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Government has directed schools to acquire point of sale machines to facilitate smooth payment of fees. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has put in place modalities to avail the machines as schools open for the first term on Tuesday.The POS machines bring a relief to parents who are facing difficulties to access hard cash in the wake of currency shortages that have seen maximum weekly withdrawals pegged at US$300. Some parents have opted for Real…

.   Former National Social Security Authority (NSSA) executives Shadreck Vera and Samuel Chiduza are on the run as investigations into the alleged siphoning of millions of US dollars from the institution continue.Police last week arrested former NSSA managing director James Matiza, who appeared in court facing charges of fraud and criminal abuse of office.   He was granted US$500 bail coupled with stringent conditions last Wednesday. Matiza’s alleged accomplices, Vera and Chiduza, are nowhere…

  Suspected typhoid cases in Harare have risen to 250, up from 126 documented on Tuesday, while the number of confirmed cases has surged to 22. On Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases was 12.The number of patients admitted at Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital has declined to 13 from 19, with Harare City Council Health Services Department attributing the development to early treatment. Health Services director Dr Prosper Chonzi was on Thursday optimistic that if residents…

PROGRESSIVE Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe on Sunday said Zimbabweans are good at “majoring on the useless” things.   Majongwe shared on Twitter an image of a Chibuku beer bottle decorated like Viceroy Brandy bottle.Majongwe also said: “Zimbabweans have noone to blame 4 their fate. We have allowed everything to happen right in our presence. source-Bulawayo24

A FIVE-MAN gang allegedly carjacked a pirate taxi driver, axed him and left him for dead before using his vehicle to rob an illegal money changer of more than R75 000 in assorted currencies. Police have arrested three suspects following the heist on Tuesday. The police Vehicle Theft Squad (VTS) arrested Venson Nzima (22) of Pumula East, Africa Ncube (24) of Lobengula West, Anisto Nyoni (22) of Emganwini the following day and recovered the stolen…

CABINET will deliberate on ways to open Bulawayo’s Ekusileni Medical Centre, a specialist hospital following the appointment of a committee that will identify an appropriate investor to partner Government in running the health institution. Government took over the hospital, which has never been operational since its inception 14 years ago and is hunting for a partner to help run the centre through a public private partnership. Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa yesterday…