Former first lady Janet Banana is seriously ill and is seeking medical treatment. The 83-year-old wife of Zimbabwe’s first post-independence president Canaan Sodindo Banana is being taken care of at her home in Bulawayo after deciding she does not want to remain in hospital. [GoogleAd] She has been in and out of hospital recently and…
MOST schools are hiking their tuition fees and levies to enable them to survive the harsh economic climate, the Daily News can report. The fee increases put a heavy burden on struggling parents and guardians whose earnings are continuously being eroded by the ever-rising cost of living. [GoogleAd] As of 2013, the country had nearly …
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) yesterday met with captains of industry and commerce in the capital Harare, lodging an appeal for assistance in the rehabilitation of more than a hundred schools ravaged by Cyclone Idai in Manicaland, Masvingo and Mashonaland East. [GoogleAd] The meeting which attracted key industry players and churches such as businessman Shingi Munyeza,…
HARARE City Council has announced plans to bolster collection of rentals from market traders for the first time in 10 years. This comes after revelations that market traders have not been paying anything to the city since the hyperinflation period more than a decade ago. [GoogleAd] Speaking at a recent workshop in Kadoma, district manager…
LAND barons are illegally selling residential stands at Golden Quarry dumpsite, with the Harare City Council warning prospective home buyers that the area is an industrial garbage dumpsite that will never be used for real estate. [GoogleAd] Harare City Council spokesperson Michael Chideme told the Daily News that anyone who buys the stands will be…
THE family of a man allegedly killed by police has sued the law enforcement agency for refusing to grant consent for a hospital post-mortem to obtain information on the cause of death. [GoogleAd] Rights lawyer Obey Shava has alleged police are delaying authorising the procedure in a bid to cover up a suspected murder by…
A HARARE woman has approached the High Court seeking rescission of a default judgment in a case she was suing Harare Central Hospital for $100 000 in damages after being attacked by a psychiatric patient in a hospital ward. [GoogleAd] Tatenda Majuru had claimed $100 000 damages, $25 000 for emotional trauma, $25 000 for…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission concluded talks with Zimbabwean officials last week and reached agreement on macroeconomic policies and structural reforms that can underpin a Staff Monitored Programme (SMP). [GoogleAd] A team from the IMF, led by Gene Leon, visited Harare on April 1-5 to continue discussions on a SMP. The SMP aims to…
The Rwandan Embassy in Harare will today commemorate the 25th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi at the Arupe Jesuit University at Number 16 Link Road in Mount Pleasant in Harare. [GoogleAd] The programme will start at 16:00hrs with a church service. At the national level, the commemoration was held in Kigali on Sunday…
A HARARE court yesterday dismissed former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa’s application for review after his legal practitioners noted anomalies in the transcript served by the State. [GoogleAd] Parirenyatwa stands accused of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly directed Natpharm board chairperson George Washaya to terminate Flora Nancy Sifeku’s contract with the…
