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Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe has expressed reservations about proposed amendments to the Police Act, arguing the police would be severely weakened if the Bill was passed into law in its current form. The Bill, which contains 20 clauses and fits into calls by human rights’ activists and the opposition …

Government should ensure strict accountability in its use of Covid-19 vaccine funds as the public remains in the dark on the breakdown of the US$93.2 million spent in procuring the life-saving jabs, governance watchdogs say. In July, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube told the nation the government spent US$93.2 million out …

Opposition MDC-T leader, Douglas Mwonzora continues to get preferential treatment from the ruling Zanu PF after his formation was awarded over $59 million through the political finance quota. In an Extraordinary Government Gazette published Friday, Mwonzora was given a golden handshake which will see the party’s bank account credited with $59 …

In a hair-raising incident which might leave heads rolling at the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ), President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidential helicopter was dramatically forced into an emergency landing over 60 kilometres south-west of Harare on Sunday afternoon due to a technical failure, The NewsHawks has established. Security sources said the crash landing …

A Chinese mining company, Heijin, is pushing to evict hundreds of villagers in Murehwa, Mashonaland East province, after it was given a special mining grant to extract black granite on densely populated land covering 300 hectares, the Zimbabwe Independent can exclusively reveal. This comes at a time Chinese companies are frenziedly descending …

A Bindura man allegedly killed himself after being accused of causing mysterious fires that reportedly burnt down 57 huts at two neighbouring farms in Bindura, Nhau has learnt. Last Friday, the fire burnt down 27 huts at Burnridge farm barely two months after another mysterious fire destroyed 30 huts at …

The death of Anna ‘‘Memory’’ Machaya (14) while giving birth at the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church’s Mafararikwa Shrine during their Passover gathering last month has opened a Pandora’s Box after another 13-year-old girl was allegedly married off at the same time. Although the church has spiritedly denied gathering last month, …

President Mnangagwa has said the increased tempo in Covid-19 vaccine uptake should see the country’s sporting activities, that have largely been on hold since the pandemic struck returning to their normal schedules soon. The Government, the President said, will also play its part to ensuring greater support to sport once …

A young man carefully dismantles a fluorescent light and empties a small sachet of methamphetamine into the tube. Using a cigarette lighter, the 24-year-old Zimbabwean heats it until the white crystals liquefy and begin emanating smoke. Sitting in a room in Glen View, a working-class suburb in the capital Harare, …

The second group of Zimbabwean deportees from the United Kingdom arrived in the country this Thursday. The seven touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport aboard a Boeing 767 aircraft. The deportees who only had small parcels with them were media shy with one of them indicating that …