HOPE is high that Zimbabwe’s much-talked about national dialogue could finally start in earnest this year, following recent political developments and hints to this effect by both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the country’s new opposition leader, Douglas Mwonzora. Analysts who spoke to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday said Mnangagwa and Mwonzora’s pronouncements of the…
DOCTORS yesterday implored authorities to prioritise acquiring Covid-19 vaccines as the lethal virus continued to kill more Zimbabweans, amid rising infections in the country. This comes as 22 people succumbed to the respiratory disease on Friday alone as the number of people infected by the novel virus — since it was first reported in…
POLICE are worried with the continued arrest and interception of people moving around with fake Covid-19 PCR test certificates as Zimbabwe continues to battle the spread of the pandemic. Numerous people are now being arrested at most border posts with forged PCR tests certificates intending to leave Zimbabwe for neighbouring countries like South Africa and…
TAMARI CHIKIWA SOME informal traders, vendors and small businesses in Bulawayo are sneaking back onto the streets despite the current 30-day strict lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19. Under the regulations of the lockdown, only businesses offering essential services are allowed to operate from 8am until 3pm. A dusk-to-dawn curfew…
Tamari Chikiwa FEAR and uncertainty cloud the world as the renewed Covid 19 threat characterised by new variant strains of the pandemic has resulted in many countries effecting stringent lockdowns. Zimbabwe also reintroduced tough lockdown restrictions following an upsurge in infections and deaths which have been attributed to a second wave of the pandemic….
IT IS safe to say that Selmor Mtukudzi was destined for the glitz and glamour of showbiz due to the influence of her late father, Oliver, a revered African music legend. To her credit, Selmor, who is married to Tendai the son of another local music legend Zexie Manatsa, has slowly curved a following for…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE government has been hit hard by the lethal coronavirus, with more than 1 000 civil servants confirmed to have so far been infected by the disease — as Zimbabwe’s total number of reported Covid-19 deaths and infections continue to soar. With civil servants who have tested positive for coronavirus…
SOUTH Africa laid out a long-awaited plan to distribute coronavirus vaccines, saying it will cost 20,6 billion rand ($1,4 billion) to inoculate two-thirds of the population and the State will be the sole purchaser. The government will agree contracts with suppliers and allocate vaccines to regional authorities and the private sector, Health minister Zweli…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has moved to refine and sustain the Foreign Exchange Auction System through a raft of resolutions, including removal of the compulsory requirement to liquidate all unutilised export proceeds after 60 days. The auction, introduced in June 2020, is credited for the stability that the…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has restored water supply to Pumula South following a complaint by residents in the suburb. The residents had been without the precious liquid for at least two weeks as they also had no access to boreholes or bowser water. The situation had been made worse after…
