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The High Court has ruled that the Thokozani Khupe aligned MDC grouping acted in accordance with the alliance agreement when it recalled the quartet of Charlton Hwende, Lilian Timveous, Thabitha Khumalo and Prosper Mutseyami from parliament. In his ruling Justice Tawanda Chitapi says the agreement that brought about the MDC Alliance was only for five years, adding that the current fights between the Khupe and Nelson Chamisa groups being just power politics at play. He stated that a group of people who come together…

Zimbabwe conducted its first caesarean section on a Covid-19 pregnant woman at Gweru Provincial Hospital yesterday. With immune compromised status and physiological adaptive changes during pregnancy, pregnant women could be more susceptible to COVID-19 infection than the general population. In a memo to Vice chancellor of the Midlands State University (MSU), Executive Dean in the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Reginald Matchaba Hove said the operation was conducted under strict infection prevention and control measures.…

Mutare province has recorded its first positive cases of Coronavirus, according to results released by the Ministry of Health and Childcare with nine people who returned from Mozambique testing positive for the virus. All the seventeen (17) new cases recorded yesterday are from returnees quarantined at various facilities across the country, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases up to 149, recovered 28, active cases, 117 and 4 deaths said Ministry of Health. The latest results bring into sharp focus warning…

Renowned constitutional lawyer and newly appointed MDC Alliance information secretary, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere says she is geared to take on her new role as party spokesperson. By Eustance Mushangwe Mahere, who contested and lost the Mount Pleasant parliamentary seat in 2018 elections was earlier appointed MDC Alliance Education Secretary before her elevation to party Spokesperson yesterday Writing on Twitter late Thursday, Mahere who received a virtual applause, said she is up to the new challenge. "Humbled. I…

From imposing a lockdown without an impact assessment on ordinary citizens, to setting up provincial taskforces without elected representatives, the novel coronavirus has exposed government weaknesses in handling a public crisis, Gweru Urban legislator Brian Dube has said. Speaking during a virtual Public Finance Management Indaba organized by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD), Dube said government is skating around transparency and accountability. “The composition of the provincial taskforce, to…

Tobacco processor, British American Tobacco (BAT) is expecting a significant drop in volume output in second quarter (Q2) of 2020 owing to disruptions on its operations in the current period as the nation observed Covid-19 lock-down rules. This is despite good fortunes during the first three months to March of 2020 when the company recorded upward volume and revenue trends. But since lock-down started on March 31, the company has been negatively affected by the general slowdown in economic activity. “The economic…

BAT Anticipates Tough Second Quarter Due To Covid-19Zimbabwean companies are enduring their worst run in over a decade as their valuations continue to plunge in record levels last witnessed during the 2008 economic meltdown, 263Chat Business can reveal. Government’s decision to float the local currency in February of 2019 might have come as a prudent and realistic measure in laying the foundations for the return of the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) but failure to sustain the new currency has brought with it unintended…

Popular rapper, Desmond "Stunner" Chideme has weighed in on the highly publicised fallout between socialites Dj Towers and Mr Stylz. Speaking in a recent post on social media, Stunner hammered to Towers the importance of making friends and not enemies while reproving the hype-man from reckless talk on camera. "Just like husband and wife vanotemana nemapoto (which is not good) but still find themselves in the same bed, friends are sometimes not going to agree on certain issues but tomorrow is another day. Dj Towers, 6…