Amadou Gallo Fall, president of the Basketball Africa League, speaking to Cheick Thiero of the Voice of America about the ongoing 12-team inaugural games of BAL affliliated to NBA and FIBA. watch the games at https://www.voazimbabwe.com/t/91.html. #BALonVOA2021

Politics is a fluid game. It’s not cast in stone. It’s not like you wear a straight jacket. You don’t wear a straight jacket ... If you were a Roman Catholic two years ago and now you are a Seventh Day Adventist, it doesn’t mean you are a bad person, you have simply moved on.”

Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says investigative stories he has been doing have a huge impact on Zimbabweans. He cited the firing of former Health Minister Obadiah Moyo as one of the examples in which he wrote a story about corruption in government corridors that led to his sacking.

Matabeleland North provincial medical director, Dr. Munekayi Padingani, said the government has deployed health staff at the mission, about 40 kilometers north-east of the country’s second largest city, Bulawayo.

Matabeleland North Provincial Medical Director (PMD) Dr. Munekayi Padingani confirmed that 118 pupils at John Tallach Secondary School in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North, tested positive for COVID-19 but says there were no deaths, contrary to reports. The school has been shut down.

Ostallos Siziba of the Movement for Democratic Change says youth from two formations of the opposition groups led by Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe decided to take over Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House in Harare from the MDC-T after realizing that Khupe's formation was too close to Zanu PF.

MDC-T presidential spokesperson, Khaliphani Pugeni, says they won't allow Nelson Chamisa and his colleagues to use the MDC Alliance name anymore as it is the property of the Thokozani Khupe-led formation.

The MDC Alliance's presidential spokesperson, Dr. Nkululeko Sibanda, says they will fight hard to retain the party's name following an announcement by the Thokozani Khupe MDC formation that they are set to field candidates in the forthcoming bye-elections using the Alliance.He speaks with Gibbs Dube