THIS is the stuff that dreams are made of! Indeed, Zimbabwe’s Chevrons recovered from what appeared too little a total to defend, to secure a stunning 13- run victory over recently crowned world T20 champions India in a low scoring nail biter at Harare Sports Club yesterday. Victory for the Chevrons made them the first…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA AIRPORTS Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) has completed the construction of a US$13 million very, very important people (VVIP) pavilion at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport that will cater for regional leaders on arrival for the Sadc summit next month. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, ACZ chief executive Tawanda…
BY KETTY NYONI THE Health ministry last week received critical medical equipment and supplies worth USS$9.2 million procured through the technical support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) for expectant mothers and new-borns. The equipment and supplies include ICT, fistula repair and manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) kits,…
BY KETTY NYONI SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to brand all their products and avoid patent theft and loss of business to middlemen. The call was made on Friday by Zanu PF political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha after touring SMEs businesses operating in Mbare, Harare. “We have seen for instance that their products…
BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE THE South Korean government and Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre (Sirdc) have partnered in several ventures to boost Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector. Through funding from the Korea Partnership for Innovation of Agriculture (Kopia), the agriculture innovation projects are production of sweet potato seed, black soldier fly and maize varieties for food…
BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE THE University of Zimbabwe and Midlands State University (MSU) have opened retail shops where they are selling products they produce through the recently introduced innovation hubs. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the permanent secretary in the Higher Education ministry, Fanuel Tagwira said the innovation hubs are bearing fruits as…
ZIMBABWE Cricket has announced Bulawayo will host a white-ball series between Zimbabwe and Pakistan scheduled for November-December. The tour will consist of three One-Day International (ODI) matches and as many Twenty20 International (T20I) games, all to be played at Queens Sports Club. Zimbabwe and Pakistan will first meet in the ODIs set for 24, 26…
BY SHAMAINE CHIRIMUJIRI SHAMISO Nyemba sat alone in the darkness, tears streaming down her face as she recalled the fateful day that…
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) Normalisation Committee (NC)’s tenure has been extended, giving its much maligned chairperson Lincoln Mutasa another nine months to atone for the series of gaffes that have been made under his stewardship in the past year. The biggest target in this extended term is obviously to ensure that elections for a…
By Rutendo Ngara HARARE businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, who are facing US$7 million fraud charges, will spend their second weekend in remand prison pending the continuation of their bail application. Magistrate Stanford Mambanje yesterday postponed the two accused’s bail application to Monday as the presiding magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa is still ill. They were…
