THE recent decision by the MDC Alliance’s standing committee to dissolve the coalition’s strife-torn Bulawayo provincial executive has sharpened factional divisions within the pact. Insiders told the Daily News yesterday that the decision had seen relations between the coalition’s two major factions in the troubled region — allegedly linked to alliance vice president Welshman Ncube and national…
CIVIL servants have welcomed the call for mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 saying it was long overdue as most of their workplaces are…
THE government has started to compensate white former commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s chaotic agrarian reforms of two…
AS COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in the country, the government has been compelled to further reduce the number of its staff…
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) says its failure to account for related party debts and investments was mainly a result of legacy debts it inherited from previous diamond mining companies. This comes as the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines demanded responses from ZCDC on allegations raised in the 2019 auditor-general’s report that was recently…
MDC Alliance officials, including secretary-general Chalton Hwende, have received praise from many Zimbabweans for finally publicly embracing the country’s national coronavirus vaccination programme. This comes after the alliance snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s invitation in March this year to take part in the country’s launch of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the resort town of Victoria…
ZIMBABWE’S daily Covid-19 fatalities have surpassed the three-digit mark after 102 people succumbed to the respiratory virus on Friday alone, while over 2 000 cases were recorded. This comes as the country’s previous highest daily death toll from the virus was 80, which was recorded earlier this year at the height of the second wave…
THE government has gazetted an extradition treaty it signed with China in 2018 to allow Zimbabwe and its Asian partner to bring back criminals to face justice in the two countries’ respective jurisdictions. According to a Government Gazette published yesterday, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe signed the treaty with the Asian country in order to…
THE government says fake news and lack of discipline by a large cross-section of ordinary Zimbabweans have been militating against vaccinating as many citizens as possible. However and despite these, the authorities said they remained hopeful of providing the jabs to at least 10 million people by year end to reach much-needed national herd immunity….
Z IMBABWE of late has seen an upsurge in new Covid-19 infections and deaths that forced the government to implement a hard…
