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'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: 19 hrs ago | 1424 | by Staff reporter
'Know Zanu PF splashed $4 m on anti-sanction has nothing for covid-19 tests' - actually, know a hell lot more
"Did you know? Govt spent an unbudgeted $4 million on hapless anti-sanctions march but they won't spend any money on buying #Covid19 tests. They're putting lives at risk & creating a situation whe...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 17:54hrs | 1558 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
EFF calls for arrest and firing of Minister who broke lockdown rules
South Africa's opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters have called for the arrest and expuilsion from parliament of Minister of Communication Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who broke the lockdown rule...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 11:58hrs | 1539 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's needy people to get $200 lockdown cushion
GOVERNMENT has approved a paltry $200 once-off cushioning allowance for needy people on the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare database to cover their needs during the 21-day nation...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:10hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
Govt to expedite Covid-19 testing, treatment & isolation centres
GOVERNMENT has resolved to expedite and prioritise the establishment of Covid-19 testing, treatment and isolation centres in provinces and districts in line with the thrust of decentralisation of test...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe brought army Commanders to a Cabinet meeting to confront G40
In 2017, President Robert Mugabe invited military Generals led by General Constantino Chiwenga to come and defend the controversial Command Agriculture project that gobbled about Three billion United ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 22:41hrs | 5397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Charamba dismisses Mnangagwa's 'statement' on rentals as fake news
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet who is also Presidential spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, dismissed as fake news a statement attributed to President Mnangagwa purporting to direct...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:22hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers fail to table 14 forensic audit reports
Cabinet ministers have since 2016 failed to table forensic audit reports of their parastatals before Parliament as stipulated by the country's Constitution and the Audit Act. Public Accounts C...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6470 | by Tafi Mhaka
Coal concessions: Zesa fights back
ZESA Holdings is seeking legal recourse after Government withdrew its coal concessions in the Western Areas of Hwange District.The power utility intended to venture into mining to guarantee co...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe battles to recover confiscated ambulances
THE Kwekwe City Council is battling to repossess two ambulances that were impounded by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) for allegedly circumventing import tax, as the local authority seeks to be...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Zimbabweans for lockdown determination
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday hailed Zimbabweans for complying with the regulations of the 21-day national lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, with the number of infections around the world sh...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Khupe on collision course
FORMER opposition MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has set himself on a collision course with party leader Thokozani Khupe after blasting the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform, where ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:56hrs | 1739 | by Staff reporter
Illegitimate Mnangagwa, illegitimate Chamisa: Country legit?
BY now, the entire nation is aware of the folly of appointing a retired club DJ to be the man in charge of a whole country's healthcare system.It should have been obvious to any self-respecting leader...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 3680 | by Muckraker
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1006 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Zimbabwe developing Covid-19 contact geo-tracking system
THE Mnangagwa led government has started recording internal transfers of the virus and is set to produce a live geo-tracking system to track the movements and contacts of individuals who will test pos...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 13:30hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends issuance of travel documents, birth certificates
Cabinet on Tuesday suspended the issuance of travel documents, birth certificates and national identity cards during this period of coronavirus.It was agreed that only burial orders and death ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 12:43hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ouster angry reactions
MDC Alliance and other politicians were Tuesday left fuming over a Supreme Court judgement passed by Chief Justice Luke Malaba declaring as illegitimate, party president Nelson Chamisa's leadership an...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4115 | by newzimbabwe.com
Zimbabwe waives duty on Covid-19 material
Duty on imported drugs and other materials used in the Covid-19 response has been waived, with Government expressing satisfaction with mitigation measures put in place by the Inter-Ministerial Taskfor...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:22hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans still in bondage in 'Egypt' - we're still awaiting our Moses to deliver us
It is always common knowledge that whenever political leaders - with the help of their sidekicks, mouthpieces, and praise singers - resort to misinterpreting biblical scriptures to justify and defend ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 12:17hrs | 817 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Nust well-equipped for Covid-19 tests'
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust)'s Applied Genetic Testing Centre has the capacity to test for coronavirus, the germ that causes Covid-19. In an interview yesterday, th...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:55hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 823 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Covid-19 Taskforce targets rural folk
THE Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on the Covid-19 outbreak is set to engage village heads in the country through mobile phones to spread educational messages about the disease, a member of the ta...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 164 | 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 | 677 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
