HEALTH experts say although the country is not yet experiencing a third coronavirus wave, Zimbabweans should adhere to the current strict public management regulations of the pandemic to stop the cases of the virulent respiratory disease from spiking further. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the president of the Senior Hospital Doctors Association (SHDA), Shingai…
MINING giant Freda Rebecca Gold Mine produced 300kgs of the yellow metal last month, cementing the country’s aim of creating a US$12 billion economy by 2023 as part of a broader macroeconomic roadmap towards an upper middle-income economy by 2030. The firm’s general manager Eliakem Hove told journalists in Harare yesterday that the latest achievement…
ANOTHER Zanu PF regional meeting descended into chaos this past weekend, with party bigwigs said to have almost come to blows at the get-together — as ugly factionalism continues to ravage the ruling party. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the ruckus at the Mashonaland Central provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) meeting was fuelled by…
AUTHORITIES are cracking down on businesses that they accuse of violating the country’s new foreign currency laws by pricing their goods and services using black market rates. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) released a list of 18 companies that it accused of breaching these laws which criminalise the selling of wares using parallel…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has launched a fresh bid to block Chief Justice Luke Malaba from continuing with his term of office after filing another application seeking the implementation of a recent High Court judgment nixing his tenure extension. In the fresh urgent chamber application filed last Friday with the High Court, the…
POLICE say they will descend heavily on members of the public, bottle stores, bars and other businesses which violate the country’s recently-revised Covid-19 regulations. This comes after Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Zimbabwe’s Health minister, announced new strict Covid-19 measures on Saturday, after the government noticed rising complacency among citizens. National police spokesperson,…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has resumed some electoral activities ahead of impending by-elections to fill 117 parliamentary and local authority vacancies as well as preparing for the 2023 general elections. The Daily News on Sunday chief writer Mugove Tafirenyika sat down with the commission’s chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana to discuss their state of…
THE European Union (EU) has once again implored Harare to further open the country’s democratic space if relations with Brussels are to get warmer. In a statement after its Harare office met with new Foreign Affairs minister Frederick Shava, in Harare on Thursday, the key bloc said it was concerned about “the lack of progress…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it requires in excess of $2 billion to fund the forthcoming by-elections to fill 26 vacancies in the National Assembly and 91 in local authorities. Speaking to the Daily News on the sidelines of a media training workshop on electoral reporting which ended in Chinhoyi yesterday, Zec spokesperson Qhubani Moyo described…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it has no say in the fight for the MDC Alliance name between Douglas Mwonzora and Nelson Chamisa as this is a political matter which can be resolved by the two opposition leaders or the courts. Chamisa on the other hand is clinging onto the name, saying his party…
