Blessings Mashaya and Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITERS HEALTH experts are concerned about the continued relaxation of the national coronavirus lockdown, at a time that cases of local transmissions are soaring, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has allowed restaurants to start serving patrons within their premises, while also allowing gyms to…
A STORM is brewing in Zanu PF over the ruling party’s newly-launched war veterans’ wing — pitting many former freedom fighters against their national spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, the Daily News reports. This comes as there are widening fissures in the former liberation movement, which was split in the middle during the last years in…
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has blamed the current economic crisis on the black market and speculators as he insisted that his policies are working. This comes at a time when the economy is tanking, characterised by galloping inflation that has seen prices of goods and services skyrocketing beyond the reach of…
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set of chief whips in Parliament, the Daily News reports. Since the death of its much-loved founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February 2018,…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS THE MDC’s mindless wars worsen, interim party leader Thokozani Khupe threw the kitchen sink at her rival Nelson Chamisa yesterday — recalling nine senators from Parliament and barring more than 1 000 party members from attending this month’s extra-ordinary congress. Concerned party officials who spoke to the Daily…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE government has told nervous investors that the country remained a safe destination for business, notwithstanding the chaos that was caused by last week’s suspension of trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), the Daily News reports. This comes as economists have warned that the country is shooting itself…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Public Service minister Priscah Mupfumira and the then permanent secretary in the ministry, Ngoni Masoka, have denied allegations of abusing their positions and prejudicing the ministry of over US$10 000 and corruptly accessing a US$90 000 loan. The two are in court on allegations of abuse of duty as…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month, the Daily News can report. This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the government put in place lockdown measures to combat the spread of…
WITH Zimbabwe’s political situation remaining tense, the government is planning to introduce a new law which criminalises the spreading of falsehoods against key State institutions such as the military, the Daily News reports. At the same time, authorities said yesterday that they had now identified the people who recently claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE Health Services Board (HSB) told Parliament yesterday that the country’s health delivery system was being derailed by a cocktail of problems — among them budgetary constraints which were demotivating health workers, the Daily News reports. This comes as health workers have been on strike since last week pressing…
