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© SHARP divisions have rocked nurses’ unions after the Zimbabwe Nurses’ Association (Zina) held negotiations to review salaries with President Emmerson Mnangagwa without alerting the Health Apex Council. [GoogleAd] This comes as nurses had resorted to reporting for duty twice a week citing incapacitation. During the negotiations Zina resolved to abandon the nurses’ full blown…

© GOVERNMENT has discontinued the use of the multi-currency system while declaring the Zimbabwe dollar (ZW$) — abandoned about 10 years ago — as the only official trading currency, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] The multi-currency system was adopted in February 2009 after the ZW$ had become worthless due to hyperinflation which, according to…

© ANALYSTS warned yesterday that in its desperate bid to halt run-away prices, government might have pressed the self-destruct button by rushing to introduce the Zimbabwe dollar (ZW$) when all pointers on the ground suggest otherwise. [GoogleAd] Economic experts had long advised President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to delay the exhumation of the ZW$, abandoned in…

© SUNDAY marked a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa narrowly escaped an assassination attempt following a bomb explosion that rocked a Zanu PF rally at White City Stadium. The blast which occurred on June 23 last year claimed lives of two security aides, while scores of Zanu PF supporters, including top government officials, were injured….

© IN A move which could ease the current crippling power cuts, government has paid US$10 million to South African power firm, Eskom — for the resumption of electricity supplies — amid claims the authorities are also in talks with a Mozambican firm for a similar arrangement. [GoogleAd] This comes as Zesa has increased the load…

© A CHITUNGWIZA man appeared in court yesterday after he was arrested for possessing 73kg of dagga with a street value of RTGS$7 300.  [GoogleAd] Shingirai Jimu was arrested as he off-loaded the dagga from a bus which was coming from Mozambique. Jimu was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Learnmore…

© A 74-year-old man and his 38-year-old son were each slapped with nine-year jail terms for the theft of a heifer.  [GoogleAd] Eric Rasekeswa and his son Moses were convicted on their own pleas of guilty by magistrate Purity Gumbo.  It is the State’s case that Moses found Anesu Chidiriro’s heifer in Marembwe grazing area…

© A HARARE magistrate postponed handing down a verdict in the matter where the State sought bail revocation of Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) leader Obert Masaraure. [GoogleAd] Masaraure, who is on remand on subversion charges allegedly failed to report to Hwedza Police Station, hence his alleged failure to comply with bail conditions…

© PROSECUTORS “erroneously” referred activist cleric Evan Mawarire and Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) treason case to the regional court for trial, a court heard yesterday. [GoogleAd] Mawarire and ZCTU leader Peter Mutasa are accused of plotting to topple a constitutionally elected government after they recorded video urging members of the public to engage…

© FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has been hit with a US$4 million law suit by a Lebanese businessman who claims he was defamed and lost income after she instructed police to seize his properties during a wrangle over a botched US$1,3 million diamond ring deal. [GoogleAd] Jamal Hamed, Thatchree Investments (Pvt) Ltd, Superearth Properties…