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Rumbidzai Ngwenya  HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, says law enforcement agents are now fully equipped to conduct thorough investigations which will secure convictions after the establishment of a police DNA laboratory.   This comes after Unicef donated DNA equipment to the police through the Spotlight Initiative that is aimed at ending violence against women and children. …

AS THE country continues to reel from brutal power cuts, the country’s tottering public health institutions are paying the price for the relentless loadshedding. At the same time, the power cuts have worsened the ability of struggling local authorities around the country to treat their water and pump it to parched suburbs and industrial areas….

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says the government is currently probing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) companies abusing the Reserve of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency facility by selling gas in foreign currency instead of the local currency. Answering questions in the Senate last week, Ncube said the government was doing everything to deal with unscrupulous LP gas…

TRIBUTES were pouring in yesterday after affable Zanu PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo, died in Bulawayo after a long illness. SK, as Khaya Moyo was affectionately referred to by many people, was 76, and was known to have been battling with cancer for many years. Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, described the former…

Dionne Kanyowa A HARARE man Francis Moon, 47, is alleged to have kidnapped a teenager whom he held hostage and raped several times at his Borrowdale house for over eight days. The state alleges that the teenager was walking along a road in Hatcliffe, Harare, on October 7, 2021, when Moon disembarked from his car….

ZANU PF does not plan to hold elections at its next congress to be held next year, as the party has already decided that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will lead the former liberation movement going into the 2023 national elections. The unexpected decision shuts the door on ambitious bigwigs who have designs on top leadership positions…

DEPUTY Health minister John Mangwiro, pictured, says creation of jobs at community level will go a long way in decreasing mental health…

THE Bulawayo City Council’s (BCC) water billing system remains broken with residents receiving inaccurate bills. At the peak of Covid-19, the local authority resorted to estimating bills that were being calculated using the household allocations. With the government having relaxed Covid-19 restrictions, the city council appears to be struggling to bring normalcy to its billing…