The coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the globe having so far killed almost 3 500 and infected over 100 000 people in more than 90 countries. A number of cases have been confirmed in Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria, Morocco and South Africa recently recorded two cases of the lethal disease. Now that the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF fear a popular uprising by ordinary Zimbabweans who are enduring the worst economic crisis in the country for a decade, expelled former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has told the Daily News On Sunday. This comes as the church, regional peers and Western powers are stepping up their…
THE Embassy of Japan in Zimbabwe has availed US$624 907 to the Hazardous Area Life-support Organisation (Halo) Trust to clear landmines in Mashonaland Central and help meet the 2025 international deadline to clear explosives. Speaking during the signing ceremony with Halo, Japanese ambassador Toshiyuki Iwado said the Mashonaland Central mine clearance project will be the…
DAM levels have increased but they remain low despite the recent rains, Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) corporate communications manager Marjorie Munyonga has said. Munyonga said as at March 2, the national dam level average had risen to 55, 4 percent marking a 0, 11 percent increase since February 24 this year. She was, however,…
A LEADING local fuel solutions technology company, Garage and Forecourt, has adopted a ground-breaking technology — the 3D Laser Calibration Scan machine — which they say is a game changer in calibration of fuel tanks. The 3D Laser Scan machine, an innovative automatic tank calibration system, is also heavily lauded for addressing less accurate strapping…
AFTER months of efforts to keep coronavirus out of Zimbabwe, the government is still struggling to gain public confidence on its ability to fight the deadly epidemic. That the coronavirus (Covid-19) is on the country’s doorstep in South Africa, Zimbabweans feel it is now a matter of time before the scourge spreads into the country…
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has announced that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa. On Thursday it was announced that a KwaZulu-Natal man who had travelled back from Italy on Sunday was the first confirmed case in South Africa. The second patient is a 39-year-old lady from Gauteng who…
RESTIVE members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have told the labour body’s leadership to organise a mass stay-away to force the government to address the current economic crisis. This emerged during a recent consultative meeting held in Harare, one of many by the labour body to chart the way forward in the…
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded an increase in the number of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-related deaths at its clinics. According to the latest council minutes, in January this year the local authority initiated 191 patients on tuberculosis treatment up from 128 patients in December last year. During the same month, 22 people died of…
ZIMBABWE today (March 8) celebrates International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. International Women’s Day has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million…
