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Blessing Masakadza  SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw TWO people have been arrested for allegedly printing fake Covid-19 certificates and selling them to travellers at Roadport Bus Station in Harare. Takesure Kanyani and Tariro Chimhavi are accused of forging the certificates and inscribing names of different health centres as the issuers of the documents before selling them…

Mugove Tafirenyika, Godknows Matarutse & Tamary Chikiwa STAFF WRITERS MANY ordinary Zimbabweans in urban areas appeared to have heeded the calls by authorities to stay at home, as the country’s second hard national coronavirus lockdown came into effect yesterday. News crews from the Daily News who sought to establish the extent of compliance with the latest tough Covid-19 measures…

Mugove Tafirenyika  CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw  LEARNERS writing their final examinations were yesterday forced to sit for their papers in batches after encountering transport and security checkpoint difficulties, as the country began its 30-day hard coronavirus lockdown. But authorities said despite some learners arriving late, they were allowed to sit their papers later — to avoid…

Godknows Matarutse  SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw JOURNALISTS and other media practitioners can still use their 2019 and 2020 accreditation cards in executing their duties, the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has said, adding it is yet to issue new ones for this year.  ZMC accredits journalists and issues them with press cards valid for one year,…

CHIEF WRITER  THE government has moved to protect civil servants from Covid-19 by reducing, to 30 percent, the number of public employees physically at work as well as suspending face-to-face meetings during this lockdown period. This comes as the country has gone into a second hard Covid-19 which commenced yesterday, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa and…

Mugove Tafirenyika and Godknows Matarutse STAFF WRITERS ZIMBABWEANS thronged shops and banks around the country yesterday as they rushed to stock up on essential goods ahead of the revised national coronavirus lockdown, which starts today. At the same time, police warned that they would descend heavily on violators of the tightened stay-at-home order, as authorities…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw NEW MDC leader, Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, says the continuing active participation of elements of Zanu PF’s vanquished Generation 40 (G40) faction in the affairs of the MDC Alliance is jeopardising prospects for a united opposition in the country ahead of the crucial 2023 elections. This notwithstanding, Mwonzora told the Daily…

Mugove Tafirenyika and Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITERS   HEALTH experts have implored authorities to complement the re-introduced coronavirus lockdown measures with heightened testing of as many people as possible, to curb the spiralling infections in the country. This comes amid soaring deaths and numbers of people infected with Covid-19, which saw the government re-introducing…