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AN ARMY-LINKED MINER, ANJIN INVESTMENTS (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has emerged.Investigations carried out with support from Information for Development Trust, a non-profit organisation helping journalists to expose corruption and bad governance, established that Anjin has effectively taken over Portal B, a diamond-rich zone in Marange that was being mined by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company…

ZIMBABWE’S COVID-19 LIKELY TO ESCALATE one person is dying every hour in the country due to the respiratory disease, health experts have said.Currently, the daily infection rate has reached the 1 000 mark, as the second wave of COVID-19 ravages the country.Statistics by the Health and Child Care ministry on Wednesday showed that on the day, the country recorded 38 new deaths and 1 017 new infections.This took the death tally to 589 and total…

TWO brothers allegedly connived and defrauded a gold dealer of US$70 000 after selling him a bag full of sand under the guise that it was gold powder.Kudakwashe Pfavai (28) and Daniel Pfavai (29) lured the complainant Mr Phinias Munda to accompany them to Shangani River purportedly to process the sand using mercury resulting in 7kg of amalgam.Kudakwashe and Daniel were released on $3 000 bail each by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese.Kudakwashe…

BREAKING NEWS: ZIMPAPERS PLANE , plane crash lands- Four escape death as plane crash lands after engine failure, mid air. BREAKING: Four escape death as plane crash lands LUCKY TO BE ALIVE…..Four people aboard this plane escaped death by a whisker after the engine ceased mid air. Four people aboard a single-engine Cessna plane are lucky to be alive after it crash landed in the Luunga area of Binga yesterday morning.The engine of the plane,…

JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin’ono is likely to be jailed for 20 years if convicted for communicating falsehoods, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. This was revealed by an investigating officer from the CID Harare Law and Order section, Lovemore Marwisa, while giving evidence before magistrate Lazini Ncube, where he argued that the accused was not eligible for bail because he was likely to abscond considering the possible penalty for the offence he was facing. “We have overwhelming…

INCARCERATED MDC ALLIANCE DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON Job Sikhala, who is being charged on allegations of communicating falsehoods through social media, yesterday wept in court, lamenting that he was being abused by prison officials.Sikhala complained saying that it was inhuman treatment for him to be brought before the courts in leg irons and handcuffed, adding that this was in defiance of a court order barring the prison officials from handcuffing and putting leg irons on accused persons…

THE MDC-LED CHITUNGWIZA COUNCIL IS set to demolish over 11 000 properties, including houses illegally built on wetlands, railway servitudes and sewer lines, a leaked internal memo shows.Interestingly, the targeted houses were built on stands allocated by the MDC Alliance-led council, while others were parcelled out by land barons.Houses to be destroyed, most likely just after the end of the rainy season, were built on unsuitable land, including over sewer lines and under Zesa power…

MDC ALLIANCE DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON ALSO Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala yesterday challenged the State’s bid to place him on remand, arguing that the Facebook account which he is alleged to have used to communicate falsehoods was not his. Sikhala was arrested for violating section 31 of Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, but his lawyers Jeremiah Bamu and Harrison Nkomo argue that the statute was declared to be in violation of the Constitution hence he…

BRITISH PARAMEDIC FOUND GUILTY OF RAPING a patient in her own home and of sexually assaulting another female patient in the back of his ambulance.Andrew Wheeler, 46, of Mill Green, Warboys in Cambridgeshire, was on duty in a rapid response car when he was called to help a woman who had collapsed at her friend’s house in 2018.He drove the woman, who was drunk, to her own house where he raped and sexually assaulted her.Jurors…

UGANDA GOVERNMENT ORDERED INTENET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO BLOCK all social media platforms and messaging apps on Tuesday until further notice, a letter from the country’s communications regulator seen by Reuters said.A source in Uganda’s telecom sector said the government had made clear to executives at telecoms companies that the social media ban was in retaliation for Facebook blocking some pro-government accounts.The U.S. social media giant said on Monday it had taken down a network in…