When it comes to its growth rate, video conference company Zoom has lived up to its name. Use of the firm’s software jumped 20-fold in the first three months of the year, as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions to work, learn and socialise remotely. But it’s not clear the newfound ubiquity will help it be…
SONY has delayed hosting a showcase event for its next games console. In a statement it did not directly mention the civil unrest in the US, but alluded to it saying “we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration”, adding it wanted “more important voices to be heard”. The firm had…
THE death of George Floyd, which triggered widespread protests across the US, has been declared a homicide in an official post-mortem examination. The 46-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest while being restrained by Minneapolis police, the report found. It listed Mr Floyd’s cause of death as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression”….
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ PROMINENT Harare lawyer Thabani Mpofu was arrested yesterday for allegedly defeating the course of justice in a Constitutional Court application that he filed last year challenging the appointment of Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi, the Daily News reports. Mpofu is well-known for having successfully defended the 2017 military coup…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE United States has called on the Zimbabwean government to stop “State-sponsored violence against peaceful protesters, civil society, labour leaders and members of the opposition”. This comes after Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo summoned US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols over claims by a senior US official Robert…
Helen Kadirire STAFF WRITER kadirireh@dailynews.co.zw WOMEN’S Coalition in Zimbabwe (WCOZ) has called on the government to investigate living conditions at coronavirus quarantine and isolation centres around the country, the Daily News can report. In a statement, the organisation said as the number of people returning from outside the country continues to rise, the government was…
A HARARE man will spend the next 30 days behind bars after being caught selling aphrodisiacs without lawful authority. Shylaw Madimbu, 27, pleaded guilty to the charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga, but was not given a fine option after he started lying in court. This was after Taruvinga had asked him…
POLICE are investigating a group of 25 villagers who allegedly armed themselves with knives, knobkerries and stones and threatened a farmer in Kezi who had impounded their cattle and 88 donkeys after straying into his farm. “They (villagers) went on to damage some property at the farm leading to the arrest of 10 people. An…
A NIGERIAN scammer, who claimed to be a son to the late Democratic Republic of Congo president Laurent Kabila before fleecing a local medical doctor of US$30 000, was jailed for five years. Joseph Blawah, 46, and his accomplice who is still at large, made George Danda believe that they had inherited large sums of…
SINCE the country’s national lockdown which commenced on March 30, prices of basic commodities have continued to skyrocket beyond the reach of ordinary Zimbabweans. This is despite a government directive that prices revert back to where they were before the lockdown. Prices of basic goods that include sugar, cooking oil, bread and mealie-meal continue to…
