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Calls to implement devolution grow louder
THE distribution of resources to fight the COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the need for government to fully implement devolution of power to allow provinces to map their own action plans to handle such ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 98 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tightens screws on COVID-19 information
GOVERNMENT has introduced stringent measures and penalties meant to curtail the flow of information during the 21-day national lockdown, with those accused of spreading falsehoods on coronavirus being...Published: 2 hrs ago | 161 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi harvester killed by elephant
A woman (58) from Lukange community in Beitbridge East was trampled to death by an elephant while two other villagers watched helplessly on Saturday morning. Elisa Chivalaula died while harves...Published: 2 hrs ago | 256 | by Staff reporter
$500 fine for assaulting wife's boyfriend
A man from Chief Seke area, who assaulted his wife's boyfriend after he caught them being intimate in his house on Valentine's Day last month and circulated their pictures on social media, has been fi...Published: 3 hrs ago | 128 | by Staff reporter
Jaure undergoes head surgery
DYNAMOS captain Partson Jaure yesterday underwent a delicate operation in Harare to mend a skull fracture he sustained in a car crash last week. Jaure, who has been admitted at Parirenyatwa Ho...Published: 3 hrs ago | 242 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC official recounts prison 'hell'
A top MDC official, who was incarcerated together with 11 party youths in connection with protests in Chitungwiza last month, has described conditions under which they were held as hell.Stephe...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1269 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 18 hrs ago | 417 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 252 | by Staff reporter
When democrats discover despotism as a cure
MOST often, in times of crisis, it seems no one remembers to secure the asylum, from which looneys - fools, nutters, ignoramuses and the downright stupid - always escape.If only they spent the...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:27hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 663 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
'Army plots to abduct Thabani Mpofu during lockdown?'
The much-feared members of the Zimbabwe Military Intelligence are reportedly plotting to abduct famed lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chinn'ono. South ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:32hrs | 7451 | by Mandla Ndlovu
+800 new coronavirus deaths in Spain, pushing toll to 5 690
The death toll from coronavirus in Spain surged over 5 600 on Saturday after a record 832 people died in 24 hours, and the number of infections soared over 72 000, the government said.Spain ha...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:37hrs | 606 | by AFP
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 | 2169 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo farm tussle in dramatic turn
IN a dramatic turn of events, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri has poured cold water on exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo's court application against the seizure of...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:08hrs | 7632 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe health workers go on strike
MEDICAL personnel at the privately run Avenues Clinic in Harare downed tools yesterday in protest over lack of personal protective equipment in the wake of the deadly coronavirus.There are sus...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 638 | 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
Mnangagwa's second chance to unite Zimbabwe
FOR the first time in a very long while the world has experienced no violence of war and gangsterism that had become the order of day on Mother Earth. The rattling automatic weaponry and booming of le...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5137 | by Webster Zambara
RBZ takes MDC advice on redollarization but....
At long last it has happened. The RBZ has finally announced in its 26th March Monetary Policy an...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:30hrs | 4034 | by Dr Tapiwa Maji-Marefu Mashakada Economist and MDC Secretary for Policy and Research
Zimbabwe Treasury in coronavirus scare
Top directors in the Ministry of Finance have gone into self-isolation after getting into contact with the late Zororo Makamba who passed on this week due to coronavirus.Makamba succumbed to t...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo woman tests negative
A pregnant Masvingo woman who was on Tuesday placed in self-isolation on suspicion of having Covid-19, has tested negative and is on her way to recovery at home in Mucheke. The development com...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Man pays $10 for sex with neighbour's wife
A man from Gokwe who could not control his sex appetite had sex with his best friend's wife, whom he paid $10 to buy relish.The man, Onismo Vongai, has since been dragged to Chief Nembudziya's...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Fiery pregnant wife abuses hubby
A SAKUBVA barber has had enough of his pregnant wife's violent antics.He has since approached the courts to seek refuge.Sincewhen Chademana told the court that due to Precious Musu's v...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:24hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
SDA hails Mnangagwa
The head of Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Zimbabwe Micah Choga hailed President Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa's order of self quarantine which states that people should stay at their...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 16:42hrs | 12340 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zanu-PF bigwig points gun at daughter's 'boyfriend'
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial political commissar Jevas Masosote was recently in the eye of a storm after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a man he accused of impregnating his teenage daughter who is s...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:02hrs | 8975 | by Staff reporter
Tsenengamu swallows own pride, apologies to Zimbabwe
Sacked ZANU PF youth boss Godfrey Tsenengamu has finally apologized to the country for wronging many people in the country.Below is Tsenengamu's apology :...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:51hrs | 9430 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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 | 1658 | 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
Soldier's killer jailed 30 years
A MAN from Epworth has been jailed 30 years for robbing and killing a soldier. Besta Masaya, who was charged along with Tonderai Rupiya, denied killing Innocent Majuta who was in army uniform ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Where are the traditional healers who claim to cure every disease?
