CASES of teenage pregnancies have remained high in the rural areas, with one in 10 adolescent girls giving birth each year, despite massive awareness campaigns against child marriages, latest statistics from the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) 2015 have indicated.In 2010, 28% of adolescent girls from rural areas were already mothers compared to 16,4% of their counterparts in urban centr

CHIRUMHANZU-Zibagwe legislator, Auxillia Mnangagwa (Zanu PF) has called on fellow politicians to shun violence and respect the voice of the electorate.Addressing a rally at Nyikavanhu growth point in Mvuma on Friday, Mnangagwa, who is a member of the Zanu PF politburo, said: “We have seen people fighting over political issues and losers wanting to divide the party and nation over a loss. Let’s

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has allegedly manipulated Zanu PF’s warring factions by playing them against each other after he appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and secretary for legal affairs, Patrick Chinamasa to draft the appeals’ procedure to facilitate reviewing cases of members suspended and expelled by rival G40 faction led by First Lady Grace Mugabe.  Most of the aggrieved par

 THE cash-strapped government has extended a begging bowl to its development partners in Europe to fund the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC)’s operations.Speaking during the official opening of the new ZHRC headquarters in Harare last Friday, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa disclosed that most independent commissions in the country received paltry budgetary allocations from Treasu

TWO suspected touts operating at Mbudzi roundabout in Harare have been nabbed for allegedly punching and causing the death of a 25-year-old pregnant woman last week as she tried to board a Beitbridge-bound bus.Lyn Chidawaya allegedly died with her unborn baby after she was punched in the stomach by the touts.National police spokesperson Chief Superitendent Paul Nyathi confirmed the incident and sa

CROSS-BORDER bus operator, Jay Jay Travel & Tours, has threatened to drag Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to the Constitutional Court challenging his decision to grant $200 duty-free allowance to pedestrians and travellers using private vehicles, leaving out those using buses.In a letter dated May 26, through lawyer Alex Majachani, the bus operator urged Chinamasa to withdraw the discrimina

OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been discharged from a private South African hospital where he was admitted since last week and is expected home anytime soon. In a statement yesterday, Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka said: “He is out of hospital and is in high spirits. Doctors here have given him a clean bill of health.” Tsvangirai was taken ill recently and underwe

FORMER Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa and 24 members of his Youth Advocacy for Reform and Democracy (Yard) pressure group were arrested in Esigodini, Matabeleland South province, yesterday for allegedly holding an unsanctioned public meeting.Mliswa’s lawyer and MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora confirmed the arrests.“Cde Mliswa is currently in police custody together with 24 othe

CHAOS and nasty fights have rocked former Vice-President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZimFP) party ahead of its official launch in October amid reports that a section of the party was already demanding leadership renewal.ZimPF youths reportedly accused the party’s old guard of “failing to appreciate the political dynamics of today”, hence Friday’s demonstration at Mujuru’s Har

ST James High School has taken Puzey and Payne (Pvt) Ltd to court for allegedly breaching the terms of a bus deal. The two parties entered into an agreement of sale for a 33-seater bus valued at $56,400 that the school wanted. St James High School claimed that the bus was to be delivered after the payment of $35,000 as deposit, which was allegedly done in August, 2014, but the bus was not delivere

ABOUT 50 children from more than 28 families who were evicted in 2013 from Lizzie Farm, just outside Bulawayo, have for the past three years been not going to school after they were resettled in an area where the nearest school is more than 25 kilometres away. The families were moved to Downsdale Farm located on the outskirts of Bulawayo by the government following their eviction by the farm’s o

KHUPEKANI Sibanda, 32, is one of more than 2,000 inmates who were pardoned by President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday, but a day after he was released, he found himself in police cells for attempting to buy clothes using fake United States dollars. Sibanda was arrested after he was found in possession $1,200 in fake notes.He appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure yesterday charged wit

PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora has refuted on his statement that the government will soon force teachers to wear uniforms. In the past few weeks, there have been claims on social media that the government, through the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, will soon make it mandatory for school teachers to wear uniforms.Responding to questions from the floor after de

Parliament plans to take legal action against 35 legislators who were expelled by both Zanu-PF and MDC-T after they failed to pay for vehicles procured for them through a parliamentary loan scheme.Zanu-PF expelled a number of legislators who were associated with former Vice President Joice Mujuru in her plot to remove President Mugabe from power.The MDC-T, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, dismissed 21 le

Zanu PF's Gutu Central legeslator, Lovemore Matuke,  has dismissed as daydreaming and wishful thinking, plans by MDC-T led by its Mabvuku-Tafara legislator James Maridadi to table a motion seeking to impeach President Mugabe when Parliament resumes sitting on June 6. Matuke, who is also Gutu Central legislator, accused Maridadi and his party of seeking cheap political mileage and publici