Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE United States of America (USA) has announced significant fresh funding to help tackle the HIV/Aids pandemic in the country. The US$123 million funding will come through Washington’s humanitarian aid organisation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Speaking at the launch of the latest assistance in Harare yesterday, USAID acting…
THE trial of businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his Intratek Zimbabwe firm facing fraud allegations of swindling the Zimbabwe Power Company of US$5,6 million in the Gwanda Solar Project has been pushed to October 24 after his lawyers wrote to the prosecution over the matter. The matter was set for yesterday following the Supreme Court’s decision…
Dionne KanyowaSTAFF WRITERkanyowad@dailynews.co.zw FORMER NetOne boss, Reward Kangai’s efforts to claim employment benefits from his former employer at the Constitutional Court were quashed after the High Court ruled that he was using the wrong recourse for relief. Kangai, who was the company’s chief executive officer, approached the High Court requesting to be allowed to approach…
EDITOR — Living in Zimbabwe is becoming difficult with each day. Looking at the situation in the country I am now convinced most of us have come to realise that it is only God who can change the course or fortunes of our country. As Zimbabweans, I believe we have the education to turn the…
Ketty Noyni HARARE City Council (HCC) has threatened to remove or take over unmaintained and dilapidated billboards in the capital saying they are a potential hazard to the public. In a notice signed by the Harare acting town clerk Phakamile Moyo, and shared on their social media sites, the local authority raised concern over the…
TRADITIONAL leaders in Zvishavane and Mberengwa say they have started engaging the government regarding food aid as their people are in need of assistance following poor harvests in the mining district. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chief Mposi of Mberengwa said he had made the proposal to the government on the matter. “We had…
AUSTRALIA raced to an eight-wicket victory in Townsville as the second ODI lasted less than 43 overs after Mitchell Starc had blown Zimbabwe’s top order away to leave him on 199 wickets, and the visitors dismantled for 96. On a pitch that offered considerable help to the fast bowlers, Starc claimed 3 for 15 in…
IT’S hard to sugar-coat an ODI loss that comes in less time than the length of one innings, but Zimbabwe are determined…
IN RECENT months South Africa has witnessed a new wave of anti-immigrant protests, mainly targeted at foreigners from neighbouring countries without papers. The protests are being spearheaded by a new movement calling itself Dudula, meaning force out. The latest protest was at a hospital in western Pretoria at the weekend where suspected foreigners, either patients…
DIVERSIFIED financial service group, Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited (OMZIL), says net profit after tax in historical terms for half-year ended June 30, increased by 246 percent to $50 billion driven by a strong performance across the group’s business lines. Group chief executive Samuel Matsekete told shareholders attending an analyst briefing on Monday that the group’s…
