HARARE – The $2,5 million budgetary allocation to NatPharm will close the drug provision gap that has left Zimbabwe largely dependent on donors and middlemen for medication, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said. NatPharm is charged with the procurement of drugs for all state-run hospitals, and is mandated to guarantee the availability…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has sentenced Dzivarasekwa siblings who engaged in a sexual affair and bore a child to an 18-month wholly suspended prison sentence. Magistrate Aidonia Masawi sentenced Ashley Feremenga,19, and Robson Feremenga, 21, to 18 months imprisonment before suspending nine months on condition of good behaviour. A further nine months were set…
HARARE – Police assistant commissioner Gideon Baloyi remained in jail after his bail appeal failed to proceed at the High Court yesterday. The matter could not be heard because prosecutor Sharon Fero wanted an opportunity to go through Harare magistrate Elijah Makomo’s record of proceedings, to enable her to file a response to the application….
HARARE – His name is Elton Mangoma, Deputy treasurer general of the Tsvangiai-led MDC, member of the National Council and Standing Committee and former minister of Energy during the government of national disunity (GND). Yes this man has been at the forefront of MDC policies together with Tsvangirai, our party president, vice president Thokozani Khupe,…
GWANDA – Mtshabezi residents found popular Gwanda gold buyer Mbonisi Moyo dead in a bushy area next to Mtshabezi River on Friday. According to a police statement, Moyo, 25, was murdered in a suspected robbery as his body was found with stab wounds, with his head crushed by a stone that was found stained with…
HARARE – Only 30 percent of the 64 000 blood donors are adults, according to the National Blood Services Zimbabwe (NBSZ). This comes amid revelations that adults consume 80 percent of the donated blood. Esther Massundah, NBSZ public relations manager, told the Daily News her organisation was this year focusing on adult campaigns to ensure…
CAPE TOWN – Zimbabwe national football team slippery winger Kuda Mahachi has revealed his desire to play in South Africa’s Absa Premier Soccer League. Mahachi has been in great form at the ongoing African Nations Championship (Chan) tournament. He put in a man-of-the-match display as Zimbabwe surprised everyone by knocking Mali out in the quarterfinals…
CAPE TOWN – Zimbabwe have emerged as dark horses for the 2014 African Nations Championship (Chan) title after making it through to the last four with a spirited win over Mali on Saturday. The Warriors now face Libya at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein Wednesday for the right to play in the final. Against…
HARARE – Dynamos team manager Richard Chihoro is pleased with the way the Glamour Boys have been preparing for their 2014 African Champions League tournament. Despite the absence of head Calisto Pasuwa, who is on national duty with the Zimbabwe national football team in South Africa, the Glamour Boys have been training feverishly at the…
GWERU – Austin Chishanga has retained the Zifa Midlands chairperson seat after beating Solomon Nyathi in elections conducted in Gweru on Sunday. Chishanga, who has been at the helm of the Midlands province since 2002, beat Nyathi who is the outgoing treasurer by 12 votes to five in an election conducted at Chaplin High School….
