©️ FORMER MDC Alliance secretary for local government Elias Mudzuri has belted the party’s warring leaders for allegedly failing their supporters with the manner they are handling the opposition outfit’s succession dispute. This comes as interim MDC president Thokozani Khupe has announced July 31 as the date for the extra-ordinary congress to choose the successor…
The coronavirus pandemic has been bad news for business. But even as some technology companies have been squeezed tight, others have actually seen a boost. Some were in the right place at the right time – while others have seen the real-world trade they rely on shut down completely. Winner: Working from home When your…
SIR Richard Branson is selling a stake in Virgin Galactic to raise $500m to prop up his other businesses including Virgin Atlantic. The billionaire has been criticised for seeking financial help from the taxpayer for the airline. Sir Richard will now sell a share of his space tourism business. Virgin Group said it will use…
A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported. The fire was quickly put out and 150 people were evacuated from the hospital, the country’s emergency ministry said. It is not clear…
BITCOIN has just gone through a much-hyped adjustment that reduced the rate at which new coins are created. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency’s so-called “halving” happens roughly every four years. The digital currency relies on what are known as “miners”, who run software that races to solve complex maths puzzles in return for Bitcoins. Monday’s halving…
©️ HATCLIFFE has been hit by a suspected typhoid outbreak after one case was confirmed last week due to a contaminated borehole which has been decommissioned with immediate effect, an official said. According to residents, Hatcliffe has not received a drop of municipal water since way back despite claims by the local authority that water…
THE Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report. The plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done within 10 days. It comes after Wuhan,…
AWARD-winning film Cook Off is set to be the first Zimbabwean film to be screened on internationally-acclaimed movie site Netflix. Netflix is an American trend setting Internet entertainment platform with over 150 million paid members and screens movies and television shows from across the world. Written by Tomas Brickhill and directed by Joe Njagu, Cook Off centres around a…
POLICE recently recovered a double-barrel shotgun from a Harare woman who had allegedly hid it in a hole at her residence after the arrest of her boyfriend for armed robbery. Hazvinei Kashanga, 33, of Hatfield, Harare, appeared before Harare magistrate Richard Ramaboa charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. The recovered firearm has since been…
THE Community Newspapers Association of Zimbabwe (CNAZ) has called on the government to come up with a media policy aimed at empowering community newspapers through the devolution programme. This comes as Zimbabwe recently joined the rest of the world in celebrating the World Press Freedom Day under the theme “Journalism without fear or favour.” CNAZ…
