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VILLAGERS of Sika in Bindura were left shell-shocked after a 32 year old woman allegedly starved her two year old son to death and secretly buried him.Portia Chovhani is currently assisting police with investigations after her missing son’s body was exhumed in a garden a week after his death.Mashonaland Central police deputy spokesperson Assistant Inspector Naison Dhliwayo confirmed the case.“I can confirm a murder case in Bindura where Chovhani led the police to a garden…

BULAWAYO – NKAYI ROAD GOVERNMENT construction put on hold again after funds allocated for the project in the 2021 budget have been diverted.Construction of the road began in 1993, but three decades later, less than 50km of it have been resurfaced with funding shortfalls from the government blamed for failure to complete the project within agreed timelines. The project has been moving at a slow pace so much that in 2015 and 2017 only 3km…

CHAD’S PRESIDENT IDRISD DEBY HAS DIED OF INJURIES suffered on the frontline in the Sahel country’s north, where he had gone to visit soldiers battling rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday. Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield” over the weekend, army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna said in a statement read out on state television. The army said Deby had been commanding his army at the…

GEORGE FLOYD: US cities on edge as 12 jurors, six white, 4 black and 2 multiracial, 7 women and 5 men deliberate Derek Chauvin verdict Hennepin County Sheriff Deputies and the US Army National Guard help secure the Hennepin County Government Center during closing arguments for former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin”s murder trial at the Hennepin County Government Center, in Minneapolis, US, on 19 April 2021 The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin,…

SELLOUT JONATHAN MOYO says he regrets failing to get hold of the classified, damning Chihambakwe Report as government minister.Moyo says he would have used the document to forestall a coup that eventually deposed long-serving President Robert Mugabe 2017.The Chihambakwe Commission of Inquiry was established by late former President Robert Mugabe in 1983 to investigate the massacre of an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians by the military in the Matabeleland and part of Midlands provinces.It was…

POLITICAL Actors Dialogue (Polad) member and opposition National Constitutional Assem-bly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has been critical of constitutional amendments which seek to grant President Emmerson Mnangagwa powers to unilaterally appoint judges and chief justice, among others. a constitutional law expert, Madhuku (lM) last week spoke to NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Cliff Chiduku on Polad, recalls of MPs, the proposed Patriotic Bill and the state of affairs in opposition politics, among other issues.Read on…ND: You…

HOLTON Mpala, a Form Four pupil at Ndlovu Secondary School outside Victoria Falls can finally go to school after doctors successfully removed a two-centimetre needle that broke inside his palm five months ago.Holton is an orphan who stays with his paternal grandparents in Ndlovu Village under Chief Mvuthu and has not been going to school because of the pain which had rendered his left hand almost “useless”. He initially spent over three months being attended…

PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA HAS SET UP AN inter-ministerial team led by VP Chiwenga to take over and speed up service delivery in all MDC opposition-run councils.Most urban councils are controlled by the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance. Mnangagwa described the opposition councillors as failures, and said Chiwenga’s team would ensure seamless provision of services to the people.“They (MDC councillors) have the duty to provide services to the people, but because we have seen that they have failed,…

NELSON CHAMISA SCOFFS AT suggestions by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he is unpatriotic to the country and pandering to the whims of his Western handlers.Chamisa was responding to Mnangagwa’s Independence eve interview broadcast by the State media on Saturday, where the Zanu-PF leader said unless MDC Alliance members cut their ties with the West, it would be difficult for his administration to recognise them as “proper Zimbabweans”.Mnangagwa said dialogue with the youthful opposition leader was…

MDC ALLIANCE LEADER , NELSON CHAMISA SAYS ZIMBABWE risks plunging into extremism just witnessed in neighbouring Mozambique if the ruling Zanu-PF party persists with its brutal politics. The opposition leader was delivering his Independence Day keynote address Sunday. Chamisa said Zimbabwe risked becoming a breeding ground for radicalisation if authorities continued to take a hard-line stance on citizen rights.The opposition leader said despite four decades of independence, the nation was still being confronted with the…