HARARE – United States of America medical company, Hologic Inc has launched new HIV diagnosis tools in Zimbabwe which makes it quicker and easier for laboratories to diagnose and monitor HIV infections in the country. In a statement Hologic Inc said the new tool known as Aptima HIV-1 Quant will have two functions that will…
HARARE – Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement ministry has established a 99-year lease Help Desk. In a statement Lands and Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri said the help desk will facilitate processing of applications and issuance of 99-year leases to farmers who qualify. [GoogleAd] “The help desk will also…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has finally broken its silence after pressure continued to mount from all ends for the human rights body to act upon the gross human rights violations, including rape of women and abuse of children by State security agents. In a statement, ZGC said it had been following the nationwide…
HARARE – Former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu’s body is expected to arrive today from South Africa, where he died last week. “The funeral parlour handling the matter is finalising the paperwork and the body is expected to leave for Zimbabwe on Tuesday (today),” Zimbabwe’s Consul-General to South Africa, Batiraishe…
Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; ‘Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super’. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban Idiot of today remains trapped in Rhodesian systems and ways because those systems were never meant to die and were designed to…
ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (ZESN), the largest independent electoral watchdog in Zimbabwe had an eventful 2018 deploying thousands of observers to observe key electoral processes namely the biometric voter registration, the inspection of the voters’ roll, the nomination of election candidates, campaigns and on election day. As Zimbabwe begins a new electoral cycle, the Daily News on…
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from another planet. Last week, our esteemed president and commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces embarked on another expensive junket – this time to Addis Ababa…
Zimbabwe’s most celebrated veteran author Charles Mungoshi, pictured, has died. Mungoshi, 71, passed on in the early hours of yesterday at Parirenyatwa Hospital after succumbing to a neurological condition for years. Mungoshi was married to actress Jesesi who played the title role in the 1993 Zimbabwean film Neria. A literature guru in Zimbabwe, he…
BEER guzzlers, who do not usually feel the pinch of escalating prices of basics, must now dig deeper in their pockets for a pint of ale after Delta increased prices by over 50 percent on Valentine’s Day. Although Delta, which is citing runaway operational costs as well as shortages of foreign currency for inputs, was…
FOR over 37 years, former president Robert Mugabe had remained untouchable as many citizens suffered in silence at the hands of the autocratic leader. But when his rule came to a dramatic end nearly two years ago, Mugabe’s world crumbled, leaving him exposed and open to numerous lawsuits, which were not possible to pursue during…
