POLICE have intensified patrols in the border town of Beitbridge, with 275 people arrested attempting to cross into neighbouring South Africa (SA) without proper documentation. Due to Covid-19 protocols, travellers between the two countries need to produce valid PCR test certificates at the border. However, many are try to sneak into Zimbabwe or back to…
THE Department of Civil Protection (DCP) is appealing to residents of Muzarabani district, who are resisting being evacuated from their homes in the wake of more expected rains due to tropical depression Chalane. While most of the country has escaped the wrath of Chalane, the weather forecast has predicted heavy rains in some parts of…
By Tamary Chikiwa A LOCAL company and its associates have taken the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to court claiming to have lost US$236 million after the parastatal “unlawfully” terminated a tender it had awarded to the company. DIDG (Private) Limited and DIDG (Pty) Limited through its lawyers Calderwood Bryce Hendrie and Partners filed an…
THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has lambasted the recent attack on ousted MDC interim president Thokozani Khupe during an emotive extraordinary congress. Khupe was allegedly beaten and had insults hurled against her at the party’s elective congress at the Harare International Conference Centre by members of a rival faction in a disputed election that saw…
By Nyasha Dube THE High Court has allowed an application to appeal against sentence by a man who was charged and convicted of impersonating a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) official. Aaron Muzungu and three accomplices were convicted on charges of robbery, kidnapping and impersonating Zacc officers when they mugged a Marondera-based fuel dealer in…
SOUTH Africa aims to get COVID-19 vaccines by next month but is still in talks with pharmaceutical companies and no deals have been signed yet, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday, amid growing criticism of the government’s response. The country is battling a resurgence in coronavirus infections driven partly by a new variant…
US President Donald Trump has been recorded telling Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn the election result. “I just want to find 11,780 votes,” Mr Trump told Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a recording released by the Washington Post. Mr Raffensperger is heard replying that Georgia’s results are…
By Black Edward NORMALLY, the opening of schools in a new year triggers keen anticipation and is a memorable occasion. It means a new grade, a new form and another level for the learner. And those tears of joy when parents wave to their children as they enter school gates, Kodak moments indeed! Hey,…
WITH the country reeling from a seemingly more deadly second wave of coronavirus, the government moved to re-introduce tougher lockdown measures last night — including a fresh dusk-to-dawn curfew. In addition, the operations of all businesses — except those providing essential services — were once again suspended for 30 days, as authorities fight to curb the…
ISLAMIC insurgents in northern Mozambique have killed over 2 000 people and displaced 500 000 more. Zimbabwe, which relies on its neighbour’s ports for transportation of imports and fuel, is under pressure to militarily intervene. The Daily News Consulting Editor Constantine Chimakure spoke to Professor Stephen Chan of the University of London on the developments…
