Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE government is set to construct four customs inland dry ports to reduce corruption and ease clearance at borders. This comes amid allegations of graft and delays at most of the country’s ports of entry, prejudicing the government of millions of dollars in hard currency through custom and import duty…
EDITOR —I have known Job “Wiwa Sikhala” since 1996 when I first met him in the revolutionary Complex 5 (Baghdad Student Hostel) at the University of Zimbabwe where his passion for the students in particular and Zimbabweans in general resonated with the ideals of the liberation struggle. One such liberation icon who inspired Sikhala was…
IT HAS always been difficult to single out the best Zimbabwean male bodybuilder of all time due to the high calibre of athletes that have graced the stage. There are a number of bodybuilders who made a lasting impact on the sport from Grant Henderson, who graced the cover of Ironman magazine in the United…
NOBUKHOSI Ndlovu’s mother Nomaqhawe, 47, had always struggled with acute asthma, characterised by shortness of breath, chest tightness, coughing and in most serious cases, wheezing. Last week on Monday she suffered a sudden asthmatic attack while watching television with her eldest daughter and three other children — Nomazulu, 21, Nomathemba, 16, and Nomusa, 4. “We…
MDC-T chairperson Abednico Bhebhe says the country’s political crisis can permanently be resolved by Zimbabweans. In a wide ranging interview with the Daily News on Sunday Staff Writer Jeffrey Muvundusi, Bhebhe also tackled the fight for control of the MDC between Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa. Below are the excerpts. Q: Last week, South Africa…
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has increased water allocation for power generation at Kariba Hydro-Power Station despite water levels continuing to plummet due to successive droughts. ZRA chief executive officer Munyaradzi Munodawafa said the authority had allocated four billion cubic metres more to the 23 billion cubic metres that had initially been released to…
MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has warned that Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises have now reached a critical point that could soon lead to a bloodbath, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed recently that the government would flush out “terrorist” opposition groups that are allegedly working…
HEALTH experts said yesterday that Zimbabwe was yet to flatten the coronavirus curve despite recording reduced new infections in the past week, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes as the number of new recorded infections has not gone beyond the average of 100 a day since a week ago. It also comes as…
ZIMBABWE should approach the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russia with extreme caution as it is yet to pass all the necessary clinical trial stages, a top virologist has warned. This comes after Russia announced that it had found a Covid-19 vaccine which has since been tried on humans. “We will approach this with…
ZANU PF yesterday came out guns blazing, blasting the United States of America (USA) for imposing sanctions on businessman Kuda Tagwirei and his company Sakunda Holdings. This comes after USA President Donald Trump’s administration on August 5 slammed sanctions on Tagwirei and his firm, claiming he used his closeness to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to enrich…
