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A new coronavirus variant, C.1.2, has been detected in South Africa and a number of other countries, with concerns that the variant could be more infectious and evade vaccines, according to a new preprint study by South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform. The study …

A 99-year lease offer letter that was issued and signed by the minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Anxious Masuka to a fugitive who skipped the country 14 years ago has removed the lid on massive corruption in the ministry. According to a copy of the offer …

An internal Bulawayo City Council audit has uncovered a number of irregularities in the local authority’s procurement and contracts management systems. According to a council confidential report, some of the loopholes include the failure by the local authority to maintain a suppliers list which creates the risk of the city …

Child and women’s rights groups have urged the Government to immediately reform the country’s laws to outlaw child marriages and introduce stiffer penalties for abusing the girl child. This follows the death of Anna Machaya (15) who died during child birth before being secretly buried at an apostolic sect church …

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 …