© GOVERNMENT has partnered with a leading American hospital in the fight against hard-to-treat childhood cancers in an in- tervention that could bring much-needed new therapy for children. Through Parirenyatwa Hospital, which has the only paediatric centre in the country, government will be working with St Jude Children’s Research and Treatment Hospital in strengthening the…
© STEVE Hanke, an economics professor at John Hopkins University in the United States, has said Zimbabwe’s inflation has risen to 721 percent per annum. This comes after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had said the gov- ernment will defer publish- ing year-on-year inflation figures while accumulating a database of prices in a “mono-currency” system for…
© JUNIOR doctors have rejected an allowance incre- ment of $360 offered by government and insisted on salaries pegged to the prevailing interbank market rate. The Health Services Board (HSB) offered the doctors, who have been on strike for the past two weeks, the allowance in a bid to end the industrial action that is…
© ONE of the saddest things about former president Robert Mugabe’s death is that he will be buried with his dark secrets, most notably those surrounding the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s. As a political leader in this region of Matabeleland, the people I have interacted with since his death last Friday have expressed deep anger…
© FORMER president Robert Mugabe’s chaotic funeral arrangements have been further blighted by a seemingly excessive adherence to supernatural beliefs with his family refusing to let his casket out of their sight, amid apparent fears that it could be used for ritual purposes by some of his former Zanu PF colleagues, the Daily News can report….
© THE obtaining power crisis that has gripped Zimbabwe provides enough exhortation for government to look at alternative sources of energy to augment the dwindling supplies from hydro as well as thermal power stations in the country. Indications from power utility Zesa Holdings that the dire situation may continue well into next year are not…
Lawyers representing businessman Frank Buyanga have sent a letter to Zanu PF deputy youth secretary Lewis Matutu early Friday demanding a retraction for a story that claimed the property and gold tycoon manipulated and defrauded the country’s land acquisition processes. [GoogleAd] The letter, which was addressed to Matutu, said the untested allegations were reckless, defamatory…
© Hamilton Property Holdings (Pvt) Ltd (Hamilton) has sought eviction orders against two Harare men who are refusing to vacate houses they sold to the property behemoth. Hamilton, owned by businessman Frank Buyanga, has cited Wine Gombingo, Happson Hanyani and the registrar of deeds in summons filed separately against the duo at the High Court….
© SANITY finally prevailed yesterday after the family of the late former president Robert Mugabe confirmed that his remains would be interred at the National Heroes Acre in Harare as had been accurately reported by the Daily News earlier this week. This comes as Mugabe’s relatives also revealed yesterday that the former long-ruling president would…
© THE Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (Mopa) is still under scrutiny in the office of the Attorney General (AG), Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Nearly four weeks after it was passed by Parliament, Ziyambi told the Daily News the AG’s office wants to make sure the Act has no flaws. [GoogleAd] “The office…
