Onward Gangata in GWERU THERE was drama yesterday afternoon at one coronavirus (Covid-19) isolation centre in Gweru after patients demonstrated over deplorable living conditions at the centre, the Daily News reports. Business came to a standstill at Mkoba Clinic, which is being used as one of the isolation centres in the Midlands Province, as…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw DEPUTY Health minister John Mangwiro has revealed that government is set to intensify its coronavirus (Covid-19) testing within communities as the country’s confirmed cases have surpassed the 1 000 mark. This comes as a shipment of 30 000 critically needed Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing kits used for…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw government has been ordered by the High Court to pay US$17 000 damages to a Chitungwiza woman who was shot by a cop at a roadblock in 2018. In a judgment delivered by Justice Edith Mushore on July 8, police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and the…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A MABELREIGN woman is in trouble for allegedly recruiting two teenage girls aged 14 and 15 into prostitution, hiring them out for sex while pocketing proceeds from the acts. Sharon Chiropa, 23, is alleged to have given the minors “mutoriro” — an illicit drug — before taking them to bars,…
WHILE world celebrities, who include artists, have been in the forefront donating millions of dollars to help fight Covid-19-induced hunger, in Zimbabwe it has been the opposite. This week officials in the ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation visited celebrated actress Jesesi Mungoshi and all-time record Soccer Star of the Year Award winner George…
Godknows Matarutse SPORTS WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw HARARE giants Dynamos are in no rush to make any appointments in their technical department to replace assistant coach Biggie Zuze following his untimely death last month. Zuze, who was a father figure in the DeMbare dressing room, passed away in Harare last month after suffering a pulmonary (lung) clot…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw Government has deferred the reopening of schools in the wake of the country’s increasing cases of the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19), which have surpassed the 1 000 mark, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country’s confirmed Covid-19 cases have over the last few weeks rapidly increased to 1…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AMID rising tension in the country ahead of the planned anti-government mass protests slated for month-end, there is a fresh call for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage with his political rivals to help fix Zimbabwe’s myriad crises, the Daily News reports. This comes as Mnangagwa’s government has come under…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government that they risk losing the 2023 polls if they do not address the dire straits faced by skint cotton farmers across the country, the Daily News reports. In addition, the Gokwe-Nembudziya MP has also recommended…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE European Union (EU) has availed an additional US$7,33 million to step up Zimbabwe’s response to the lethal coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country’s confirmed Covid-19 cases have gone up to 1 034, with 19 deaths and 343 recoveries, according to figures released…
