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A BULAWAYO NKULUMANE WOMAN (29) assaulted her children with an electric cord and burnt their fingers,on a kitchen stove accusing them of theft.Locadia Nkomo (29) pleaded guilty to ill-treating and neglecting the minors when she appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Shepherd Mjanja on Wednesday.She was remanded out of custody to June 3 for sentencing.The court heard that on April 22 at around 8am, Nkomo discovered that her children aged between seven and nine had stolen $15.Angered…

Yusuf Ali targeted his 18-year-old victim during a party at a luxury block of flats in London that descended into chaos when a fight broke out.Croydon Crown Court heard how Ali approached the woman, who he did not know, and pulled her close to him while telling her: “This is what I do in the bedroom.”The victim became distressed but he put her hand inside the woman’s jeans, grabbed her neck and pulled her hair…

Zimbabwe now has 40 positives cases of the coronavirus, Bulawayo-12 and Harare -19 according to the Ministry of Health

UK CORONA VIRUS- 578 deaths in 24 hours total 26097 deaths

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS) FRONTLINE WORKERS, DOCTORS, NURSES,AND PARAMEDICS with visas due to expire before 1 October 2020 will have them automatically extended for one year. As part of the national effort to combat coronavirus, doctors, nurses and paramedics will automatically have their visas extended, free of charge, for one year.The extension, announced today (31 March) by the Home Secretary Priti Patel, will apply to around 2,800 migrant doctors, nurses and paramedics, employed by the…

NELSON CHAMISA faces criminal charges IT NEVER rains but pours for beleaguered MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa as he is now failing to pay party workers while his erstwhile comrades in the divided opposition party are plotting to lay criminal charges against him. This comes as it emerged that scores of MDC MPs are on the verge of jumping ship to join the Thokozani Khupe-led faction that has acquiesced to the Supreme Court judgment that…

POLLUTION, CLIMATE CHANGE, covid-19-China has stopped approving coal mines but will help build US$3 billion Zimbabwe Sengwa coal plant ZIMBABWE’S Rio Energy Limited, a unit of RioZim Limited, will build a 2,100 megawatt thermal power plant with China Gezhouba Group Corp in northern Zimbabwe at a projected cost of US$3 billion, Rio Energy said Monday.“CGGC will develop the project and assist with the fund raising,” Caleb Dengu, chairman of Rio Energy Ltd said last week….

MNANGAGWA AND MUTASA’S nephew, Norton MP Mliswa was arrested yesterday for undermining the authority of the police after he accused them of failing to enforce social distancing at a supermarket. Sibusiso Ngwenya

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has announced a one-week extension of the nationwide lockdown that was due to end on 30 April after one month.President Masisi said the extension was agreed after advice from health experts following an increase in local transmissions.The extension will end on 7 May followed by two weeks of “sequentially easing” the restrictions.During the extension, the government will decide on a strategy to ease restrictions depending on how citizens follow guidelines designed…

FORMER Cold Storage Company (now CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe) board member, Mr Charles Boy Madonko, 83 has died.The late Mr Madonko, who also served as the Nuanetsi Ranch managing director in Masvingo province for more than 20 years, died yesterday morning at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo after battling cancer.A family spokesperson, Mr Mazinyane Madonko, confirmed the death of his elder brother. “I can confirm the death of my brother Charles Boy Madonko. He passed on…