ACTING Mpilo chief executive officer Solwayo Ngwenya has challenged people to take the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic seriously as the worst is yet to come. Solwayo has since March consistently used the micro blogging platforms Twitter and Facebook to warn the masses on the dangers of the deadly pandemic. In an interview with the Daily…
CIVIL society organisations say the government should adopt a scientific and objective debt audit as part of measures to have the country’s odious debts cancelled. Odious debts are defined as arrears incurred by the state which are not for the needs or interest of the state but merely to strengthen the state’s despotic power as…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITERS MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports. In addition, they are also warning Zimbabweans to take extreme care in the coming days and…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw WOMEN’S rights and advocacy group, Musasa Project, has revealed shocking figures of gender-based violence (GBV) since authorities imposed the current national coronavirus lockdown. It said yesterday that it had assisted a whopping 10 000 victims of GBV in the last four months alone — adding that since the national…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw THE State wants land developer Felix Munyaradzi denied bail saying from Saturday the day he initially appeared in court, 50 more people have come to register complaints against him. This was said by the investigating officer Misheck Ngorima in bolstering the State’s opposition to bail saying more home seekers are…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw UNICEF has revealed that Zimbabwe is among countries struggling to improve breastfeeding as the world commemorates World Breastfeeding Week 2020. This comes as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the country was likely to experience up to 50 percent increase in…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zwAMID the country’s deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch inclusive national dialogue to heal the nation. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a number of prominent clerics said as the situation continued to take…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWEAN immigrants have once again been given a reprieve after the South African government extended the expiry date of their visas to October. Thousands of Zimbabweans in that country were facing deportation following the expiry of their visas after travel restrictions induced by the Covid-19 lockdown were imposed. However, many had…
IT IS now very clear to all those who choose to see, that no matter what long-suffering Zimbabweans try to do to lift themselves out of their decades-old misery, they are on a hiding to nothing as long as the narrow interests of politicians hold sway. In fact, and to be brutally frank, Zimbabwe’s long-standing…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zwZESA Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata has accused Energy minister Fortune Chasi of undermining efforts to curb corruption at the power company and of working in cahoots with people being investigated for graft, the Daily News reports. This comes after Chasi suspended Gata and ordered the Zesa Holdings board to…
