ZIMBABWE’S healthcare providers have been urged to embrace technology which would help them provide telehealth services following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes as face-to-face meetings and gatherings are now generally discouraged by the World Health Organisation protocols on combating the spread of the virus. It also comes as the lockdowns imposed by…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO MAJORITY of children from Killarney Squatter Camp have not returned to school as their parents have been grounded by the Covid-19-induced lockdown. The government finally reopened schools in a phased manner starting with examination classes on March 15 while the rest of the learners returned to face-to-face lessons a week later. …
PARLIAMENT has approached the High Court seeking to recover a motor vehicle granted to MDC Alliance MP Chalton Hwende, pictured, during his time in office. Alternatively, Parliament wants an order compelling Hwende to repay the US$55 000 loan that was advanced to him under the government vehicle loan facility agreement. The august House initially approached…
THE court battle between the government and a Harare man over the construction of the statue of First Chimurenga heroine Mbuya Nehanda has escalated after the latter launched a new application. Felix Elijah Shamuyarira initially approached the High Court in July last year insisting that the government was making a grave mistake in constructing the…
A LOCAL company has filed a lawsuit at the High Court demanding US$4 million from the Communications and Allied Industries Pension Fund (CAIPF). Nutriveg, which is under judicial management, together with its assigned corporate rescue practitioner Hazvinei Mutonda, is claiming that CAIPF breached its care of duty and was responsible for the damages incurred to…
A ZUPCO bus conductor was gang-raped and robbed of her belongings while on her way to work in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in Bulawayo. The 23-year-old woman was waylaid by four perpetrators as she set off for work from her Emthunzini home in the city. Bulawayo Police spokesperson Abednico Ncube said the armed…
ZIMBABWE continues to make significant inroads in the fight against HIV/Aids with latest figures showing that the country’s mortality rate has declined by 71,9 percent. This comes as the National Aids Council (Nac) and the entire health delivery system have been implementing high impact geo-targeted interventions like the 90-90-90 and Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)…
THE Young Democrats of America (YDA), the youth wing of the US Democratic Party, recently completed a visit to the city of Dakhla, Western Sahara and have called on investors to tap into the region’s unexploited economic potential. The YDA delegation held talks with the General Director of the Regional Investment Center (CRI) to identify…
SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has called on the government to urgently provide funds for prisons to procure sanitary wear for inmates. This comes as a recent tour of Zimbabwe’s prisons revealed that female inmates were struggling to cope with their menstrual cycles as the facilities do not offer them any sanitary wear. The vote…
SIX human rights activists accused of receiving training on how to subvert President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government in the Maldives have sued Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe for a combined US$300 000. The six — Rita Nyampinga, Sitabile Dewa, Nyasha Mpahlo, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura and George Makoni — cited Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga…
