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Fresh details have emerged on alleged financial mismanagement by Parliament’s administration, with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) demanding answers from the Finance ministry and the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz). The development comes as the nation is in the grip of a scandal in which clerk of Parliament Kennedy …

Ten people were confirmed dead and at least five others were treated for smoke inhalation at a farm in Esigodini, Matabeleland South, on Monday while battling to put out a veld fire, the environmental agency said. Police were called to a farm known as Lot 43 of Essexvale, near Falcon …

The ZBC is paying its employees salaries below the minimum set by the National Economic Council – and now workers are demanding a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The state broadcaster’s workers committee on Thursday wrote to Nick Mangwana, the permanent secretary in the ministry of information, requesting a meeting …

THERE is shock and outrage in Norton after a Grade 7 pupil died on Tuesday while giving birth at a shrine in Bikita, Masvingo. Nokutenda Hwaramba died together with her baby, at a shrine, where she was being cared for by unidentified prophets. She was 15. Her parents, Bernard Hwaramba, …

ANGRY mourners yesterday bashed the mother of a Grade 7 pupil who died while giving birth at an apostolic church shrine in Bikita. Loice Muparadziwo was assaulted by some mourners, who demanded to know why she didn’t accompany her pregnant daughter, Nokutenda Hwaramba, 15, to Bikita, where she died in …

A health hazard is looming in Harare’s oldest suburb, Mbare, following acute water shortages that have seen the area go for three days without the precious liquid, Nhau/Indaba has established. Scores of families living in the old and dilapidated flats in the suburb share a single toilet. It is common …

Three suspected armed robbers who were part of a group that were involved in a shootout with security guards before stealing nearly 12kg from a cash in transit vehicle in Bulawayo have been arrested. The three were part of a 13 men gang that intercepted How Mine security guards yesterday …

While Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the violent extremism in Mozambique’s natural gas rich Cabo Delgado may have ripple geo-political contagion in the region, a new parliamentary …

Gold worth US$650,000 was snatched on Tuesday morning after heavily armed men attacked a security convoy conveying the gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo. A Securitas cash-in-transit van which was accompanied by three other vehicles from the mine was forced to stop when three vehicles blocked the …

Bindura Bureau ChiefCommunity leaders in Mashonaland Central’s Rushinga district are urgently appealing for food handouts from government and well-wishers, Nhau/Indaba has established. So dire is the situation that some pupils in the district are reportedly unable to go to school due to hunger. Rushinga is a drought prone; semi-arid area …