THE government says fake news and lack of discipline by a large cross-section of ordinary Zimbabweans have been militating against vaccinating as many citizens as possible. However and despite these, the authorities said they remained hopeful of providing the jabs to at least 10 million people by year end to reach much-needed national herd immunity….
BUSINESSMAN Philip Chiyangwa has filed a Supreme Court appeal against a High Court judgment nullifying the property magnate’s sale of 526 hectares of land in Chegutu to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa). High Court judge Charles Hungwe, recently invalidated the deal between a firm owned by Chiyangwa, Gabroc Enterprises (Gabroc), and Nssa, arguing the…
T ELECOMMUNICATIONS giant, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, has for the second year running — won the overall Top Companies Survey (TCS) Award —…
WITH nearly 5 000 teenage girls falling pregnant between January and February alone this year and 1 800 ending up in early marriages, the question now is whether or not to give them contraceptives at such tender age. While authorities are blaming it on the Covid-19-induced lockdown, which left many children idle after schools were…
BOTH the government and health experts are optimistic that the arrival of more coronavirus vaccines in Zimbabwe will help to curb the…
THE late Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander, Edzai Chimonyo, has been declared a national hero and will be buried at the National Heroes Acre after he lost his battle with lung cancer on Thursday morning. President Emmerson Mnangagwa made the announcement when he visited the Chimonyo family home in Greystone Park in Harare yesterday to…
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere yesterday said the judiciary must embrace the use of technology as it will transform their sector. This comes as the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) has begun implementing a digital strategy which will help speed up the justice delivery system by adopting an electronic case management and filing system. …
FORMER High Court judge, Justice Erica Ndewere, who was fired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month after she was found guilty of misconduct by a three-member tribunal, has approached the High Court seeking the panel’s full written judgment. Ndewere wants to know the full reasons for her dismissal which will enable her lawyers to launch…
WITH coronavirus continuing to wreak havoc in the country, health experts say only a total lockdown will help authorities to contain the virulent respiratory disease which is threatening to spiral out of control. At the same time, the government says it feels let down by Zimbabweans’ lax attitude towards the lethal virus, which killed another…
AS COVID-19 continues to run amok, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had one message for the masses yesterday: get vaccinated and the economy remains fully open, or don’t get vaccinated, it gets shut! Ncube made this call as the government received two million vaccines from China, amid surging infections and rising number of people succumbing to…
