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Bulawayo records rise in home births
BULAWAYO has recorded a 53 percent increase in the number of women who deliver at home or on their way to a health institution owing to Covid-19. Home births are a leading cause of maternal an...Published: 21 hrs ago | 516 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases reach 985
The number of confirmed infections of Covid-19 tested in Zimbabwe reached 985 by last night, with 18 deaths and 328 confirmed recoveries. The Ministry of Health and Child Care reported three m...Published: 21 hrs ago | 774 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to resume work on July 28
All teachers should report for duty on July 28, the date set for the return of examination classes in the phased reopening of schools, and should make arrangements to be at their stations to either te...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1752 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South Covid-19 situation worrying
The Covid-19 situation in Insiza district is fast developing into a crisis as the number of cases soars. The rise in the number of local cases was alleged...Published: 22 hrs ago | 902 | by Stephen Jakes
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2875 | by City Press
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 death rate increase to 18
THE number of deaths due to COVID-19 has increased to 18 following the death of 5 other people this Saturday.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care announced the dea...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:01hrs | 2966 | by Staff reporter
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:00hrs | 3105 | by Staff reporter
Harare's major hospitals record Covid-19 cases
TWO of Harare's major hospitals have recorded Covid-19 cases among their staff as the country's caseload rises sharply amid an increase in the number of deaths.As of Friday, Zimbabwe had recor...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new cyber law to target online government and military critics
ZIMBABWE could sanction the search for government critics online, thanks to a planned cyber-security law earmarked to make it an offence to spread falsehoods and deal with leakage of official informat...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:53hrs | 276 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Mnangagwa against 'catch and release syndrome'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the justice system to step up the fight against corruption and put an end to the "catch and release syndrome", while the arrest of "small and big fish" shou...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 1170 | by Staff reporter
Millers table US$ price for subsidised mealie-meal
GRAIN millers have tabled a proposal to increase the price of subsidised roller meal from $70 to between US$2,50 and US$3,50 per 10 kilogramme to cushion themselves from operational challenges....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not brook anarchy'
The ruling party will not stand idle as opposition activists promote anarchy but will respond appropriately to any threats to the country's peace, ZANU-PF acting spokesman Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 515 | by Bishop Lazarus
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 422 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1082 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans smuggling dead bodies from SA
Zimbabweans are reportedly smuggling the dead bodies of their relatives from South Africa to bury them back home.Veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda said the revelations were disturbing th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 10:31hrs | 9740 | by Stephen Jakes
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9211 | by Staff reporter
Police to impound cars not displaying registration plates
POLICE yesterday said they have launched an operation to impound all cars that move around without displaying registration number plates.Police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2100 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans killed in Botswana
POLICE in Plumtree have raised concern over the ill-treatment of Zimbabweans in Botswana with two people having been killed in the neighbouring country recently. There have been complaints in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:06hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3438 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:01hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 2740 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa considers tightening lockdown restrictions
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly considering changing the lockdown restrictions due to the sharp increase in positive cases.Online publication Zimlive reported that, "President Emmer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 12:46hrs | 8221 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC youth leader speaks on July 31 protest funding
MDC youth leader Obey Sithole has dismissed funding claims of the July 31 Zimbabwe Anti-Sanction Allied Movement protest.Sithole said anyone who is thinking that he and other leaders received ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 10699 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe must be vigilant on dealing with Covid --19: WILD
Women's Institute for Leadership Development - WILD, Zimbabwe has urged Zimbabwe to be now vigilant in dealing with the Covid 19 as the disease is escalating its toll."Now is the time for the ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1171 | by Stephen Jakes
SA government is digging mass grave: Ndiweni
BULAWAYO Traders and Vendors Association director Micheal Ndiweni has warned that South African government is digging a mass grave by opening up operations in full when there is still an increase in t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:16hrs | 3909 | by Stephen Jakes
Fresh wave of farm grabs sparks outrage
A FRESH wave of farm takeovers facilitated by government has intensified under the guise of trimming farm sizes, sparking fears of a renewed assault on white farmers, who feel besieged and are now rus...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4400 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has always had a democracy deficit
