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WATCH: Zimbabweans who defy lockdown to be detained for 21 days
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has encouraged Zimbabweans to stay at home and not loiter around during the 21 days lockdown which commences today.In an audio that has gone viral ...Published: 1 hr ago | 293 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 274 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
BREAKING: Top Zimbabwean aviation expert gets Coronavirus
Zimbabwe's top aviation expert Jerry Haas has announced that he has tested positive with the deadly coronavirus. In a Twitter post on Saturday Haas said, "The last couple of days I hadn't been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:20hrs | 8560 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to announce shutdown...citizens to stop paying rent
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to address the nation on Friday night to announce a nationwide lockdown to deal with the deadly coronavirus.A GMAZ leaked internal document circulatin...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 17:25hrs | 11751 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Italy's coronavirus death toll hits 9,134
Italy has confirmed 969 more deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the country’s total to 9,134.There are 4,401 new infections, making a total of 66,414 current cases....Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 17:09hrs | 2456 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has coronavirus
Mr Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street says. His symptoms are mild and he will continue to lead the government response to the virus while he self-isolates, a spok...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 11:31hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
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
Of shrinking internal democratic space in MDC
One of the key changes which President Mnangagwa rang on his assumption of power in November 2017 was opening up the democratic space. This saw MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa clockin...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 318 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe cops set up Covid-19 reaction teams
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has set up reaction teams in various provinces and districts that will help in enforcing the ban on public gatherings of over 50 people, following revelations that a...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:14hrs | 1287 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: RBZ re-introduces the United States Dollar
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Panonetsa Mangudya has announce that the United States Dollar can now be used as legal tender until further notice. In a statement issue...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 18:05hrs | 7607 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hwange Colliery workers forced to use same breathalyzer
Hwange Colliery Company Limited has chided its employees over their calls to have breathalyzer testing stopped over fears of contracting the novel Coronavirus.Workers at the mine are said to h...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 14:32hrs | 557 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: UK's Prince Charles tests positive of coronavirus
Clarence House confirmed that the 71-year-old royal had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease in a statement released this morning.The heir to the throne is said to have displayed "mild sym...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 10:58hrs | 3557 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Zimbabwe doctors go on strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have gone on strike due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic which is spreading in the country. A letter written by the doctors to government said the h...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 10798 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Selling our country 'all the way', shame on you
Opposition aligned vendetta 'pregnant propagandists' have found new life and energies in the satanic Coronavirus outbreak. The internet, print and audio media is awash with exaggerated and out...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:31hrs | 918 | by Thomas Murisa
BREAKING: Earthquake in Chipinge, Chimanimani
An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 was felt in Chipinge, Chimanimani and surrounding areas around 5am today.Chipinge District Meteorological officer, Ms Lydia Masengu said preliminary locat...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 16:57hrs | 2850 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Coronavirus - Mnangagwa chairs cabinet under tent
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers will on Tuesday meet for Cabinet under a tent as part of measures to stop the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. The virus has already claimed one...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 08:03hrs | 8279 | by Staff Reporter
Makamba family fumes over Zororo's death
BELOW is the statement by the late Zororo Makamba's family after he became the first Zimbabwean to succumb to coronavirus at Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Monday. Zororo was the son of busines...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 65272 | by Daily News
A clerical call on ZEC to postpone by-elections until decisive measures are implemented to reduce exposure to Covid-19 pandemic
Zimbabwe's embattled leader Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared COVID-19 a national disaster. Along with the declaration came a host of largely copycat ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 03:49hrs | 379 | by Magugu Benard, Zapu Secretary of Elections (NEC)
BREAKING: Zimbabwe bans weddings for 2 months
The Judicial Services Commission of Zimbabwe has with effect from Monday suspended all weddings for a duration of three months.In a statement issued on Monday said all weddings are canceled an...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 15:56hrs | 3816 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Zororo Makamba dies of coronavirus
Prolific media practitioner Zororo Makamba, the son of telecommunications tycoon James Makamba has passed on after succumbing to coronavirus.The Makamba family friend Mutumwa Mawere conf...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 11:22hrs | 30999 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is sucked into multi-million Zisco assets stripping
A fresh probe has revealed that the government facilitated a shady US$225 million deal meant to strip the comatose Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) of its critical assets.The investigat...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1063 | by Everson Mushava
Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper. Once again, I should reiterate the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo's profound role to my political path and wh...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:32hrs | 327 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
The true story: Living with coronavirus, a tale from a Zimbabwean family in the UK
COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It's caused by a virus called coronavirus. It is called corona because it is shaped like a crown. The bacteria causing the virus can n...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 09:41hrs | 5312 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
BREAKING: Two new coronavirus cases confirmed in Harare
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has announced that the City of Harare has confirmed two new coronavirus infections which were discovered on Tuesday. In a twee Chamisa said, "I have just been informe...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 08:00hrs | 17113 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Breaking: Zimbabwe has recorded the first positive test for Covid-19
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo told State broadcaster ZBC that the case was recorded in Victoria Falls. ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 19:09hrs | 4288 | by Moyo Roy
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 | 2024 | by Staff Writer
BREAKING: South Africa suspends all flights till May 31
South Africa Airways have announced that the company is immediately suspending all regional and international operations until the end of May in response to a government travel ban aimed at stopping t...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 10:32hrs | 5843 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Toyota Granvia wheel thief jailed
A 24-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi man was jailed 6 months by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro yesterday for breaking into the complainant's garage and stealing a Toyota Granvia wheel.Pardon Saha...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 541 | by Paul Ndou
BREAKING: South Africa to build 40km fence along Zimbabwe border
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, government is to erect a 40km fence within a month to ensure that no undocumented or infected persons cross the border into South Africa from Zimbabwe and vice ve...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 15:21hrs | 5217 | by Staff Reporter
Prison officers break inmate's leg
Three Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison wardens were yesterday sentenced to 13 months in jail each for assaulting an inmate and breaking his leg after he picked and pocketed a $1 note while on office ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2963 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be quarantined
Zimbabwe will not survive the Corona virus if God allows it to ravage our beautiful country. It is painful that some idiots are literally hoping that the virus be found in Zimbabwe. We have insane peo...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 22:31hrs | 18136 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
BREAKING: Mnangagwa bans Independence Day celebrations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has banned the Independence Day celebrations that were earmarked for Bulawayo on the 18th of April, Bulawayo24News can reveal.Mnangagwa told journalists at St...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:25hrs | 3631 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Chiwenga airlifted to China
Ailing VP Constantino Chiwenga was in fact airlifted to China Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander. This comes after Chiwenga was reported to not feeli...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:49hrs | 18758 | by Staff reporter
Police losing the battle against Osiphatheleni?
