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ZTN Correspondent At least 14 children aged between six months and 15 years have succumbed to measles following an outbreak in Zimbabwe. The Ministry of Health and Child Care reports that 72 cases have so far been reported in Mutasa district, 30 km northeast of Mutare. In a statement on Wednesday; “To date a total […]

Lloyd Ndemo Tired of practising far away from a sound office, a daring Harare woman, Trish Barewa, aged 24, was arrested on Monday last week at ZRP Support Unit after she ‘reported for duty’ clad in police uniform. She ran out of luck as discrepancies in her dressing sold her out to an alert police officer […]

Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau The Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa says so far it has identified five of its nationals who were killed by devastating floods in Kwazulu Natal province last week. According to the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, the death toll from the floods now stands at 443 with 63 more people still missing. Search […]

ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Southern African nation is on course to achieving a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023. He also said Zimbabwe will increase its energy output by the end of 2022. President Mnangagwa said this during Zimbabwe’s 42nd independence anniversary celebrations in the country’s second largest city, Bulawayo, on […]

ZTN Correspondent Belgian national Daleyot Erez has been arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly externalising more than US$180 000. Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) spokesperson John Makamure said: “Sometime in December 2021, Erez hatched a plan to prejudice the Government of Zimbabwe thousands of United States dollars through his company, Raiz El-Nickel Processing. “To achieve his plan, […]

ZTN Correspondent Zimbabwe has waived fees for births and death certificates, national identity documents and livestock brands certificates to ensure easy access to these documents during the ongoing national mobile registration exercise. The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage through the Civil Registry Department is conducting a national mobile registration exercise which commenced on […]

ZTN Correspondent Thirty-five people were killed and 71 others injured when the bus they were on veered off the road, plunging into a gorge in Zimbabwe’s Chimanimani District on Thursday night. Police said the bus was ferrying Zion Christian Church members to an Easter gathering in Masvingo. The driver is said to have lost control […]

The Farming Community Educational Trust says education for the girl child in Mashonaland Central province has improved in recent years.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. This adage rang true when a woman from Harare appeared in court today (Wednesday) facing attempted murder charges