Chiwenga returns from China to chair Covid-19 taskforce
Health minister Obadiah Moyo was branded "useless" by furious army chiefs during a meeting of the Cabinet taskforce on Covid-19 on Friday.Moyo, who has been under intense public criticism from...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:07hrs | 5074 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa office's corruption exposed
A DAMNING audit report has implicated the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) in a murky deal in which it arm-twisted Zesa Holdings into handpicking businessperson Kuda Tagwirei's company, Sakun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2835 | 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 | 914 | by Staff reporter
Minister Ncube must go for self isolation to save others - Mabhena
A political activist Ngqabutho Mabhena has urged Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to go into self isolation to save all those he usually associate with since...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:33hrs | 2151 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 1998 | 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 | 3289 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sends workers home
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday ordered a partial lockdown for government and Zanu-PF workers, saying only a third should report for duty while others stay at home as part of efforts to combat ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:15hrs | 8528 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt officials take measures to avoid contracting lethal disease
IN AN unprecedented development, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and his ministers held their weekly Cabinet meeting in a tent at State House yesterday, after it emerged that the late broadcas...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1446 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Patrick Zhuwao's letter to Chinese President
Your Excellency President Xi Jinping, I am writing this open letter to plead with you for the People's Republic of China to assist the people of Zimbabwe to attack COVID19 with aggressive and targeted...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:29hrs | 4163 | by Patrick Zhuwao
Mthuli Ncube not in self-isolation
INFORMATION Ministry Permanent Secretary, Nick Mangwana has dismissed as false, reports circulating on social media that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has gone into self-isolation following his contro...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 5948 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira case deferred
Harare regional magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere yesterday deferred the criminal abuse of office charges against former Cabinet minister Prisca Mupfumira and ex-Public Service, Labour and Social Welfar...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube and George Charamba aides self-isolate
At least three civil servants have been tested for coronavirus after coming into contact with Zororo Makamba, who died from the disease on Monday.Two aides of deputy cabinet secretary and pres...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 17:14hrs | 5124 | by Staff reporter
Zororo Makamba visited Mnangagwa's offices before his shock death
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Monday vacated his Munhumutapa government offices in central Harare following revelations that the late Zororo Makamba had visited the premise before his shock death from ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 17:13hrs | 5194 | by newzimbabwe
Defence minister Muchinguri explains the war veterans bill
THE Minister of Defence and War Veterans Oppah Muchinguri has said the drafting of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Bill is in line with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legislative agenda to ali...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2377 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 8316 | 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 | 1058 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants want to work from home
THE Apex Council is lobbying Government to allow civil servants in none essential departments to work from home as part of a raft of measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Gov...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Makamba contact web exceptionally complex
The web of people who came in contact with broadcaster and socialite Zororo Makamba, who succumbed to coronavirus yesterday, is difficult to trace after it emerged that he mingled with dozens of peopl...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet shifts venue to Mnangagwa's house
Today's Cabinet meeting is set to be held at State House, and not the usual venue, Munhumutapa Building. Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said this last night. N...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
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 | 393 | by Magugu Benard, Zapu Secretary of Elections (NEC)
Zimbabwe police to enforce Covid-19 induced social distancing
POLICE will be conducting patrols and spot checks to enforce the Covid-19-induced ban on large gatherings as Government deliberates on measures to encourage social distancing.To stop the sprea...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 1566 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1078 | by Everson Mushava
Load-shedding to go by June, claims Zesa
LOAD-SHEDDING is expected to significantly ease within the next three months as the country is close to settling its debt with South Africa's Eskom - one of the country's major power suppliers - while...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:34hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Zesa cuts Eskom debt to US$4m
LOAD-SHEDDING is expected to significantly ease within the next three months as Zimbabwe is close to settling its debt with South Africa's Eskom - one of the country's major power suppliers - while pa...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:27hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt too poor to pin down corrupt bigwigs
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has admitted it was not easy for the state to go after corrupt bigwigs he said had a tendency of deploying all their financial might to fight their crimes within natio...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:26hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Walter Mzembi calls for banning of ZANU PF
Former ZANU PF cabinet Minister Walter Mzembi has urged the Chairperson of Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Busisa Moyo to ban ZANU PF from exhibiting at the prestigious platform.Postin...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 11:14hrs | 7954 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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