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Zim needs US$7m for corona vaccines

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Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE government is mobilising about US$7 million to acquire enoug hvaccines to inoculate 60 percent of the population with the first phase of the programme commencing on Thursday with frontline workers. This was said by Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday during a post-cabinet media briefing at the government’s Munhumutapa offices…

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Chinese vaccine given green light… as govt rolls out the Covid jabs to frontline workers

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Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES have cleared the Chinese coronavirus jabs — which arrived in the country on Monday — paving the way for the government’s national vaccination programme that is initially targeting frontline workers to get under way this week. The national chief Covid-19 co-ordinator in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office, Agnes Mahomva, confirmed…

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Health experts hail lockdown decision

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Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw HEALTH experts yesterday backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s move to extend the lockdown by two weeks, saying it is still a necessary tool to flatten the Covid-19 curve. This comes after Mnangagwa on Monday extended the lockdown as authorities prepare to vaccinate 60 percent of its citizens after receiving 200…

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Vapositori embrace Covid-19 vaccination

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Tariro Sajeni STAFF WRITER sajenit@dailynews.co.zw MEMBERS of the white garment apostolic churches have pledged their  support for the country’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, adding they too want to be inoculated against the killer disease. This comes as the country is set to roll out the vaccination programme this week  after it received its first batch of …

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Floods affect food distribution to vulnerable communities

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Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO THE heavy rains that the country is experiencing are disrupting food distribution of food aid to vulnerable communities as many roads are flooding, the United Nations (UN) has said. In an update on how the international organisation is addressing Covid-19-related issues in Zimbabwe, the UN said most bridges and roads to…

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A ‘Tsvangirai’ needed in the opposition

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  ON SUNDAY, Zimbabwe marked the third anniversary since MDC founding president and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died from colon cancer at a private hospital in South Africa. Tsvangirai, a trade unionist of note, is remembered for leading the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to challenge the excesses of the late former president…

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Great Dyke Investments’ tax exemption challenged again

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Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has been taken to court for the second time for recently granting a tax exemption to a RussiaZimbabwe platinum mining venture, Great Dyke Investments. Centre for Natural Resources Governance (CNRG) and Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) have filed an urgent chamber application at the…

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First Oil ordered to refund CMED

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By Nyasha Dube HIGH Court judge Justice Owen Tagu has ordered First Oil Company to refund US$2,7 million to the State-owned CMED (Pvt) Limited after the company failed to supply three million litres of diesel. According to papers filed at the High Court in 2013, CMED entered into an agreement of supply and delivery of…

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Six subjects for Grade 7

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PHYSICAL Education and Arts (PEA) has been introduced as an examinable subject at Grade 7 with effect from this year, bringing to six the number of subjects written by final-year primary school pupils. Since 2015, the subjects taught at Grade 7 were Agriculture, English, Mathematics, General Paper and Ndebele or Shona and were written in…

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Zimbabwe borrowed US$1,4bn to prop up economy

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ZIMBABWE borrowed US$1,4 billion from the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) since 2017 to finance acquisition of strategic commodities, currency reforms and prop up the economy. According to an extra-ordinary Government Gazette published at the weekend, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) contracted three loans with Afreximbank since 2017 that were guaranteed by the…

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