Government buckles under pressure over Covid-19

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has buckled under pressure to cancel Drax Consulting SAGL’s US$60 million tenders for medical supplies, analysts say. This comes as independent Norton legislator Temba Mliswa had made an impassioned plea — in a leaked audio and presumably to the Zanu PF leader’s sons — for a protection of the underfire president’s integrity and there had been a massive outcry over the alleged overpricing of Covid-19 medical supplies by the Dubai-based company, and others.