Sindiso Mhlophe and Blessings Mashaya STAFF WRITERS©️ LABOUR unions say this year’s Workers’ Day has been rendered irrelevant, as tens of thousands of people are facing the spectre of losing their jobs due to the twin challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and Zimbabwe’s economic rot. This comes as most companies in the country have not…
©️ A COMMUNITY-BASED organisation, Hand in Hand Zimbabwe (HiHZim) has set its sights on empowering rural communities in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and human rights activists have recently piled pressure on government over its alleged high concentration on urban areas at the expense of rural areas. Already some…
©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday travelled to Mozambique where he held a high-level meeting with his counterpart Filipe Nyusi on security matters affecting the region. Mnangagwa, who is the chairperson of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, left the country for the Mozambican town of Chimoio aboard a Dubai-based private jet….
©️ CHITUNGWIZA Municipality nurses yesterday downed tools, citing lack of remuneration and personal protective equipment (PPE) to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic as well as poor working conditions. The nurses stuck a poster on the St Mary’s Clinic entrance inscribed: “No PPE-no work, no Covid-19 allowances-no work, no lockdown allowances-no work, no food-no work, no…
TWO principal economists at Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) who allegedly leaked documents pre-empting the country’s de-dollarisation strategy appeared in court yesterday. Smart Manda, 44, and Philton Makena,40, appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti charged with communicating official documents to unauthorised persons and alternatively contravening section 60 (1) of the RBZ Act chapter 22:15…
NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisations Unicef and Goal Zimbabwe have launched an awareness campaign to educate the most vulnerable population across the country on Covid-19 using specialised mobile trucks. This comes as the Zimbabwe Republic Police and other civil society organisations have expressed concern over the lack of knowledge on Covid-19 expressed by people in high density suburbs…
A SHORTAGE of subsidised maize-meal is looming after millers withheld supplies following reports that the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has doubled the producer price of maize per tonne, the Daily News can report. This comes as the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday only delivered a mere 10 tonnes of subsidised maize-meal in Ushewokunze…
Sindiso Mhlope and Tendai Kamhungira STAFF WRITERS ©️ AUTHORITIES have made a new pledge to test at least 2 000 people a day for coronavirus from now onwards, after receiving more personal protective equipment (PPEs) for healthcare workers, the Daily News reports. This comes after the government missed its initial target by a mile, to…
©️ FARMERS started selling their tobacco crop yesterday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month. Tobacco is the second biggest earner of foreign exchange after gold, and last year generated US$747 million in exports mainly to China and Europe, according to Reserve…
©️ THE World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an urgent appeal for US$19,5 million to enhance its operations, including food assistance community resilience programmes, to the effects of Covid-19, the Daily News can report. This comes as the WFP recently launched another appeal for US$130 million to sustain its food assistance and community resilience programmes…
