Dakarai Mashava FEATURES & MAGAZINES EDITOR ZIMBABWE’S funeral services sector’s capacity to handle rising Covid-19 deaths will come under the spotlight in an online discussion forum to be convened by Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) via Zoom on Thursday. To be co-hosted in conjunction with the Zimbabwe Association of Funeral Assurers (Zafa), the discussion comes…
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw DIALOGUE between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable, and also remains the best way to ending Zimbabwe’s decades-long myriad challenges, professor of World Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (OAS), Stephen Chan, says. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the…
Godknows Matarutse POLICE have arrested former Labour, Public Service and Social Welfare minister, Petronella Kagonye, for allegedly selling vast tracts of land in Harare and Mashonaland East illegally. This comes after the Daily News reported last month that Kagonye was under investigation on allegations of improperly acquiring six farms in Mashonaland East under her real estate firm,…
Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned people against steaming, saying it does not kill the coronavirus no matter how hot the concoction might be. This comes as Zimbabweans have gone into a steaming frenzy (kunatira) amid beliefs that the practice can kill the virus. Most people boil eucalyptus…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO BULAWAYO has closed all of its Covid-19 quarantine centres owing to shortage of public space to accommodate returnees. At the peak of the first wave of the deadly virus last year, the city had seven quarantine centres including Bulawayo Polytechnic and United College of Education as major centres for those…
WITH President Emmerson Mnangagwa keeping his cards close to his chest as to who he will appoint to replace three ministers who recently died from coronaviruslinked complications, analysts say his challenge is compounded by the fact that the world’s eyes are on his choice for the key Foreign Affairs post. This comes as Mnangagwa has…
THE government is appealing for assistance in raising funds to procure Covid-19 vaccines and has opened the door to the corporate world, citizens and other well-wishers to chip ion. This comes at a time that health experts have warned that the country faces a third wave of the novel coronavirus unless a vaccine is quickly…
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic with the local authority revealing that payment of bills by residents has drastically gone down. Bulawayo is one of the cities in Zimbabwe whose economy is highly informalised owing to de-industrialisation with many companies relocating either to Harare or outside the country. With…
THE Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) says widespread heavy rainfall and fertiliser shortages across the country will likely contribute to a reduction in national crop yields. Heavy rains, coupled with the occurrences of Tropical Storm Chalane and Tropical Cyclone Eloise, have led to average to above-average rainfall from October to January. This has…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS AUTHORITIES fight to procure much-needed Covid-19 vaccines, health experts have warned that the country faces a third wave of the lethal disease — unless the jabs arrive ahead of winter and citizen discipline also improves. In addition, the experts also told the Daily News yesterday, that the country needed to embark…
