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Vuzu parties stoke fears of upsurge in HIV cases
The raging phenomenon of wild parties organised by teenagers, where sex orgies and alcohol binges are commonplace, is stocking fears of a surge in new HIV infections in Bulawayo.The National A...Published: 2 hrs ago | 160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe running out of Zimbabweans
Botswana is battling an influx of illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, as Harare struggles to overcome a deep economic crisis.Gaborone appears to be losing the battle, as those who are deported a...Published: 2 hrs ago | 215 | by VOA
US role in MDC demonstrations unmasked
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 2 hrs ago | 111 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses Chamisa of cowardice
Details of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 2 hrs ago | 339 | by Staff reporter
USA role in MDC demonstrations exposed
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 3 hrs ago | 688 | by Staff Reporter
Linda Masarira speaks on HIV scandal
CONTROVERSIAL politician Linda Masarira-Kaingidza says she will not lose sleep over pictures and chats being posted on social media about her husband Gilbert Kaingidza. Kaingidza is being accu...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1683 | by Staff reporter
Civic society plots to smear Zimbabwe at Sadc
A plan by opposition-linked and foreign-sponsored civil society organisations from Zimbabwe to smear the country at the Sadc Summit in Tanzania tomorrow has been unearthed after the activists travelle...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:57hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Kidnappings raise tension in Zimbabwe
Suspected security agents abducted and tortured an MDC youth leader and a pre-democracy activist in pre-dawn raids yesterday- further raising tensions ahead of tomorrow's mass protests against Preside...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1332 | by Staff reporter
South Africa court says illegal foreigners should be deported
A Gauteng court has ruled that over 400 illegal immigrants who were nabbed during the recent raids in Johannesburg Central Business District must be deported to their home countries. South Afr...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 11:11hrs | 3187 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Foreigners in SA panic as police besiege Hillbrow
Reports coming from South Africa's notorious Hilbrow suburb indicate that there was massive inflow of police cars from all over Gauteng that were descending at the local police station on Tuesda...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 17:31hrs | 5222 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Security guard kills artisanal miner
AN artisanal miner from Kaminza, in Guruve was reportedly fatally shot by a security guard from a private security company in a gold claim dispute on Friday.Sources close to the incident told ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:04hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda South communities feel betrayed
GWANDA South constituency is crying out loud for development.Having provided a passage for thousands of former freedom fighters departing to Botswana, en-route to Zambia and Mozambique for mil...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Referral system costs Zimbabwe US$400m annually
ZIMBABWE has been losing US$400 million annually through the referral system, at a time the nation was in dire need of the foreign currency, Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 08:01hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic arrests and raids in the so called 'multi-pronged Approach'
The Constitution of South Africa enshrines the right to Human dignity, equality of treatment before the law and in the enjoyment of all rights, the freedom and security of the person which includes no...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1263 | by V Sibanda
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA monitors Johannesburg situation
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa is monitoring the situation in Gauteng province mainly Johannesburg where police in that country have been rounding up foreign immigrants in the wake of recent c...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | 12630 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube quizzed over budget surplus
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube was grilled over the benefits of his much-touted ZW$803,6 million budget surplus at a time the majority of Zimbabweans are suffering from a rapidly deteriorating economic...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot last as a unitary state - MIOR
More evidence gathered by the Mthwakazi Institute of Research reveals further that the State or Country known in the world as Zimbabwe cannot last longer as a unitary entity. Tracing back from the day...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2171 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Scrapping of 'small house' clause a plus in Aids fight
"Ko small house yako inani izvozvi?" (Who is with your small house right now?) was a screaming signature message on a number of billboards erected around the country by the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 510 | by Forward Nyanyiwa
Mnangagwa's wife engages men
First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has started engaging men's representative organisations to hear their issues and help overcome ills such as physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence, abuse of c...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe assumes chairmanship of SADC security committee
Zimbabwe has assumed the chairmanship of the SADC Inter-State Defence and Security Committee (ISDSC) spiritual and moral support working group with calls for the chaplains from the region to sharpen t...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 19:40hrs | 1370 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
SOME people living with HIV in Bulawayo are failing to access antiretroviral (ARV) drugs due to shortages in the city blamed on distribution inefficiencies as Government says the country has adequate ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 977 | by Staff reporter
PSL results
CAPS United 1-2 Ngezi Platinum StarsHwange 1-1 TelOneMushowani Stars 2-2 ZPC KaribaCAPS United stumbled at home against Ngezi Platinum Stars, losing 2-1 in a match played at National S...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 17:34hrs | 1168 | by Staff reporter
HIV testing fees reviewed
NEW Start Centres across the country have reviewed their charges for HIV testing and counselling to $9, a situation that will likely discourage people from testing, at a time when the country is worki...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:18hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos beat Harare City
Dynamos 1 - 0 Harare CityDynamos collected maximum points against Harare City in a Match-day 16 encounter played at Rufaro Stadium on Saturday.Archford Gutu scored the only goal of the mat...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 17:08hrs | 1531 | by Staff reporter
Let the children play
Education is the only investment with zero risk but, this ECD (a) seem to have robbed toddlers of 'babyhood'.Two year kids and some near there are ripped from their mothers' bosoms whimpering ...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1148 | by Thomas Murisa
