Let's take action: Tsvangirai
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says it is time to take the President Robert Mugabe-led government head-on through action which he did not specify. Speaking at a rally in Zhombe on...
View ArticleGovt targets churches in HIV interventions
HARARE - Religious beliefs are preventing many HIV positive patients from accessing anti-retroviral treatment, a Health ministry official has said. Angela Mushavi, ministry of Health and Child Care...
View ArticleMPs reprimand Police Minerals Unit
HARARE - Legislators yesterday castigated police for corruption and mismanagement of gold recovered from illegal gold dealers. The parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy chaired by Zanu...
View ArticleMaid seduces gardener
HARARE - A sex-starved maid reportedly stripped naked in front of a gardener in an attempt to seduce him to make love to her, a Harare court heard yesterday. Emilia Chikonye reportedly undressed...
View ArticleKingsdale Farm occupants evicted
HARARE - Illegal occupants at Kingsdale Farm in Norton were left homeless yesterday after they were served with an eviction order, following numerous court directives. The farm owner Pieter Nicholas...
View ArticleMbare school collects 10 000 bread bags
HARARE - St Michaels School in Mbare has collected over 10 000 bread bags, winning the Baker’s Inn’s Collect-4-Progress campaign. The campaign, which collected over 280 000 bread bags, was aimed at...
View ArticleNotorious car smuggler nabbed
BULAWAYO - One of Bulawayo’s most wanted robbers, Energy Muzanenhamo, who has been on the run for four years has been brought before the courts. Magistrate Gladmore Mushove denied Muzanenhamo bail and...
View ArticlePolice ordered to stop Mazowe demolitions
HARARE - High Court Judge Susan Mavhangira has ordered the police to stop demolitions and evictions of several families occupying Anold Farm in Mazowe. The families filed an urgent chamber application...
View ArticleGovt hikes medical workers' salaries
HARARE - Government has gazetted that the least paid worker in the medical and allied industry should get $330 a month after the Daily News exposed scandalously low salaries in the sector. Statutory...
View ArticleGumbura's fresh rape trial deferred
HARARE - The trial of jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura in a fresh rape charge has been deferred to April 2. Harare magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni postponed proceedings...
View ArticleMutambara files $1m defamation suit against TN
HARARE - Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit against furniture company TN Harlequin Limited which accused him of failing to pay $87 000 for...
View ArticleTomana defends Zanu PF ties
HARARE - Johannes Tomana, Zimbabwe’s prosecutor-general, yesterday said his allegiance to the ruling Zanu PF party does not compromise his professionalism. Reiterating his allegiance to the ruling...
View ArticleArrest Tsvangirai: Zanu PF
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has called for the arrest of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying he wants to incite a rebellion against their leader. Zanu PF was reacting to remarks...
View ArticleMissing plane search 'most challenging ever'
PERTH - The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the "most challenging" ever seen, the man responsible for co-ordinating the search from Australia says. Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston...
View ArticleNato to step up pressure on Russia
BRUSSELS - Nato foreign ministers are due to discuss ways to help Ukraine and reassure allies in Eastern Europe, at a meeting in Brussels. It is the first time ministers from the 28 member states of...
View ArticleEbola outbreak in Guinea
CONACKRY - The Ebola outbreak that has killed 78 people in Guinea is "unprecedented", a medical charity has said. An official with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the spread of the disease across...
View ArticleZim bigger than Grace
HARARE - It seems confirmed that President Robert Mugabe is going to boycott the EU-Africa summit set for Brussels, Belgium. Apparently, Mugabe is taking a “principled” stance because some African...
View ArticleWhat action Tsvangirai?
EDITOR — My stomach hurts from laughing at the Daily News headline ‘Lets take action — Tsvangirai’. The Tsvangirai that I know is not really a man of action, he is good with words though. For several...
View ArticleNMB plans to fund infrastructure projects
HARARE - Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed NMB Holdings (NMB) plans to fund infrastructure development, an area the banking group says has significant demand and growth prospects. The group’s chief...
View ArticleGovt appeals to private sector
HARARE - Government's has appealed to the private sector to help it in the implementation of its ambitious economic blueprint Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset)....
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