RUSSIA and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating COVID-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare’s ability to afford the shots, with plans for meetings with business leaders who have offered to pay for them. Authorities in the impoverished southern African nation are scrambling to contain the accelerating spread of the coronavirus….
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has called on all local political parties to unite in the fighting against Covid-19 as Zimbabwe’s new infections and deaths continue to rise. As at January 24, 2021, Zimbabwe had 31 320 confirmed cases, including 22 250 recoveries and 1 005 deaths. With authorities battling to contain the deadly coronavirus,…
Godknows Matarutse SENIOR STAFF WRITER matarutseg@dailynews.co.zw HOPES that national dialogue may soon finally take place, to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises, were raised further after opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, said yesterday that he would soon reach out to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and others in this regard. Speaking to the Daily News, the…
MANY decent Zimbabweans have been shocked by the depth of depravity that has been exhibited by a few pinheads who have In truth, this primitive behaviour was entirely expected as this has, unfortunately, become the reality of present-day Zimbabwe. Thus, we will all have to fight very hard if this barbaric mindset is ever to…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC has applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (Sona), saying it equally shares the optimism on the country’s ability to effectively respond to the upsurge in Covid-19 fatalities. In his address on Saturday, Mnangagwa reaffirmed his commitment to save the people of Zimbabwe from the…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda, pictured, says the lethal Covid-19 pandemic will not destroy the ruling party as yearned for by its detractors, but will emerge stronger. The killer virus last week claimed the lives of senior Zanu PF and government officials who include Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso…
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe’s raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country’s soaring deaths and infections. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday, the concerned Muswere also described the global pandemic as “one of the worst diseases in the history of the country”. “During the burial…
WITH Zimbabwe’s coronavirus deaths and infections continuing to soar, the cost of treatment for the killer disease has become a very big issue in the country. The Daily News on Sunday established yesterday that treatment costs for the deadly respiratory disease remain beyond the reach of the majority despite the public spotlight on this —…
AT LEAST 257 families in Manicaland have already been evacuated to safe places by the Civil Protection Unit (CPU) as tropical cyclone Eloise made landfall just south of Beira in Mozambique yesterday, threatening possible disruptive rain and flooding in the country. According to the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) and CPU, the storm will continue to…
THE Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has called on the government to extend social safety nets to minimise the burden on breadwinners. The call comes as Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) has also urged the government to come in and support the informal sector and assist the vulnerable by giving them grants…
