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Zimbabwe: IMF hammers country already on its knees
Mercifully, Zimbabwe's infection and death rates from Covid-19 are so far very low but the economy, already labouring under the effects of drought, has been hit by the lockdowns. Worse, the IMF has de...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 684 | by Baffour Ankomah I New African Magazine
Zimbabwe diasporans eligible for land allocation back home
ZANU PF United Kingdom and Europe chair, Marshall Gore has encouraged the Diaspora Community at large to apply for land back home during the build-up to the second phase of the equitable land redistri...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:39hrs | 2949 | by newzimbabwe
Masiyiwa urges collaboration among private sector, NGOs and faith-based organizations in combating COVID-19 in Africa
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease...Published: 16 May 2020 at 15:05hrs | 860 | by Agencies
UK based Zimbabwean nurse succumbs to coronavirus
A United Kingdom-based nurse who was employed in the National Health Service has succumbed to coronavirus.The sad passing of Lill Sandie Mudzivare was announced by friends and relatives on Fac...Published: 15 May 2020 at 17:36hrs | 5318 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa put under spotlight
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has come under global spotlight, with Western embassies raising the red flag, after three MDC Alliance youth leaders allegedly went missing on Wednesday follo...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 6378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt okay sport restart
GOVERNMENT has given the greenlight for the resumption of sporting activities classified as low-risk, while high-risk codes such as rugby and football remain locked out. Among the low-risk spo...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
Bosso admit financial woes
HIGH LANDERS have admitted that they have been plunged into financial problems due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bosso lost coach Mark Harrison who left the club to return home to B...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Matongo making his mark in the UK Super League
Hull F.C. have been making giant strides in the UK's rugby Super League, and at the heart of their rise has been a 240lb Zimbabwean with big dreams of his own.Masimbaashe Matongo was born in H...Published: 13 May 2020 at 09:39hrs | 999 | by Staff Writer
In Era of COVID-19, Russia's Strategic Politics of Coronavirus Aid Takes the Stage in Africa
With coronavirus rapidly spreading among the population of 148 million, Russia took the third position in the world. According to the official data provided on May 11, Russia had an aggregate total of...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:02hrs | 475 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Reality check on Parliamentary recall
FOUR Movement for Democratic Change legislators were recalled from Parliament on May 5, 2020.Charlton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Thabitha Khumalo and Lillian Timveos' seats were declared vacan...Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:28hrs | 412 | by Tinashe D. Hofisi
Rise and shine Zimbabwe
After attending a burial of my sister in February, in Plumtree, it was only normal that we would gather, lighten the moment a little bit and catch up as close family and extended family alike. It was ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 871 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Zimbabwe pleads for aid to avert 'collapse' and fight Covid-19
Zimbabwe has pleaded with international institutions to help it clear billions of dollars in debt arrears so the country can avoid economic collapse and unlock funds to fight the coronavirus pandemic....Published: 04 May 2020 at 11:05hrs | 1639 | by James Cotterill I Financial Times
SA based Zimbabweans send SOS
An estimated 3 460 Zimbabweans living in South Africa are in need of food assistance, while 2 191 are requesting repatriation back home.These figures were revealed by the Zimbabwean Embassy in...Published: 02 May 2020 at 16:45hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man saved by his HIV+ status from UK deportation
UK Home Office efforts to deport an HIV-positive Zimbabwean man because of his lengthy criminal record have been blocked after the supreme court ruled removing him would breach his human rights....Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 16:06hrs | 4339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean UK nurses top the covid-19 death statistics
Zimbabwe counts for over 30% of the total number of health workers who have died in the U.K. The minister of Health in the U.K. has said over a hundred health workers have died in the fron...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 09:22hrs | 6653 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Betrayal of UK returnee proves betrayal is a weapon by some people
The cynical weapon that some Zimbabweans know best is betrayal of one another in various aspects of our lives. The cynical weapon of an African is best described as betrayal of self and the other to g...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:27hrs | 2532 | by Nomazulu Thata
Another UK based Zimbabwe nurse dies from Covid-19
