HARARE – Listed building materials manufacturer PG Industries Zimbabwe Limited (PG) has registered a third consecutive loss since dollarisation in 2009, triggering fears of the company’s imminent collapse. The group — which has a $29 million market capitalisation — recorded a net loss of $7,9 million in the year to December 2012 worsening from $5,7…
HARARE – More investment is essential in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), including addressing barriers preventing research into better drug combinations and treatment, says Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) official. MSF Head of Mission in Zimbabwe Paul Foreman says last year alone they helped the ministry of Health and Child Welfare treat over 3 000 patients…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said elections can only be held in September as President Robert Mugabe insisted on his June 29 poll declaration yesterday. The PM’s preferred poll timeline emerged in court papers concerning a court application where Mugabe is seeking to be excused from proclaiming by-elections in three vacant parliamentary constituencies….
HARARE – Four men accused of conspiring to deliver toxic sodium cyanide to Harare’s Morton Jaffray Waterworks have been acquitted. Farai Muchenje, Simon Demhe, Appronalise Mupakaviri and Tiki Tarwirei were freed by Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya yesterday. “There was a mix-up and it is not fit that the court finds you to have deliberately…
HARARE – Former South African president Thabo Mbeki’s mediation prevented Zimbabwe from descending into civil war as the Unites States and United Kingdom pressed for tougher EU or UN sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s regime, a book authored by a top official reveals. The book titled “Things that could not be said from A(ids) to…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe commemorates Independence Day in two weeks, veterans of the 1970s liberation war are still wallowing in poverty, a senior representative has said. While a few well-connected have benefited from President Robert Mugabe’s largesse programmes such as land give aways and the Indigenisation project, the majority have fallen on hard times after…
HARARE – The High Court is today expected to put finality to the poll date row between President Robert Mugabe and his coalition partner Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe wants polls by June 29 while Tsvangirai wants polls in September after fundamental political reforms. A High Court case pitting Mugabe and there ex-legislators could indirectly…
HARARE – The promoter of the flopped Mi Casa music concert which failed to take place in Harare last Thursday says he was as shocked as everyone when the South African group failed to pitch up. Max Mugaba of May 7 Entertainment told the Daily News yesterday that he did all he could to facilitate…
HARARE – Stand-up comedian Carl Joshua Ncube will this month join forces with popular Malawian humourist Daliso Chaponda in a tour set for Malawi. Ncube’s Malawi show, which will also include Ugandan comedian Salvado, will be at the Bingu International Conference Centre on April 20. Zimbabwe’s top comedian told the Daily News that he has…
HARARE – Police are on the hunt for an Epworth woman who fled with an 11-day old baby in Harare’s central business district after the mother had gone shopping for infant milk. What started as a cordial relationship between Cecilia Nongwe, the mother of the missing baby, and the thief only identified as Mai Devine,…
