CHIEF WRITER THE government will continue to pay civil servants a Covid-19 allowance as it battles to contain the spread of the killer virus. When the authorities introduced the allowance in June last year, it stated that the flat non-taxable payment of US$75 for civil servants and US$30 for pensioners would be paid until December…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw This comes as the government last week enforced another tough lockdown, banning all public gatherings except for funerals, which should be attended by less than 30 people. Only those businesses offering essential services are allowed to operate from 8am to 3pm with the public expected to observe a 6pm to…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE ruling Zanu PF says Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the MDC Alliance “made their bed and must now lie in it” — after they allegedly “repeatedly spurned the hand of friendship” extended to them by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, tough-talking Zanu PF national political commissar, Victor…
THIS past weekend, the Daily News On Sunday led its edition with a rather innocuous story on hopes for national dialogue to help resolve Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crises. Boy, did the story get some people’s goat, especially the usual cast of know-it-alls — among them a few feather-brained academics and pseudo journalists. To be clear,…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO CITIZENS will be allowed to transport the corpses of their relatives who will have succumbed to Covid-19 provided they adhere to strict health guidelines provided by the government. This comes as the police had earlier issued a declaration banning inter-city transportation of bodies as the country reels from new Covid-19 infections…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw NATIONAL Housing minister Daniel Garwe says the government is working on modalities to rein in at least 15 land barons believed to be in possession of 80 percent of the country’s residential space. In a recent interview with the Daily News, Garwe said his ministry was putting final touches to a tell-it-all…
By Tamary Chikiwa CITIZENS will be allowed to transport the corpses of their relatives who will have succumbed to Covid-19 provided they adhere to strict health guidelines provided by the government. This comes as the police had earlier issued a declaration banning inter-city transportation of bodies as the country reels from new Covid-19 infections…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS THE country’s coronavirus infections continue to spike alarmingly, authorities have been urged to further tighten the current stay-at-home order — amid growing ill-discipline by ordinary people. Health experts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday also implored the police to restore the security checkpoints that were there during Zimbabwe’s first hard…
Blessing Masakadza SENIOR STAFF WRITER masakadzab@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala is expected to appear in court today following his arrest at the weekend for allegedly peddling falsehoods on social media. The garrulous Zengeza West legislator was arrested at the Harare Magistrates’ Court after he allegedly tweeted comments regarding a widely-circulated video of a…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is concerned at the low uptake of female condoms at a time cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) are spiking. This comes as National Aids Council (Nac) figures reveal that women are leading in the number of new STI infections as people were indulging in risky sexual…
