BY OUR STAFF
NINE people in every 1 000 in Harare are at risk of developing colon or liver cancer from eating contaminated fish harvested from Lake Chivero and other water bodies around Harare, local scientific studies have indicated.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU

BULAWAYO – Cities and towns in Matabeleland and Midlands regions are facing serious water shortages owing to dwindling water levels in dams and collapsing water treatment infrastructure.

BY NQABA MATSHAZI
WHILE Zanu PF insists on holding elections this year, it has emerged that a population census expected this year may torpedo the party’s plans.
The country is due to hold the fourth census by August and experts warn that it will not be possible to conduct the survey while having elections in the same year.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
A Bulawayo-based pressure group will soon launch a High Court bid to force President Robert Mugabe to release two reports containing findings of official inquiries into the Matabeleland disturbances in the 1980s.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
BULAWAYO — Human rights lawyers have urged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) and legislators to push government to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which bans torture as an instrument of extracting information from accused persons.