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HARARE – The Zimbabwe Amalgamated Churches Council (Zacc) yesterday exhorted Zimbabweans to unite and bury differences that emerged from last month’s tightly-contested presidential election. Zacc chairperson Jimayi Muduvuri yesterday told the Daily News On Sunday that the country would not achieve development and peace if ordinary people allowed politics to separate them. “As the Church…

HARARE – The United States of America has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his political rivals to respect the rule of law, and to work together to enact necessary reforms that will prevent future poll disputes as was witnessed in the July 30 harmonised elections. This comes as opposition leader Nelson Chamisa did not rule…

HARARE – Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa was yesterday weighing up all his options — including mounting demos — in the wake of Friday’s decision by the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to uphold President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hotly-disputed victory in last month’s polls. At the same time, Chamisa also made it clear yesterday that he would not be…

HARARE – Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa was yesterday weighing up all his options — including mounting demos — in the wake of Friday’s decision by the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) to uphold President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hotly-disputed victory in last month’s polls. [Adz] [GoogleAd]

HARARE – Tipped as Zimbabwe’s next capital because of its central location, Gweru which is also known as The City of Progress is just but a shell of what it used to be. The heavy industrial site which boasted of companies such as Anchor Yeast and Zimbabwe Alloys is just a pale shadow of it…

HARARE – Zimbabwe is running out of stocks of fixed dose combinations (FDC) drugs for the intensive phase of treatment of tuberculosis (TB). According to a statement by the ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), the drugs in shortage are those used in the first two months of TB treatment. TB treatment comes in…

BULAWAYO – A police officer deployed to guard Zimbabwe Electoral Commission commissioner Qhubani Moyo’s Selborne Park house here is battling for life at a local hospital after he allegedly shot himself in what is believed to be a suicide attempt. The incident which took place of Friday evening happened a few hours after the Constitutional…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will finally be sworn in tomorrow after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) unanimously upheld his July 30 election victory yesterday and threw out opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s petition that had sought to overturn the result. [Adz] [GoogleAd]

HARARE – Greatermans Stores is set to have its property auctioned over a debt it owes Corousel (Private) Limited. The auction, to be conducted at Ruby Auctions next Thursday, will see items such as office desks, fridges, water coolers and sofas going under the hammer. Greatermans was shut down in 2014. Its premises were taken…

HARARE – Consumers of electricity have been failing to access tokens from third-party vendors for nearly three days due to technical glitches at the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) — a subsidiary of power utility Zesa Holdings. A spokesperson for the power utility, Fullard Gwasira, told the Daily News yesterday that ZETDC was…