HARARE – Ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was on Wednesday airlifted to South Africa for urgent medical attention as his failing health begins to cause panic in his 18-year-old opposition party. The Daily News can report that Tsvangirai boarded the South African Airways flight on Wednesday afternoon, in the company of his wife, Elizabeth. Read…
HARARE – Recently Zimbabwe hosted the 67th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in majestic Victoria Falls. It was an uplifting experience to see all health leaders from governments in the continent and partners united. The leaders placed health of the people at the centre of development endeavours not just in words, but…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Paul Chimedza is struggling to assert his authority in the former Victoria province because Zanu PF heavyweights in the faction-ridden region are refusing to recognise his appointment by President Robert Mugabe early this month, the Daily News can report. Chimedza was appointed the top civil servant in Masvingo…
HARARE – Zanu PF heavyweights will be descending on Bulawayo today to announce the date for President Robert Mugabe’s ninth presidential youth interface rally. Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga said the party leadership is surprised at the support that the rallies have garnered so far from the youths. “The province told us that they…
HARARE – Harare City Council wants to introduce a typhoid vaccine in a bid to prevent infections in Zimbabwe’s capital. Health services director Prosper Chonzi said council had been dispensing the vaccine to some of its employees but now want to roll it out to the rest of the city. This comes as health officials…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s manufacturers have been squeezed harder by the deteriorating economy, with the sector retrenching and cutting working hours on the back of decreased capacity utilisation, the latest Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI)’s survey has revealed. This comes as the struggling companies’ woes have recently been escalated by the deepening foreign currency crisis, which…
HARARE – Suspended Mashonaland Holdings (Mash) boss Manfred Mahari was yesterday acquitted on charges of violating a court order after failing to pay child support on time and in the correct amount. Mahari had accrued arrears of $31 000. Harare magistrate Annia Ndiraya noted that Mahari entered an agreement with his estranged wife Moyra to…
HARARE – Opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) has split again after party elders withdrew their support from interim president Agrippa Mutambara. This comes after former Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti jumped ship from the Mutambara-led party to join hands with Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo. The group has issued a no-confidence vote on Mutambara,…
HARARE – The high-profile price hikes of medication have raised the ire of rights doctors. Evans Spanton, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights, said a lot of Zimbabweans are on chronic medication and this development will significantly reduce quality of life and life expectancy in general, as well as infringe…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa Police minister Fikile Mbalula has blamed immigrant Zimbabweans for the surge in theft and violent deaths of white farmers. “It’s true that there are criminals who are stealing from farms, undermining farmers work and that,” Mbalula told SABC on Tuesday. “But equally there are farmers, who are wrong, because they employ…
