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TOLLGATE FEES ARE GOING UP BY MORE THAN 166 percent after the ministry of transport said the old fees had been shrivelled by inflation.Light motor vehicles will now pay Z$120 to go through tollgates, up from Z$45.Minibuses will pay Z$180 from the previous Z$70; buses Z$240 up from Z$90 and heavy vehicles with a carrying capacity of more than 3 tonnes but less than 10 tonnes are to pay Z$300 which has been reviewed from…

THE SUPREME COURT HAS FINED THE MDC Alliance with $10,000 in costs after it failed to attend the hearing of an appeal that the Movement for Democracy ( MDC ) party had made against a High Court ruling, which declared that the MDC does not legally exist.MDC Alliance had appealed to the Supreme Court following Justice Tawanda Chitapi’s decision that it was not a legal persona with the capacity to sue and be sued.On Twitter,…

FORMER BULAWAYO PUBLICITY ASSOCIATION (BPA) director Mrs Valerie Bell died this morning at Edith Duly Old People’s Home in Bulawayo, where she has been staying. Sibusiso Ngwenya

SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON MDC-A urgent High Court application challenging MDC-T’s recall of legislators elected on the MDC-A ticket, today The Supreme Court will today determine the MDC-Alliance’s appeal against the High Court’s May judgment which ruled that the outfit is not a legal person with the capacity to sue or be sued. The appeal will be heard by Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza, sitting with Justice Tendai Uchena and Justice Samuel Kudya. This…

FORMER MDC T MP FOR MASVINGO Central Tongai Matutu has joined Zanu PF saying the opposition party “in its various forms” has lost direction as it is now wasting precious time bickering among themselves.Cde Matutu was welcomed by President Mnangagwa and the two Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi at State House in Harare this afternoon.President Mnangagwa said he felt elated in welcoming back “home” Cde Matutu.Briefing journalists, Cde Matutu said he was not…

“If there is any incriminating evidence against me, I challenge the police to present it to the nation without fear or favour. If there be none, I also challenge the police to say so.” FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who was fingered alongside her son Collins as owners of the gold bars weighing 6kg intercepted at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport last Monday, yesterday challenged the police to prove that she was an accomplice in the…

THE FIRST BRITISH MAN KNOWN TO HAVE CONTRACTED CORONAVIRUS has died following a “tragic accident” at his university in Wales, his mother has said. Connor Reed, from Llandudno in North Wales, had been working at a school in Wuhan when he contracted the virus last December. He initially thought it was a cold, before it developed into a serious cough and one morning he woke up struggling to breathe, telling Sky News in March: “That’s…

A SECOND NATIONAL LOCKDOWN WILL BE IPOSED ACROSS ENGLAND FROM MIDNIGHT on Thursday with all nonessential shops, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities to close for at least four weeks, Boris Johnson has said.The furlough scheme, covering 80% of the wages of workers who are temporarily laid off, will be extended throughout November, the prime minister said.The prime minister dramatically escalated the country’s response to the pandemic in a press conference on Saturday evening, telling the…

VIOLENT ZANU -PF YOUTHS DOING WHAT THEY KNOW BEST, went on the rampage wielding machetes recently in the Midlands – assaulting party bigwigs including Zanu pf”s national political commissar Victor Matemadanda ,retired army colonel Panganai Kahuniand cops, and terrorising Zanu pf supporters . Initially, the violent Zanu pf youths went on a rampage early October 2020, forciing the parliamentary primary election to choose a Zanu PF candidate for Kwekwe Central to be suspended.The Zanu PF…

MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD , FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA , in an incendiary tweet on Thursday said that ‘Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past’. The 95-year-old Mahathir then went on to state that the through their history the French have killed millions of people, including many Muslims, even as the anger against France seems to be growing in Muslim nations after…