Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ©️ POLICE on Thursday night stopped an attempt by a group of youths linked to an MDC faction aligned to Thokozani Khupe from taking over the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House in Harare, the Daily News can report. This comes after Khupe’s faction enlisted the help of police to…
Tarisai Machakaire STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw ©️ REGISTRAR-GENERAL Clemence Masango, who was arrested on Wednesday on graft charges, faces up to 15 years in jail for allegedly corruptly authorising the purchase of six top-of-the-range vehicles for his department without going to tender. Masango yesterday appeared before Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande charged with criminal abuse of…
Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITER nkomon@dailynews.co.zw ©️ ZIMBABWE will this year receive US$230 million for HIV programmes under the United States of America’s President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) for 2021. This comes after the United States — through the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has donated another US$3 million to support Zimbabwe’s…
TM Pick n Pay, one of the country’s leading supermarket chains, has joined the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) by purchasing $500 000 worth of face masks that will be distributed through its network of 55 stores nationwide, to individuals and communities that cannot afford medically-approved masks. The government — under the Level 2 lockdown announced…
Myles Matarise STAFF WRITER matarisem@dailynews.co.zw Government has committed to provide a stimulus package to the tourism sector as one of Zimbabwe’s key economic sectors that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This comes as 2020 is projected to be a very difficult year for the tourism business as countries including Zimbabwe have gone into…
THE United Nations and humanitarian partners yesterday launched an appeal for US$84,9 million to respond to both immediate public health crisis and secondary impacts of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on vulnerable people in Zimbabwe. Noting that the request was in addition to the US$715 million appeal for the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) launched on…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ REGISTRAR-GENERAL (RG) Clemence Masango’s woes continue to mount, as he now stands accused of “irregularly releasing” five-year-old Daniel Sadiqi’s passport to his father, Frank Buyanga Sadiqi, before the latter left the country. The development comes as police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga has vehemently opposed the controversial businessman’s stay…
Shamiso Dzingire in BULAWAYO THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has started rehabilitating boreholes at Nyamandlovu Aquifer in a development that is expected to ease Bulawayo’s water woes. Last week, the government — through Zinwa — provided $10,6 million for the rehabilitation of 15 boreholes at Nyamandlovu Aquifer. In an interview with the Daily News,…
EVEN before it has been launched, a political party associated with former Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi, has hit turbulent waters with resignations, expulsions and counter-expulsions ripping it apart. Members of the People’s Party, formed barely three months ago with the aim of morphing into a formidable opposition movement, were stunned on Wednesday when Mzembi and…
Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw WORKERS and employers have demanded an urgent Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting. This comes as government relaxed the national lockdown to level 2 on condition people who are going to work are tested for the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19), adhere to strict restrictions on social distancing and also wear face masks….
