HARARE – Three young Zimbabweans – Shantel Marekera, Itai Muzhingi and Tatenda Magetsi -will study at Oxford University next year under the 2019 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholarship. The scholarship fund, which covers tuition and living expenses in Oxford, selected the three from a shortlist of eight. The other students on the shortlist considered by the Zimbabwe…
HARARE – With a few days to go into the new year, the omens don’t look good politically in 2019, following the Zanu PF youth league’s ominous threats this week against the country’s opposition forces, the Daily News can report. [Adz] [GoogleAd]
HARARE – Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services deputy minister Energy Mutodi has rubbished claims by Nelson Chamisa that he met with President Cyril Ramaphosa last week to seek help from SA to break Zimbabwe’s political and economic impasse. Mutodi said SA ambassador to Zimbabwe Mphakama Mbete had said he was not aware of any meeting…
HARARE – MDC youth assembly chairperson Happymore “Bvondo” Chidziva said he will not seek re-election at the opposition party’s congress next year adding that he wants to pass the baton to the next generation. As the vibrant opposition leader celebrated his 38th birthday, Bvondo pointed out how dedicated he has been as a leader from…
HARARE – Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Paawuz) will next year push the farm workers wage from the current $80 to $150 so as to cushion its members. Paawuz secretary-general Raymond Sixpence told the Daily News yesterday that farm workers remain in the lowest earning bracket. “We will have to fight…
HARARE – Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them. They said their parents, guardians and family actually sent them to school adding they are qualified doctors who hold degrees from accredited institutions. The doctors said those around Chiwenga fed him…
HARARE – With the doctors’ strike going on for weeks without any solution in sight, concerned Zimbabweans have blasted government for being confrontational and not amicable to professional negotiations with the medical practitioners. Apart from the doctors being on strike, nurses have resolved to only come to work for two days per week as they…
HARARE – A Harare woman died and her husband is battling for his life after drinking a concoction they were given by a self-proclaimed prophet to ‘cure’ them of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) which had tormented them for over a year, a court heard yesterday. Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba heard that after drinking the…
MUTARE – One of two armed robbers who killed a woman and injured three other passengers when they attacked a Beitbridge-bound bus has been arrested. The duo robbed passengers of cash and other valuables just outside the border town earlier this month. Thandazani Mandhlazi was arrested on December 27 in Manicaland and was brought before…
HARARE – A suspected thief who allegedly used a rod to fish out cell phones and clothes from houses is on the verge of losing his private parts after he was bitten by three dogs as he fled the scene in the wee hours of the morning. Chamunorwa Dick, 43, of Kambuzuma suburb was ravaged…
