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Godknows Matarutse  & Mugove Tafirenyika STAFF WRITERS POLICE have set up a special crack unit to enforce discipline among ordinary citizens whose apparent disregard of lockdown restrictions has miffed authorities. This comes as there are growing calls for the government to further tighten the current coronavirus stay-at-home order — amid ballooning deaths of people succumbing…

Emmerson Njanjamangezi  SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya says the central bank is working on the introduction of a $50 bank note for the convenience of the transacting public. The announcement followed swirling reports of an impending introduction of higher denomination notes of $100 and $200. In a statement…

Emmerson Njanjamangezi  SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw THE United Kingdom (UK) has approved a US$5,4 million food relief fund for Zimbabwe, which will come in the form of monthly cash transfers or electronic vouchers worth US$12 per person redeemable in supermarkets.  The scheme which would be implemented by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), aims to…

Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw CONCERNED medical experts have implored the government to follow the example of South Africa and close all its land borders, to curb the alarming spread of coronavirus in the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the experts also said they were worried that authorities were taking too long to reveal their…

Blessings Mashaya  SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw  ACTING President Kembo Mohadi yesterday said increasing Covid-19 infections and deaths are threatening the recovery of Zimbabwe’s economy and urged citizens to buckle up as the government battles to contain the pandemic.  This comes as the authorities last week imposed a hard lockdown which has seen all other businesses…

CHIEF WRITER  THE government will continue to pay civil servants a Covid-19 allowance as it battles to contain the spread of the killer virus. When the authorities introduced the allowance in June last year, it stated that the flat non-taxable payment of US$75 for civil servants and US$30 for pensioners would be paid until December…

Nyasha Dube  STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw This comes as the government last week enforced another tough lockdown, banning all public gatherings except for funerals, which should be attended by less than 30 people. Only those businesses offering essential services are allowed to operate from 8am to 3pm with the public expected to observe a 6pm to…

Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw   THE ruling Zanu PF says Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the MDC Alliance “made their bed and must now lie in it” — after they allegedly “repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship” extended to them by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, tough-talking Zanu PF national political commissar, Victor…

THIS past weekend, the Daily News On Sunday led its edition with a rather innocuous story on hopes for national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises. Boy, did the story get some people’s goat, especially the usual cast of know-it-alls — among them a few feather-brained academics and pseudo journalists. To be clear,…

Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO CITIZENS will be allowed to transport the corpses of their relatives who will have succumbed to Covid-19 provided they adhere to strict health guidelines provided by the government.  This comes as the police had earlier issued a declaration banning inter-city transportation of bodies as the country reels from new Covid-19 infections…