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THE African Centre for Global Health Innovation and Research (ACGHIR), National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the Zimbabwe Pharmaceuticals (Zimpharm) have partnered to capacitate pharmacy personnel to resuscitate hospital medicines manufacturing units (HMMUs) in the country’s southern region. The principal of ACGHIR, Lemson Machibiza, told the Daily News yesterday that health personnel would…

IT took just three months for 3Ktv to break records! An Independent research confirmed the privately-owned national commercial television station, as the most watched Zimbabwean channel on satellite. In addition, the history-making, free-to-air channel also began making significant strides on the digital terrestrial broadcasting front, as authorities slowly started rolling out the required set top…

A HIGH Court judge has ordered the deportation of a Rwandan refugee who was convicted by a Harare Magistrate’s court in 2019 of contravening Section 29 of the Immigration Act. Placide Maseshengo unlawfully obtained a Zimbabwean identity document under the name Charles Chikati. He was sentenced on June 17 2019, and ordered to pay a…

HIGH Court judge, Justice Tawanda Chitapi, has confirmed a 16-year jail sentence for a Mutoko man, Knowledge Mashopo, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2019 at the Marondera Magistrate’s court for raping a four-year-old girl. Mashopo approached the court earlier this year seeking condonation to file an appeal against both…

POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for four robbers who brutally attacked two security guards who were protecting mobile phone network boosters, in two separate incidents. Bulawayo police spokesperson inspector Abednico Ncube said in the first incident, a security guard was attacked while guarding a mobile phone network booster in Pumula South. “Police are…

Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO kombi driver and his conductor have been acquitted of rape, but were, however, slapped with an effective two-year prison sentence each for kidnapping. The driver, Nqobile Gumede, 33, and his conductor, Thabani Moyo, 28, both from Makokoba suburb of Bulawayo, recently appeared before regional magistrate Collet Ncube. The duo…

POLICE arrested 61 suspects across the country last Friday under the ongoing anti-drug campaign blitz, bringing the total number of arrests to 2 754 since the start of the operation two weeks ago. “On Friday, police arrested 61 people across the country on operation, ‘No to dangerous drugs and illicit substances,’ bringing cumulative arrests to…