MDC is now stomping towards its funereal end, with the party’s interim leadership led by Thokozani Khupe now planning to recall about 38 more legislators from Parliament, as well as hundreds of councillors across the country. MDC national chairperson Morgen Komichi confirmed the mooted bloodbath to the Daily…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that it was safe for schools and colleges to resume face-to-face classes following their prolonged closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as authorities have announced the phased reopening of schools within the next six weeks, amid concerns by teachers and some parents that it…

CROSS-BORDER traders across the country are set for a major relief following the unveiling of a cheaper coronavirus (Covid-19) testing facility, in a development that will be cost effective. This comes after the Cross-Border Traders Association of Zimbabwe (CBTAZ) yesterday revealed that they had clinched a deal with a named Bulawayo-based laboratory to test each…

FRESH divisions have rocked civil servants after the Apex Council leadership decided to transform the government workers organisation to the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Service Trade Unions (ZCPTU). According to a ZCPTU statement, the objective of the federation is to build a united worker movement in the country. Some of the objectives of the federation…

ZANU PF has once again had to rope in the party’s security department to deal with the unabating ructions in the former liberation movement, which are threatening elections to choose members of its re-introduced district co-ordinating committees (DCCs), the Daily News reports. At the centre of the latest fire-storm are allegations that remnants of the…

CORRUPTION busters in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office have swooped on Criminal Investigation Department (CID) national director Chrispen Charumbira over a slew of allegations relating to graft. The Daily News understands that Charumbira was being held overnight at Rhodesville Police Station in Harare. This comes as police commissioner general Godwin Matanga has transferred a number of…

HARARE West Member of Parliament Joanna Mamombe has been sent to Harare Remand Prison where she will be examined by two doctors to ascertain her mental capacity to stand trial. Mamombe is jointly charged with Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa on allegations of faking abduction and the trial was postponed last week after she failed…