EDITOR — In response to an article published in your newspaper: “Pregnant women resists HIV screening”, on Tuesday January 7, 2014, we would like to express our appreciation for raising awareness of the importance of pregnant women being tested for HIV. However, we feel the headline is misleading and inaccurate. The majority of pregnant women…
EDITOR — Being an avid Daily News reader, I was awestruck by the Late Joshua Nkomo’s letters to the-then prime minister Robert Mugabe, which your paper ran late last year. Many aspects of that letter, ring very familiar to what we have been experiencing in this once-beautiful country of ours. To begin with, Nkomo adressed…
SIRTE – Libya’s deputy industry minister has been shot dead during a visit to his hometown of Sirte, east of the capital Tripoli. Local media quoted officials as saying unknown gunmen “sprayed bullets” at Hassan al-Droui near a central market. It is the first assassination of a member of Libya’s transitional government. Libya has suffered…
JERUSALEM – Israelis are filing past the body of ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who has died aged 85 of heart failure after eight years in a coma. Draped in the national flag, the body is lying in state at the parliament building in Jerusalem. A private burial will take place on Monday. Israeli and world…
HARARE – Bikita West Member of Parliament, Munyaradzi Kereke’s fight with his former boss and ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, is sucking in all security structures of the government, ministers and politicians. Kereke, a former advisor to Gono for nearly a decade at the central bank, claims that Gono looted millions of dollars…
HARARE – Former legislators are yet to receive their pensions and outstanding allowances benefits after serving five years. The 7th Parliament had 300 members and with each being owed about $20 000 the previous Parly is owed a cumulative $6 000 000. Pearson Mungofa, former legislator for Highfield, who served from 2000 to 2013, told…
HARARE – Hundreds of churches worshiping in the open without sanitary facilities and bank accounts face being banned, as government moves in to bring sanity to the religious sector. On Thursday, churches under the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) met with the Registrar General’s office, where new requirements for the hugely conservative churches were…
BULAWAYO – Two suspected elephant poachers in the on-going cyanide saga that saw more than 100 elephants at the Hwange National Park being killed last year have been acquitted. Clever Khumalo, 44 and Sipho Mafu, 54 were found not guilty when they appeared before a Bulawayo regional magistrate Sikhumbuzo Nyathi last Friday. Khumalo and Mafu…
HARARE – The family of Zayd Dada, who went missing in the Inyangani Mountains exactly one week ago have appealed to the local and international community for help. Rayaaz Dada, his elder brother, has asked for professional trackers, mountain climbers and hikers to come forward and assist the family in their search for his 31-year-old…
MUTARE – Dogs, chickens, goats and cattle have better chances of survival than humans, a hard-pressed Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member vending locksets and glue at Sakubva Bus Terminus conceded. “We are not forbidden by the church to medicate our livestock but such an edict is clear and strictly enforced to humans,” he said further…
