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Firebrand Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has revived his rivalry with business tycoon Billy Rautenbach among other white businessmen who he says have captured the country at the expense of the ordinary Zimbabweans. Addressing journalists in Harare, Mliswa said black business persons' cartels were nothing compared to the white business community in terms of corruption. “You talk of black cartels, they are nowhere near the white cartels,” charged Mliswa. The outspoken legislator named Innscor Africa among corporates he…

Lancet Clinical Laboratories have vowed to continue replacing their laboratory equipment at five-year intervals to keep up with the latest technology. The International Organisation of Standards (ISO) certified Clinical Laboratory is replacing equipment this year after using the last consignment procured five years ago. Addressing journalists during a media tour at the Lancet Clinical Laboratories, the General Manager, Grace Ramhewa revealed that the machines will be acquired from Germany on rental terms. “We…

Teenage sensation Wesley Madhevere has been included in Zimbabwe’s squad for the limited-overs series against Bangladesh. The 19-year-old budding all-rounder, who scored two half-centuries and took eight wickets with his off-breaks at the recent ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in South Africa, is one of the five changes made to the side that lost the one-off Test to Bangladesh this week. Sean Williams, who missed the five-day match for the birth of his daughter, is back for the shorter versions of the game alongside…

MUTARE- Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) says it will decentralize its services to six provinces by 2021 under a multi-pronged approach to improve its efficiency. ZACC spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure said the anti-graft body will also seek to recruit competent personnel to man the provincial offices as well as set up anti-corruption courts at Magistrate level. Makamure said ZACC is seeking champions of anti-corruption and will leave no one behind in the fight through establishing strategic partnership…

Concern is growing over the impact of the coronavirus on the Olympic Games after new cases in Japan were confirmed and the domestic top-flight football competition was called off until next month. A senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said outright cancellation of the Games, rather than postponement or relocation, would be likely if the disease proved too dangerous for the event – which is scheduled to start on 24 July – to go ahead. Dick Pound, a former Canadian swimming champion who has been on…

Zimbabweans including opposition MDC  are raising red flags against the 'cartels' to which they are demanding the law enforcement agents to take action and investigate the issues in a bid to rescue the country's economy...

Senior doctors have implicated Health and Child Care deputy minister Dr John Mangwiro, refuting his earlier claims that he procured medical equipment with the advise of senior surgeons. The parliamentary committee on health and child care and ceased with a case in which government procured substandard and unusable equipment to the tune of USD$500 000 from India. The equipment bought from a company known as Norula Exports is reportedly obsolete with only two percent of the whole consignment working and usable.…

Tempers flared in Parliament yesterday morning during the Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement portfolio committee meeting where Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) was giving oral evidence on the support services by the Government to milling companies and funding of silo refurbishment. Committee chair, Justice Mayor Wadyajena appeared incensed by press statements issued by GMAZ which he said were against his committee, questioning if GMAZ Chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara authorized the statements…