ZIMBABWE must mobilise domestic resources to clear its external debt and revive the country’s waning economy, a former cabinet minister has said. The southern African country, which is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade and struggling to deal with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, has failed to service a US$12 billion debt owed to…
The South African rand was little changed early on Monday, despite health officials recording a steeper rise in coronavirus infections over the weekend. The country reported 6,334 new cases on Sunday after reporting 7,210 new cases on Saturday, among the steepest daily rises to date. Health experts say the local virus outbreak is yet to…
THE government should revisit its strategies in managing the rising coronavirus (Covid-19) cases as those testing positive continue to increase, health practitioners contend. As at June 26, Zimbabwe had recorded 561 confirmed cases, including 135 recoveries and six (6) deaths after conducting 65 704 tests nationwide. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) vice president Dean Ndoro…
FORMER police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri has challenged moves by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to seize several properties from him to recover US$32 million he reportedly stole from the force, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes as government alleges that the former top cop, who is now believed to be in self-exile either in…
THE African Development Bank (AFD) has availed a US$8,9 million grant to boost coronavirus (Covid-19)-related measures in six Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries, including Zimbabwe. This comes as the country’s confirmed Covid-19 cases are now 561, with frontline health workers expressing concern over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) at the country’s health…
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has remained in the wilderness. For 40 years, the opposition has failed to dislodge the ruling Zanu PF party from power in…
by BLACK EDWARD I HAVE been struggling to sleep lately. My sleepless nights, which are fast turning into some sort of weird insomnia, (but I’d really like to believe I’m not an insomniac, yet) are a result of thinking about the horrors that await us should the coronavirus (Covid-19) spread uncontrollably due to the inept…
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers’ movement and that it had no respect for the rule of law after rejecting to accept a Supreme Court ruling that Thokozani Khupe is interim president after the death…
Comedian Charles ‘Marabha’ Merisi says he has not been able to follow the emotive tiff triggered by socialite Mai Titi and controversial United States of America-based cleric Passion Java over his welfare as he doesn’t have a smart phone. Mai Titi and Java have of late been on each other’s throats over the former’s claim…
THERE was a sombre atmosphere at a local funeral parlour yesterday in Willowvale, Harare when relatives and friends converged to collect the body of the late Dynamos assistant coach Biggie Zuze. Zuze, 55, who died on Thursday afternoon at a private clinic in the capital after having complained of breathing problems, will be buried this…
