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'Arrest of bigwigs in line with Zanu-PF’s anti-corruption stance'
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has said the arrest of bigwigs, among them former Cabinet ministers, is in line with the ruling party's resolutions to clamp down on all forms of gr...Published: 7 hrs ago | 406 | by Staff reporter
Prison boss willing to consider inmates conjugal visits
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi talks to the Daily News on Sunday's Tendayi Madhomu about the state of the correctional facilities in Zimbabwe....Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:26hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blocks donated life-saving drugs
LIFE-SAVING drugs worth millions of dollars, donated by the Global Fund, could soon go to waste after they were reportedly blocked from distribution and quarantined at government warehouses under uncl...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:34hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Is it time for Africa to teach Europe what democracy and passive racism are?
Picture it. The aftermath of a national election, where senior international observer from a leading European country declares of the election process he has just witnessed: "In all the many election ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 1131 | by Anonymous
12 Zimbabweans face the gallows in China
Twelve Zimbabweans - one man and 11 women - face the death sentence in China, unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government moves with speed to operationalise a prisoners' exchange programme with t...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 5167 | by Staff reporter
Cholera hits Beitbridge
Of the four suspected cholera cases reported in Beitbridge yesterday, only one tested positive while three other patients were discharged, SoutherEye has heard.A woman who resides near Elangen...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council bans school feeding programme
Bulawayo City Council has temporarily banned the school feeding programme amid reports that the number of suspected cholera cases in the city has risen to 21.Speaking during a Zimbabwe Medical...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Near murder in radio volume row
A MAN (52) from Mangwe District in Matabeleland South has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after a 21 year old man brutally attacked him over radio volume during a beer drink. M...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Datlabs invests $1 million
PHARMACEUTICAL and personal care products maker, Datlabs Limited, has invested $1 million in capital expenditure meant to bolster production capacity and meet market supply requirements. The B...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Cholera death toll hits 30
THE number of people who have died of cholera has risen from 28 to 30 as Government, Harare City Council, the police and other stakeholders continue to make concerted efforts to curb the spread of the...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
The fight against cholera
I may not speak on behalf of other towns and cities but in Harare CBD I am an eyewitness, eye-sore sights are commonplace. The only public toilets with a modicum of hygiene and cleanness are the pay-a...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 18:12hrs | 1198 | by Tondorindo
Cholera death toll climbs to 28
The death toll in Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 28, state media said on Sunday, as the health minister announced new antibiotics were being used after the disease strain was found to be res...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 17:41hrs | 1618 | by AFP
Govt speaks on fuel situation
Erratic fuel supplies being experienced throughout the country have now been addressed, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday.Zera chief execu...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:28hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's five big challenges
NEWLY-APPOINTED Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube faces the unenviable task of navigating Zimbabwe's stuttering economy through serious challenges and will need to make tough deci...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 3602 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cholera cases breach the 5 000 mark
The number of cholera cases has breached the 5 000 mark, but the government insists it is on course to bring the outbreak under control.At least 28 people have died mostly in Harare, where the...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Mbanje movement regulated
Government has said raw and processed marijuana can now only be moved in and out of Zimbabwe via Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.Zimbabwe early this year legalised production and p...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 08:48hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Govt rolls out Cholera vaccines
In the coming weeks, Government will begin administering cholera vaccines in selected suburbs in order to contain the current outbreak that has claimed more than 28 lives in the past two weeks, a Cabi...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:39hrs | 493 | by Staff Reporter
Cannabis movement only allowed via Mugabe International Airport
Government has said raw and processed cannabis can now only be moved in and out of Zimbabwe via Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.Zimbabwe early this year legalised production and pr...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1123 | by Unicef
Man bashes wife over HIV status
A MAN from Bulawayo has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife leaving her hospitalised for hiding from him that she was HIV positive. Abraham Mhlanga (25) of Jute Road, Montgomery su...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1937 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's former ministers under siege
FORMER Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested on charges of criminal abuse of office, the first high profile casualty of a crackdown by a Special Anti-Corruption Unit...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | 3914 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health minister caught in anti-corruption dragnet
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa was yesterday arrested and appeared at Harare magistrates' courts on charges of criminal abuse of office. The arrest is seen as part of Governm...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:06hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's health Minister, David Parirenyatwa arrested
Former Heath and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa has appeared in court facing a charge of criminal abuse of office after his actions allegedly resulted in the State losing $30 000 paid to two m...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 13:14hrs | 11259 | by Staff reporter
Disabled sidelined in HIV information dissemination
Thirty-year-old Chenai Murimbika of Dunzvambeva village under Chief Kazangarare, 60km north of Karoi, looks older than her age.She has endured untold suffering, marked by stigmatisation couple...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army threatens
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) will not hesitate to deal decisively with any forms of indiscipline which drag the image and reputation of the force into disrepute, a senior army official has said. ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Brain stimulation therapy comes to Zimbabwe
Mental Health MattersSessions of magnetic brain stimulation therapy lasting just over 20 to 30 minutes per day significantly reduce depression symptoms in patients. The treatment, called repet...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12hrs | 171 | by Dr Sacrifice Chirisa
