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THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has reinstated six students who were suspended earlier this month for staging a campus protest in solidarity with striking lecturers. The students, Narshon Kohlo, Blessing Mtisi, Nodesha Maingehama, Tafadzwa Katsande, Tawana Hove, and Tariro Mtukura, all members of the Zimbabwe National Students Union UZ Chapter, had each received individual suspension…

RIOT police had to intervene yesterday after hooligans blocked a meeting in Harare meant to heal MDC divisions and to pave the way for a grand unity pact of the country’s fractured opposition. The violent thugs — who are allegedly affiliated to the Douglas Mwonzora MDC faction — locked the party’s central Harare head offices…

Takudzwa Dhambu dhambut@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have arrested an Indian businessman and seized illicit brews worth US$165 000 from Mambo Beverages, a private limited company in Southerton, Harare. National police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday said the arrests were part of an intensified police campaign against the illegal manufacturing of alcoholic beverages, aimed at protecting Zimbabwean citizens….

POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw YOUTH minister Tino Machakaire has touched another raw nerve by claiming that government officials are misleading ministers with inaccurate information regarding the goings on in various departments. This comes after Machakaire recently said it was important that Zanu PF followers tell President Emmerson Mnangagwa the truth about what is happening in the…

Staff writer in BULAWAYO ONE of the country’s biggest psychiatric institutions, Ingutsheni Central Hospital, is chock-a-block with patients suffering from drug-related mental issues. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the chief medical officer at Ingutsheni, Nemache Mawere, said about 70 percent of the hospital’s admitted patients were suffering from mental health problems associated with drugs….

PARIRENYATWA hospital is facing a severe shortage of intensive care units (ICUs) and specialised medical personnel, limiting its ability to perform daily heart operations. The revelation comes as Parirenyatwa has partnered with the Gift of Life International Foundation, which brings surgeons to Zimbabwe to assist with open-heart surgeries on children. Speaking to journalists in Harare…

Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER brandonj@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are resolutely building up the country’s foreign currency and gold reserves, as they lay the groundwork for the eventual sole use of the ZiG in all domestic transactions. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — an upbeat Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John…

muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE government is engaging South Africa, in a bid to find solutions to the ongoing denial of service to some Zimbabweans at hospitals in the neighbouring country. Zimbabwe’s ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi, confirmed the talks to the Daily News yesterday. “We are engaging the South African authorities on this issue so that…

POLITICAL EDITOR ZANU PF has successfully purged fraudulent structures across the country after completing its cell verification exercise, according to party political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha. This development follows Zanu PF’s recent warning to errant party members with “overweening ambition” who were allegedly manipulating the cell verification exercise for personal political gain, urging them to behave…

SOUTHERN EDITOR VICTORIA Falls is set to become a global hub for wetlands conservation as Zimbabwe prepares to host the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP15) to the Ramsar Convention from July 23 to 31. Not only is it the first time the country will host such a conference, but Zimbabwe is also poised…