HIGH Court judge Jacob Manzunzu has freed on $1 000 bail a Chitungwiza man, who is accused of generating a fake press statement in the name of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, announcing a 13-day extension of the current national coronavirus lockdown. Lovemore Zvokusekwa through his lawyer Thomas Machinga, had approached the High Court seeking to be…
THE Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has urged the government to review its decision to reduce coronavirus (Covid-19) mandatory quarantine days as it risks releasing infected persons, the Daily News reports. This comes after the government announced that travellers who enter the country will now be subjected to mandatory quarantine for seven…
NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation Oxfam Zimbabwe, in partnership with the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), has launched a project, Climate Adaptation for Rural Livelihoods (CARL), in efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change through promoting market linkages in beef sales in the country’s most vulnerable regions. This comes as the effects of climate change have induced…
A POLICE officer who manned a roadblock at the intersection of Enterprise Road and Samora Machel Avenue on Tuesday allegedly forced a pedestrian to undress before demanding $450 to facilitate his release, a court heard. Morgan Fusire, 34, appeared before Harare magistrate Richard Ramaboa charged with criminal abuse of office or alternatively extortion. He was…
UNITED States (US) health experts are helping Zimbabwe to deal with the deadly coronavirus, US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has said. This comes as Zimbabwe recorded eight more cases on Wednesday, bringing to 40 the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases recorded in the country so far. Nichols said experts are training Zimbabweans on how…
Sindiso Mhlophe and Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITERS ©️ HEALTH experts have escalated their calls for more testing of people for the lethal coronavirus, following a dramatic rise in the number of infections in the country this week, the Daily News reports. This comes as police are expressing growing concerns over the continued lack of lockdown…
Sindiso Mhlophe and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS©️ LABOUR unions say this year’s Workers’ Day has been rendered irrelevant, as tens of thousands of people are facing the spectre of losing their jobs due to the twin challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and Zimbabwe’s economic rot. This comes as most companies in the country have not…
©️ A COMMUNITY-BASED organisation, Hand in Hand Zimbabwe (HiHZim) has set its sights on empowering rural communities in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and human rights activists have recently piled pressure on government over its alleged high concentration on urban areas at the expense of rural areas. Already some…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday travelled to Mozambique where he held a high-level meeting with his counterpart Filipe Nyusi on security matters affecting the region. Mnangagwa, who is the chairperson of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, left the country for the Mozambican town of Chimoio aboard a Dubai-based private jet….
©️ CHITUNGWIZA Municipality nurses yesterday downed tools, citing lack of remuneration and personal protective equipment (PPE) to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic as well as poor working conditions. The nurses stuck a poster on the St Mary’s Clinic entrance inscribed: “No PPE-no work, no Covid-19 allowances-no work, no lockdown allowances-no work, no food-no work, no…
