HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday heaped praises on Harare Hospital staff that separated two conjoined twins. Mugabe visited the twin brothers Kupakwashe and Tapiwanaishe Chitiyo as Zimbabwe secured an $89 million health loan facility from China’s Exim Bank. He described the operation on the Siamese twins, led by paediatric surgeon Bothwell Mbuwayesango, as a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi and a host of other luminaries in the country, including Prophetess Ruth Makandiwa, are deserving recipients of doctorate degrees that were conferred last week, the Philanthropy Institute of Zimbabwe (PIZ) has said. Explaining the criterion that was used to select recipients of the doctorate degrees in letters, Erico…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai has said he used to get drunk on £1 during his heyday as a mine worker. The eldest of nine children, Tsvangirai was born in drought-prone Buhera, south-eastern Zimbabwe, in 1952 to a father who was a bricklayer. After quitting school, he worked at a textile mill in Mutare, and later…
HARARE – Parliament will get a chance to deliberate on findings by the Information Media Panel Inquiry (Impi), the ministry of Information has said. This comes as legislators have been questioning Impi’s mandate and who exactly was bankrolling its fact-finding mission. Impi, conceived in April by Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo, is…
HARARE – The European Union (EU) is answering the message of re-engagement being sent out by the new Zimbabwean government, and hopes all restrictive measures will be lifted soon, a top diplomat has revealed. Laurent Delahouse, the French ambassador to Zimbabwe told the Daily News at his Harare offices that the last three to four…
HARARE – Dynamos defender Partson Jaure set the tone ahead of a potentially explosive clash with CAPS United by warning the Green Machine that their recent fine form will not guarantee them success on Sunday. The Harare derby, which is set for the National Sports Stadium, has become an even more eagerly anticipated encounter given…
HARARE – Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas is adamant his team will bounce back to winning ways when they face ZPC Kariba at Gwanzura this afternoon. The Gamecocks failed to collect maximum points in their previous two games, as they played to a goalless draw against Dynamos before their last weekend’s 2-1 defeat to CAPS…
HARARE – International rugby referee Nigel Owens is set to preside over Zimbabwe’s tough test away to Russia in the Rugby World Cup 2015 Repechage match in Siberia on August 2. The Sables are set to square off with Russia in the first Repechage play-off for a chance to face the winner of Uruguay vs…
HARARE – Zimbabwe women football team stand-in coach Langton Giwa has rallied the Mighty Warriors to make full use of their friendly against South Africa this afternoon as they seek to start their Zone Six games preparations on a positive note. Giwa, who is the Under -20 coach, was chosen to lead the Mighty Warriors…
HARARE – With one game left in the Schools Hockey Northern Region A League, the title race has reached boiling point, with four teams still in the running for the championship. The race looks likely to pit current log leaders St Georges, Hellenic, Eaglesvale and St Johns. St Georges top the log standings with 23…
