FORMER Zanu PF youth leader Jim Kunaka, pictured, has had to endure a painful week-long mourning for his late son as health authorities are demanding his coronavirus Covid-19 test result before they can bury him. Kunaka blamed health authorities at Wilkins and Parirenyatwa hospitals for taking too long to give him the results of Covid-19…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will tomorrow morning headline the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) webinar on the 2020 Mid-Term Budget Review. ANZ are the publishers of the inimitable Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday. The discussion, to be live streamed on the Daily News Facebook page at 8.30am, will also feature Reserve Bank…
Masiyiwa sources drugs for 1 million Africans Myles Matarise STAFF WRITER matarise@dailynews.co.zw AFRICAN Union special envoy Strive Masiyiwa has – through the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) – sourced drugs to treat one million African’s affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The AMSP was launched in June by African Union chairperson and South Africa’s president…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE government stands accused of escalating its clampdown on critics ahead of the planned July 31 mass demonstrations, which have raised fears of potentially bloody clashes between protesters and security forces, the Daily News reports. This comes as suspected State security agents have been raiding the homes of…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is concerned by the sharp increase in violence against women and children during Zimbabwe’s current national coronavirus lockdown, the Daily News reports. This comes as authorities are preparing to further tighten the lockdown, in the wake of rising…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MDC leader Thokozani Khupe scored another victory in the ongoing battle for the party after Parliament allowed her to choose a new National Assembly chief whip ahead of bitter rival Nelson Chamisa, the Daily News reports. This comes as Khupe and Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their…
Blessing Masakadza STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw TOP lawyer Thabani Mpofu has described his on-going prosecution as abuse of authority by the Prosecutor-General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi. Mpofu is accused of conniving with other lawyers Tapiwa Makanza and Joshuwa Chirambwe in creating a fictious person by the name Simbarashe Zuze and filing papers at the Constitutional Court challenging…
A Zanu PF member has been nabbed on allegations of firing several gunshots after a clash with MDC supporters over market stalls at Mupedzanhamo, injuring two people. Prince Shinya, 38, appeared in court on allegations of attempted murder, alternatively negligently discharging a firearm, after a clash which saw the injury of Lloyd Kanye and Tinashe…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE High Court here has released a suspected gold dealer who was arrested during a police raid at a Killarney house leading to the recovery of gold worth more than US$125 000 — on $20 000 bail. Talent Mumpande, 28 who is facing charges of possession of gold without a permit…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will on Monday headline the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) webinar on the 2020 Mid-Term Budget Review which he delivered on Thursday. ANZ are the publishers of the inimitable Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday. The discussion will be live streamed on the Daily News Facebook page on Monday…