Jane Mary Jongwe, a United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean nurse, has died of Covid-19, becoming another sad statistic to the growing number of Zimbabwean health professionals working in the British health s...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 09:51hrs | 1967 | by newzimbabwe
Another UK based Zimbabwean dies from Covid-19
THE Covid-19 death toll among United Kingdom based Zimbabwean frontline health and care workers continues to increase with yet another social services expatriate Herbert Chinzou succumbing to the drea...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 21:53hrs | 3596 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwean man in UK fully recovers from Coronavirus
A Zimbabwean man based in the United Kingdom has fully recovered from the deadly Coronavirus which has claimed 20 732 people in the Western country. Posting the video of the patient being whee...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 21:47hrs | 2396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Tribute to Zimbabweans in UK who died of Coronavirus
Microfinance Practitioner and MDC National Council Member Sonny Phiri has posted video footage on social media mourning the passing away of Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom after succumbing to the de...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 21:22hrs | 2006 | by Mandla Ndlovu
29 Zimbabweans die of Covid-19 in UK
At least 29 Zimbabweans living in Britain have died of Covid-19, mostly nurses and other medical staff, according to the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. The pandemic has so far killed at least&n...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
4th COVID-19 death triggers contact hunt
An 82-year-old woman from Mhondoro died from Covid-19 yesterday morning triggering a search for potential contacts since she was in almost total isolation at her homestead. Covid-19 has been c...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1269 | by Staff reporter
UK to test Coronavirus vaccine on humans from Thursday
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is set to begin testing a potential Coronavirus on Thursday. Over 500 healthy people between the ages of 18 and 55 will take part in th...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 21:40hrs | 3065 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus 'cure' unveiled in Madagascar
The President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina has unveiled a controversial tea that prevents and cures the deadly Coronavirus. The herbal medication which is called COVID-Organics was developed ...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4592 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo cases confined in single cluster
In Bulawayo all, but one Covid-19 transmissions are connected to the first patient, an elderly man infected by a British visitor and who died in hospital before receiving pathology results. Ha...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:33hrs | 2621 | by Staff reporter
The dilemma of the white community in Zimbabwe
WITH the advent of the Second Republic, the Zimbabwean white community has once again reached crossroads as it did in 1965 (UDI), in 1980 (Black independence), 2000 (farm invasions) and 2018 going for...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1576 | by Andrew K Tsiga
I'm grateful to have been born and bred in Rhodesia, as there's clearly nothing for me in Zimbabwe
Ever since I started writing current affairs and social justice newspaper articles in 1989 - at the age of 16 years, whilst still doing Form Three at Kwekwe High School in Zimbabwe - this is probably ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 58969 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zim @ 40, A New Dispensation that never was minus Mugabe's booming voice
It's dreary Saturday and somewhat overcast midmorning in Pretoria as I watch live news feeds from the North across the mighty Limpopo River. Life away from home has turned many into creatures ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 296 | by Josiah Mucharowana
MDC, Zanu-PF share mixed feelings over Independence commemorations
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Zimbabwe since it attained it's independence from Britain in 1980.However, due to COVID-19 the country celebrated it's independence indoors as a resul...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 21:00hrs | 2095 | by Daniel Itai
Mthwakazi mourns 40 years of Shona rule
Zimbabwe/ Mashonaland to be precise, is today the 18th of April 2020 celebrating its so-called 40 years of Independence.As they celebrate their forgeries of independence, it is not yet Uhuru f...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1793 | by Mqondisi Moyo
Cecil John Rhodes: The ghost of Zimbabwe
We commemorate the 40th independence day by taking a brief history course into the life and legacy of Cecil John Rhodes, the notorious kingmaker of what we now know as our country. Like the ig...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:44hrs | 2834 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 244 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
British tourists urged to book tickets
Britain is not evacuating its citizens permanently resident in Zimbabwe, but is encouraging those who had visited as tourists and for other private business to book the remaining Ethiopian Airlines ti...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:25hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe ready for a third force?
