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By Elwood Dunn News of the recent death at age 95 of former Zimbabwean President Robert G. Mugabe led me to my Zimbabwe file. You see, I (and delegation) served as the first special envoy of Liberia to incoming Prime Minister Mugabe in early April 1980. As history turned, mine …

The body of former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who died in Singapore on September 6, arrived at his rural home in Zvimba yesterday. It had earlier been planned that the body would be taken to Zvimba on Sunday to allow the people there to bid him farewell. Family spokesperson Leo …

By Fadzai Ndangana Angel of Hope in collaboration with Merk Foundation are working hand in glove to break barriers and fight stigma on issues of fertility in both men and women in Zimbabwe under the “Much more than a Mother” project emphasizing the need for a paradigm shift from the …

By Heather Charema Chief Zvimba has blasted some relatives of former President Robert Mugabe who are trying to politicise his burial while tainting President Mnangagwa’s name Speaking to The Herald on the sidelines of a farewell ceremony at Murombedzi Growth Point yesterday, Chief Zvimba said the former President was not …

A High Court judge has ordered government and the police to release within seven days, a South African-registered vehicle they seized in Harare from one Jeffrey Hondo Gwisai while claiming it had been stolen from the neighbouring country. The order was directed at the Home Affairs Minister, the Police Commissioner …

By Sallomy Matare The country has recorded a 27 and 9 percent decline in new HIV infections among children and adults respectively in the past three years, Secretary for Health and Child Care Dr Agnes Mahomva said yesterday. In a speech read on her behalf by the Principal Director (Preventive …

By Geraldine Zaranyika Former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Patrick Mavhura and ex-head finance, administration and human resources manager Benenia Shumba are likely to be charged with 18 more cases involving corruption, a court heard yesterday. This was said by the investigating officer handling the pair’s criminal abuse of …

At least five people were killed, while 25 others were seriously injured on Sunday when a Mitsubishi lorry they were travelling on veered of the road and overturned several times at the 54-kilometre peg along Mutare-Burma Valley Road. The Mutare-bound lorry had 29 passengers on board when the accident occurred. …

By Joseph Madzimure and Yeukai Tazira Scores of people gathered at Murombedzi Business Centre and former President Robert Mugabe’s rural home in Zvimba yesterday to bid farewell to the African icon. Speakers described former President Mugabe as a principled man who fought for the emancipation of African people from the …

By Kudzanai Gerede Dozens of doctors this morning staged a protest at Harare Hospital over the disappearance of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) president, Peter Mugombeyi saying they no longer feel safe to work as the alleged abduction of their leader continues to haunt them. The doctors have however, resolved …