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‘Zim struggling to improve breast-feeding’

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Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw UNICEF has revealed that Zimbabwe is among countries struggling to improve breastfeeding as the world commemorates World Breastfeeding Week 2020. This comes as the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the country was likely to experience up to 50 percent increase in…

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Sikhala threatens 5-day protests

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Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE organisers of the abortive July 31 protest say they will roll out five days of demonstrations next week against alleged wanton looting and corruption, the Daily News reports. Last Friday, government unleashed the police and soldiers to stop the planned protest by locking down urban centres and suburbs…

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…as govt cracks down on activists

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Blessings Mashaya HUMAN rights lawyers yesterday claimed an intensified across the country crackdown on political activists, which includes arrests and torture, by security forces after the foiled July 31 protest, the Daily News reports. This comes as the police have increased the manhunt for the organisers of the protest, among them, MDC Alliance deputy chairperson…

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July 31 protesters released on bail

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THREE Bulawayo residents who were arrested over the weekend in connection with the July 31 anti-government demonstration have been released on bail. The trio; Nigel Ndlovu, a media entrepreneur and freelance journalist, Nyasha Lydia Muzaba and a Nust student Methembe Msipha were released on $1 000 bail each when they appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Shephered…

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Avenues clinic reopens casualty unit

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THE Avenues Clinic in Harare has reopened its accident and casualty unit after it had been temporarily closed for disinfection after their staff members were exposed to coronavirus (Covid-19). This comes at a time when hospitals are turning away patients without test results to prove that they do not have Covid-19. In a statement, the…

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Talks now urgent: Church warns ED. . .as Zim’s political, economic crises deepen  

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Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zwAMID the country’s deepening political and economic crises, church leaders have once again implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, to take the initiative to launch inclusive national dialogue to heal the nation.   Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, a number of prominent clerics said as the situation continued to take…

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Zim immigrants  get SA visa reprieve

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Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWEAN immigrants have once again been given a reprieve after the South African government extended the expiry date of their visas to October. Thousands of Zimbabweans in that country were facing deportation following the expiry of their visas after travel restrictions induced by the Covid-19 lockdown were imposed. However, many had…

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It’s time for an honest debate  

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IT IS now very clear to all those who choose to see, that no matter what long-suffering Zimbabweans try to do to lift themselves out of their decades-old misery, they are on a hiding to nothing as long as the narrow interests of politicians hold sway. In fact, and to be brutally frank, Zimbabwe’s long-standing…

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Defence ministry defrauded of $2m  

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A LOCAL businessman, Shepherd Chiringa, has been arrested for allegedly swindling the Defence ministry of over $2 million. Chiringa, the director of Cherly Ethan Travel Services, allegedly connived with Defence ministry finance director Denison Muvandi, who is on the run, to defraud the ministry by falsely claiming that he had facilitated travel for 79 army…

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Customers again fail to buy electricity tokens

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MANY people failed to purchase electricity tokens countrywide via electronic platforms at the weekend. The power utility’s customers had to endure long hours without power as they also could not access the service in supermarkets and other prepaid electricity outlets since most businesses were closed for the weekend. To make matters worse, in Harare, the…

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