HARARE – “If only I had the courage to be tested for HIV, my child would have been born negative,” Maud Chifamba from Wedza says ruefully. Twice, Maud visited the local clinic seeking ante-natal services, but retreated each time she was lined up for HIV testing. Today, she is nursing a home-delivered HIV-positive infant. Full…
BULAWAYO – The defence case against Charles Thomas, one of the members of the Matabeleland Liberation Front (MLF), is expected to kick off today at the Bulawayo High Court before Justice Nicholas Ndou. Thomas had his application for discharge dismissed by Justice Ndou at the close of the State case in December last year. Lawyer…
BULAWAYO – A Beitbridge man is still in hospital recovering from serious burns he sustained while stealing copper cables from Zesa Holdings (Zesa). Simbarashe Amani, 30, has been indicted before the courts for theft. He appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Takunda Witness Mtetwa, who remanded him to January 17 because he is currently bed-ridden at the…
HARARE – Political violence broke out in Harare’s high-density suburb of Mbare yesterday after three opposition National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) members were beaten up for pasting campaign posters ahead of the January 25 council by-elections. Taurai Maravanyika, Patson Mangwiro and Olibeletsi Noko were assaulted by a group of suspected Zanu PF activists as they were…
BULAWAYO – A Bulawayo man landed himself in jail after forging a baby clinic card and a birth certificate for a Botswana national. Peter Dunhira, 34, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Tawanda Muchemwa and was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. Dunhira will serve an effective 11 months as seven months of the sentence were conditionally suspended…
MASVINGO – At least six juveniles have drowned in one week. Peter Zhanero, the Masvingo police spokesperson, said the children drowned while playing in flooded rivers in Masvingo’s rural areas. The juveniles, aged between eight and 13, drowned in Gutu while swimming in flooded rivers. “We are appealing to parents in the communal areas around…
TORONTO – A winter storm has already blanketed areas of Canada and the north-eastern US with up to 2ft (60 cm) of snow. It has been blamed for 16 deaths in recent days and the cancellation of some 3,700 flights. Schools have been closed in several US states and residents urged to stay indoors for…
HARARE – I hope you enjoyed your Christmas in the East were you usually spend your money Mr President, commander-in-chief of the Defence Forces and head of State. I hope this time you learnt one or two things from the eastern patriots especially the Chinese, who have since realised that contemporary challenges facing the world…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)’s main industrial index ? which opened 2014 in the red — is expected to continue on the downward trend in the short-term due to absence of policy direction and limited foreign investor participation, TFS Management Company (TFS) has warned. The research and asset management firm, a subsidiary of…
HARARE – Government’s decision to recapitalise the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and restore its lender-of-last-resort position will help ease liquidity constraints in the country, economic experts have said. They said the move may also reinstate confidence in the financial services sector. Zimbabwe has been experiencing tightening liquidity conditions since 2009 when the country adopted…
