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ACCIDENT : 5 DEAD, 44 INJURED after a Beitbridge bound African Link coach failed to negotiate a curve and overturned last night on the 129 km peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway Zimbabwe National Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed that a speeding,African Link coach driver failed to negotiate a curve resulting in the bus overturning and landing on its roof last night on the 129 km peg along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway . 44 people…

The move will see the lowest paid civil servant getting around $1 000 per month, but civil servants’ representative body, the Apex Council, yesterday described the increase as a drop in the ocean, given the rate of inflation in the country. The increase comes after most civil servants had notified their employer of their incapacity to continue reporting for duty, with others threatening industrial action over the high cost of living.In a statement, the Apex…

Jailed Nhlambabaloyi chief Felix Nhlanhlayamange Ndiweni had an early Christmas on Satrurday when he received various groups of visitors on Saturday at Khami prison where he is spending time for instructing the destruction of a subject’s property who had refused to adhere to the ruling of the Chief’s council. The visitors that graced Ndiweni include the President of MDC Nelson Chamisa, his lawyer Dumisani Dube, Crown Council leader Effie Dlela Ncube, Social Democracy Forum and…

ZANU-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo has said that the people of Mangwe in Matabeleland South need to stay loyal to the ruling party as doing so meant they would be showing loyalty to one of Zimbabwe’s founding fathers, late nationalist and the country’s former Vice-President Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Amb Khaya Moyo said this at a rally in Hobodo, Mangwe where the party’s top provincial leadership had converged to drum…

Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) boss Trevor Ncube says Zimbabweans don’t read hence their failure to appreciate that Western sanctions are hurting the Southern African country. Ncube, who is part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Presidential Advisory Council, said Zimbabweans mistake social media presence for being well informed. He said most Zimbabweans were failing to appreciate that sanctions on Zimbabwe were imposed by the United States not for human rights violations but as a pursuit of the…

Essex police reported that a murder probe has since been launched after the woman, identified as Linda Nomagugu Vilika (41) from Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb, was brutally butchered on Wednesday. The incident allegedly happened in broad day light. Vilika is alleged to have been declared dead at the scene at Great Saling, Essex, around 2.45PM on Wednesday. The police indicated that a 42-year-old man had been arrested on murder charges related to Vilika’s death. However, the…

The High Court halted former local government minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s trial on Wednesday after ruling that charges filed by prosecutors did not disclose an offence.A magistrate’s refusal to grant Kasukuwere’s exception to the charges on that basis was “wrong in law, common sense and logic,” said Justice Tawanda Chitapi.Kasukuwere was charged on two counts of criminal abuse of office relating to land allocations he allegedly made while he was minister, and another two counts relating…

The MDC National Organiser convened the proposed MDC protests in four cities across Zimbabwe which were later blocked by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) who issued four prohibition orders Chibaya, who is the Gweru Mkoba MP handed himself over to Harare Central police at approximately 16:00 GMT today in the company of his lawyer, Obey Shava.At the same time, Chibaya is also on bail on another charge of subversion over the January 2019 protests. He…