Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT intends to drastically reduce the number of days people, especially foreigners in transit, spend in quarantine centres awaiting coronavirus (Covid-19) test results, from a maximum of 14 to two. This comes amid complaints of inconvenience by people travelling on emergencies as the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test results…
Myles Matarise STAFF WRITER matarisem@dailynews.co.zw VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Health minister, yesterday warned health workers against using patients’ lives as pawns. In a media briefing in Harare yesterday where he announced a new restructuring strategy aimed at reviving the health system in the country, Chiwenga also said government has reviewed…
FORMER chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has been indicted to stand trial at the High Court on October 14 on corruption charges. He was in court last week with his lawyers Jonathan Samukange and Brighton Pabwe before Harare magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guuriro. The ex-magistrate is accused of criminal abuse of office after he allegedly offered attachment to…
AS the potential of young people is regarded as the driving force of people’s collective prosperity, the African Citizen initiative has since made a move to realise this opportunity by engaging African university students across the globe to create a platform that fosters entrepreneurial success. The African Citizen organisation uses its collective voices and efforts…
LEADING global provider of information and communications technology (ICT), Huawei, has added online training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its portfolio of free training it offers to Zimbabwe ICT students of higher learning. This was part of its commitment to training in (Fourth Industrial Revolution) 4IR technologies such as 5G and cloud computing, which it…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw KNOWE Residents and Ratepayers Association (Knowe) has lost a High Court bid to have the son of the late Edward Nyanyiwa, popularly known as Eddies Pfugari, ordered to serve his father’s 90-day civil imprisonment. Knowe cited Eddies Pfugari (Pvt) Ltd, Edward Nyanyiwa (Jnr), the late Nyanyiwa’s estate executor Clever Mandizvidza…
A JUNIOR officer at Borrowdale police station found himself in trouble for allegedly writing a Covid-19 exemption letter for US$10 and signing and stamping the document misrepresenting himself to be a senior cop. Osward Tapfumanei Jonga, 41, appeared in court last week charged with criminal abuse of duty and was not asked to plead. His…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw A HARARE man is in trouble for allegedly inviting his nine-year-old daughter to his bedroom and asking her to touch his manhood. He is alleged to have further asked her to remove her panties and, enraged by the bizarre request, the minor reportedly fled the room and went to a…
A DELEGATION from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will be in Harare tomorrow to meet the governing Zanu PF on an exploratory mission to find ways the regional economic powerhouse can assist in ending decades-long political and economic crises. The 10-member South African team, led by ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, was mandated to…
Dreams of Golden Zimbabwe; By Beavan Chiweshe, Harare, Beyond today Publishers, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5363-5685-6 (Paperback) 111 Pages Reviewed by Eddie Zvinonzwa Today, Zimbabwe stands as a mere shadow of its former self with those who lived during the colonial era actually ruing those as lost days. Yet this should not be the case. The coming…
