AS the world continues to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, coronavirus cases are starting to spike again in Zimbabwe; and worryingly they are mostly local transmissions. The country reported 84 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the national tally to over 10 000, including close to 280 deaths since the pandemic hit Zimbabwe’s shores in…
LAST month, two important things happened — one inside Zimbabwe and the other in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While these happened in different jurisdictions, they all have a huge bearing on Zimbabwe and its potential to attract enough foreign capital to grow the country’s troubled economy. Last week the UAE authorities allowed foreign…
DEBATE has been raging across the country on why the government is not closing schools following increasing cases of coronavirus among learners. Ever since schools reopened in September for examination classes after their closure in March when Covid-19 reached our shores, not a single day goes by without a report of confirmed cases. Zimbabwe has…
THE seemingly growing cacophony in the ruling Zanu PF party is needless and a threat to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s thrust to turn around the fortunes of the country’s flagging economy. Over the past three or so months, Zanu PF bigwigs have been jostling and horse-trading for power ahead of the re introduction of the divisive…
Comment: WE RECKON that even Donald Trump — the fibs-addicted, master of conspiracies and troubled outgoing leader of the United States of America — would marvel at the level of lying that has followed the issuance of six television licences by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) last week. For example, a few fantastical…
IT HAS been tragic to watch over the past few days how some well known con artists, who fooled many in the MDC leadership, are now turning on the country’s main opposition party with a sickening relish. We at the Daily News hate to say that we told the MDC so. Unfortunately, our well-meant and…
GIVEN the space constraints that the country faces, especially the urban sections, the construction of high-rise buildings which consume less land could prove to be the panacea for the country’s ballooning housing demand. For now, Zimbabwe is not prone to earthquakes unless some tectonic movements lead to this eventuality. For that reason the construction of…
IN YESTERDAY’S edition, we published a story saying 3,7 million people are exposed to communicable diseases such as typhoid and diarrhoea due to critical water shortages across the country. According to the United Nations Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, cases of typhoid and diarrhoea were on the rise in Harare and Bulawayo as a…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has to work hard to ensure that the country’s economy is back on its feet despite the economic sanctions imposed by Western powers, including the United States. While the sanctions, which include trade restrictions and withdrawal of bilateral and multilateral financial support and estimated to have cost the country about US$100…
ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the Christian world, is a few weeks away from the Christmas festive season. And over the years, the country has experienced terrible road accidents just before, during and immediately after the festive period. Recklessness, drunken driving and speeding while behind the wheel have been noted as major causes of road…
