HARARE – Harare City Council has moved to decentralise the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), with all 12 polyclinics equipped not only to initiate patients on HIV treatment, but also to prescribe for and monitor TB patients, a city health official has said. Prosper Chonzi, the city health services director, told the Daily News last week…
HARARE – With flavours like strawberry, banana split and red cherry, there is a wide array of condoms to pick from. There are also vibrating condom rings with batteries that last up to 20 minutes, there are silent pleasures of the femidom (the female condom), glow-in-the-dark condoms promising “30 minutes of glowing fun.” Messages about…
HARARE – Mbare Chimurenga Choir has hit hard times. The group, which romped to fame through their butt-wriggling moves and fiercely pro-Zanu PF songs, is struggling to raise money to record a new album. Elizabeth Bwanya, founder of the 48-member group told the Daily News last week that members have contributed a few dollars each…
HARARE – Zimbabwe wants locals to exclusively benefit from Masawara Plc’s $39 million purchase of a stake in BP and Shell Marketing Services (Private) Ltd, and may tear up the current financial arrangements if it fails to reach an agreement with the investor. The National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB) said agreements the government…
HARARE – A Harare businessman has written to vice president Joice Mujuru seeking assistance to cleanse his gold mine of goblins. Hope Mukuirirwa, who owns a mine in Shamva, told a Harare civil court he had written to the vice president wanting legal assistance for his father, Peter Makuirirwa, to allow him to perform the…
HARARE – A High Court judge has ordered a Harare businessman to pay over $390 000 owed to fertiliser and chemical manufacturing company, ZFC Limited. Justice Lavender Makoni last Friday issued a summary judgment against businessman Patrick Makava and his PM Manufacturing Private Limited company, ordering the two — cited as respondents in court papers…
HARARE – For the first time in the prize’s 45 years a Zimbabwean author has been short-listed for the Man Booker prize. “This is a dream come true,” NoViolet Bulawayo, the 31-year-old Zimbabwean author of We Need New Names said shortly after the announcement was made yesterday morning. “It’s hard to say why it got…
HARARE – The trial of Abel Chikomo, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, for allegedly running an “unregistered” organisation, commences today. Chikomo, whose trial was initially set to commence early last month, will appear in court 5 at the Harare Magistrates Court after prosecutors served some of the State papers to…
HARARE – Memory Shiri, 35, a sex worker in Harare, says she will never quit her trade because it is helping her take care of her family. Shiri, who has been in the “oldest profession” for 13 years, says the Zimbabwe government should legalise sex work, for the “ladies of the night” to be able…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has a daunting task of wooing investors to Zimbabwe. As long as we have a policy of frowning at their expectations, it will be a mammoth task to convince investors. On Wednesday, Chinamasa took oath of office and immediately warmed up to the challenges accompanying his job by…
