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HARARE – United States President Donald Trump’s administration is ratcheting up pressure on embattled President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa by demanding that he institutes a transparent and credible investigation into the August 1 killing of at least six protesters in Harare. Speaking after meeting Mnangagwa in the capital on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Brian Nichols, said…

HARARE – Panic has gripped the country following the death of a man in the border town of Beitbridge on Sunday from a disease whose symptoms match those of the deadly Ebola virus, which has resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Yesterday, government moved swiftly to allay fears that the cross-border haulage truck…

BULAWAYO – Former Speaker of the National Assembly Lovemore Moyo has said he has now put behind him the trauma of the just-ended election where his party the United Movement for Devolution (UMD) was thoroughly trounced. Moyo did not throw his hat in the presidential ring but opted to have his members contest parliamentary and…

HARARE – MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti, who is being charged for prematurely announcing presidential election results acted lawfully in accordance with provisions of the Electoral Act, a court heard yesterday. Biti was represented by Beatrice Mtetwa, Alec Muchadehama and Harrison Nkomo when he appeared before Harare magistrate Francis Mapfumo for continuation of a hearing…

HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) is experiencing technical glitches with its prepaid electronic personal parking meters, otherwise known as Smart Park. According to City Parking, HCC’s parking venture, the technical challenges have affected the reloading of the meters, prompting it to advise motorists to use prepaid cards until the problem has been rectified….

HARARE – The Zanu PF women’s league has conveyed its condolences to the Mathuthu family on the passing on of former deputy Information minister Thokozile Mathuthu at the age of 61. In a statement, the wing’s secretary Mabel Chinomona said Mathuthu was a hardworking and dedicated cadre who played a pivotal role during and after…

HARARE – The Harare City Junior Council (HCJC), in association with the One-Soul Foundation will conduct the draw for the Million Pads Campaign Raffle on Friday next week at Town House at 10:00hrs. The initiative is meant to raise awareness as well as providing sanitary wear in rural and urban settings. Event organisers have been…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s civil society has asked the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to discuss Zimbabwe’s military-led post-election reprisals that have led to democratic regression and the contestations around the legitimacy and accuracy of the election results at a summit of the regional bloc in the Namibian capital Windhoek today. Southern Africa’s regional body is…

MUTARE – ZANU PF officials in Chimanimani East are denying agricultural inputs to everyone they suspect to have voted against their party in the just-ended harmonised elections. The practice has been so brazen such that some people in Muchadziya and Ngangu had inputs confiscated after being issued as the political environment continued to degenerate into…