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A NUMBER of private boarding schools have closed down and sent students home after an alarming increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases at the learning institutions.
Who is afraid of Hopewell?
February 14, 2021 in Opinion
To tell you the truth, I really do not know where to begin. I am flooded by all these messages from Zanu-PF stalwarts, apparently afraid of Hopewell Chin’ono, a Zimbabwe film journalist whose song on Zimbabwean
chefs (big men) looters is going viral on social media.
BY KENNETH MUFUKA
To tell you the truth, I am not afraid of this brother Hopewell.
The issues, however, raised by Zanu PF stalwarts are real, and I will not ignore them. Their best spokesperson on this issue is Dr Mavaza Masimba.
When the US founding fathers wrote the following Amendment One in their constitution, media houses were small and served different voices in different states. “Congress,” Amendment Number one says, “shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of their grievances.”
Nurses down tools
BY MOSES MATENGA/ PHYLIS MBANJE/ PRAISEMORE SITHOLE/GARIKAI TUNHIRA
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE).
The work stoppage, which is likely to plunge the health delivery system into turmoil given the recent countrywide surge in COVID-19 cases, came after a matron at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare reportedly succumbed to the killer disease on Wednesday.
Sally Mugabe Hospital maternity nurses vowed yesterday that they would not risk working without PPE, amid claims that seven staff members and 15 patients had also tested positive for COVID-19.