Tour de Tuli expedition underway
THE annual three nations' Tour de Tuli tourism expedition roared into life yesterday with visitors drawn from different countries across the globe participating. The event is held in the Great...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Calls mount for NAC board reconstitution
STAKEHOLDERS have scaled up calls on the Health minister Obadiah Moyo and Health Services Board (HSB) to urgently reconstitute the National Aids Council (NAC) board and appoint a substantive chief exe...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Households with HIV and Aids up
THE number of households with at least one member living with HIV and Aids has increased by 12 percent with the recently released Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee report showing that antire...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
'BCC has no HIV viral load testing machines'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) health department does not have viral load testing (VLT) machines that are critical in anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive patients.As a result, co...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should release Chihambakwe, Dumbutshena commissions reports
This is the third in a series of a document on submissions made by chiefs from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the occasion of his meeting with them at the State...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex vending sucks in cops
GOVERNMENT efforts to eliminate illegal foreign currency dealers from the streets of Harare are being hampered by the involvement of some unscrupulous police officers in the illicit trade, The Herald ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3892 | by Israel Dube
Bosso held by FC Platinum at BF
Highlanders and FC Platinum shared the spoils in a Match-day 14 encounter played at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo on Sunday.Bosso set the pace in the opening moments of the game, launching...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 18:18hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
5 things to know about the upcoming immigration raids in major U.S. cities
A series of immigration raids is expected to begin as early as Sunday in several major American cities, according to President Donald Trump.It's part of the Trump administration's crackdown on...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:47hrs | 808 | by Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic
Matebeleland South has highest child starvation rates
ONLY 36 percent of nursing mothers from Gwanda district adhere to exclusive breastfeeding for their new born babies amid reports that Matebeleland South province has the country's highest starvation r...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
UN allays Zimbabwe ARV shortage fears
A foreign currency shortage is hampering Zimbabwe's ability to purchase anti-retroviral therapy for people living with HIV, but the United Nations says the situation has not yet reached crisis levels....Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deserves praise for fighting HIV aids
It is very important that as Zimbabweans we all participate in fighting the spread of HIV aids and also help in controlling it. In my view, Zimbabwe played a very important role in controlling the spr...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:30hrs | 697 | by Njabulo
500 Zimbabweans to be used as HIV guinea pigs
Zimbabwe has become the first country in the Sub-Saharan Africa region to complete the successful enrolment of participants who are taking part in the ongoing large-scale HIV vaccine efficacy trials w...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1627 | by Staff reporter
Bosso hold Ngezi
Ngezi Platinum Stars 1 - 1 HighlandersNgezi Platinum Stars coach Erol Akbay continued with his blame game after his side failed to beat a 10-man Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premiership tie at Ba...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:04hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter
Zera raids 2 000+ illegal fuel dealers
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has raided over 2 000 illegal fuel dealers countrywide in the last seven months as part of an ongoing operation to bring sanity to the sector. C...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest Harare drug syndicate
Zimbabwe Republic Police on Sunday night arrested 7 drug peddlers at Copacabana commuter rank in Harare. The police report that the suspects were found in possession of dagga with some openly ...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:55hrs | 4932 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Young sex workers get reprieve
At the age of 15, Tendai Dube* was heavily into drugs, dodging school and creating havoc among her peers along Ndema Road in Gweru's Ascot suburb where she stayed with her single mother. However, she ...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:14hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers to reveal status
THE Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Aids Research (CeSHHAR) has said sex workers should not be afraid to reveal their HIV status to their clients as a measure of reducing the spread of HIV and sexual...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:08hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Economic empowerment to stop prostitution
Sex workers in Gweru are receiving HIV prevention education, with most of them being asked to come up with business ideas to ensure that they get a comprehensive package of services to mitigate the im...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2581 | by Staff Reporter
MP subjected to series of suspicious car break-ins
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director of security Albert Ngulube, now Zanu PF MP for Beitbridge East, has been subjected to a series of suspicious break-i...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:59hrs | 3831 | by Staff reporter
Empower the girl child through education
Child prostitution and drug abuse, the rising social ills in towns and cities, border posts and growth points included. Juveniles are going 'commando' at night with all caution thrown to the wind. ...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 21:04hrs | 392 | by Thomas Murisa
Child prostitution rife in Masvingo
MASVINGO province is grappling with disturbing phenomena of child prostitution at most busy leisure spots, fuelling incidents of Sexually Transmitted Infections, an official has said. In an in...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 11:04hrs | 1987 | by Staff reporter
'Matabeleland should be renamed Guruuswa'
President of The African Democrats (TAD) Marco F Machona has called for the compensation of Shona people by the Ndebele for what he Ndebele invasion under the leadership of King Mzilikazi. Mac...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 11:36hrs | 6525 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sober approach to the Gukurahundi genocide problem
I take a bow to my lovely sister Nomazulu Thata who says she lives in Germany and stays in Berlin and Bremen interchangeably. This is in particular to her article entitled 'Israel Dube: First Things F...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:03hrs | 230 | by Clemen Moyo
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