©️ THE government has cleared its US$33 million debt owed to South Africa’s Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, raising the country’s opportunities to negotiate for additional supplies, an official has said. This comes as the Zesa Holdings (Zesa) was struggling to settle arrears it owes power producers in South Africa and Mozambique. Outgoing Eskom spokesperson Dikatso…
©️ Government is in a dilemma whether to delay the registration of school examinations saying the delaying of registration will mean that the November examination will be written in November 2021. The deadline for payment of examination fees for June was yesterday March 30 and April 9, 2020 for the November examinations. Speaking…
©️ HOPES are high that the coronavirus pandemic will not hit the country too badly after Zimbabweans heeded the government’s call to stay at home yesterday, the first day of a 21-day national lockdown, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government also announced yesterday that it would channel revenue from the unpopular two…
©️ AS THE country steps up its fight against the deadly coronavirus, a leading physician has warned Zimbabweans to beware of fake face masks and testing kits. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday the founder of Trauma Centre in Harare, Vivek Solanki, also discouraged people against wearing masks unnecessarily — particularly as Zimbabwe was likely…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pleaded with Zimbabweans saying they must act like they have already been infected by coronavirus (Covid-19) in order to stop the spread of the deadly disease. Updating the nation, Mnangagwa, in a press briefing said there is need for all Zimbabweans to act against the spread of coronavirus. “I want…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has gazetted Statutory Instrument 85/20, which will allow citizens and businesses to charge goods and services using the United States (US) dollar as part of combating the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). This comes after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya last week re-introduced the US dollar, barely a…
©️ OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa has called on government to provide food aid to support the poor who cannot afford to stay at home as they live from hand to mouth during the 21-day lockdown against the deadly coronavirus. This comes as the country yesterday marked the start of the 21-day lockdown announced by…
©️ PROMINENT businessman and politician James Makamba yesterday opened up for the first time about his son Zororo’s death, saying it has left a void which cannot be filled. Zororo, 30, became Zimbabwe’s first casualty of coronavirus when he died at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital in Harare on March 23. Following his death,…
©️ ZIMBABWE today enters a defining moment in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed tens of thousands of people worldwide — when the country starts a 21-day national lockdown, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country is recording rising cases of Covid-19, which claimed the life of prominent broadcaster…
©️ THE government instituted a new law yesterday that criminalises the gathering of two or more people — except in special circumstances, as authorities further toughened their stringent measures around combating the coronavirus menace, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country begins a 21-day lockdown that was announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last…
