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Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynewsco.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called upon Zanu PF structures to gear up for the fast-approaching 2023 national elections, which he said will provide the ruling party with the platform to wipe out the country’s brawling opposition. Addressing the Zanu PF politburo in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa also said the polls…

Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE’S Covid-19 vaccination programme gets under way today, with authorities set to inoculate 100 000 frontline workers. In a ministerial statement presented in Parliament on Tuesday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga — who is also the minister of Health and Child Care — said the vaccinations would include health workers in…

Godknows Matarutse  SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw  POLICE arrested 3 454 people on the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown extension on Tuesday as some people continued to defy even the relaxed measures against the pandemic.  This brings the cumulative arrests of lockdown violators to 434 999 since March 2020 when the government imposed the measures…

Tarisai Machakaire  SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw TOBACCO farmers are demanding foreign currency payments for their crop ahead of the upcoming 2021 marketing season. This comes as the farmers, represented by Tobacco Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (Tofuz), are complaining that inputs and labour were being charged in foreign currency yet they received Zimbabwe dollar payments for…

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…

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…

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 …

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…