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TWO OF SIX MISSING BODIES FROM swept away after their car was swept off a flooded Gweru River yesterday morning, recovered.The Gweru District Civil Protection Unit working with the police sub aqua unit and other private players have managed to retrieve two bodies out of six people who were swept away together in their car while trying to cross a flooded Gweru River yesterday morning.It also turned out that the car which the six were…

BREAKING NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA’S PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA has closed Beitbridge border post and 19 other currently open land ports until 15 February 2021.This is a South Africa lockdown measure to curb the spread of the Covid strain through congestion at border posts. including Beitbridge and Maseru bridge.President Ramaphosa say’s people will still be allowed to cross the border to transport fuel, commuting for school, repatriations.Fake Covid-19 testing certificates plus hundreds of people, not wearing masks…

MPILO CENTRAL HOSPITAL ACTING CLINICAL DIRECTOR Professor Solwayo Ngwenya says that Zimbabwe does not have much resources at its disposal to mitigate the coronavirus.He also said that there was an awareness challenge among health workers as it is difficult to educate all health workers at once.Ngwenya said the key thing was not to put health facilities under strain so there was need to religiously follow lockdown measures.Health experts have called on Government to tighten the…

AS ZIMBABWE REPORTEDLY THREATENS TO IMPOSE TRVEL ‘SANCTIONS TO ZIMBBWE ON TRUMP, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Dr Sibusiso Moyo, says Capitol violence is a wake-up call for US’ THE dramatic scenes of chaos and violence which engulfed the Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6, leaving five people dead and many injured as supporters of United States President Donald Trump sought to stop the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral…

REGIS MUNHENZVA , PRESIDENT OF the Zimbabwe Long-Distance Bus Operators Association, who suffered from asthma, succumbed to covid-19 at Avenues Clinic in Harare around 1pm today (Thursday).

US HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI SAYS DONALD TRUMP committed a “Seditious Act ” has called on Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of President Trump if he is unable to discharge his duties. If they fail to do so, she said the Congress “may be prepared to move forward with impeachment” against Trump for instigating rioters to attack the Capitol building on Wednesday. “In…

A GUARD AT SALGRO co in Rushinga, Mashonaland died after an excavator uprooted a mango tree he was on.Trust Manyanga (24) succumbed to injuries sustained from the accident.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the incident.“I can confirm a fatal accident that occurred in Rushinga where a security guard died after a mango tree he was on was uprooted by an excavator, investigations are in progress,”Mundembe said.Witnesses said the excavator operator Farai Chiwanda (29)…

CHIREDZI RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL SPLASHES US$480 000 ON 6 executives for top-of-the-range cars at a time service delivery is inexistentToyota Hilux GD-6 double-cab vehicles at a time service delivery has plunged to unprecedented levels.The vehicles, sourced for the human resources and administration officer, finance officer, technical services officer, environmental, agriculture, campfire, and tourism officer, community services officer and audit officer, came at a cost of $393,6 million or US$480 000 using the official auction rate.A…

DISMEMBERED BODY PARTS OF A LOCAL TOURIST WHO SLIPPED AND fell into a gorge at the Victoria Falls Rain Forest on New Year’s Day have been retrieved in a six-hour operation. The process, which was temporarily stopped due to rains, started at around 10am and finished around 4pm.The development is set to bring closure to the rare and tragic incident that shocked the entire Victoria Falls community. What was supposed to be a memorable holiday…

1 IN 50 PEOPLE IN ENGLAND ARE INFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS -lockdown has legally come into force, with MPs set to vote retrospectively on it laterThe measures, which include a stay-at-home order and the closure of schools to most pupils, were announced by the prime minister on Monday.All of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.On Tuesday the number of new daily confirmed cases…