Shamiso Dzingire in BULAWAYO ©️ EKUSILENI Medical Centre received three portable ventilators as efforts to equip the institution into a high level Covid-19 isolation centre continue. The ventilators are the first to be received by the hospital since a multi-stakeholder initiative — Iam4Byo Fighting Covid-19 — began mobilising material, financial, and human resources towards capacitating…
TESLA has reopened its only US electric car plant in California, despite local orders against manufacturing. On Monday, the company’s chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that production had restarted and he would be “on the line with everyone else”. US states and local governments are trying to determine the best way to open up after…
OVER the past year Google has been adding augmented reality (AR) objects to Google Search, including 3D animals, human anatomical systems, and even cellular structures. Although the COVID-19 lockdown is preventing us from visiting zoos, we can still entertain and educate ourselves at home about the relative size of a lot of these animals. To find the…
Chasing the Wind By Phillip Chidavaenzi, Harare, Royalty Books, 2019. ISBN: 978-0-7974-7594—6 (Paperback) 231 pages EDMORE ZVINONZWA – PHILLIP Chidavaenzi’s rendition, Chasing the Wind — whichever angle you view it from — marks a phenomenal graduation from his past texts in a number of ways. The currency that characterises the narrative makes it all the…
©️ MDC legislators are facing the urgent and difficult decision of choosing between Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa — in the process risking losing their parliamentary positions and benefits, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as the government has made it clear that if the legislators choose to withdraw from Parliament — as…
©️ THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has accused EcoCash — a subsidiary of Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed Cassava SmarTech — of allegedly engaging in practices that are fuelling the country’s foreign exchange black market. Responding to a High Court application by EcoCash in which the mobile payment solution is seeking a reversal of the…
ZIMBABWE’S embassies across the globe are in a financial mess, says a letter from the Foreign Affairs ministry. According to the letter to heads of mission and consul generals dated April 21, some embassies were facing eviction. The head of the President’s Secretariat in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Ambassador Raphael Faranisi,…
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says the government should call for an audit of all donations made towards curbing the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic to ensure that all those who abused the contributions are brought to book. Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the nation that all donations will be accounted for, there…
Forex trading post COVID19 Economies worldwide impacted by Coronavirus pandemic spread that caused countries lockdowns and affecting not only lives but the whole structure of the economy. Population income sources in Zimbabwe and other more wealthy countries as well due to an impossibility to run businesses normally obviously plunging Stocks and Forex markets, in reverse…
Fungi Kwaramba CHIEF WRITER kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE government yesterday implored Zimbabweans to maintain their discipline and adhere to all coronavirus restrictions, warning that the country could be hit by a second wave of the lethal virus, the Daily News reports. This comes as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that the deadly disease could…
