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By Rutendo Ngara PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals is currently not offering any radiotherapy services as their machines are not functioning due to breakdowns. Speaking during a parliamentary portfolio on Health fact-finding tour at the institutions, oncologist Nothando Mutizira said the last radiotherapy machine had broken down in January last year. “We are offering cancer treatment…

By Ketty Nyoni THE country’s opposition should rally behind Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, in this year’s presidential election. So says former MDC bigwig, Morgen Komichi, who announced on Wednesday this week that he would now lead a splinter formation of the party. Speaking last night on independent television station 3Ktv’s popular…

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has appealed to the country’s political parties to join hands in the fight against corruption in the country. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, during a national anti-corruption strategy meeting, chairperson for Zacc, Loice Matanda-Moyo, called on political players and Parliament to play their part if the fight against graft…

THERE were almost universal calls yesterday from a large cross-section of Zimbabweans, to have the late black empowerment pioneer, Ben Mucheche, declared a national hero. Mucheche — born Martin Beno Nhau — succumbed to heart failure on Wednesday at his farm in Beatrice. He was 96 years old. Flamboyant businessman and Affirmative Action Group (AAG)…

CONVICTED popular comedian Felistus Murata, known as Mai TT, will spend the next nine months in prison after Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda sentenced her yesterday for theft of trust property while an additional charge was added for defaulting community service. On Tuesday, Chibanda found her guilty of illegally using a hired car as collateral to…

GOVERNMENT says it is targeting reducing mother-to-child HIV infections to five percent, after the infections rose to eight percent due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the director of the Aids and Tuberculosis Programme in the ministry of Health, Owen Mugurungi, said while…

By Brandon Josphat SIMBARASHE Mutsahuni Chikore’s lawyer, Rogers Matsikidze, has confirmed that his client was indeed previously married to Margaret Jeanine Brooks in America. However, Matsikidze told the Daily News yesterday that Bona — Simba’s estranged wife and daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe — was aware of this. In addition, and according…

By Brandon Josphat PARLIAMENT has upheld the contentious new nomination fees that were recently gazetted by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes despite the fear by opposition parties that the fees would result in many of their aspiring candidates failing to participate in this year’s elections. The decision by Parliament also comes after the…

By Brandon Josphat ZIMBABWE this year recorded its highest tobacco production in nearly 200 years with the government crediting at least 85 percent of the crop’s harvest to smallholder farmers, acting Information minister Jenfan Muswere said yesterday. He was speaking during a post Cabinet press briefing in Harare last night. “Cabinet is pleased to advise…

By Rutendo Ngara ONE of the country’s leading platinum producers, Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats), yesterday commissioned a US$104m concentrator plant that will boost production from 4,2 million metric tonnes to 6,2 million metric tonnes of concentrate per annum. Speaking on behalf of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mines minister Winston Chitando said the project was a testament…