BP has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs amid following a global slump in demand for oil because of the coronavirus crisis. The oil giant had paused redundancies during the peak of the pandemic but told staff on Monday that around 15% will leave by the end of the year. BP has not said how…
Godknows Matarutse SPORTS WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw CASTLE Lager Premiership chairperson Farai Jere has lauded the decision by the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to bail out local teams from the devastating effects of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. At the weekend, Zifa announced they would bail out clubs and women’s football, a decision Jere said will go a…
CITY of Bulawayo and its technical partner Nhimbe Trust have been hailed for successfully and digitally hosting the inaugural Bulawayo Day and the Bulawayo Arts Festival 2020 amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic lockdown. The long-awaited and highly-anticipated Bulawayo Arts Festival (BAF) exploded into life under the theme #We Own Winter, and ran from June 3…
Tinashe Sibanda Lifestyle Writer sibandat@dailynews.co.zw UNITED States-based journalist and singer Pezzy Sichula Kudakwashe aka Pastor Pezzy has dropped his first official song titled Heal Our Land which marks the direction in which his music will take. Kudakwashe, who has always been into music, had not officially released his songs until now when he has decided…
RWANDAN president Paul Kagame has called for the review and consideration of sanctions against two African countries, Zimbabwe and Sudan, to support their ability to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe on Saturday increased by 14 to 279, including four deaths and 33 recoveries. Kagame was speaking at the…
THE plan by the government to make public the names of people infected with coronavirus (Covid-19), in violation of the country’s own lockdown regulations, demonstrates a shocking lack of cohesion in Zimbabwe’s strategy to contain the killer virus, which has so far claimed four lives out of close to 280 infections. What makes the government’s…
JEFFREY MUVUNDUSI in BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has raised the alarm over its water supply situation, which it has equated in proportion to the 1992 drought when the city almost went completely dry. This comes after the city fathers last month appealed to the government to declare Bulawayo a water shortage disaster area….
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to escalate, combative MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, pictured, has renewed his threat to lead rolling mass demonstrations against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government. Speaking to the Daily News in an interview at the weekend — as the…
©️ UNDER pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has once again admitted that the government is struggling to fix Zimbabwe’s deepening economic crisis, the Daily News reports. This comes as the hapless Zim dollar, which Ncube ill-advisedly re-introduced last year, continues to plunge on the parallel market — causing the prices of basic consumer goods in…
Tendai Kamhungira and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS ©️ A SHOWDOWN is looming between the government and its workers over salaries, amid a fast-deteriorating economic crisis threatening to bring the country to a standstill. This comes as the government and the workers failed to reach an agreement last week during a meeting of the Tripartite Negotiating…
