SPEAKING in hushed tones, 80-year-old Frank Chiundura (not his real name) says he has only God to thank for surviving nature’s incessant troubles. He has seen it all, from economic woes to drought, floods and cholera. “I am the last man standing,” Chiundura said apprehensively, feigning bravado. While having escaped all these life-threatening experiences, Chiundura…
©️ Nigel Matongorere – THE delayed start of the 2020 Castle Lager Premiership season due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) will see most clubs struggle to survive as financial implications start to emerge. The domestic season was expected to kick off last weekend but the spread of the novel virus made it impossible. The government had…
LOCAL coaches, former players and current stars have saluted former national team coach Sunday “Mhofu” Chidzambwa after he announced he is taking a back seat from active coaching, having served for almost four decades. Chidzambwa, one of the most respected local coaches who is credited with taking Dynamos to the 1998 Champions League final while…
AT the age of 17, Angelica Mkorongo started having weird unwanted intrusive thoughts, scary images, embarrassing and violent obsessions that led to repetitive behaviours, also known as compulsions. These obsessions and compulsions interfered with her daily activities and caused significant distress. She lost a lot in life and never enjoyed it for more than 30…
THE world today faces a common enemy — coronavirus (Covid-19) — and as such a collective, all-inclusive approach is needed to defeat the foe. So much has been said about coronavirus since its outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December last year, including fake information. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given guidelines which respective global…
©️ ALTHOUGH the deadly coronavirus has cast a shadow on Zimbabwe — a country with a rickety healthcare system — the fight could be hard and gruelling considering that a large number of Zimbabweans live from hand to mouth, making a living in the informal sector. On Monday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced stringent measures to…
©️ THERE are fears that the 21-day national lockdown announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday night to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country could hit poor Zimbabweans very hard. Experts and ordinary people who spoke to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday said as necessary as the lockdown is —…
©️ THE government is scrounging around for at least US$100 million to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country, the Daily News on Sunday can reveal. This comes as the number of people who have been infected by the virus in Zimbabwe continues to rise, after the country recorded new cases —…
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track down people who arrived from high-risk nations and are possibly infected by coronavirus (Covid-19). In a letter to the minister of Health…
TEACHERS have appealed to the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to postpone examination registration to avoid the spread of the deadly coronavirus when headmasters travel to provincial and district centres to submit the required papers. Deadlines for payment of examination fees are March 30, 2020 for the June examinations and April 9, 2020 for the…
