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FROM 446 BODIES, DOWN AFTER BURIAL OF, 195 still born babies, MPILO Hospital has 222 bodies against its holding capacity of about 100 bodies as relatives are not collecting the bodies of their loved ones for burial.Some of the bodies have been in the mortuary for more than a year now and 10 days ago the figure had shot up to 446 bodies before the burial of 195 stillborn babies.The hospital is set to facilitate…

GOVERNMENT will meet funeral expenses for 18 people who died in a horrific road accident near Mutoko Business Centre on Sunday afternoon.Eight members of the Rutsito family, seven from the Chitimbe family and three people, who are still to be identified, perished in the accident.Both families are from Mutoko and were travelling on holiday.The accident occurred at the 130km peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway when a white Isuzu KB double cab truck belonging to the…

Mafume is facing allegations of obstructing or defeating the course of justice after he allegedly attempted to bribe a witness.He was arrested for the offence four days after he had been released on $30 000 bail at the High Court. As part of the bail conditions, Mafume was ordered not to interfere with witnesses.Mafume allegedly offered to pay US$1 500 to Edgar Dzehonye, a key witness in the case in which he is being accused…

FORMER MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe says she regretted joining forces with newly elected party leader Douglas Mwonzora whom she accused of vote fraud.The two, together with many top party politicians, broke ranks with the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance to revive the MDC-T structures of 2014.This followed a party leadership wrangle which was ignited by the death February 2014, of founding party leader Morgan Tsvangirai.The national courts ruled Chamisa was not legitimate leader of…

ZIMBABWE RECORDS AN additional eight Covid-19 deaths , all from Harare, total 349 deaths since the pandemic was first reported in Zimbabwe.All eight are community deaths in the last seven days, but had not yet been reported. The deaths come at a time when the country recorded 114 new cases yesterday.A daily Covid-19 update from the Ministry of Health and Child Care last night said all the 114 cases were local transmissions. Another 83 new…

‘POLICE RAID MDC ALLIANCE, GWERU OFFICES in search of subversive material in the form of weapons’.The opposition party’s provincial spokesperson Takavafira Zhou confirmed to this publication the recent invasion describing it as puzzling.“MDC Alliance Midlands Provincial leaders are puzzled by the intrusion by police at the Gweru provincial office on warped excuses of searching for subversive weapons.“For government to give police a search warrant for subversive weapons at a democratic party office is the worst…

21 MONTHS AFTER CYCLONE IDAI WREAKED HAVOC ACROSS CHIMANIMANI, the Meteorological Services Department has advised the public that a yet to be named cyclone is expected to hit some parts of Chimanimani next week. The nation, once again faces a bleak festive season as we know Zimbabwe government lack the will, capacity, finance or professional manpower to handle such a pending disaster.If the cyclone hits Chimanimani, this will be the second time the area would…

ZIMBABWE, A COUNTRY WITH A ZANU PF GOVERNMENT NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE, corruption, no ability, cash, or will to help people, braces for the tropical cyclone that is developing in the Indian Ocean and could end up in Zimbabwe within two weeks, God, forbid that like cyclone IDAI, which left more than 300 people dead, hundreds more missing while displacing more than 20 000 families in the eastern highlands, we don’t face the same disaster,Cyclone…

OPPOSITION POLITICIAN NGARIVHUME STATES THE OBVIOUS, that Mnangagwa will win 2023 elections, ..AGAIN! .Jacob Ngarivhume sees a bleak future for opposition politics in Zimbabwe, and has resigned to the fact that the ruling Zanu-PF will win again in the 2023 elections.Ngarivhume, who fronts the Transform Zimbabwe movement, was part of the MDC Alliance in the 2018 harmonized elections, and pulled out of the coalition last year but remained vibrant in the opposition trenches.Still smarting from…

Britain on Wednesday introduced restrictions on travel from South Africa over the spread of another new variant of coronavirus, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said.The restrictions, which applied with immediate effect, were introduced following the discovery of two cases of the virus variant in Britain. “This new variant is highly concerning, because it is yet more transmissible, and it appears to have mutated further than the new variant that has been discovered in the UK,”…