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By Blessings Mashaya and Brighton Muronzereyi PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged continued economic stability, while also appealing to politicians to protect the country’s current peaceful environment ahead of next year’s elections. Delivering his State of the Nation Address (Sona) at the new Parliament building in Harare, Mnangagwa said it was imperative that all Zimbabweans worked…

By Nyasha Dube IMPRISONED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala will continue to languish in remand prison after Harare magistrate Tafadzwa Miti dismissed his ninth bail application yesterday. In denying Sikhala bail, Magistrate Miti said the lawmaker had been arrested multiple times before, proving that he was an “unrepentant criminal” who…

By Regis Chingawo THE Association of Child Protection Professionals has called for a long-lasting solution to stop the spread of commercial sexual exploitation of children, particularly the girl-child, which it claims is on the increase following the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country in 2020. According to the report, child exploitation has gotten…

By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judges, Happias Zhou and Benjamin Chikowero, have thrown out an appeal against both the conviction and sentencing of a Harare man who is currently serving a 13-year prison term for raping his juvenile step-sister in 2015. Court papers show that on the night of November 28, 2015, Robert Kabisira sneaked…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to make his State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Harare today, amid hopes that he will speak on the country’s relentless power cuts, and also assure Zimbabweans that prices will not go haywire ahead of Christmas. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the acting executive director of the Consumer…

ZANU PF says the opposition is dragging the much-needed dialogue by allegedly working with foreign nations to sow discord in the country and added that it must denounce sanctions for national talks to be successful. In an interview with the Daily News after their meeting with Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently, Zanu PF secretary…

A LARGE number of drug addicts are reported to have turned to the abuse of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, among other pharmaceutical substances, the Zimbabwe situational analysis on drug use and injections has revealed. According to a recent report, while crystal meth (also known as mutoriro) was the most abused substance in Zimbabwe, it was discovered…

By Nyasha Dube THE High Court has thrown out an application by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) in which it sought to recover a vehicle used by its former worker during his employ. Zinara approached the High Court accusing its former regional engineer, Givemore Kufa of refusing to return a Toyota Hilux double cab…