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Zimbabwe Has Lost Six Rhinos To Poachers Over The Last 15 Months

Posted on September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe has lost six rhinos to poachers in the last 15 months leading to calls for better strategies tin protecting endangered species. Zimbabwe will this Tuesday join the rest of the world in commemorating World Rhino Day amid concerns over the increase in poaching activities. The rhino is an endangered species but from June 2014 to date, Zimbabwe lost six rhinos to poachers. Zimbabwe is now left with only 766 black and white rhinos. “The…

‘Mugabe Retirement, Mnangagwa Take Over, Tsvangirai Deputy & 2018 Suspended’,..Coalition Again?

Posted on September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

The country’s ruling party, Zanu-PF, is reportedly plotting to suspend the watershed 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections from 2018 to 2021, in a bid to buy political time to allow the fractured former liberation movement to repair and recover from feared collapse owing to intensified factionalism, and President Robert Mugabe’s succession fight, which has already split the party between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ousted predecessor Joice Mujuru, The Telescope News, has reported. High level…

Gvt Merges Some Departments , Redeploys Personnel, Cuts Transport Allowances

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Government has begun implementing recommendations of the Civil service audit by merging some departments with duplicate functions, redeploying numerous workers and cutting transport allowances for hundreds of others. Transport allowances for civil servants benefiting from government free daily bus service will be cut and the money channelled to fleet maintenance. This would be effected this month. Office orderlies and teachers (and other Grade D5 workers) get at least $100 and $116 in monthly transport and…

‘2 692 People Aged 10 to 19 , Treated For STI , ‘ January to March 2015’ NAC

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

About 2 692 people aged between 10 and 19 years where treated for the deadly sexually transmitted infections from January to March this year. Harare accounts for highest cases with 10 135 and Masvingo second with 8 166. The National Aids Council 2015 first quarter report indicates that more young people are now exposed to STIs due to unprotected sexual intercourse. The reports says the 25-49 age group contributed the heights patients with 30…

‘Cabinet Reshuffle Humiliate &Reduce Zanu PF Matebeleland Ministers Influence ‘-Ncube

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

OPPOSITION MDC leader Welshman Ncube has accused President Robert Mugabe of humiliating Zanu PF ministers from Matebeleland and reducing their influence in government with his three cabinet reshuffles in less than a year. The cabinet changes were supposedly intended to weed out suspected loyalists of former vice president Joice Mujuru who was ousted for allegedly plotting a coup against Mugabe. Analysts say the reshuffles, effected since the December 2014 split in the top echelons of…

SA, Arrest,Danish (58) With Surgical Equipment, Anaesthetic & 21 Pieces Of Female Genitalia

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A DANISH man was arrested after pieces of female genitalia were found in his house, South African police said on Saturday. Police arrested the man at his home on Thursday, where they found 21 pieces of women’s genitalia stored in plastic bags in a freezer, said police spokesman Brig. Hangwani Mulaudzi. Police also discovered anesthetic and surgical implements in the man’s home. One of the 58-year-old man’s victims alerted the police, said Mulaudzi. Police have…

‘I ‘M Absolutely Elated’ Says Free Dad Who Faced Deportation, Over Passport Photo

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A FATHER-OF-FOUR is finally back home with his family after being locked up “like a criminal” when UK border officials refused to believe who he was. Atterbell Maplanka fell to his knees as the relief was too much when he was released from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow Airport. The 36-year-old father of four was detained at the airport after returning home from his mother’s funeral in Zimbabwe – despite living in the UK…

Binga Council Bans , Ndebele In Primary School Curriculum , To Promote Tonga.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

This is despite the fact that the council has no power to make such decisions which solely lie with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. The local authority pulled a shocker late last year after passing a resolution banning the teaching of Ndebele at council schools, a move it said was aimed at promoting the Tonga language and preserving traditional values. The matter was brought before a full council in September last year and…

Explosives Used At Tategulu Primary School In Cowdray Park, To Steal US$1 300

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A GANG of robbers on Saturday last week used explosives to blow the administration block at Tategulu Primary School in Cowdray Park, Bulawayo before gaining access to the school safe where they stole more than $1 300, police have confirmed. The incident happened four days after schools had opened for the third term, when most parents had paid school fees at the Bulawayo City Council run institution. Bulawayo provincial acting police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Abednego…

Proposed Bill To Enforce US$500 Fine Or 6Months In Jail for Public Smoking

Posted on September 20, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

SMOKING in public will attract a fine of US$500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation statutes, an official has said. The deputy director Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Mrs Docas Sithole, said Zimbabwe became an affiliate member of WHO on Tobacco Control in March this year and some…

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