Cholera fears abound

Municipal Reporter
HARARE hotels, restaurants and open air food spots face immediate closure for failing to meet health and hygienic standards amid fears that a cholera outbreak looms.

The move is part of a cocktail of measures designed to contain the spread of typhoid and follow recent reports indicating that a hotel worker had tested positive for typhoid.
Health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi raised fears of a cholera outbreak given the health conditions that gave birth to typhoid.
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Civil servants' strike called off

Felex Share Herald Reporter
CIVIL servants' unions called off their strike yesterday and urged their members to report for duty on Monday.
Union leaders said members should wait for Tuesday's National Joint Negotiating Council meeting between Government negotiators and workers' representatives.

The five-day strike began on Monday and was suspended temporarily on Wednesday to pave way for talks.
By yesterday, the strike had lost steam as teachers in most schools were working.
However, Apex Council cha... Read more...

Mujuru family wants pathologist quizzed

Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter
THE Mujuru family has asked the court to call in a South African forensic expert to question the local pathologist who examined the remains of General Solomon Mujuru.

The family said should questions arise, they might apply for the exhumation of the remains to enable the South African  expert to conduct another examination.
This came out during the ninth day of the inquest into the death of Gen Mujuru at the Harare Magistrates' Courts.

Gen Mujuru died in an inferno a... Read more...