THE mushrooming of illegal forex dealers in Bulawayo has left many residents wondering if the police and the Bulawayo City Council have given up on restoring sanity in the city. Chief Justice ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter
Concerns raised over Gukurahundi reburials
BULAWAYO-based Ukuthula Trust, an independent body of forensic archaeologists and forensic anthropologists, has argued families and not the state must have a say in the exhumation and reburial of Guku...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:06hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers to pay fees for first five babies born Gutu Hospital maternity ward
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to pay fees for the first five babies who will be born at the Gutu Hospital's new built maternity ward.This come after his revelations that when he wa...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 395 | by Stephen Jakes
Black business and superstition
SUPERSTITIOUS beliefs and practices have negative consequences and thus need to be curbed to avoid society breaking down into medieval mayhem, something which is quite easy to do as illustrated in the...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:01hrs | 1113 | by Miriam Tose Majome
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
Zimbabwe deserves better
After decades of sanctions, mismanagement and corruption, Zimbabwe is in economic trouble. Zimbabweans are poor and hungry and can not make ends meet. In a country that was once among Africa's m...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 17:31hrs | 3165 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Woman with coronavirus travels from US to London to Kenya
Kenya has confirmed that a woman has tested positive for Covid-19.Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said she had arrived from the US on 5 March and tested positive for the virus on Thursday....Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 08:51hrs | 2110 | by BBC
Scornful Professor appointed Chief Disinformation Offticer (CDO)
One of the leading writers and critic of misinformation and disinformation, David Letvin, says the term "fake news" sounds too playful and he further says it's like a schoolchild faking illness. He ar...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:55hrs | 2024 | by Nick Mangwana
Breaking: Sadc suspends meetings over Coronavirus
Sadc health ministers met in Tanzania on Monday and recommended that face to face meetings by the regional body be suspended until the deadly Coronavirus is contained.This includes meetings by...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 19:00hrs | 1091 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Government transfers National Sports Stadium to Kirsty Coventry
The Zimbabwean government has transferred the National Sports Stadium from the Ministry of Local government led by Minister July Moyo to the Ministry of Youth, Arts and Sports led by Minister Kirsty C...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 07:37hrs | 7705 | by Mandla Ndlovu
29-yr-old kidnaps and assaults 35-yr-old
A 29-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping a 35-year-old man at knife point after breaking into his room. Nqobizitha Moyo of Douglasdale suburb kidnap...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:21hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
'Suspect (4th) coronavirus tested negative' official twitter - wilfully inadequate and cause to fear the worst
A suspected coronavirus case (fourth one in Zimbabwe) was reported at Masvingo Provincial Hospital on Sunday morning.The individual had travelled from Dubai and test result was negative."In Ma...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:51hrs | 349 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Man kidnaps and tortures Innocent Mapuranga's brother
A 29 -YEAR-OLD Bulawayo man has been sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping a 35-year-old man at knife point after breaking into his room.Nqobizitha Moyo of Douglasdale suburb kidnap...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 12:11hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Another Zimbabwean coronavirus suspect quarantined in Harare
Government has isolated another suspected case of Coronavirus who presented herself first at a general practitioner before being referred to Wilkins Infectious Disease Hospital.Health workers ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 14:24hrs | 6455 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: South Africa confirms third case of coronavirus
As South Africa confirmed its third case of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Sunday, the revenue receiver says wants to "reassure" taxpayers that it's on top of things as far as controlling imports is concer...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 13:22hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Man caught red handed after breaking into firm
A Bulawayo man has appeared in court for unlawful entry into company premises after he was caught trying to break a cash safe.Mduduzi L...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 10:17hrs | 1431 | by Steve Grays
MDC Assembly of Women celebrate international women's day
The MDC Assembly of Women has joined the whole world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD). The day is celebrated on Ma...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 10:00hrs | 354 | by Stephen Jakes
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