President Cyril Ramaphosa declares a 21-day lockdown as a measure to curb the spread of the lethal cornavirus in Zimbabwe’s neighbor South Africa. The Lockdown will be effective from Thursday midnight 26 March to Thursday 16 April 2020.
Tarisai Machakaire,Blessings Mashaya and Shamiso Dzingire STAFF WRITERS THERE are concerns that many Zimbabweans may not be taking the deadly coronavirus seriously, with some people and churches still behaving as if it’s business as usual, the Daily News reports. As a result, there are calls for authorities to introduce more stringent measures to prevent the…
THREE suspected armed robbers who survived during a police shoot-out that left five of their gang members dead last Wednesday will languish in remand prison after they were denied bail when they appeared in court. Godfrey Mupamhanga, 27, and Prince Zakeyo, 25, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa on Saturday charged with four counts of…
A 65-YEAR-OLD Harare man, who allegedly raped his 15-year-old house maid, has appeared in court. Wellington Tyauripo, 65, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa on Saturday charged with rape. He was denied bail and advised to approach the High Court. The matter was remanded to April 3 to enable the prosecution to attain outstanding proof…
A HARARE businessman has been hauled before the courts after allegedly neglecting payment of $20 000 as maintenance for his children. Cannie Mapfumo, 59, who is an Information Technology expert with a local bank and runs a preschool trading as Chartgrove Investments, appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai Muchini charged with failure to pay maintenance. He…
Zimbabwe has recorded its first coronavirus death. Broadcast journalist and son of prominent businessman and politician James Makamba, Zororo, succumbed to the lethal virus today… More to follow…
PARLIAMENT is lobbying for the urgent reopening of Ekusileni Hospital for Covid-19 eventualities saying the city’s isolation institution, Thorngroove Infectious Diseases Hospital, will not cope. Situated in Woodlands suburb, Ekusileni Hospital is the brainchild of the late vice president Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo and has been lying idle since the turn of the millennium. Parliamentarians made…
ZIMBABWEANS are among the world’s saddest people with the recent annual United Nations world happiness report ranking the country in the top five of the world’s unhappiest countries. The southern African country is third below Afghanistan and South Sudan. Zimbabwe is followed by Rwanda, Central African Republic, Tanzania, Botswana, Yemen, Malawi and India. “A happy…
The army could be deployed to patrol South Africa’s streets to delay the need for a countrywide lockdown if there is a huge spike in Covid-19 infections, as experts now fear. A possible national “state of emergency” — the first to be declared in SA in more than 30 years — could be introduced as…
FOLLOWING last Friday’s announcement by the government that the country now had two confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Daily News reporters Tarisai Machakaire and Tinashe Nekati went out on the streets to glean people’s views on Zimbabwe’s preparedness, knowledge of the disease among other issues. Collin Muziringa, Student, Alexander Park What I know…
