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A Harare Magistrate has granted bail to six MDC Alliance leaders who were arrested in Harare yesterday and were charged with public nuisance. The six include MDC-A vice presidents Tendai Biti, Lynette Karenyi, Lovemore Chinoputsa (National Executive member), Senator David Chimhini, Gladys Hlatswayo (secretary for International relations) and Wongai Tome. They were represented by Beatrice Mtetwa and Alec Muchadehama from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). Mtetwa raised concerns over the conditions that her…

Abebe Bekele, University of Global Health Equity and Agnes Binagwaho, University of Global Health Equity As modern medicine has advanced, so too has our understanding of what affects health. Over recent decades this has generated a number of new fields in medicine. One of the most important that has been born out of the latest generation is social medicine. It studies how social and economic factors help determine our health, specifically inequalities within societies that negatively influence health outcomes. Similar to…

Outspoken preacher Talent Chiwenga has teared into controversial cleric Passion Java saying he is bogus and without any academic qualifications. In a six minute video circulating on social media platforms, Chiwenga dared Java to explain his source of wealth, accusing the flamboyant socialite of flaunting money inherited from his current wife. “There are no tongues like the ones by Panganai Java. What business do you do Panganai?” Chiwenga rhetorically asked “He does not have five ordinary levels. So which business offered…

Couples who wish to divorce will have to fork out ZWL$80 000 towards legal fees according to new tariffs gazetted by the Law Society of Zimbabwe. The LSZ on Tuesday announced new tariffs premised on what it said were charges paid to lawyers during the US dollar era in 2011. The fees are with effect from last month. Under the latest tariff regime, the most senior lawyers will earn up to $17 000 per hour for consultations. Notable under the new tariffs is that uncontested divorce will cost a plaintiff $50 000 while a…

A health time bomb is brewing at most quarantine centres following the horrific and appalling conditions being experienced lately as more returnees trickle back home. According to one of the returnees, some people in quarantine centres have exceeded the mandatory 21-day period but still yet to receive COVID-19 test results. They also bemoaned the appalling conditions in the centres attributing it to the spike in COVID-19 cases recorded since last week. In an interview with a local publication, one of the returnees…

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The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has expressed concern over utterances made by Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe who insinuated that members of the forum were linked to the ‘fake’ abduction of three MDC Alliance members. In a statement the Forum says remarks by the Minister were shocking. “The Forum notes with dismay, shock and repugnance the mention of three of our members by Minister Kazembe Kazembe, in his press statement on 4 June 2020. The statement insinuated that the abductions are fake, and mentioned our…