Traditional healers, by all pointers have gone into 'hiding' with not even a single one claiming to have found the cure for COVID-19. Coronavirus, like 'Whispering Death' is spreading and killing with...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:35hrs | 1415 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
ZCTU calls for country wide lockdown
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on the Zimbabwean government to place the country under immediate lockdown to minimise the risk of...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 13:10hrs | 2504 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe closes borders after COVID-19 death
ZIMBABWE yesterday closed its borders as government tightened measures to control the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded its first casualty from the pandemic, journalist Zororo Makamba, ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean singer resumes shows in China
AFRO-FUSION musician Whitney "Brity" Matiyanga, who is part of the line-up of artistes performing at The Xiamen Ling Ling International Circus in China, said she has resumed her shows that were put on...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:37hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk buys laptop, mobile phone for $150,000
SUSPENDED Gweru town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza is in the eye of a storm after an audit showed that she bought herself a mobile phone and a laptop for $150 000 using council funds.Gwatipedza w...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to benefit from Jack Ma's coronavirus equipment donation
AFRICA'S response to the Coronavirus outbreak has received a major boost as all the 54 African Union member states are set to receive a consignment of Covid-19 testing and personal protection equipmen...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 20:36hrs | 1799 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe women still vulnerable to sex trafficking
SIMILO NTULI (not her real name) looks like an ordinary, fashion-savvy woman in her twenties. As a hairdresser and beauty therapist in Zimbabwe's second-largest city of Bulawayo, Ntuli has her finger ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:56hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Ex-CIO Boss Happyton Bonyongwe urged to write a book
Former Director General of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation Happyton Bonyongwe has been urged to write a tell all book that will expose the real story of Zimbabwe's history since his assu...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:02hrs | 3713 | 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 | 31005 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Only Minister of Health to report on corona virus' - fake news, no clue what's happening and don't care
"We have noted with concern that central government wants to proscribe local authorities from going public about cases of Covid-19," stated MDC in a statement."Local authorities and councils a...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1480 | by Nomusa Garikai
Woman who tested positive for Covid-19 in UK from Zim 'infected many along the way'?
Former Higher, Tertiary, Science and Technology deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has expressed fears that the woman who had been cleared #COVID19 negative in Zimbabwe but later tested positive after sh...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 5352 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 1064 | by Everson Mushava
Obert Mpofu under fire over Nkomo
THE opposition Zapu has said the late vice-president Joshua Nkomo could be turning in his grave because of the leadership of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom it accused of persecuting the veteran na...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:38hrs | 1454 | 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 | 6402 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 5314 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Suspected thief bashed to death
A suspected Guruve thief was bashed to death on Thursday by an angry mob while his accomplice is battling for life at Guruve hospital Bulawayo24.com....Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 12:57hrs | 3798 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
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
Pastor 'smuggles' dangerous drugs
A PASTOR from Bulawayo allegedly smuggled heroin, morphine and codeine weighing more than one kilogramme and worth $130 000, wrapped in a parcel that contained a small Bible, bottles of holy water and...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for land in Zimbabwe's new capital city
At the centre of a vast swathe of magnificent landscape of prime farming land north-west of Harare lies a mountain that dwarfs its lush green environs. The rich red soils, have for years, been the hal...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 2035 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala trailed by security agents?
MDC vice chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has written to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) to register his fears about suspected security agents he says are trailing him.This comes as Sikhala ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:51hrs | 1334 | by Staff reporter
'Scorpions' terrorise Gwanda villagers
TERROR has gripped Nhwali village in Gwanda, Matabeleland South province, where a marauding gang has unleashed a wave of violence, viciously assaulting villagers and leaving many nursing broken limbs....Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:40hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
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