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The United States Student Achievers Program (USAP) Community School is accepting applications from Lower Sixth and Form Four students to begin their studies in January next year. Rebecca Mano, director of Education Matters, says students should submit their applications by October 8, 2021.

Zambia's Electoral Commission is urging candidates of the just concluded polls to be patient, as ballots, expected within 72-hours of the last vote cast, are counted. VOA's Peter Clottey reports on the heavily participated election, despite the presence of police, military and paramilitary groups.

Zimbabwe’s Donata Katai, failed on Sunday to reach the semi-finals of the 100-meter backstroke despite recording a personal best and coming first in her heat at the Aquatics Center in Tokyo, Japan. But Frederick Ndlovu of the Zimbabwe Olympics Committee says Donata she has a bright future.

Andrew Nyamayaro, director and principal solicitor of Tann Law Solicitors, says his team and other lawyers representing Zimbabweans living in Britain are fighting to ensure that Zimbabweans are not deported. Britain on Wednesday deported 14 Zimbabweans said to be convicted criminals.

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

In an interview, the ruling African National Congress of South Africa's International Relations Committee chairperson, Lindiwe Zulu, said there is urgent need to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe. “We have already said it from an ANC point of view that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe..."

Information Officer, Janet Dambul, says Malawi's incumbent president Peter Mutharika has conceded defeat in the just-ended presidential election re-run. She speaks with VOA Zimbabwe Service's Gibbs Dube.

Edwin Ndlovu of the MDC Alliance led by advocate Nelson Chamisa, says Zimbabwe government is responsible for the abduction and mistreatment of party members - Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova, despite claims of non-involvement.

Zimbabwe Deputy Information Minister Energy Mutodi tells Gibbs Dube of VOA's Zimbabwe Service’s the reported abductions of youth league members of the opposition MDC Alliance - Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri, and Netsai Marova - are designed to discredit President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government.

Zimbabwean teacher living in Beijing, Samantha Sibanda, offers a different perspective on the reports circulating on social media about abuse of Africans in China by Chinese nationals, due to Covid-19. Sibanda tells Gibbs Dube of VOA's Zimbabwe Service that not all Chinese are bad people.

Hosts Gibbs Dube and Jonga Kandemiiri of VOA's Zimbabwe Service discuss the ongoing challenges Zimbabweans around the world are facing due to Covid 19. Many have tested positive for the virus, and while some have recovered from its symptoms, some are struggling to recover. Others have died.

Betty Makoni, founder of the Girl Child Network, had a close brush with death after contracting the dreaded coronavirus. Makoni tells Blessing Zulu of VOA's Zimbabwe Service that she felt so close to death that she mourned herself. Makoni urges fellow Zimbabweans to avoid exposure to COVID -9.

Abantu abanengi balamba okokuthi kabalandaba lokumemetheka komkhuhlane weCoronavirus langesinqumo esokuthi kumele bahlale ezindlini.

Zimbabwe's Permanent Secretary of Health, Dr. Agnes Mahomva speaks with Blessing Zulu of VOA's Zimbabwe Service about coronavirus - its symptoms, prevention, and the country's preparedness. "The usual common cold tends to be mild, moderate, whereas this one has really caused a lot of havoc."