CAPE TOWN — South Africa launched a new Covid-19 vaccination drive on Friday and will try to give doses to 500,000 people in two days to reinvigorate a flagging campaign that’s coming up against hesitancy and complacency in the continent’s worst-affected country.
GENEVA, Switzerland – Only 15 of Africa’s 54 nations have fully vaccinated 10 percent of their populations against Covid-19 and many frontline health workers remain at risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Council of Nurses (ICN) said on Thursday.
KIGALI – Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday told a delegation from Zimbabwe led by their Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Frederick Shava, that Rwanda urgently needs quality teachers from their country.
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday appointed Evelyn Ndlovu as the new minister of primary and secondary education, demoting Cain Mathema who recently suffered a stroke whilst hospitalised with Covid-19 complications.
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and other three board members were on Tuesday found not guilty of transferring judicial funds from the association's account into a private account to save the US$740 000 from being garnished by creditors.
HARARE - Telecom operators have been given the nod by Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) to increase out of bundle tariffs by an average of 30 percent.
PRETORIA - The opposition, Democratic Alliance party on Monday filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) against Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande over his defining of Afrikaans as a “foreign” language in South Africa.
HARARE — Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr. Constantino Chiwenga received a donation of 500 000 Sinopharm vaccine doses from the People’s Republic of China at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
HARARE – MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti and five other MDC Alliance lawmakers are set to return to parliament following the ruling by the High Court to nullify their recall.
