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Pensioner sues over US dollar savings
AN 86-year-old pensioner is challenging the constitutionality of the statutory instrument (SI) that converted United States dollar balances to Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts, which resulte...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3325 | by Staff reporter
Harare reverses parking fees hike
With most motorists boycotting street parking in Harare city centre yesterday morning and shopkeepers counting severe losses, Harare City Council reversed the US$1 an hour new parking charges and reve...Published: 13 hrs ago | 869 | by Staff reporter
Pupil writes exams from quarantine centre
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil from a high school on the outskirts of Bulawayo is writing his Ordinary Level June examinations under quarantine in Bulawayo after returning from Botswana recently. The tee...Published: 13 hrs ago | 549 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 14 hrs ago | 88 | by Agencies
SA deports 273 more Zimbabweans
South Africa will, between today and tomorrow, deport a total of 273 Zimbabweans who have been arrested for breaking its immigration laws.The move is part of the neighbouring country's efforts...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 20:54hrs | 2876 | by Staff reporter
MDC official dies in mine shaft
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance's Mberengwa North constituency co-ordinating committee secretary, Trinos Chinyoka, died on Saturday after falling into an uncovered disused gold mine shaft at night. He...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1415 | by Robert Sigauke
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Standard Bank Group collaborates with Salesforce towards becoming a platform business
In a virtual signing event symbolic of the technologically powered new normal, Standard Bank, the parent company of leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has unveiled an exten...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 08:55hrs | 357 | by Agencies
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4023 | by Daniel Itai
CBZ Bank launches Money Transfer Centre
CBZ Bank has launched a money transfer centre to facilitate ease of collection of funds from the diaspora and in line with its vision of being the preferred provider of financial solutions in Zimbabwe...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 4266 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A dream deferred but still attainable
Joshua Nkomo, perhaps like many great men and women before him saw a dream for Zimbabwe, one that would have seen the country cross over from colonialism to the proverbial Jordan. Born in 1917 he dedi...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 18:06hrs | 870 | by Lt Col JZ Dlamini
Matemadanda disowns Twitter handle
ZANU-PF Secretary for Commissariat Victor Matemadanda has disowned a Twitter account in his name, which he claims was engineered by his enemies bent on tarnishing his image.This follows a mess...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 17:56hrs | 1995 | by Staff reporter
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 2957 | by Stephen Jakes
Chaos as villagers supervise exams
CHAOS rocked the start of the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) June "O" and "A" Level examinations which started yesterday, with teachers' unions claiming government hired "villagers and ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 4486 | by Staff reporter
'Chiefs want Mnangagwa to apologise for Gukurahundi'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is pursuing the call by people from Matabeleland and parts of Midlands provinces for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to issue a public apol...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 5087 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe food crisis worse than last year: UN agency
AFOOD security report by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) notes that Zimbabweans are worse-off than they were a year after the launch of the humanitarian ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 patients on hunger strike
FIFTEEN COVID-19 patients at St Francis of Assisi High School in Chivhu went on a hunger strike on Sunday to force the government to release them, arguing that conditions at the centre were deplorable...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Cop force-marches boss to charge office at gunpoint
A POLICE officer based at Zezani Police Station in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South province has been locked up for allegedly force-marching his superior from his home to the office at gunpoint, protest...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2330 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest bond note snub
Mpopoma residents demonstrate at Mahomva shopping centre against the rejection of bond notes by general dealer shops on MondayDISGRUNTLED residents of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo o...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 5974 | by Staff reporter
Villagers hired to invigilate exams
SOME headmasters were Tuesday forced to hire local villagers to assist in invigilating ZIMSEC June 'O' and 'A' Level examinations after teachers boycotted the process due to lack of proper Covid-19 sa...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1960 | by newzimbabwe
War vets reconnected after 40 years
"Happiness is meeting an old friend after a long time and feeling that nothing has changed," wrote Cris Dar.It seems the prolific writer coined the statement with two wartime friends in mind (...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:38hrs | 4423 | by John Sigauke
Toe to Toe with Zanu PF?
