The coronavirus crisis might be causing widespread economic upheaval around the world, but the world’s biggest tech firms are thriving. Amazon sales soared 40% in the three months ending June, while Apple saw a surge in purchases of its iPhones and other hardware. At Facebook, the number of people on its platforms, which include WhatsApp…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Jeffrey Muvundusi STAFF WRITERS SECURITY forces yesterday cleared the central business districts (CBDs) of Harare and Bulawayo — in the process preventing tens of thousands of people from reporting for work, the Daily News reports. The major operation came ahead of today’s planned mass protests against the government, and as the global…
The PM has decided that the next easing of coronavirus restrictions – due to come in this weekend – will be postponed, the BBC has been told. Boris Johnson briefed opposition leaders ahead of a news conference scheduled for 12:00 BST, sources said. Further venues such as casinos and bowling alleys were meant to be…
Vasco Chaya LIFESTYLE WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw SOCIALITE and musician Felistas Edwards aka Mai Titi will officially register her Trust which looks after the vulnerable in Harare. This comes after a Mt Hampden-based good Samaritan Onai Nhiwatiwa was on Wednesday arrested by the police for illegally taking care of more than 70 vulnerable children without proper registration…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE government has warned public hospitals turning away patients who do not have certificates or results to prove that they are coronavirus (Covid-19) negative. This comes as the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has raised concern over citizens who are being turned away for not having…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw THREE soldiers from the Parachute Regiment at Inkomo Barracks, Darwendale, have been arrested for beating up a man to death after he had an altercation with his wife. Challenge Msengezi, Paddington Tinei Muketiwa and Milton Kamutikaoma allegedly fatally assaulted Fortune Mutyambizi of Mutyambizi Village, Madziva, Mashonaland Central. The three soldiers…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw THREE people were yesterday denied bail after they were arrested for marching and demonstrating near Boka Tobacco Auction Floors in Harare in support of today’s planned demonstration and also calling for the release of Transform Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume. Ngarivhume is the convenor of the planned protest. Emmanuel Mukwemu, Trynos…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw SENIOR doctors working in public hospitals have downed tools over the government’s failure to address their grievances, including poor remuneration and lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) in the wake of the lethal coronavirus. This comes despite the government’s plea to doctors to reconsider their threat to go…
THE UN food agency yesterday appealed for an additional $250 million to provide relief to millions of Zimbabweans as the Covid-19 pandemic bites and warned that 60 percent of the population could become “food-insecure”. Zimbabwe is gripped by a climate and recession-induced economic crisis, its worst in more than a decade, which has seen shortages…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE United States of America (USA) senate Foreign Relations Committee says Zimbabwe will remain its county’s international partner despite Zanu PF’s hostile stance to it. This comes after Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa on Monday said USA ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is a thug and funding a…
