Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw OVER 1 000 Chiredzi villagers facing eviction to pave way for a dairy company to start lucerne grass farming in the Lowveld area, have threatened to take the government to court. The villagers — through lawyers from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) — have written to Local…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw HUMAN rights watchdog, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), has raised concern over increasing human rights violations, indicating that harassment and partisan food aid distribution are at the top of the list at a time when the country is reeling from the socio-economic effects of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic….
Myles Matarise STAFF WRITER matarisem@dailynews.co.zw The Zimbabwe Network for Health (ZimHealth) has donated US $5,000 worth of cleaning and disinfecting materials to 10 hospitals and clinics across Zimbabwe as part of the COVID-19 response. ZimHealth, a non-profit organisation supported by Zimbabweans and other benefactors in the diaspora donated the materials to health facilities in…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared yesterday as a national day for praying and fasting, asking the Almighty God to intervene and deliver the world from the lethal coronavirus pandemic. Indeed God’s intervention is needed to end Covid-19 that has killed tens of thousands of people, infected millions and wreaked economies across the world. Only…
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back. The billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is the African Union’s special envoy to coordinate the Africa private sector initiative for the procurement of personal protective equipment and…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw©️ A company that is at the centre of a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement storm, was cleared by permanent secretary in the Finance ministry, George Guvamatanga, lawyers defending its representative in the country said yesterday. This comes as 36-year-old Nguwaya — who represents Drax Consult SAGL and Drax LL, also…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw MDC-Alliance youth leaders — Harare West MP Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova ― will languish in remand prison after they were yesterday denied bail in a case in which they are accused of falsifying their abduction. Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande ruled that releasing the three would cause…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday made an emotional plea for forgiveness when he officiated at the National Day of Prayer in Harare yesterday, the Daily News reports. In his surprisingly impassioned prayer at State House, Mnangagwa — among other things — asked for clemency for the various misdeeds that…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ HARARE was once again hit by chaotic scenes yesterday, after security forces stopped tens of thousands of people from entering the central business district (CBD) — as the country held its day of national prayer, the Daily News reports. Not for the first time, the heightened security was…
©️ EXILED former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said he is a firm believer in constitutionalism and cannot stage a coup as he was a victim of the same in November 2017, the Daily News reports. This follows allegations by the government that he peddled lies about an impending coup against President Emmerson Mnangagwa….
