HARARE – MDC Harare West MP Joana Mamombe will have to languish in remand prison after the court dismissed her application challenging placement on remand in a subversion case. She will be back in court on March 19. [GoogleAd] Mamombe was being represented by Obey Shava who had made the application on the basis that his…
FORMER Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira wants the Constitutional Court to hear his graft case arguing he was being persecuted over an administrative decision that saved NetOne. Mandiwanzira appeared before Harare regional magistrate Elijah Makomo yesterday represented by Thembinkosi Magwaliba. He said he had the blessings of former president Robert Mugabe’s office in the transaction. [GoogleAd]…
BULAWAYO – School authorities should ensure a safe environment for pupils, as they may be answerable for negligence, former Education minister David Coltart has said. This follows an unfortunate incident last Friday where 59 Grade 4 pupils at Sigombe Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nkulumane suburb were hospitalised after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. [GoogleAd] Coltart said depending on…
BULAWAYO – Resident in Bulawayo have called for urgent intervention measures to address the exorbitant pricing in pharmacies, as the sector has shunned the official rate of 1:2,5 to the United States dollar. [GoogleAd] Members of the public who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said government should come to their rescue as the prices in most…
LUPANE – SIX Lupane State University (LSU) Students Representative Committee (SRC) members were recently arrested after staging a demonstration against the tertiary institution’s decision to bar those failing to pay registration fees. [GoogleAd] LSU banned students who have not paid registration fees from attending lectures and accessing the university’s facilities. The university is demanding $350 upfront…
MEDICINES Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) director-general Gugu Mahlangu yesterday said government needs to invest more in local pharmaceutical manufacturing and in research and innovation to improve medicinal manufacturing and supply in the country. [GoogleAd] Speaking before Parliament’s Health and Child Care Committee yesterday Mahlangu revealed that MCAZ continues to license few locally-manufactured medicines even…
ZIMBABWE has accumulated a gigantic debt which is creeping towards US$20 billion but with very little to show for it. A huge portion of that debt went into consumptive spending, with meagre amounts supporting infrastructure development and the productive sector. [GoogleAd] A significant component of the domestic debt (US$9,5 billion) was incurred not so long…
EDITOR — The Harare City Council (HCC) is at it again making sure that councillors are given unrealistic packages. Why should councillors be given stands in their area of residence? Most of them am sure have stands but this goes to show that when this decision was made it had nothing to do with the…
EDITOR — Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit. However, as a basic entrepreneurship definition, it’s a bit limiting. The more modern entrepreneurship definition is also about transforming the world by solving big problems. [GoogleAd] Like initiating social change, creating an innovative product…
Global biotechnology giants Abbott Laboratories have set their eyes on introducing a rapid diagnostics test in Zimbabwe that can be used in remote areas for testing an HIV patient’s viral load. [GoogleAd] In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Abbott vice president Willem Pretorius said the devices could be very useful in remote areas which…
