THE Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPA) has warned citizens from purchasing unapproved Covid-19 self-test kits from pharmacies, saying the kits are producing erroneous results. At the same time, the authority has cautioned unscrupulous medicine suppliers that they risk being deregistered if they continue with the practice. This came out during a tour of pharmacies…
EXPELLED Zanu PF youth leader, Godfrey Tsenengamu, has advised MDC Alliance boss Nelson Chamisa that he risks being left politically isolated if he does not join the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform immediately. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the forthright and hard-nosed Tsenengamu said Polad offered Chamisa an opportunity to be part of the much-talked about…
CHALLENGES affecting the operations of Zimbabwe’s women entrepreneurs will be the subject of discussion at a webinar to be hosted via zoom on Friday by the CEO Africa Roundtable. The forthcoming webinar, which will be the second edition of the Women’s Business Leadership Roundtable 2021, seeks to build women business leaders with expertise in, among…
TWO non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have launched an urgent High Court application seeking to stop Harare Provincial Development coordinator, Tafadzwa Muguti, from shutting down noncompliant civil society organisations from operating. This comes after Muguti on July 29 released a press statement directing all NGOs operating in Harare to submit their work plans, information on workshops and…
THE government has resolved to review the payment model for Covid-19 vaccinators’ allowances by making them performance-based as a way to accelerate the ongoing national inoculation programme. This comes as the country has so far vaccinated 1 674 710 people against a national target of 10 million by the end of the year as the…
THE Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform is working on a draft bill that seeks to change the country’s electoral laws ahead of the 2023 polls, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has said. This comes amid concerns by opposition political parties and other electoral stakeholders that the country’s electoral laws do not provide for…
HEALTH experts have warned the country to brace for a fourth wave of the lethal coronavirus, despite the number of infections in the country seemingly stabilising in the last few days. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the experts also urged citizens to continue heeding calls to get vaccinated — warning that as long as the country…
FORMER vice president Kembo Mohadi has pleaded with Zimbabweans to give President Emmerson Mnangagwa more time to turn around the country’s fortunes judging by the way he has steered the economy since taking over from the late former president Robert Mugabe. Addressing Zanu PF Midlands provincial leadership at the weekend, Mohadi said the government must…
INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere says current laws are weak to deal with cybercrimes and that the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill is meant to address the inadequacies. This comes as the Bill, which was passed by the Senate last week, was referred back to the Upper House after some spelling errors…
THE country’s second city has become the latest local authority to struggle with space to bury people due to soaring Covid-19 deaths. Apart from having to deal with high local coronavirus deaths, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is also having to contend with more bodies of Zimbabweans who would have succumbed to the lethal disease…
