adminCovid: South Africa’s Ramaphosa announces new restrictions as cases soar
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new tougher coronavirus restrictions, a day after South Africa recorded more than one million Covid-19 cases.
Another new COVID strain found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC
Another new variant of the new coronavirus seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa’s disease control body has said, cautioning more investigation was needed.
Cde Tongo: The meaning of freedom
Whatever a man is worth can only become worthwhile when his good deeds outlive him, instead of them being buried with him, as William Shakespeare construes when he writes: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Central Committee meets today
The Central Committee is expected to sit today for an ordinary session at ZANU PF Headquarters in Harare.
Troubled Harare appoints acting mayor
Harare City Council battling a leadership crisis following the arrest, recall and suspension of successive mayors and the present deputy mayor yesterday appointed Ward 9 Councillor Stewart Mutizwa as the acting mayor.
Zimstat gets $4bn for census
Treasury has allocated $4,4 billion to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (zimstat) to carry out its activities that include conducting the 2021 population census, which is expected to culminate into the delimitation of the 210 electoral constituencies to be used in the 2023 general elections.
It’s Wonder Woman vs Covid-19!
NEW YORK. — There isn’t much that Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman can’t do with her golden Lasso of Truth, that shimmering, computer-generated rope that sends villains to their doom and rescues children from precipice edges.
China’s factory strong
China’s factory activity likely maintained a solid pace of expansion in December, a Reuters poll showed yesterday, as the world’s second-largest economy steadily recovers from the coronavirus crisis.
Border officials granted bail
A senior Government official and a police officer deployed at Beitbridge Border Post who were arrested on Christmas Day on corruption charges by a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) crack team were yesterday released on $10 000 bail each.
Africa’s COVID-19 cases hit 2,644,112: Africa
The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa rose to 2,644,112 on Monday, according to the latest data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)