International community should intervene in Zimbabwe Gukurahundi genocide
What do we think of when we hear of which such names as Rohingya, Ndebele, Tutsi, Kazakh, Armenia, and Jew - especially, when they are all in one sentence?...most likely genocide and the Holoc...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 15:11hrs | 564 | by Peace Chiwara Marangwanda
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1038 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mthuli Ncube has a cash crisis plan
NEWLY-APPOINTED Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube says government expects to announce a plan to tackle the on-going currency crisis by month-end and confirmed that he expects to r...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:43hrs | 6319 | by Staff reporter
No difference between Grace Mugabe & Judas Iscariot
The only difference between Grace Mugabe and Judas Iscariot is on gender, otherwise, they are a brother and a sister from different mothers. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christianity because of some few pi...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 09:40hrs | 5020 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's Ministers ready to roll
NEW Cabinet Ministers sworn-in yesterday pledged to bring about sweeping changes in Government and ensure Zimbabwe becomes a middle income economy by 2030. The 20 Cabinet Ministers - who took ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet raises Zimbabwe hopes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has raised fresh hopes among long-suffering Zimbabweans that his administration could finally end the misery and despondency that characterised life under fo...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 17:19hrs | 5859 | by Staff reporter
Dating hobby, not fun
DO not play with someone's heart if you have no intentions of a serious relationship!There are many things to play with in life, but a person's feelings is not one of them. It is sad that ther...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:31hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Govt blasted over TB drugs shortage
THE Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) has blasted government for poor planning, resulting in failure to allocate foreign currency for procurement of tuberculosis (TB) drugs, hence their current...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:37hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
84-yr-old granny arrested for tototo brewing
AN 84-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested in Nyamandlovu for brewing an illicit beer popularly known as tototo. Alice Ngwenya of village 6B, under chief Deli, was found in possession of 60 litres...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe endorses rigged elections as 'will of the people' after ED guarantees of fabulous wealth
A team of top notch scientists must be dispatched immediately to Blue Roof Mansion, Harare; the task is to take and test blood samples, urine samples, test all medicine, perfume, test all the fo...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 06:32hrs | 1341 | by Nomusa Garikai
Majome releases CDF expenditure report
Former Harare West MP Jessie Majome has released the Constituence Development Fund report to upraise the constituency on how the funds were used during her tenure."As I promised, I hereby pres...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1440 | by Stephen Jakes
ED rigged the elections, first came cash shortage and next is the exodus - no lights to turn out
"If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights." Screamed the headlines in The Sun April 1992, Britain's leading tabloid newspaper. Neil Kinnock, Labour, did n...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1180 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Murder over puppy in Tsholotsho
A MAN from Tsholotsho has been arrested for allegedly killing a colleague during a misunderstanding over ownership of a puppy. Villagers apprehended Bhekimpilo Ncube (25) of Malilahunda village, under...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:38hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy skids
Analysts have raised fears that the country's troubled economy could soon plunge into another full blown crisis akin to the ugly 2008 hyper-inflationary era — unless the government acts urgently to ...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 15:46hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe’s expectations are high, justifiably so
Since November 24 last year when President Mnangagwa assumed office following the resignation of Mr Robert Mugabe, expectations have been high for him to change Zimbabwe's complexion and turn around i...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 268 | by Vusi Nyamazana
Mnangagwa 'moved' to charter plane for Grace Mugabe but not to save 100 000 babies' lives
According to a New Zimbabwe report, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was "moved" to facilitated the return home from Singapore of former first lady Grace Mugabe whose mother died last week. "...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 5615 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa to retire long-serving Cabinet ministers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to retire long-serving Cabinet ministers and deploy them at Zanu-PF headquarters — as he comes under growing pressure to dump the deadwood that worked for decades...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 15:05hrs | 3215 | by Staff reporter
Ensuring clean environment is individual responsibility
All though we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery (Deepak Chopra). The word sanitation also r...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 12:14hrs | 140 | by Erick Matotoba
The circle of poison
The US continues to export pesticides, which are restricted in the US, to developing countries .In recent decades, harmful pesticides spread around the world's less developed nations have caused i...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:20hrs | 682 | by Erick aMtotoba
Typhoid spreads to Masvingo
Masvingo City has recorded its first typhoid case in three years as water shortages that have dogged the city for more than a week persist.A six-year-old boy yesterday tested positive for the ...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Massive drug shortage hits Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S pharmaceutical sector, which relies largely on imports to meet local demand for medicine, has resorted to drug rationing as stocks have fallen to unsustainable levels due to protracted dela...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:24hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold set to breach 30 tonnes annual output
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has applauded the gold mining sector for its strong performance this year as the country gears to breach 30 tonnes output by year-end, a record achievement since att...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:53hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Patron killed over 20 cents
A MAN from Methodist village on the outskirts of Bulawayo, who was selling beer at his house, allegedly clobbered a customer to death with a knobkerrie following a misunderstanding over 20 cents. ...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:55hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on mbanje production
GOVERNMENT will only legalise production of industrial cannabis and will put in place regulations to control its production, President Mnangagwa has said. He was speaking during a question and...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
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