May 2020

REDCLIFF Municipality has slashed its employees’ salaries by 50 percent citing dwindling fortunes amid the effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, which has seen its revenue collection taking a nosedive. In a statement, town clerk Gilson Chakauya notified employees that the local authority’s collections have drastically declined as a result of economic hardships being faced…

ECONET Wireless has begun re-opening its shops following the easing of the  coronavirus lockdown restrictions. But the company cautioned customers to be patient as it ramps up processes in and around its shops to balance quick service turnaround and ensuring public safety. “We would like to advise our customers that we have begun the process…

Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE High Court has postponed to tomorrow the case in which Nelson Chamisa’s MDC Alliance is seeking to stop reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, from recalling MPs from Parliament, the Daily News reports. This comes as Mwonzora has already recalled four members of the MDC Alliance, namely Prosper Mutseyami…

Caroline Chiimba STAFF WRITER chiimbac@dailynews.co.zw TEACHERS’ unions have rejected a proposal for a phased re-opening of schools during the indefinite coronavirus lockdown, arguing the move is discriminatory and marginalises the poor who are financially incapacitated to ring fence the safety of learners and teachers. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced over the weekend that…

Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw POLITICAL activists in the United Kingdom have launched an online petition seeking the deportation of Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana’s family on accusations he is working for a repressive government, the Daily News can report. This comes in the wake of the alleged abduction and torture of MDC youths…