PARLIAMENTARIANS from across the political divide have slammed the government over the criteria it uses to confer national hero status, saying decisions are being made on regional and tribal grounds. The legislators were apparently irked by the government’s refusal to declare veteran journalist and war veteran Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu, a national hero, following his death…
UNIONS representing teachers yesterday said at least 200 educationists had succumbed to Covid-19, with the majority of them losing their lives in the current deadly third wave which continues to infect and kill many people in the country. At the same time, they bemoaned “lethargy by the authorities” in compensating teachers who had contracted the…
THE third coronavirus wave is threatening to get out of control with 107 people succumbing to the deadly respiratory disease on Tuesday alone, amid soaring cases of stricken people including those in the rural areas. Tuesday’s death toll was the highest daily record since Covid-19 was first reported in Zimbabwe in March last year. Yesterday,…
TWO truck drivers have been arrested and appeared in court after they were intercepted by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) at Chirundu Border Post while attempting to smuggle fuel into the country, an official has said.Zimra head of corporate communications Francis Chimanda yesterday said that officials discovered that fuel headed for Zambia had been off-loaded…
THE current coronavirus drumfire has not spared the country’s health workers, with authorities revealing yesterday that about 5 000 of them — including doctors and nurses — had contracted the virulent respiratory disease, while 24 others had succumbed to the pandemic so far. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the executive chairperson of the Health Services Board…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has tasked a group of business people led by Philip Chiyangwa to build a US$140 million war chest for the Zanu PF 2023 general elections campaign. This comes as the ruling party has set itself a target to mobilise five million voters for the watershed elections in which Mnangagwa is set to…
VIOLENCE erupted again in the opposition last week after MDC Alliance youths attacked Kwekwe councillors they accused of aligning themselves with MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured. MDC spokesperson Witness Dube told the Daily News yesterday that the incident occurred during the burial on Thursday of Kwekwe deputy mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa who succumbed to Covid-19. Dube said the…
ZIMBABWE has since mid-last year been experiencing relative economic stability, thanks to the government’s introduction of a raft of measures, among them…
AS AUTHORITIES continue to strive to contain the raging Covid-19 pandemic in the country, amid soaring infections and deaths, doctors have warned that hospitals are once again running out of beds for patients, while funeral parlours also say their operations are now overstretched. So bad is the situation in the country at the moment that…
ALMOST half of Zimbabweans faced extreme poverty owing to combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase in the price of basic necessities in 2020. This is according to the Zimbabwe Poverty Update 2017-2019 and 2021 Rapid Poverty Income Consumption and Expenditure Survey (PICES) round three results released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency…
