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Jah Prayzah sends condolence message to Covid-19 victim
Zimbabwean artiste Jah Prayzah has sent his condolence message to James Makamba following the death of his son Zororo who succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19) last week."RIP Zororo M...Published: 2 hrs ago | 461 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Bulawayo Mayor urges residents to stay at home during lockdown
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni has urged residents to stay at home during the 21 day national lock down to save their lives and prevent the spread of Covid 19."Exodus 12:13, The blood will be a ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 257 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans flee to rural areas
THOUSANDS of food insecure families in Harare and other cities and towns yesterday flocked to their rural homes after failing to stock up enough food supplies to last them until the end of the 21-day ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 878 | by Staff reporter
Man sues ambulance company
A BULAWAYO patient is suing Netstar Ambulance Services for more than $300 000 after sustaining a femoral fracture when he fell off a stretcher bed while being taken out of an ambulance upon arrival at...Published: 3 hrs ago | 187 | by Staff reporter
'Urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni, Thorngrove hospitals'
THE Government has said there is an urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni Medical Centre and Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients in Bulawayo. The bu...Published: 3 hrs ago | 114 | by Staff reporter
Hive of activity as residents do last-minute shopping
THERE was a hive of activity in Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday as hundreds of people made last-minute shopping to beat the Government 21-day lockdown to flatten the coronavirus curve. President ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 119 | by Staff reporter
Businessman challenges auctioning of property
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman Ismail Moosa Lunat has approached the High Court challenging the auctioning of his property over a debt of more than US$384 000 that he owes fellow businessman Mr Mohamm...Published: 3 hrs ago | 97 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Bomber's plans ruined
FORMER World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa heavyweight champion Elvis Moyo has set-up a makeshift gym in his backyard where he is training with his 16-year-old son Craig, in South Africa during the c...Published: 3 hrs ago | 109 | by Staff reporter
Shebeens boom after bars closure
People huddled in groups, chatting and drinking without loud music are scenes that characterised shebeens in the high-density areas of Bulawayo last weekend. Following the ban on public gather...Published: 3 hrs ago | 119 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Bulawayo and Harare on Lockdown Day 1
Residents of Bulawayo and Harare complied with the mandatory 21 days Lockdown decreed by the President on Friday. Pictures from Harare CBD show that all shops are closed and there is min...Published: 3 hrs ago | 3523 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PSL blasts Zifa appeals committee
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is on a collision course with Zifa after it blasted the football mother body' s appeals committee for alleged bias in handling the Herentals FC match-fixing case....Published: 18 hrs ago | 328 | by Staff reporter
BCC water cuts puts people's lives in danger
Bulawayo Vendors Trust has said the Bulawayo Water cuts puts people's lives at greater risks of corona virus.The trust said Bulawayo vendors and informal traders have shown deep concern of con...Published: 22 hrs ago | 465 | by Stephen Jakes
Lawyers take Mnangagwa govt to task over coronavirus
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track dow...Published: 24 hrs ago | 835 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo braces for Covid 19
I love walking the streets of my hometown, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Every street, edifice and alley way holds many memories for me. Memories of happier times, when our now old and frail parents...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 411 | by Terence Msuku
Beggars blast Zim lockdown
Visually impaired beggars in the streets of Harare who find themselves desperate and neglected during this pandemic of coronavirus feel that the virus is better than what they are going to experience ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:26hrs | 532 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Police intensify blitz on Covid-19 defaulters
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Thursday night raided beer halls in Harare's suburbs in enforcement of a government directive banning public gatherings of more than 50 people to mitigate the spr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Municipal police get arresting powers
HARARE municipal police were given temporary arresting powers through the SI 77 of 2020 as the fight against Covid-19 intensifies in the country with local authorities shutting down vending markets as...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
BCC bars public, media from full council meeting
MEMBERS of the public and the media will be barred from this week's full council meeting as the Bulawayo City Council works towards implementing policies against the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Water shedding to get worse
BULAWAYO residents will soon have to endure more than four days a week without water supplies after council announced on Friday that it was considering reviewing upwards the water shedding schedule....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 460 | 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 | 416 | by Staff reporter
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 | 277 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
'Health workers turn away patients'
FEAR and ignorance have led healthcare workers at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo to neglect patients that suffer from other ailments, as they now believe that every ill person who walks through th...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2170 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mphoko exposes United Bulawayo Hospitals
Senior Zimbabwean doctor Siduduzo Mphoko has posted a video on social media showing the United Bulawayo Hospitals empty without any doctor or nurse on site. Mphoko lamented the situation ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 12:23hrs | 4396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Impact of COVID 19 on Zimbabwean Economy
The outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to the world economy and to Zimbabwe's fragile economy too. So far the virus has infected close to 470 000 people from 200 ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:08hrs | 818 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5387 | by Staff reporter
Rautenbach's monopoly bleeds Zimbabwe
THE newly enacted bio-fuels policy of Zimbabwe exposes how local tycoon Billy Rautenbach's monopoly in ethanol production has crippled the country financially despite the availability of cheaper ethan...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2156 | by Staff reporter
Titanic clash looms over US$400m NRZ tender
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board has finally formally notified Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) of its decision to re-tender the US$400 million deal to recapitalise the mo...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:05hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
Govt managing COVID-19 information: CSOs
GOVERNMENT has been challenged to come clean on COVID-19 by disseminating correct information on the pandemic in Zimbabwe amid concerns that testing centres were only in Harare and Bulawayo, leaving t...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
2 killers jailed 70 years for slitting motorist's throat, burning body
TWO stranded deportees from Botswana who stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond recognition, have been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Chivero sucked into match-fixing scandal?