DEMOCRACY is an embodiment of governance in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free ...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 468 | by Jonathan Chando
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4583 | by Staff reporter
PRAZ boss sent on leave
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (PRAZ) chief executive, Mr Nyasha Chizu, was on Tuesday sent on leave, the day after he told Parliament's committee on the Budget, Finance and Econom...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities highlight need to test truck drivers
Authorities at Forbes Border Post in Mutare have highlighted the need to test truck drivers passing through the port of entry for better management of any potential Covid-19 cases, as most of them wer...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:56hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases shoot to 885
ZIMBABWE'S confirmed Covid-19 cases have surged to 885 after 98 fresh cases were recorded in a single day on Wednesday.This was revealed by the Ministry of Health in its regular update of the ...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1864 | by Staff reporter
'We don't want Covid-19 cases' says hospital - and it paid dearly for its foolishness
The Zimbabwe authorities have not been testing for covid-19 as aggressively as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended repeatedly, especially among the local community. And now it is emerg...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:45hrs | 2226 | by Wilbert Mukori
UBH reviews user fees upwards
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals have reviewed its user fees upwards the fees ranges from between $250 to $15 000.The development comes at a time when the government recently increased civil serv...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:21hrs | 975 | by Stephen Jakes
Interview with ZPRA Instructor Thoriso Moyo
This week on the Big Interview, we have Toriso Moyo, a freedom fighter and military instructor with the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), a Mgagao attack survivor, and one of the fir...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2573 | by The Big Interview
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 20979 | by Staff reporter
The Unfollow Mnangagwa charade and plots of violence
THE past weeks have witnessed efforts by known opposition elements and their sponsored phantom characters taking part in the "Unfollow ED" campaign on microblogging site Twitter to create a false impr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2100 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will have no sacred cows in the fight against corruption with the Tuesday sacking of a Cabinet minister testimony of his stance to uproot the cancerous vice, a senior Government of...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3590 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 18 UBH health workers test positive
EIGHTEEN health personnel working in the same ward at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) have tested positive for Covid-19 after allegedly attending to an infected patient, The Chronicle reported....Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1738 | by Staff Reporter
Ramaphosa fails to manage South Africa's coronavirus death rate
South Africa now has the world's 14th highest number of Covid-19 infections globally and officials are concerned that the virus's "doubling rate" is currently higher than all countries with more cases...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 21:38hrs | 4003 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1628 | by Staff reporter
'100 000 Zimbabweans could die from Coronavirus'
About 50 000 t0 100 000 Zimbabweans will die of Coronavirus in the next months, Mpilo Clinical Director Solwayo Ngwenya has foretold. In a Twitter post on Wednesday Ngwenya said, "Corona virus...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4150 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe records 34 local COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Fifty-three people tested positive for COVID-19 this Tuesday bringing the total number of positive cases to 787.In a COVID-19 daily update, the Ministry of Health and Child Care said the peopl...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1903 | by Staff Reporter
Nick Mangwana hints at total shutdown of Harare and Bulawayo
Information ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has hinted at a total lockdown of Harare and Bulawayo following a spike in Covid-19 positive cases in the two cities.However, the timing ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 15:37hrs | 25885 | by Moyo Roy
Mnagnagwa loyalists facing purges from Zanu-PF
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu-PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5194 | by Staff reporter
Kenyan schools stay closed until next year
KENYAN ministry of education has stated that all primary and secondary schools will reopen in 2021. The ministry said all students would resume studies in their current classes.Educati...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:50hrs | 1884 | by BBC
Another Bulawayo man dies of Coronavirus
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has announced that a 54-year-old Bulawayo man has died after being diagnosed with Coronavirus. The man, who has no history of travel, passed away a day af...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 07:16hrs | 5399 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Covid-19 confirmed cases top 700
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716. Three of yesterday's patie...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:04hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Confirmed cases reach 716 in Zimbabwe
Another 18 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, taking the weekend total to 91 and the cumulative total since the start of the pandemic in Zimbabwe to 716, The Herald reported. Three...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 09:34hrs | 2083 | by Staff Reporter
'There are no angels in Zimbabwe, President!'
Kapish Sir, forgive the Chinese, but such erratic, gladiatorial and unhinged exuberance, exuding brute visceral and coming from any one never too shy to publicly comport embedded bats in belfry charac...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 06:54hrs | 3784 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
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