I am writing this article in response to Wilbert Mukori's article to Bulawayo24 entitled 'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40'. Yes I know that every responsible Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1860 | by Clement Moyo
Masvingo court jails MDC activist for insulting Mnangagwa
A Masvingo magistrate has remanded Programmes manager for Masvingo Centre for Research and Community Development (Macrad), Ephraim Mtombeni to 13 July after being charged with charged with insul...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 12:37hrs | 3170 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 12107 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa abducted, dumped near railway line
MDC Alliance youth chairperson for Goromonzi South, Davison Chamisa, who claims abduction by suspected state security agents in Ruwa Sunday, has been found, with claims of being drugged and dumped som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1895 | by newzimbabwe
5 in court over bond notes
Five shop managers and shop assistants in Harare city centre were arrested at the end of last week after refusing to accept bond notes, which remain legal tender, and were remanded on bail on Saturday...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 2071 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec exam centres moved
Zimsec has established alternative centres for the June 2020 examinations that begin today to replace a handful of schools that were being used as Covid-19 quarantine centres. In a statement o...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
June exams begin tomorrow
Candidates registered for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) June 2020 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations will write as scheduled, beginning tomorrow, despite calls by some unions...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:49hrs | 1107 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe switches to substitute ARV drugs
THE government says it has a substitute for the second line drugs for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) which is currently in short supply.In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy m...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2255 | by Staff reporter
Mat North schools ready for June exams
SCHOOLS in Matabeleland North province are ready for the Zimbabwe Schools Examinations Council (Zimsec) June exams, the Provincial Education Director Mr Jabulani Mpofu has said.Speaking during...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 13:30hrs | 614 | by Agencies
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
4 escape from quarantine centres
FOUR more people have escaped from quarantine centres around the country, bringing the total number of quarantine escapees to 187. One person is reported to have escaped from the NSSA Hotel qu...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:27hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
6 more returnees test Covid-19 positive
SIX more people, all returnees from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing Zimbabwe's cumulative total to 567 cases since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March. ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF united behind Mnangagwa
Zanu-PF is united behind President Mnangagwa as the party's sole 2023 Presidential candidate and will not yield to external or internal pressures imagined by its detractors now and in the future, Poli...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to stop at nothing in arresting corruption, SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa, at the coming in of the new dispensation, pledged to fight corruption and true to his word, the Government will stop at nothing in arresting graft and dealing with economic sabote...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Man rapes teen girl, bribes her with biscuits
A Chiweshe man who raped and bribed a 15 year old girl with biscuits and body lotion was jailed 12 years by Bindura regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna yester...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 21:35hrs | 2311 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8883 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitution amendment (bill no. 2) - 2019
Written submission in accordance with section 328 amendment of constitution ZAPU notes with grave concern about the implications of the proposed r...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 878 | by Sakhile Sibanda
Zimbabwe on the edge again?
A Zimbabwean shopper in a Harare supermarket shook his head, grumbling as he returned a loaf of bread to a rack after finding the price had jumped by a third and he could no longer afford it.N...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3250 | by AFP
Machete gangs resurface
ARMED robbery cases involving machete-wielding gangs have resurfaced in Matabeleland South province, invoking memories of terror-filled moments linked to the thugs that traumatised communities....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Food aid for Mabuthweni and Emakhandeni residents
THE Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs, Judith Ncube, has urged residents in the city to unite and assist each other during the difficult times as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic b...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
What's in a name and history?
SOMEWHERE in Buhera East, near Dorowa Mine before you cross Save River into Ziyambi Purchase Area, there is a school named after King Mzilikazi kaMatshobana. I would give everything to know if posteri...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:29hrs | 248 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Matebeleland South running out of quarantine space
AUTHORITIES in Matebeleland South have called on the Government to urgently avail more Covid-19 quarantine and isolation centres and to upgrade existing facilities to enhance their capacity to handle ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
400 Covid-19 positive cases from South Africa
RETURNEES from South Africa have accounted for more than 70 percent of Covid-19 positive cases reported in the country after 400 locals who were domiciled in the neighbouring country tested positive s...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo: A globalist, political negotiator and institution builder
FORMER Vice-President Joshua Nkomo's legacy is prominently embedded in the military and radical polemic side of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This historiography bias towards Nkomo's contribu...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 151 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
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