PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has added two more weeks to the Covid-19 lockdown as authorities prepare to inoculate 60 percent of its citizens after receiving 200 00 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from China earlier today. MORE TO FOLLOW…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, yesterday urged the country’s political leaders to work in the interest of all Zimbabweans and emulate the spirit of magnanimity that was a hallmark of the late founding father of the MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai. Speaking on the third anniversary of Tsvangirai’s death, Mwonzora also…
Loyd Matare STAFF WRITER matarel@dailynews.co.zw THE government must formulate policies to support and increase the participation of women and girls in science, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has said. ZLHR made the call on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science which is celebrated once every year on February…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw PEOPLE with disabilities have been ranked the most vulnerable in Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 era as their monthly incomes have shrunk by 50 percent, putting them much lower than the poverty datum line, the United Nations has said. This comes as the government has been struggling to fulfil its…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO A TSHOLOTSHO man is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed with a knife several times in the stomach, leaving his intestines protruding. The man, whose identity was not revealed, told the Tsholotsho Magistrate’s Court that he was stabbed when he tried to stop his attacker, Ndabezihle Matrabuli, 42,…
Lloyd Matare HARARE City Council could face sanctions from the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) after failing to comply with an order to clear garbage that has piled up at bus termini around Mbare. HCC has only managed to clear only three out of seven of the garbage mounds, in violation of Ema’s directive, which became…
ZANU PF says the MDC is now operating from “the last chance saloon” to work with the former liberation movement and other political parties in the interests of the country and its long-suffering citizens. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the influential Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, also warned opposition leaders…
TAMARY CHIKIWA in BULAWAYO tchikiwa@dailynewsonsunday.co.zw PLUMTREE residents have been challenged to campaign against poor service delivery that has become the order of the day as the local authority fails to play it’s constitutional mandate. The town is experiencing service delivery challenges with poor access to water, slack garbage collection, sewer bursts and poor drainage systems….
HARARE City Council (HCC) has warned owners of illegal vending stalls and tuckshop traders operating on public spaces to pull down their structures before February 18 or risk the full wrath of the law. In a statement this week, HCC said that the construction of tuckshops on public spaces is a contravention of the…
Lloyd Matare THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday said it had to date arrested 417 833 people since March last year for violating regulations aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. ZRP said despite the lockdown regulations which exempt only essential service workers, indiscipline among Zimbabweans has become rampant. Writing on its twitter handle yesterday,…
