Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ RETURNING Zanu PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country’s deepening political and economic crises. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Gumbo — the only surviving member of…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE government has received a major boost in its fight against the lethal coronavirus following significant personal protective equipment (PPE) donations by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), the Daily News reports. This comes as health workers have been striking over poor conditions and the lack of adequate PPE…
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda, says the level of corruption displayed by some of the country’s leaders is tantamount to selling out. Speaking in a rare interview posted by the ruling Zanu PF party on Twitter, the army commander — who took over from retired general Vice President Constantino Chiwenga after…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government through Mathema announced last month that schools would…
THE government says it has a substitute for the second line drugs for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) which is currently in short supply. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy minister of Health John Mangwiro said Ritonavir or Kaletra drugs were in short supply not only in Zimbabwe but the world over. In 2016,…
THE government should revisit its strategies in managing the rising coronavirus (Covid-19) cases as those testing positive continue to increase, health practitioners contend. As at June 26, Zimbabwe had recorded 561 confirmed cases, including 135 recoveries and six (6) deaths after conducting 65 704 tests nationwide. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) vice president Dean Ndoro…
FORMER police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri has challenged moves by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government to seize several properties from him to recover US$32 million he reportedly stole from the force, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes as government alleges that the former top cop, who is now believed to be in self-exile either in…
THE African Development Bank (AFD) has availed a US$8,9 million grant to boost coronavirus (Covid-19)-related measures in six Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries, including Zimbabwe. This comes as the country’s confirmed Covid-19 cases are now 561, with frontline health workers expressing concern over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) at the country’s health…
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has remained in the wilderness. For 40 years, the opposition has failed to dislodge the ruling Zanu PF party from power in…
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers’ movement and that it had no respect for the rule of law after rejecting to accept a Supreme Court ruling that Thokozani Khupe is interim president after the death…
