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Zimbabweans fear 'starving in their own homes' during lockdown
Zimbabweans braced on Sunday for a three-week lock-down to curb the spread of the coronavirus which has killed one person so far and infected six others, and for many the lockdown means tough times ah...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1319 | by AFP
Denial, stigma threaten fight against Covid-19
Stigma, peddling of fake news and myths threaten to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the effective handling of the coronavirus pandemic with many people in Zimbabwe still to take the outbreak...Published: 15 hrs ago | 255 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 22 hrs ago | 602 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Majority Of Residents Ignorant on Covid 19 - HRT
Covid 19 is undoubtedly a global pandemic but residents in Zimbabwe's capital confess ignorance on preventing it's spread.Owing to lack of information, they are starved in that regard....Published: 23 hrs ago | 236 | by Takudzwa Mutonho
Telecoms players call on Fourth Industrial Revolution
PLAYERS in the telecommunications sector have appealed to the Government to prioritise and channel more resources towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) so as to accelerate the growt...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Pastors cancel services, call for Ecocash tithes
TITHES, the lifeblood of most churches, will be paid through mobile money while services will be livestreamed as churches prepare for life during the nationwide lockdown, with most congregations movin...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-based Warriors raise US$5k for Jaure's medical costs
FOREIGN-based Zimbabwean footballers have come together to raise funds towards Dynamos captain Partson Jaure's medical expenses, with the defender to undergo an operation in Harare this morning for he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Wuhan lockdown stopped spread of covid-19, but not in Zim - can't compare chalk and cheese
In an effort to stop the spread of corona virus, Mnangagwa has ordered a nation-wide 21-day lockdown starting Monday 30 March. SA is already in the middle of a 21-day nation-wide lockdown and many oth...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:26hrs | 1791 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
South Africa's lockdown may push Zimbabwe to the edge
As South Africa's 21-day national lockdown comes into effect, the ramifications of this decision will be felt strongly across the Southern African region, most acutely by its northern neighbour, Zimba...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 16:09hrs | 5121 | by Webster Zambara
Breaking Covid-19 rules in Zimbabwe can get you a year in jail
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has enacted a law that allows the arrest of people who defy his Covid-19 lockdown measures, but the public seems unfazed.Under statutory instrument (SI)...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown of Zim will starve citizens - Policy analyst
Policy Analyst Batler Tambo has warned that if Zimbabwe implement a lock down due to Covid-19, citizens most of them who rely on informal trading with starve to death as there are no any other means o...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1561 | by Stephen Jakes
MP calls for closure of public markets
HWANGE West legislator Godfrey Dube (MDC Alliance) has called for the closure of public markets in Victoria Falls following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19).Zimbabwe has recorded three p...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans unhappy
A WORLD happiness report released last week has ranked Zimbabweans among the saddest citizens in the world, only higher than the war-ravaged Afghanistanis and South Sudanese.The World Happines...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:14hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will never be united as long as only one political entity determines what is patriotism or national interest
Ever since Zimbabwe attained her political independence from Britain on 18 April 1980, the only dominant power in the country has been the ZANU PF party, which has ruled with an iron-fist - thus, sing...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 09:00hrs | 1756 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo residents go 4 days without water
A MAJORITY of Western Suburbs in Bulawayo have gone for four days without running water a time when global health experts are promoting strict hygiene to stop the Covid-19 outbreak. Council la...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1184 | by Staff reporter
May the Lord of hosts give us more rains
Magamba knitted his eyebrow in askance at the next man as he handed him the Super Chibuku brew for another heavy swig. If only it could rain one more time, most farmers need another downpour for full ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:27hrs | 194 | by Tondo Murisa.
Quarantine 'sick' Oppa Muchinguri and Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe Minister of Defence, Oppa Muchinguri Kashiri and Zanupf Secretary for Administration, Obert Mpofu must be stopped from addressing the public and isolated until the covid19 pandemic is curbed....Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 14:29hrs | 13059 | by Israel Dube
'Ban social media corona virus chit-chat' argue Zanu PF - fearful truth will open our eyes, at last
"His (Chamisa) cheerleaders prayed and wished that the country suffers from this coronavirus that has killed thousands globally and in his unfathomable melancholy Chamisa appropriates for himself powe...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 21:04hrs | 2949 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa and his dark sense of humour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has never been a prolific orator like his predecessor the late Robert Mugabe, he seems to have been trying to compensate for that lack of the gift by using humour....Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 7138 | by Staff reporter
Millers ditch roller meal for refined product
LOCAL millers are now prioritising production of refined mealie-meal in a bid to dodge Governments' roller-meal subsidy programme, The Sunday Mail Society has established.This is despite the f...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:28hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors on lockdown ordeal
UNDER normal circumstances, Turkey-based Warriors defender Teenage Hadebe would have been allowed time off by his club to fly back home to be with his newly-born twins, Alwande and Lwandile, who were ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:27hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zesa audit opens can of worms
IN what demonstrates the depth of rot and corporate malfeasance at Zesa Holdings, one of the power utility's subsidiaries traded with a supplier for over 10 years without a valid contract after an ear...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 16:52hrs | 2108 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa divides MDC as a plot against Mwonzora thickens
MDC has generated into a monstrous party led by vampires who are killers and ruthless in their ways. Biti is flashing his python colours towards the presidency. Biti Sikhala are both ambitious and ver...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 09:45hrs | 6401 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'MDC hoping sanctions will starve masses into rebellion' lied Dr Mavaza - what some do for 30 pieces of silver
I believe in freedom of expression but not when the exercise of that right means freedom to offend, to brainwash and stifle debate and/or, worse still, to incite, lawlessness and thuggery!"The...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 19:30hrs | 2223 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Teenage Hadebe blessed with twins
TEENAGE Hadebe does not fire blanks!Make no mistake about that statistical fact for the Zimbabwe international who nearly broke the internet when he confirmed the birth of his precious twin ba...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:17hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
'No going back on land reform, Zimdollar'
President Mnangagwa on Wednesday stressed that land reform was irreversible and the Government would not substitute the local currency - the Zimbabwe dollar - despite machinations to destabilise and d...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:36hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's apology to Zimbabweans
The MDC Alliance in a bid to please their sponsors elsewhere have plunged the nation into the pool of confusion and suffering. The sanctions which are imposed on Zimbabwe has made the business and eco...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 19:44hrs | 3483 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Despite stadium ban Zimbabwe have plenty of reasons to be cheerful ahead of AFCON 2021
Playing all of your Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches on international soil is an annoyance, rather than a hurdle that cannot be overcome. That is the message that Zimbabwe head coach Zdravk...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2022 | by Staff Writer
New measures to regulate amacimbi harvesting on cards
Bulilima District in the southern part of the country is taking practical steps to control the harvesting of amacimbi (imbrassia belina), a delicacy which is facing a high risk of extinction in the wi...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Molested, caressed and disembowelled by the 5th Brigade!
