SAN communities in Tsholotsho and some parts of Plumtree have appealed for food relief as hunger continues to bite following the Covid-19 outbreak, the Daily News on Sunday reports. The government introduced a national lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, which has so far claimed four lives in Zimbabwe. Tso-ro-tso San Development Trust…
MDC Alliance leaders who were arrested on Friday have been granted $1000 bail each after being charged with criminal nuisance and violating lockdown rules. The six MDC Alliance leaders include their two vice presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi-Kore, International relations secretary Gladys Hlatshwayo, her deputy Lovemore Chinoputsa and also another opposition party member Wongai…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE confusion engulfing the weakening MDC continues to deepen, with the party’s interim leadership seizing the main opposition’s iconic national headquarters in Harare from their internal rivals on Thursday night, the Daily News reports. And as these mindless wars rumble on, police arrested MDC Alliance vice presidents Tendai…
Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITERS ©️ INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa lost his cool in Parliament on Thursday after he was chastised by deputy National Assembly Speaker Tsitsi Gezi for disrespecting fellow MPs, the Daily News can report. Mliswa resorted to using some unprintable words towards Zanu PF MP for Seke, Munyaradzi…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ MEMBERS of Parliament have suggested that the safest time to re-open schools as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country is in summer. This comes as government has, through Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema, announced that schools would re-open in phases, starting with final examinations…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairperson, Jim Risch, has called for strict accountability and transparency measures for the US$7 million grant extended to Zimbabwe by the World Bank (WB) to aid in the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) recently. This comes as the US recently listed Zimbabwe as…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s former top aide Douglas Tapfuma was yesterday slapped with a six-year prison term for abuse of office. Tapfuma was convicted of three counts of criminal abuse of office following a full trial before Harare regional magistrate Esthere Chivasa. Chivasa suspended two years, leaving Tapfuma with an effective…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Association for Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has expressed concern over the delayed testing of returnees in quarantine centres, saying that this could be driving the increase in the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) positive cases among them. This comes as Zimbabwe’s confirmed Covid-19 cases have shot to…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw MEDICAL experts and human rights activists are up in arms over the government’s controversial plans to make public the names of all the people infected with the lethal coronavirus, the Daily News reports. This comes after Health minister Obadiah Moyo, pictured, made a surprise announcement in Parliament on Wednesday…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE’S consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, has suspended the issuance of temporary travel documents (TTDs) and repatriation certificates owing to a coronavirus (Covid-19) suspected case at its offices. This comes as South Africa’s confirmed Covid-19 cases were now more than 37 000, including 700 deaths and 19 000 recoveries….
