April 2014

BULAWAYO – The mainstream MDC Bulawayo provincial executive has come out guns blazing dismissing the supposed suspension of its president Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) and the party’s top hierarchy on Saturday by rebels calling for leadership renewal as a non-event. Senior MDC leaders such as vice-president Thokozani Khupe, national chairman Lovemore Moyo, organising secretary Nelson Chamisa…

LUSAKA – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) says there is need to promote domestic tourism as a way of sustaining African nations. Karikoga Kaseke, the ZTA chief executive, told delegates attending the Zambia International Travel Expo here that growth in domestic tourism helped to pull Zimbabwe through the last decade — between the year 2000 and…

HARARE – A woman is seeking protection from her son and daughter-in-law claiming they harass and insult her regularly. Anna Vhono said her son, Andrew, scolds her while her daughter-in-law, Irene Antonio, does not treat her with the respect she deserves as a mother-in-law. Vhono on Friday told Harare Civil Court magistrate, Gamuchirai Siwardi, that…

HARARE – Zimbabwe will embark on HIV vaccine research in a bid to up its contribution towards curbing the virus which claims thousands of lives every year. The HIV vaccine research programme broadly looks at HIV prevention but is complex and requires massive infrastructure for storage of the vaccine. Executive director of the University of …