HARARE City Council and Ruwa Local Board have demolished illegal structures in their respective towns, the Daily News can report. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a 21-day lockdown in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has so far infected nine and killed one person. Harare mayor Herbert Gomba…
REINSTATED MDC organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe, pictured, has called on rival claimants to the opposition party’s presidency, Nelson Chamisa and Thokozani Khupe, to find each other and strive to come up with a stronger outfit. The Supreme Court recently ordered the party to revert to its February 2014 structures and that Khupe convenes an extraordinary…
PRESSURE is piling on the government to postpone the registration of candidates for the June and November 2020 examinations after the Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) wrote to the authorities demanding they revisit the matter. The deadline for payment of examination fees for June was March 30 and April 9, 2020 for the November examinations. Government…
PERSONS living with disabilities have raised concern over government’s reluctance to accommodate their special needs as measures to contain the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) are implemented. Over 1,2 million people have been infected with the disease globally, with more than 60 000 deaths recorded by yesterday. The Lawyers with Disabilities Association of Zimbabwe Trust said nothing…
THE Environmental Management Authority (Ema) has dragged the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to court for discharging raw sewer in the city. Bulawayo has been experiencing persistent sewer bursts owing to the obtaining water crisis. Residents here are going for four days per week without water amid revelations that the overall storage in the supply dams…
IT is worrying that cases of people violating measures put in place by the government to contain the spread of coronavirus are on the increase. As of Sunday, police had arrested close to 2 000 people across the country for operating shebeens, public drinking, disorderly conduct and for committing various traffic offences against the lockdown…
AFRICAN EDITORS – THE African Editors Forum (Taef) joins fellow Africans in expressing deep concern at the devastating impact that the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) has had on lives and economies across the continent, leading to the temporary closure of some media houses. Coronavirus continues to infect millions across the world and kill thousands. The crisis…
EDITOR — As Albert Einstein remarked: “The significant problems we face in life cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. We need to free our minds and soar to heights of thought previously thought unsustainable in order to get ourselves out of the predicament we are…
RISING female Tonga gospel music sensation Abigail Mwembe, pictured, has postponed the launch of her second album following the outbreak of coronavirus. Mwembe has for the past few weeks been busy preparing for the live recording of the yet to be titled album. The launch had been scheduled for the Bulawayo Amphitheatre this month-end. The…
©️ POET Abel Mauchi has written a poem on coronavirus (Covid-19) with a message to the public and the authorities, saying the virus is not selective. The Gutu-bred wordsmith, whose popularity has risen after his poems went viral on social media, centres his message on the World Health Organisation awareness campaign on hygiene, discouraging handshakes,…
