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A visibly frail former first lady Grace Mugabe yesterday attended her mother’s memorial service held at a parlour in the capital although her husband was absent.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed 20 member Cabinet ministers and their deputies who will be sworn in on Monday.

Kirsty Coventry, a former Olympic champion swimmer and a current member of the IOC’s executive board, has been appointed minister of sport in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday appointed former banker Mthuli Ncube as finance minister and kept Winston Chitando in charge of mining, placing two technocrats at the helm of plans to rescue the country’s battered economy.

At least 30 people were yesterday under police surveillance, following an investigation launched on cases of suspected culprits who used fake Ordinary and Advanced Level certificates to apply for visas at the United States of America embassy.