TWITTER is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones. Users noticed when two photos – one of a black face the other of a white one – were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile. Twitter said it had tested for racial…
ON April 24, this year High Court judge Justice Mafusire ordered the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services to promote citizens’ access to information pertaining to the Coronavirus. This follows an urgent chamber application that was filed by MISA Zimbabwe, represented by lawyer Rudo Magundani…
FORTHRIGHT former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube, says the push by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress (ANC) to end Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises rests on them winning support from brawling Zanu PF factions. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday in an exclusive interview yesterday, the steadfast Zanu…
THE African Union (AU) has partnered with Unicef in a campaign aimed at improving birth registration amid declining figures owing to various factors, chief among them the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in its latest report…
IMPOVERISHED Zimbabwean teachers have resorted to “chikorokoza” as they try to make ends meet, a body representing them has claimed. Zimbabwe Teachers Association Bulawayo chair, Wilson Mangena, shocked delegates attending an education indaba organised by Women of Zimbabwe Arise in Bulawayo yesterday that tutors have joined the band wagon of illegal mining. “Teachers are now…
ZIMBABWE is spending US$800 million annually on grain imports, deputy Agriculture minister Vangelis Haritatos has said. Speaking in the Senate recently, Haritatos said the country adopted the Pfumvudza programme as a measure to address the problems of low productivity. “Because of the low productivity and low production, the country has become a perennial net…
TWO primary school pupils from remote Nenguwo Village in Manicaland who were unable to receive online or electronic lessons during the coronavirus (Covid-19)-induced lockdown period have sued the Education ministry for neglecting them ahead of Grade 7 final examinations. This comes after the government reopened schools for Cambridge examination classes on September 14. Zimbabwe…
TEN vendors who were arrested on allegations of bashing a cop before fleeing into the basement of a building in the capital where several police helmets were reportedly recovered have had their freedom bid fail. Evans Chinyanga, Tichaona Mazia, Petros Kayesa, Adoration Tafadzwa Madziwa, Lovemore Chitengo, Robson Mutseta, Hillary Nyawasha, Wambo Denford, Blessing Chirodza and…
By Sindiso Mhlophe and Blessings Mashaya PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that he would not seek outside intervention to hold dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups in the country, the Daily News reports. At the same time, a group led by former American diplomats implored South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling…
AS ZIMBABWE bids to end years of food imports, bullish agriculture experts said yesterday that it was possible for the country to regain its lost “bread basket of Africa” status if authorities implemented policies that would increase production on farms, the Daily News reports. Speaking at the unveiling of the second edition of the Zimbabwe…
