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Nyasha KunyiswaSTAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw Celebrations Health is partnering with the ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) to offer free cleft lip and palate surgeries for 50 children at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital from today until week end. Speaking to Daily News yesterday,  Celebrations Health director Freeblessing Murahwa said  around 100 children have been screened for…

Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERmuronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw MDC Senator Chief Ndlovu has appealed  to the government to build more children’s homes to curb the influx of street kids. Speaking in the Senate, Ndlovu implored the government to take a leading role in trying to reduce the number of kids who are living on the streets.“This is now a problem…

INSTITUTE of African Liberation (Instak) chief executive officer Kwame Muzawazi said lack of funding is slowing down the construction of the Museum of African Liberation in Harare. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday after a tour of the museum recently, Muzawazi urged the government to dis- burse funds in order for the project to…

BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE Government will put in place all the necessary measures to improve the country’s power situation, including collaborating with private players, a Cabinet minister has said. Acting Energy minister Jenfan Muswere made the remarks after the government inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Evergreen Private Limited for the construction of a 100…

BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has appealed to churches and political parties to embrace each other ahead of the 2023 elections. This comes after the country has witnessed an increase in politically-related violence cases ahead of the watershed 2023 plebiscite. Speaking during online discussion last week, ZCC acting secretary-general Gibson Botomani said…

A FORMER captain in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has been nabbed on allegations of conspiring to smuggle 31 AK47 rifles and magazines into the country. Leonard Matambo, 61, who is now employed at the Zimbabwe Defence Industries, is alleged to have written a letter to a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority manager at the Beitbridge Border Post…

FARMERS in semi-arid Zvishavane and Mberengwa districts, Midlands, are pinning their hopes on the government’s livestock revitalisation programme meant to improve their dwindling herd. This comes at a time when the government partnered platinum miner Mimosa on a livestock revitalisation programme through artificial insemination of cattle in the two districts. Breeds including Boran, Tuli and…

A RESIDENTIAL stands dealer has been sent to remand prison after he was arrested for allegedly selling stands to unsuspecting housing seekers in Spitzkop knowing that his agency’s contract had been terminated by the land owners. Gilbert Kanyongo, the director of Vevhu Development Marketing Company, was nabbed together with the company secretary Nomatter Rukawe after…

ZANU PF has directed its leadership to make contributions towards the party’s congress by paying various amounts depending on one’s position from District Coordinating Committee (DCC)to the politiburo. This comes as the former liberation movement is set to hold its elective congress next month in Harare. In a memo dated August 31 to all leaders,…