HARARE – Striking junior doctors have vowed to continue with their month-long industrial action despite claims by government that the two sides have reached a consensus on the majority of their demands. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) secretary-general Mthabisi Bhebhe told the Daily News yesterday that no such consensus had been reached with the Health…
MUTARE – Hlanganiso Matangaidze, a leading businessman from Manicaland Province, who died on Saturday, was laid to rest at the provincial shrine in the eastern border city of Mutare yesterday. The businessman had been declared a provincial hero for his immense philanthropic work and contribution to society through his vast business interests. The who’s who…
HARARE – The Meteorological Department (Met Department) is forecasting torrential rains to cause havoc throughout the country in the coming few days. According to the Met Department, rains and windstorm will strike tomorrow morning with meteorologist James Ngoma saying the weather would be in a turbulent mood for the next few days. Ngoma said precipitation…
HARARE – At least 60 babies were delivered on January 1, at major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo, while some of us were busy staring at the fireworks going off in the sky on New Year’s Eve. The first babies of the New Year arrived to much fanfare for their families, with 2019 decorations to…
HARARE – The national rate of road deaths rose during the holiday period, recently-released data shows. In the past two weeks, 111 people have died, and there have been 1 590 major crashes. Several crashes in different provinces over the Christmas period involved multiple fatalities. But statistics for the year immediately preceding the holiday period…
HARARE – A member of the Presidential Guard accused of stealing 119 laptops, three desktop computers and accessories belonging to former president Robert Mugabe has been acquitted. Pepukai Zvakavapano, 32, who was said to have broken into Zimbabwe House in early April last year, was freed by Harare magistrate Josephine Sande who ruled that the…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his vacation to deal with the crisis in the health sector where junior doctors have been on a month-long industrial action, which is costing lives. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Zimbabwe can win one of five UN Security Council seats up for election in the next two years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman has said, although analysts doubted the southern African country would win approval by two-thirds of the world body’s General Assembly members to secure a term. The General Assembly has just elected…
HARARE – Mass protests have been lined up in the New Year as public disenchantment against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration continues to grow, the Daily News can report. Yesterday, the main opposition party led by Nelson Chamisa revealed that it will engage in mass protests this month to force Mnangagwa out of power ostensibly because…
HARARE – Former Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora and his wife Millicent are set to lose household property worth thousands of dollars after failing to pay back an undisclosed amount of money to a local bank. According to a notice seen by the Daily News, KM Actions (Private) Limited is set to auction the property mid…
