THE World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an urgent appeal for US$130 million to sustain its food assistance and community resilience programmes through August, in efforts to prevent millions of Zimbabweans from plunging deeper into hunger. This comes as the United Nations (UN) has warned that about 8 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation due to…
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has said their members will not hesitate to withdraw their services if government continues to expose them to the deadly coronavirus as they work without personal protective equipment (PPE). This comes after the nurses called off their strike after the government promised to avail the PPE for use in handling…
FOUR Mbare men were each slapped with a three-month prison term yesterday for defying President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s call to stay at home during the 21-day lockdown. Edmore Muwadzi, 38, Tendai Mabota, 32, Amos Rutsvara, 23, and Shingirirai Kuimba, 33, pleaded guilty to contravening SI 183 of 2020 but told the court that they were seeking…
THE government is not doing enough to support underprivileged people during the current lockdown and must expedite the process of giving needy people money, vendors and observers have said. This comes after Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima, pictured, revealed in a post-Cabinet media briefing on Tuesday that government will avail $200…
THE nation must not focus on coronavirus (Covid-19) prophecies and conspiracy theories as this will derail efforts to mitigate the spread of the deadly disease, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has warned. This comes as the country has recorded two deaths out of the 11 confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus, with conspiracy theories…
Fungi Kwaramba and Shamiso Dzingire STAFF WRITERS ©️ AS ANXIETY levels over the deadly coronavirus continue to rise in the country, health experts are cranking up the heat on the government to come clean on its lack of preparedness to deal with the pandemic. In addition, both medical doctors and human rights groups have told…
ZIMBABWE’S severe shortage of US dollars is set to worsen as the coronavirus threatens the start of sales of tobacco, its second-biggest source of foreign exchange. “It’s the cash flow that’s the biggest concern for everyone,” Ben Gilpin, executive director of the Commercial Farmers Union, said by phone from the capital, Harare, on Tuesday. “The…
©️ POLICE have threatened to impound vehicles and arrest drivers who flout lockdown measures meant to contain the spread of coronavirus. This followed the continued defiance of the measures as shown by the volume of traffic that found its way into the capital’s central business district (CBD) yesterday. The trend was reportedly the same in…
©️ THE Harare City Council (HCC) has applied for $41 million from central government for the optimisation of Morton Jaffray treatment plant to increase water production and supply to residents amid the global scourge of coronavirus (Covid-19). This comes after the city was successfully sued by residents who demanded availability of potable water in the…
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe(UZ) lecturers are up in arms with the institution’s administration for allegedly seeking to scrap several programmes and replacing them unilaterally without consulting the academics, the Daily News reports. Following a recent curriculum review process, the UZ administration led by vice chancellor Paul Mapfumo resolved to scrap several programmes such as Sociology from…
