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HARARE – Zanu PF Secretary for youth affairs Pupurai Togarepi says the ruling party’s youths have enduring respect for former President Robert Mugabe and all the people who took part in the country’s protracted war of liberation. Togarepi, who was reinstated as the ruling party’s secretary for youth affairs by President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he…

HARARE – The Health Services Board (HSB), which is the appointing authority of practitioners in the public health system, has so far failed to issue termination letters to thousands of nurses relieved of their duties for downing tools. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) said its members remain employed by the Board because…

HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe has snubbed the mediation team led by Roman Catholic cleric, Father Fidelis Mukonori, which is frantically trying to get him to close ranks with his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the Daily News can report. The two politicians, who became estranged after Mnangagwa was dismissed from Zanu PF and government…

HARARE – The US-based Zimbabwe Diaspora for Democracy Inc. and the South Africa-based Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) is petitioning government against it’s decision to bar expatriate Zimbabweans from voting from their foreign bases in the forthcoming key 2018 vote. The two organisations, representing the interests of well over 4 million Zimbabweans living abroad, have said…

HARARE – Delays in considering the proposed amendments to the electoral laws is the biggest threat to a repeat of unrest at this year’s vote, the country’s biggest election watchdog has warned, saying hopes that reforms and new technology will ease a pressure cooker of tensions were being dashed. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took power…

HARARE – Government has begun the recruitment of retired nurses, following the dismissal of all striking nurses on Tuesday. In a letter addressed to all chief executive officers and provincial medical directors by the acting secretary for Health and Child Care, the recruitment drive is in light of a press statement issued by Vice President…

HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga may have violated the law which he is supposed to be upholding by rushing to fire nurses in government hospitals for taking part in an industrial action without following due process, the Daily News can report. The former commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces issued a statement on Tuesday…

HARARE – Vice President Constantino Chiwenga may have violated the law which he is supposed to be upholding by rushing to fire nurses in government hospitals for taking part in an industrial action without following due process, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]

MUTARE – A Chipinge man freed from a six-year sentence after President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted him amnesty is behind bars again in connection with a knife attack on two women that killed one and left another with multiple slash and stab wounds. Misheck Simango, 35, was arrested for murder in Muchawaya Village under Chief Musikavanhu…