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Lunch is Angelica Chibiku’s favourite time. At 12pm she sits on her neatly made bed waiting for her meal at the Society of the Destitute Aged (Soda) home for older people in Highfield, a township in south-west Harare. Chibiku welcomes a helper into her room and cracks a few jokes. …

Zimbabwe is allowing a limited number of vaccinated fans to watch football and cricket in a major relaxation of Covid-19 regulations in place since March last year. The Sports and Recreation Commission said 2,000 fans would be allowed to watch football matches, but tickets would have to be bought in …

State security minister Owen Mudha Ncube has dropped out of the race for the Zanu PF Midlands provincial chairmanship as the deadly internecine fights for control of the party heats up following the indefinite postponement of provincial polls last month. He is now backing former national youth league deputy secretary …

Nearly a quarter of a million Zimbabweans who were issued temporary residence permits in South Africa since 2009 are asking a court to grant them permanent residence, a pathway to citizenship. Ahead of the expiry of the permits in November, the Zimbabweans are challenging the government position that the permits …

A hastily-arranged special session of the Zanu PF central committee that catapulted Emmerson Mnangagwa to the party presidency in 2017, ousting Robert Mugabe, was unlawful, a Zanu PF member has sensationally charged in a court filing. Sybeth Musengezi, a card-carrying member for 20 years, wants the High Court to declare …

Trucks arriving at Beitbridge without the proper paperwork and without pre-clearing their cargoes, so taking up parking space and causing delays, are now being charged penalties, Zimbabwe’s Border Efficiency Management Systems Committee (BEMSC) has resolved as one measure to end border delays. The other will be to second Zimbabwean customs …

The upgraded national Covid-19 taskforce met yesterday, just a day after Cabinet approved the new structure, with Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Constantino Chiwenga in the chair and setting the pace for a fuller response. He said the national response has seen a number of challenges, …

The country’s Ambassador to Namibia Mrs Rofina Chikava has implored local industrialists to consider utilising the newly-established dry port facility in Walvis Bay as part of efforts to enhance business and trade opportunities between Zimbabwe and the rest of the world. President Mnangagwa and his Namibian counterpart President Hage Geingob …

Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was forever stained when he went before the U.N. and made faulty claims to justify the U.S. war in Iraq, has died of Covid-19 complications. He was 84. A veteran of the Vietnam War, …

MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti has called on South Africa President and leader of the governing ANC party, Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene and caution his fellow liberation struggle colleagues in Zanu PF. This follows last week’s attack on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s convoy in Masvingo rural, some 300km …