HERENTALS FC have reason to smile after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee acquitted them of match-fixing allegations levelled by Bulawayo Chiefs. The scandal had sucked in...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 testing to decentralise
Government is decentralising laboratory testing for coronavirus specimens with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo joining the National Reference Laboratory in Harare ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
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 | 11792 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man in court for pimping woman on Facebook
A BULAWAYO man allegedly posted pictures of a Mpopoma woman who he advertised as a commercial sex worker on his dating website after stealing them from her Facebook page.Tinotenda Munyaradzi C...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1826 | by Staff reporter
Hero status for Clark Mpofu
PIONEER liberation fighter Clark Mpofu has been declared a liberation war hero and his family would be provided with a State assisted burial.Mpofu succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday at Mp...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:26hrs | 897 | 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
6 MDC youths arrested over Kwekwe demo
MDC Midlands provincial youth chairperson Sekai Marashe and five party activists were brought to court yesterday following their Saturday arrest for leading a flash protest against President Emmerson ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Wilkins hospital shuts down
ZIMBABWE's largest referral centre for COVID-19 cases, Wilkins Hospital in Harare, was shut down yesterday to "allow for further renovations", but medical staff at the health institution said the clos...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 3228 | by Staff reporter
Mater Dei, Masca set up COVID-19 wing
THE Medical Aid Society of Southern Africa (Masca) is leading an initiative to capacitate Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo to establish an isolation and treatment wing for coronavirus patients.M...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy social distancing advice
Informal traders in Bulawayo are defying the health workers and government advice for citizens to maintain social distancing and stay at home to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, whic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 319 | 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 | 319 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Thorngrove hospital still to get funding for coronavirus equipment
THORNGROVE Hospital in Bulawayo, which is one of the two infectious diseases hospitals that have been established to cater for coronavirus patients, is still ill-equipped to admit patients as governme...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 249 | by newzimbabwe
SA lockdown slows Zimbabwe firms
THE 21-day lockdown in South Africa due to the outbreak of Covid-19 is likely to constrain local industry operations as the country depends on imports from the neighbouring country, the Confederation ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 death scare in Makokoba
THERE was panic in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb yesterday after funeral parlours allegedly refused to collect the body of a man suspected to have died of Covid-19 at his home. False claims that ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 974 | by Staff reporter
Law firms shut down, JSC streamlines
SEVERAL Bulawayo laws firms have shut down their offices while the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has also streamlined operations at the courts as part of measures taken to mitigate against the spr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Love rivals fight for sex
A 33-YEAR-OLD woman sprinted to the court to ask the law to protect her from a love rival who sent her WhatsApp messages threatening to kill her and also taunting her, claiming she was "tasteless" in ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Women fight over neighbour's husband
NEIGHBOUR from hell!Samkeliso Dube from Sotshangane Flats in Bulawayo's Mzilikazi suburb said they were now sworn enemies with her neighbour Rreid Marsha because she was sleeping with her husb...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Woman bashes taxi tycoon hubby over 'relative lover'
WHILE many men can get away with telling lies to their spouses, that was not so for a Bulawayo businessman who had his entire world apparently turned upside down after his wife discovered that the wom...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus crashes 80 weddings
A bride-to-be who showed up at the Bulawayo Civil Court housed at Tredgold Building on Tuesday morning in formal wedding clothes and was turned away at the door, shared her heartbreak and anger after ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
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