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‘MNANGAGWA’S NEPHEW BUSINESSMAN Kuda Tagwirei is on oxygen, fighting for his life in (ICU) due to covid’

ZIMBABWE’S TWO VICE PRESIDENTS Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are off sick due to covid THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in Harare after his close security details, cabinet ministers and top bureaucrats tested positive.This means that the country was left on auto-pilot as there was no acting President. Mnangagwa had to cut short his…

EX-MINISTER , Mashonaland East governor Chigwedere ( 81) has died from covid complicationsHis son Casper said his father died following “Covid-19 related complications”Chigwedere, who is accused of being a significant contributor to the authorship of the ‘1979 Grand Plan’, served as the Minister of Education, Sports, & Culture since August 2001, and was appointed as the Resident Minister and Governor of Mashonaland East Province in August 2008. He was installed as Headman Svosve Mubayiwa the…

ZIMBABWE ON ALERT AFTER COVID ‘FROM BATS’ then locust pests sweeping through Namibia decimating grasslands, trees and 50 000 hectares of crops.Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head of the Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Research Services Institute told the Herald yesterday that his department was mobilising resources to carry out effective locust forecasting and management of locust outbreaks in three provinces.“We are in the process of mobilising resources to monitor locust outbreaks in Masvingo, Midlands and Matabeleland North…

SA GOVERNMENT is developing an electronic vaccination data system (EVDS) to assist with the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines across the country. The system aims to assist in both the management and surveillance of the Covid-19 vaccine. Among other features, the EVDS will provide and track vaccine information, such as: Patient information, including demographics and number of doses; Safety information such as possible adverse events following immunisation; Details of vaccine administration sites. As part of this…

MNANGAGWA CALLS FOR 3 DAY FAST FROM today until Saturday following a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths and infections.FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called on Zimbabwean women to fast and pray for three days following a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths and infections.The fasting will start today until Saturday, with women in the diaspora urged to join in.In a statement, Mnangagwa bemoaned the ravaging effects of the deadly respiratory disease in the country, hence the…

THE LATE SOCIALITE AND BUSINESSMAN GENIUS “Ginimbi” Kadungure’s Botswana empire is crumbling after the neighbouring country’s Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) ordered the closure of his Quick Gases (Pty) Ltd trading as Liquefied Petroleum Gas.According to Botswana’s leading daily, Mmegi, the action by the authority is a result of a wrangle over control of Ginimbi’s assets that has since spilled into the courts.A fierce fight is raging between the Kadungure family appointed executor, Ms Patricia Darangwa…

ZIMBABWE RECORDED 54 Covid 19 deaths and 733 new infections in the last 24 hours.Harare reported the highest number of deaths after 26 succumbed to the virus followed by Mashonaland East nine, Manicaland six and Bulawayo four.All the 733 new infections are local transmissions and if these, 242 cases are from Harare, Manicaland 112 and Bulawayo 37.A total of 4418 PCR tests were conducted with the positivity rate standing at 17percent.Recoveries in the last 24…

Bulawayo Police look for Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko following her rape allegations against self-exiled G40 kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo.Ms Ncube-Mazibuko posted on her Facebook page last Friday claiming that Prof Moyo raped her 11 years ago while she was pregnant.She said efforts to report Prof Moyo, whom she said was powerful at the time, were ignored. At the time, self-exiled former Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri was still at the helm of the police services.Prof Moyo, believed to be…

TUGWI-MUKOSI, ZIMBABWE’S LARGEST DAM, is 89 percent full, and nearly spilling for the time since its construction.Tugwi-Mukosi, Zimbabwe’s largest dam, was yesterday afternoon 89 percent full, raising prospects that it will spill in the next couple of days.If the dam spills, there are fears that the already flooded Tugwi River, downstream of the reservoir, will burst its banks and affect adjacent communities in Chivi and Chiredzi.The 1,8 billion cubic metres reservoir has been getting substantial…