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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…

AS AT 19:00hrs GMT, USA marked a sombre covid death mark reaching 400,000 dead people from covid today…22hours before Donald Trump leaves the Ovl office for good!UK covid death toll is 96,000 dead people

AT LEAST 30 FAMILIES WHOSE HOMES HAD BEEN FLOODED following heavy rains in Gweru have been given shelter by the city council working with the District Civil Protection Unit, although residents are blaming the city council for not keeping storm-water drains, which have handled heavy rains before, clear of garbage and rubble.Also pictured below, Beitbridge District has also seen secondary roads damaged by heavy rains, in the first decent rainy season the area has seen…

ZIMBABWE RECORDED 60 COVID-19 DEATHS IN 24 hours on Monday, a situation that has forced health experts to conclude that this could just be a tip of an iceberg, considering that collation of data on the pandemic has not been very efficient.Around 773 deaths have been recorded in the country since the first case of the deadly respiratory virus was confirmed last year.Health experts yesterday told NewsDay that the latest rise in the number of…

BREAKING NEWS: -Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo (SB) has died from covid and 52 people died from covid in the last 24 hours. More news to follow-Sibusiso Ngwenya.

A ZIMBABWEAN WOMAN (48) WHO ASSISTED HER BOYFRIEND (36) to rape their 13-year-old daughter, was yesterday granted bail along with her lover by the Bulawayo High Court.The woman (48) and her lover (36), both of Matopo district in Matabeleland South province, were released on $2 000 bail each by High Court judge Justice Thompson Mabhikwa.He remanded their case to February 18, for trial.The names of the accused are withheld to protect the identity of the…