Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw PARLIAMENT wants the government to empower rural schools by providing them with more resources, including solar radios, to ensure learners in these areas are not left behind. This comes as lessons have been disrupted since March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has seen most learners doing lessons…
STAFF WRITERS THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming “a Twitter party”. In addition, the senior alliance official also lamented the “undue” influence that a few “unelected people” — including “some politically-naive academics and…
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw LOCAL health experts are encouraged by the high uptake levels of the available Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines by frontline workers. This comes as the current vaccination phase, which started on Monday and will run for 10 days, will see authorities inoculating up to 150 000 frontline workers around the country….
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw STUNG by incessant robbery cases across the country, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has declared war against the perpetrators by launching a sting operation. This comes as police yesterday arrested 11 suspected robbers in connection with an armed robbery case that occurred at Maruta Shopping Centre in Hatfield, Harare….
Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE Harare City Council (HCC) has threatened to name and shame firms, churches and individuals that owe council millions in a desperate attempt to force residents to pay up bills. This comes as the stretched local authority says it’s battling with collection that has heavily compromised service delivery to…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw VICE President Kembo Mohadi says he is “a victim of political machinations being peddled through hacking and voice cloning” — following a week of damaging claims that he had had a string of affairs with married women. In addition, Mohadi also told a media conference at his Munhumutapa offices…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw A ROW has erupted over the estate of the late socialite, Genius Kadungure — who was popularly known as Ginimbi. This comes as his family has approached the High Court seeking the removal of the executor of his estate, as well as the nullification of a will he is said…
Mugove Tafirenyika in CHIKOMBA THE late Daily News Assistant Editor, Maxwell Sibanda, was given a befitting send-off after dozens thronged his burial at his rural home in Shadaya Village, Chikomba District, Mashonaland East, yesterday. Sibanda, 52, who passed away due to renal-related complications at a Harare private hospital on Sunday night, was described at his burial as…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO residents fear a malaria outbreak could hit the second city after the council failed to roll out its anti-mosquito programme this year. The city has a number of streams that have been identified as mosquito breeding zones in Matsheumhlophe, Luveve, New Lobengula, Emakhandeni, Hillside, Glengary and Woodlands. At the beginning…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw LONG-SUFFERING Zimbabweans can look forward to a further improvement in their lives and more stable prices of basic goods, on the back of an anticipated bumper agricultural season this year, the governor of the Reserve Bank, John Mangudya, has said. Addressing a well-supported Daily News webinar yesterday, which looked at the central…