It all went wrong at the birthing of Zimbabwe, or just before. It is exactly what happens when a cow encounters dystocia during parturition. The calf refuses to come out properly by arrogantly facing ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2014 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'Covid-19 is God punishing West for imposing sanctions' - it's pandemic, we are next, what blasphemy will Zanu PF say then?
"Coronavirus is the work of God punishing countries that imposed sanctions on us," said Zimbabwe's Minister of Defence, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri."They're now keeping indoors. Their economies a...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:32hrs | 2312 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF not sincere about reforms and dealing with past atrocities
The Zimbabwean government and the ruling party should be ashamed of themselves following the report released by the United States of America's Harare Embassy. The 48 page Zimbabwe -2019 Report on Huma...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:11hrs | 318 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Muchinguri's corona virus comment touches raw nerve
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri torched a fierce diplomatic storm at the weekend when she claimed that the deadly novel coronavirus that has wreaked havoc worldwide, killing over 6 000 people, was p...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2846 | by Staff reporter
The 'beefy' news was told to a selected few
There is visible craving and 'thirst' for beef stew in the village that is only detectable at the mention of meat. Of course one may say but there is fish, when the beverage you want is a soda...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 124 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Rainy season comes to an end
THE rainy season is ending with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) saying Matabeleland region is unlikely to receive significant rains anymore.The MSD made the declaration as most cr...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 05:50hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to adopt a dual currency
AFRICAN Economic Development Strategies (AEDS) has urged government to adopt for a dual currency - where the Zimbabwean dollar and the US dollar are used as the main currency.Presenting the St...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:45hrs | 4805 | by Staff reporter
Looted Great Zimbabwe national bird statues returned
They figure on Zimbabwe's national flag, banknotes and official documents - birds representing stone statues taken by colonialists more than a century ago.The eight original sculptures hold gr...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1113 | by AFP
Mohadi visits Binga flood victims
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi yesterday visited Nsungwaale area in Binga to assess damage caused by floods that hit the areas last month and pledged Government commitment to ensure that all affected vil...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:54hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Caf suspends 2021 Afcon qualifiers
THE Confederation of African Football (Caf) has postponed this month's 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying matches indefinitely because of the fast-spreading coronavirus.The continen...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:00hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
MDC splits again as Chamisa loses grip
MDC A is set to break into further fragments as the infighting becomes intense. Having enjoyed the urban support since its formation MDC is showing signs ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 13516 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Warriors' Squad for Algeria named
Warriors coach Zdravko Logarusic has made a few changes to the Warriors squad to face Algeria in the back-to-back 2021 AFCON qualifiers against Algeria later this month.The technical team reta...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 15:49hrs | 3356 | by Staff reporter
Farmers fret over fish theft
FISH farmers have raised concern over the theft of fish from their operations, which is now threatening their businesses' viability.In its latest report following a meeting held recently, Live...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:11hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Aston Villa reluctant to allow Nakamba to join Zimbabwe squad - reports
Aston Villa are reluctant to allow Marvelous Nakamba join up with the Zimbabwe squad, amid concerns about the Coronavirus outbreak.The virus has caused sporting fixtures across Europe to be ei...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers to access US$50m John Deere tractors
GOVERNMENT has assured farmers that they are eligible to access equipment for the assembling of tractors, combine harvesters and disc harrows under the US$50 million John Deere facility, with the equi...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:50hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
MDC Mobilising Zimbabweans for Political Action
The MDC National Standing Committee (NSC) met today and restated that in line with the Congress resolutions of May 2019 and pursuant to the big five fights as articulated in #Agenda2020. The party is ...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 18:10hrs | 2602 | by MDC Communications
Chamisa and Job Sikhala masters of violence
Political violence is violence perpetrated by people to achieve political goals. Non-action on the part of a government can also be characterized as a form of political violence, such as refusing to a...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 14:41hrs | 1223 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
3 Zimbabweans jailed in UK over £750,000 cheque fraud
Three Zimbabwean men have been jailed for between two and six years after they admitted their role in an elaborate "industrial scale" cheque fraud in the United Kingdom.Criminal mastermind Pat...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 09:08hrs | 4216 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba bombshell for Warriors
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has a tough task on its hands to convince Aston Villa to release midfielder Marvelous Nakamba, pictured, for the back-to-back 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:12hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
MDC Message on Commonwealth Day
On the occasion of the Commonwealth Day today, the MDC takes note of the failure by the Harare regime to implement comprehensive reforms to expedite the readmission of Zimbabwe in the Commonwealth of ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:52hrs | 251 | by Gladys Kudzaishe Hlatywayo
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