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German minister kills himself over 'coronavirus crisis worries'
Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany's Hesse state, killed himself apparently after becoming "deeply worried" over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3156 | by AFP
Chief Khayisa' s widow honoured with a State-assisted funeral
THE widow of the late Chief Khayisa Ndiweni, Gogo Agnes Masuku-Ndiweni was last Thursday laid to rest at the family cemetery in Ntabazinduna.She was honoured with a State-assisted funeral. Gog...Published: 12 hrs ago | 666 | by Staff reporter
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: 14 hrs ago | 295 | 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: 23 hrs ago | 505 | by Staff reporter
Councillors accused of usurping executive functions
MDC-Alliance councillors in Gweru have been accused of allegedly usurping executive functions disrupting the smooth flow of business at the Town House thereby affecting service delivery.This w...Published: 23 hrs ago | 159 | by Staff reporter
Telecoms players call on Fourth Industrial Revolution
PLAYERS in the telecommunications sector have appealed to the Government to prioritise and channel more resources towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) so as to accelerate the growt...Published: 23 hrs ago | 163 | by Staff reporter
21-day lockdown: Mnangagwa urges discipline
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to exercise discipline during the 21-day lockdown that starts tomorrow, saying staying indoors is the panacea to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic....Published: 23 hrs ago | 268 | 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: 23 hrs ago | 246 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual faces money laundering charges
THE Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has launched an investigation into suspected illicit activities surrounding trading in fungible stocks linked to three listed companies — Ol...Published: 23 hrs ago | 251 | by Staff reporter
German extends lockdown period as Covid-19 infections soar
Chancellor Angela Merkel said it’s premature to consider easing Germany’s lockdown measures as coronavirus infections can take as long as 14 days to incubate.Merkel urged Germans to contin...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1532 | by Staf reporter
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 | 4873 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5175 | 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 | 2601 | 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 | 361 | 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 | 334 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses welcome US$ relaxation
The black market exchange rate for the United States dollar is likely to fall following the relaxation of the usage of free funds by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Thursday. Business le...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Mutevedzi appointed chief magistrate
Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has been appointed the substantive chief magistrate by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The post had been vacant since the resignation of Mr Mishrod Guvamombe in De...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
Oxygen suppliers to prioritise patients
Boc Gases Zimbabwe has said it will prioritise medical oxygen supply for the treatment of Covid-19 patients and patients on existing, medically-prescribed oxygen therapies, in line with medical prescr...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Gono pleads for arrested thieves
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono was at the Murambinda Magistrates' Courts on Thursday where he pleaded for the release of four of his workers who face prison terms for stealing pr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:28hrs | 8732 | by Staff reporter
Business as usual as Covid wreaks havoc
Hundreds of thousands of people in the five southern provinces of Zimbabwe continue to do business as usual including gathering in overcrowded places, selling food in the streets, hugging and clubbing...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:26hrs | 1365 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has coronavirus
Mr Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, Downing Street says. His symptoms are mild and he will continue to lead the government response to the virus while he self-isolates, a spok...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 11:31hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
Cimas takes measures to protect staff, members from Covid-19
Cimas Medical Aid Society has taken drastic measures to safeguard its staff from possible Covid-19 infection and has issued guidelines to its members on what to do to minimise the risk of infection....Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 10:01hrs | 655 | by Agencies
Travelling Zimbabweans in Corona horror
As the country struggles to deal with the deadly coronavirus at home, the government has now also been forced to rescue 107 Zimbabweans who are being detained by Tanzanian authorities in Dar es S...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4120 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1986 | 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 | 3227 | 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
False pregnancy claims backfire
A woman from Mberengwa who trapped her boyfriend into marrying her claiming that she was pregnant saw her plan backfiring after a pregnancy test exposed her.Pikirai Mpofu of Mataga Village und...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 673 | 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 | 1607 | 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 | 404 | by Staff reporter
Sorcery tears family apart
A MUTAMBARA family is in the eye of a witchcraft storm which has seen octogenarian Fumirai Musweweshiri dragging his son, grandson and brother to court.Mutare magistrate Ms Nyasha Kuture heard...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:25hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
David Parirenyatwa dumps lawyers
Former minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa has dumped his lawyers who represented him from trial commencement to the defence case.Parirenyatwa was initially represented by Adv...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:23hrs | 243 | 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 | 8395 | by Staff reporter
Presidential amnesty ex-convict kills two relatives
AN ex-murder convict from Binga, who was released from jail though the Presidential Amnesty in 2018, has appeared in court for killing his two nephews.Themba Muleya (38) of Sikhalala Village u...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:12hrs | 2677 | by Staff reporter
UN calls for easing of sanctions on Zimbabwe
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for easing of sanctions against Zimbabwe and such countries like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea to allow their health systems to...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1486 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls hotels shut down
TOURISM operators and hoteliers in Victoria Falls have resolved to suspend operations to prevent spread of the deadly Covid-19 (coronavirus), which has seen the country recording three positive cases....Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
Govt cuts numbers of on-duty staff
The Government and swathes of the private sector are slashing back on staff on active duty with all Government departments from tomorrow to be manned by a third of their normal workforce at a time wit...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:14hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Chief Gwesela distressed over Coronavirus
Zhombe chief Ntabazinduna Wait Gwesela expressed his distress over coronavirus speaking from his homestead in Zhombe today.Gwesela highlighted how unprepared he is to curb the virus not to aff...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:59hrs | 1306 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Police to enforce Covid-19 regulations
POLICE in Bulawayo have said they will arrest any persons who violate new regulations aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19. Government has come up with a number of measures, including the gazettin...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
Emergency cases only at hospitals
Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals are now only attending to emergency cases while all admitted patients who can cope will be discharged, measures which will remain in place until Co...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 593 | 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 | 361 | by Staff reporter
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 | 690 | by Staff reporter
NetOne boss hearing suspended
THE disciplinary hearing of the suspended NetOne chief executive Mr Lazarus Muchenje failed to take off last Friday after the embattled executive argued any proceedings would have been illegal since t...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to feels impact of SA lockdown
With over half a thousand confirmed cases of Covid-19, South Africa has moved its response a notch up. The country has effected a 21-day lockdown starting from March 26. This is aimed at reducing case...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Compulsory testing powers gazetted
As Zimbabwe confirms its third Covid-19 infection, the infection has been declared a formidable epidemic disease in terms of the Public Health Act, allowing the Minister of Health and Child Care to ma...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Choppies restructures to lift suspension
Gaborone, 23 March 2020: Supermarket giant Choppies Enterprises Limited (CEL) is overhauling its corporate governance in preparation for the lifting of the suspension of trading in its shares on the B...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:33hrs | 1963 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs bemoan lack of info on COVID-19
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matabeleland region have challenged officials in the health sector to create awareness about the deadly coronavirus in rural areas, where they say many were still ignorant about...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Zupco reduces crowding in buses, increases fares
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) has started implementing the "No-standing passengers" by-law in buses following the government's ban on gatherings exceeding 100 people to prevent the spr...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 3162 | by Staff reporter
Afreximbank trains Zimbabwe bankers on trade finance
THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) last week delivered a training programme for Zimbabwean banks to help enhance their technical skills in trade finance.Trade finance plays a key rol...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere withdraws title deeds claim application
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has withdrawn an application in which he was seeking to compel the State to comply with a court order which instructed it to release title deeds to ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:41hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
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
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