THE Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has called on the government to urgently implement a comprehensive plan to cater for the rights, needs and safety of prisoners in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation said there was need for the government to immediately act and ensure the disease is not transported into the country’s…
GOVERNMENT has been challenged to urgently ratify the Protocol on the Rights of Elderly Persons in Africa in the wake of coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak which has left elderly people exposed to the consequences of the deadly disease This comes as many elderly people have been left vulnerable to hunger particularly during this lockdown period as…
PRESSURE is mounting on Nelson Chamisa and his close allies, as more MDC stalwarts start to pull away from the charismatic politician, in the simmering war for the soul of the country’s main opposition party. This comes as the Daily News On Sunday has confirmed that authorities will release $7,5 million due to the MDC…
ZIMBABWE has 28 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and not 29 as previously reported, the Health ministry has said. In an update released on Thursday, the ministry said it erroneously recorded a result in Bulawayo as a new case when in actual fact it was a retest on a patient that had previously tested positive for…
POLICE have arrested an MDC Alliance councillor for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a “fool” in a WhatsApp message. Chrispen Rambu, 39, the MDC Alliance councillor for Ward 8 in Chipinge, was arrested on Friday and has been charged with insulting the Head of State. In the WhatsApp message, Rambu compared Mnangagwa with South African President…
“WE WILL open when real life is no longer a movie,” reads a poster outside a movie house, forced to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed over 150 000 lives globally. Like an apocalyptic horror movie, the virus has devoured people across the world at an alarming rate. Across…
THE government said yesterday it is further tightening its national coronavirus lockdown measures, by clamping down on unnecessary travel between the country’s urban and rural areas. The move — which is part of the fight by authorities against the global pandemic — comes as the government is frantically trying to trace people who made contact…
©️ FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s security aides were involved in a fatal accident in Mashonaland Central yesterday, the Daily News reports. The first lady — who was travelling to Muzarabani where she intended to donate foodstuffs and other goods to starving families — was not in the car which rolled and claimed one life, leaving…
HIGH Court judge Joseph Mafusire has ordered the ZBC and three government ministries to provide information on coronavirus (Covid-19) in braille, sign language and use subtitles to cater for the blind, deaf and visually-impaired. This comes after an application filed by the Centre for Disability and Development Trust, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust and the Zimbabwe National…
RESIDENTS here will be receiving running water for only two days per week with effect from Monday, a clear disaster in the midst of the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) which requires regular washing of hands. The increase in the water shedding hours comes two weeks after the local authority increased water cuts to 108 hours…
