HARARE – This comment is probably the hardest we have had to write since the Daily News was given the green light to re-launch two years ago, following nearly eight years of forced closure by President Robert Mugabe’s government for the crime of “telling it like it is, without fear or favour”. Very hard because…
HARARE – Black Mambas recovered from last weekend’s defeat to FC Platinum by earning their second win of the 2013 Castle Premiership season yesterday. The police outfit raced into an early lead through Kasimero Chimbadzwa in the 16th minute and they would go onto hold on until the whistle. Mambas started strongly, with Nicolas Alifandika…
HARARE – Self-proclaimed preacher and “miracle worker” Emmanuel Makandiwa has received brickbats for his drive to have the Daily News shut down. Media bodies and some church leaders yesterday came out guns blazing, accusing the 36-year-old showman of resorting to the sword while a path lay open for negotiations. Makandiwa, through his lawyers, has written…
HARARE – A gold dealer has been remanded in custody to April 25 on allegations of murdering Allan Banks and leaving his body to decompose in the boot of his car. A calm looking George Francis Lovell, 31, clad in a blue and yellow tracksuit was advised by magistrate Don Ndirowei to apply for bail…
HARARE – Members of Parliament from the MDC led by Welshman Ncube, who have crossed the floor to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, have spoken for the first time about their bold decision. In an interview with the Daily News, Thandeko Mkandla MP for Gwanda North and Maxwell Dube (Tsholotsho), said they were leaving the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe units of Barclays and Nedbank have announced projects to boost their presence in Zimbabwe by opening new branches, installing new automated teller machines (ATMs) and developing new, technology-based banking platforms across the country. Barclays Zimbabwe and Nedbank’s MBCA Bank are two of four foreign banks in Zimbabwe — the others are…
HARARE – A United Nations Assessment Team has been barred from flying into Zimbabwe to assess the country’s political environment and financial needs before a crunch poll whose dates are still hazy. Informed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the UN team is stuck in Johannesburg, South Africa after the minister of Justice and…
HARARE – Government is not giving priority to preventing cancers in children, a cancer specialist has said. A local medical doctor, Inam Chitsike said the low prioritisation in fighting the preventable diseases was causing serious child mortality in under-five-year-olds. Chitsike said the ministry of Health and Child Welfare was not doing enough as it has…
HARARE – National Aids Council (Nac) is training 360 traditional healers across the country on HIV prevention and treatment. Traditional healers are being trained so that they understand HIV issues and also give their clients information about the epidemic and treatment adherence. In an interview Nac Research and Documentation coordinator Freeman Dube said gone are…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is scaling-up HIV treatment, with all infected sex workers, discordant couples and pregnant women set to be initiated on antiretroviral (ART) treatment regardless of their CD4 count. Speaking during a National Aids Council (Nac) workshop in Chinhoyi, Aids and TB Unit director in the Health ministry Owen Mugurungi said this was in…