With so much else taking place around the world this could not have crossed the radar. Presently the country is on autopilot as most people are not aware of what their future would be like after this ...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 19:02hrs | 4568 | by Leonard Koni
Britain to extend coronavirus lockdown for another 3 weeks
Britain will extend its coronavirus lockdown for "at least" another three weeks, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday, as hundreds across the country continue to die daily from the outbreak...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 19:02hrs | 1563 | by Agency staff
Covid-19 kills 14 Zimbabweans in UK
AT LEAST 14 Zimbabweans are among the 12 000 coronavirus deaths recorded in the United Kingdom (UK), an official has said.Zimbabwe's deputy ambassador to UK, Elisha Karodza said after tracking...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1574 | by Staff reporter
Britain avails money for its citizens to leave Zimbabwe
The United Kingdom has issued an urgent appeal on the British citizen in Zimbabwe to apply for funds to leave the county and travel back home.In a series of tweets, the UK embassy in Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 11:12hrs | 15104 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe is tracking its UK corona victims
Government says it is compiling the statistics of Zimbabweans who have perished due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom.Zimbabwe's deputy ambassador to the UK, Elisha Karodza, to...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 21:53hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 highlights painful political truth about health inequality
HEALTH inequality was a major concern of 20th century social democrats in countries ranging from Britain to Sweden.During the current coronavirus crisis, it has once again become one of the mo...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean woman in UK dies of Coronavirus
A Zimbabwean woman named Rutendo has passed away in the United Kingdom after succumbing to the deadly Coronavirus. Award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono took to social media to mourn Rute...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 12:21hrs | 5966 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Britain accused of adopting Mugabe economics
It is a little-known fact that even the UK government has an overdraft facility.It's called the Ways and Means Facility and it resides at the Bank of England.Ordinarily, the government...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 09:02hrs | 18999 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean microbiologist dies after contracting Covid-19
A leading microbiologist has died after contracting coronavirus, his university has confirmed.Dr Paul Matewele, a senior lecturer in microbiology immunology at London Metropolitan University, ...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 21:13hrs | 3396 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Makandiwa's followers won't die from coronavirus'
Prominent preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa has risked angering health authorities after telling his followers that the novel coronavirus would not kill them.Zimbabwe is under a 21-day lockdown whic...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Britain donates US$43.6 million to Zimabbwe to fight Coronavirus
The UK is committed to fighting COVID19 not only at home in the UK but across the world. So far the UK has pledged £544 million to support vaccine and treatments research, protecting fragile economie...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 18:00hrs | 2836 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Mthuli should be restrained
THE COVID-19 pandemic is causing more than a medical problem across the world. Economies across the globe have caught the cold, some more than others and soon, a co-ordinated multilateral solution may...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4837 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
WHO warns against easing virus measures too early
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has no blanket recommendation for countries and regions for easing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but urged them not to lift them too earl...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Power Crisis Solely a Result of Poor Planning by the Illegitimate Regime
Zimbabwe power short ages will not be resolved - as long as the ED led illegitimate regime continues to sleep at wheelAs the Zimbabwean citizenry and economy is ravaged by incessant powe...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:22hrs | 593 | by Jasmine Toffa
Joshua Nkomo betrayed Zipra, writes Obert Mpofu
THE late former Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's participation in the 1979 Lancaster House talks was frowned upon by the military element in his-PF-Zapu, Zipra, which felt the negotiations were a "self-c...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 4356 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
The Lancaster Conference and the Build-up to Nkomo's temporary setbackIn 1979, Nkomo's Zapu and Mugabe's Zanu delegations under the PF banner took part in the final push for diplomatic transit...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 260 | by Obert Mpofu
Zimbabwe white farmers reject Mnangagwa's offer
A FORTNIGHT ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government a said it was offering about 800 commercial farms as compensation to farmers who had lost their land during the violent land seizures that be...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:38hrs | 6841 | by newzimbabwe
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