BY PATRICE MAKOVA AND CAIPHAS CHIMHETE

Allies of retired General Solomon Mujuru wants a prominent South African private forensic pathologist, Dr Reggie Perumal to get to the bottom of what happened to the former army commander as information filtering suggests he may have died before a fire broke out at his Beatrice farmhouse on August 16 last year.

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 LESLEY WURAYAYI

FOR Tatenda Kaseke (34), the thought of drinking water is a nightmare as she remembers the days she and her 6-year-old infant were in hospital, weak and disoriented with diarrhoea.

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.

BY OUR STAFF
A Zanu PF-aligned group, Chipangano, is blocking the construction of a service station and a food court near Matapi Police Station in Mbare, The Standard has heard.

OVER 300 Zaka Villagers recently held a 20 kilometre march in solidarity with Solomon Madzore, who has remained in prison since October, accused of taking part in the murder of a Glen View policeman.

BY PATRICE MAKOVA
PUBLIC Service minister, Lucia Matibenga (pitctured right), is a veteran trade unionist and has been fighting for workers’ rights for decades.
However, she received a rude awakening when civil servants went on strike last week, demanding better salaries — five months after being appointed into government

Kurauone Chihwayi who is the deputy spokesperson for the MDC led by Professor Welshman Ncube said Matibenga has not proved herself in the past five months she has been in office.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has launched a complaint with the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) against police brutality and unlawful interference in its political activities.

BY OUR STAFF
MDC99 leader Job Sikhala says his party will go ahead with Egyptian-style protests aimed at forcing President Robert Mugabe to step down before the next elections are held.

BY CAIPHAS CHIMHETE
HAVING enjoyed relative peace for the past three years, Zimbabwe is slowly sliding back into political mayhem that existed just prior to the formation of the coalition government, political analysts have warned.

BY SOFIA MAPURANGA
CHITUNGWIZA Town Council has secured 1,9 million Euros (US$2,9 million) to upgrade the town’s water pipeline that stretches from Harare, in a move aimed at addressing the current water woes gripping the dormitory town.

A Harare magistrate on Tuesday referred to the Supreme Court a case where journalists from The Standard are challenging the constitutionality of a section of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
BULAWAYO — THE MDC-T has filed an urgent High Court application that seeks to order Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri and the co-Home Affairs ministers to force police to immediately release confidential materials they seized at the party’s offices last week.

BY JENNIFER DUBE
THE sound of gushing water can be heard as one approaches a flourishing maize field at an open space in the sprawling Budiriro 4 high-density suburb.
As the source of the sound comes into view, one would be forgiven for thinking it is a water fountain in a neglected park.

BY KUDZAI CHIMHANGWA
PEOPLE last week roundly condemned proposals by the central bank governor, Gideon Gono, for the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar saying such a suggestion evokes painful memories of struggles they went through at the height of the economic crisis a few years back.

BY SILAS NKALA
BINGA — A 34-year-old man from Manjolo area in Binga seriously assaulted his sister after she allegedly told him that he was too weak to fight with her because he was taking anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs).