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MPILO Central Hospital and the National University of Science and Technology’s (Nust) Applied Genetic Testing Centre (AGTC) on Sunday commenced testing coronavirus Covid-19 samples as part of the government’s decentralisation of screening and testing services for the deadly virus. Mpilo in conjunction with Nust’s AGTC will be testing samples from Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South,…

TROUBLE is brewing in the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC faction as the party’s current secretary-general Nixon Nyikadzino is determined to scupper efforts by opposition stalwarts Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora to lead a process towards an extraordinary congress, the Daily News can report. Armed with a Supreme Court judgment that ordered the MDC to revert to…

ALTHOUGH residents’ associations recently won cases against the Local Government, Finance, Health ministries and local authorities where they sought orders to push for the availability of potable water, they remain deprived of the precious liquid. The High Court duly ordered the respective ministries to fulfil their duties with the Finance ministry being ordered to provide…

A BULAWAYO court has ordered a woman who last week fatally axed her husband to death following a tiff over a television channel, to be taken for psychiatric evaluation. Ordetta Mpofu, 44, from Emganwini suburb allegedly murdered her husband Thembani Mpofu, 52, for failure to reprimand his daughter earlier that evening as they argued over…

©️  THE Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday said the government is reviewing exemptions granted to private companies to continue operating under the 21-day lockdown amid concerns the exceptions were being abused. This comes at a time when the police have arrested close to 5 800 people since the shutdown started on March 30 for flouting the…

Oxfam Zimbabwe, has partnered with Harare City Council (HCC) to provide clean water to residents, as the local authority is currently failing to provide the precious liquid, citing a lack of purifying chemicals. This comes as residents have continued gathering at water points like boreholes to access the water without practicing social distancing as recommended…