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© ZIMBABWEANS should brace for worse load shedding following “severe supply constraints” being experienced at South African power utility Eskom. The national power utility advised consumers about the latest development in a statement yesterday. “Zesa Holdings would like to advise its valued customers countrywide that there is an increase in load shedding outside the publicised…

© ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Mutasa, pictured, who claims to have received threatening text messages over labour strikes recently, says government has a duty to arrest perpetrators of such crimes. Mutasa and ZCTU secretary-general Japhet Moyo have been targets of threats since organising the January 2019 strike against a sharp fuel…

© THE government has made available US$2 million for the procurement of medical sundries that are in short supply in public hospitals. Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo, pictured, said during a tour at Harare Central Hospital that medical supplies and equipment had been already distributed to hospitals. [GoogleAd] “I had gone to check…

© OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has appointed a five-member integrity and accountability panel to investigate cases of corruption in local authorities led by his party. Addressing journalists at the MDC headquarters in Harare, Chamisa’s spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda said the 41-year-old former Kuwadzana legislator had appointed top lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu to lead the panel…

© JUNIOR members of Parliament and councillors have vowed to continue fighting against the infamous vuzu parties, which they said pose a threat to the future of the girl child. Vuzu parties have become a menace in Zimbabwe’s second largest city and are held on the first Saturday after schools close and the last Saturday…

© BOTSWANA Movement for Democracy (BMD) president Sydney Pilane has said Zimbabwe, whose 2018 harmonised elections were disputed, has no moral authority to lead the Sadc Election Observer Mission (Seom) supervising polls in that country set for October 23. Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to lead the Southern…

© MDC secretary for elections Jacob Mafume, pictured, has said the party will use all legal channels to make sure that people in the diaspora vote in 2023. Mafume told the Daily News that his party will approach the Constitutional Court to compel the authorities to allow diasporans to vote. [GoogleAd] “We had a meeting…

© A MT Darwin man was slapped with a 60-day prison term after he was busted at a roadblock while transporting charcoal. Most Zimbabweans have resorted to using charcoal as an alternative for cooking following rolling power cuts that have hit the country but are ignorant of the consequences of possessing and using it. [GoogleAd]…

© THE Human Rights NGO Forum has accused the government of employing various tactics to sabotage key institutions set up to promote and safeguard human rights. Dzikamai Bere, the organisation’s programmes coordinator, said civil institutions such as the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) were…

© TWO Harare men reportedly gang- raped a woman after drugging her during a “ritual” they claimed would make her see the person who had stolen her cellphone in a mirror. The court heard that Peacemore Kamusiki, 48, and Jaison Mataurwa, 42, made the woman drink a sub- stance that sent her into a deep…