Lulu Brenda Harris

AN interim board has been set up by Government to look into the delays at the Beitbridge Border Post to guarantee the swift flow of travellers and traffic, ahead of the United Nations Tourism World Organisation (UNTWO) meeting.

Stanford Chiwanga

Fact sheet

* 26 000 to 84 000 are disabled by pregnancy and childbirth complications

* Decline in number of skilled personnel blamed

* Only 8 percent of births are attended by doctors

* 2 500 nurse/midwives required, only 500 are practising

* Majority of deaths occur in rural areas

* HIV-Aids kills 25 percent of pregnant women

Vusumuzi Dube

Sunday News Reporter

FOUR councillors from the Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC in Nkayi South yesterday defected to Zanu-PF, citing unfulfilled promises and the realisation that Zanu-PF was the only party that could deliver.

Lulu Brenda Harris

MDC-T deputy secretary general Dr Tapiwa Mashakada has said the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau, should be given the benefit of the doubt in the execution of her national duties.

Harare Bureau

BRITAIN is still maintaining tough financial sanctions against the 81 Zanu-PF officials whom the European Union (EU) claims to have removed from its embargo list casting doubts on its sincerity in seeking to restore diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.

Vusumuzi Dube

Sunday News Correspondent

AS confusion within the MDC-T continues to escalate, the Bulawayo provincial executive on Friday rejected the candidature of their chairperson Mr Gorden Moyo who had been lined up to replace Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe as the Member of the House of Assembly for Makokoba constituency.

Stanford Chiwanga

- 10 to 15 percent children have never attended primary school

- Only 47 percent of children proceed to secondary school

- Rural pupils more likely to drop out of school

- Economic crisis blamed

MORE than 190 000 secondary school children and 30 percent of primary school pupils drop out of school each year in Zimbabwe, a Situational Analysis on the Status of Women’s and Children’s Rights in Zimbabwe (SASWCRZ) report reveals.

Vincent Gono

Senior Reporter

OFFICERS at some passport offices in the country are allegedly demanding a US$10 fee to facilitate the search and collection process of passports from those who would have applied for the travel documents.

Tinomuda Chakanyuka

SEVEN children, aged between two and five years, from Gokwe’s Musutisi Village under Chief Njelele, recently died one after the other under mysterious circumstances in a space of a week.

Vusumuzi Dube

HEADS are set to roll in the Tsholotsho Rural District Council as it has emerged that under fire chief executive officer, Mr Themba Moyo and District Administrator, Mrs Nosizi Dube have, for the past year, stifled an ad hoc committee report that detailed the CEO’s alleged abuse of office.

Lawson Mabhena

News Editor

VETERAN nationalist and Zanu-PF founder member, Cde Enos Nkala, who is admitted at a local private hospital, on Good Friday got to speak to an old friend — President Mugabe.