adminGovt seeks to abolish maternity user fees
From Patrick Chitumba in VICTORIA FALLS
Government is seeking funding to abolish user fees and enable all pregnant mothers access health care and curb maternal
Sungura artiste Mashakada dies
Entertainment Reporters
SUNGURA artiste Cephas “Motomuzhinji” Mashakada has died. He was 51. The Sounds of the Muddy Face frontman, who
Ex-IMF chief to walk free as sex scandal collapses
NEW YORK. – Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set to walk free yesterday after New York prosecutors said they could no longer prove
Chavez calls for peace in Libya
Caracas. – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has reiterated his call for a peace solution to the Libyan crisis, where innocent
Libya rebels launch massive attack on Gaddafi
TRIPOLI. – Libyan rebels launched a massive offensive on leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling Bab al-Azizya compound in
Zim’s health care one of best in Sadc
Herald Reporters
Zimbabwe has emerged as one of the best countries in the Sadc region providing acceptable health care facilities to its people,
Drug-resistant hiv strain noted
Walter Nyamukondiwa
Four cases of an HIV strain resistant to first line treatment have been reported at Father O’hea Hospital in Zvimba and were
Mujuru calls for thorough probe
Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
VICE President Joice Mujuru says she will only be consoled if ongoing investigations into her husband General Solomon Mujuru’s death give a satisfactory answer on how he died.
Gen Mujuru died in an inferno at his Alamein Farm in Beatrice last Tuesday before his burial at the National Heroes Acre on Saturday.
The Vice President was speaking at her Chisipite home yesterday when the Zimbabwe senior women’s soccer team, the Mighty Warriors, led by Women’s Football chairperson, Mavis Gumbo, went to pay their condolences.
She said the farmhouse’s bedroom windows were so low that even her grandchildren would jump in and out with ease,
Bring NATO to account over civilian deaths: US lawmaker
A US lawmaker fiercely opposed to NATO’s role in the Libya conflict called yesterday for the alliance’s military chiefs to be held to account under international law for the death of Libyan civilians.
This follows two nights of uncertainty over the goings on in Libya – who was winning and the whereabouts of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his family.
There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that at 4:35pm, rebels had stormed Gaddafi’s main Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli.
Gaddafi’s compound covers a large area in the centre of Tripoli.
Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, said of NATO’s
Biti threatens to reintroduce duty on basics
Golden Sibanda and Lloyd Gumbo
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti has threatened to scrap duty on selected basic commodities following a spate of price increa-ses that were now fuelling inflation amid fears this could negatively affect macro-economic stability.
Minister Biti restored import duty on selected basic commodities when he presented the Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review Statement last month, but since then there have been unilateral price increases by retailers.
He reintroduced duty to help local manufacturers who could not compete with imported products.
Addressing a Press conference in Harare yesterday, Minister Biti said unjustified price increases were rendering recent