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Don't abuse Covid-19 materials: ZACC
THE Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) has warned public officials against abuse of Covid-19 donations, saying all corrupt elements will be arrested. In a statement yesterday, ZACC cha...Published: 16 hrs ago | 77 | by Staff reporter
Painful lessons from our COVID-19 so far
The confirmed number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases worldwide crossed the half a million mark last week and still going. The world's biggest cities and towns are on lockdown; so are the biggest marke...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:25hrs | 486 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Strict new curbs on life begin countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coronavirus victim died 'alone and scared'
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was "alone and scared", according t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:21hrs | 2358 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
Lawyers take Mnangagwa govt to task over coronavirus
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track dow...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:17hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
NGOs shut down
CIVIL society organisations, the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (Nango) and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) have shut their offices down as they intensify efforts t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:58hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 7710 | by Mandla Ndlovu
COVID-19: ZIMBABWE LOCKDOWN!
President Mnangagwa has with effect from Monday declared a total lockdown on the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 which has infected more than 500 000 people worldwide. The pandemic, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 164 | by ED Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe health workers demand $10 000 a month
Frontline health workers are appealing for a $10 000 risk allowance per month, as they battle Covid-19, which has affected five people in Zimbabwe so far. The proposal is for the allowance to ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 485 | 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 | 661 | by Agencies
EcoSure moves to help capacitate doctors and nurses amid COVID-19 pandemic
As Zimbabwe - along with the rest of the world - battles the COVID-19 Corona virus global pandemic, EcoSure has announced plans to immediately support the country's national health delivery system by ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 1166 | 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 | 4160 | by Staff reporter
Harare probes Makamba's death
The Harare City Council will probe broadcaster and socialite Zororo Makamba's death following his family's scathing attack on authorities.Makamba became the first Zimbabwean to succumb to the ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 7998 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must emulate Ramaphosa on Covid-19 action
MDC top official David Coltart has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to emulate South African President Cyrial Ramaphosa on the actions he has taken to curb the spread of Covid 19.Coltart sai...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2157 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa bans travelling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night closed the country's borders to human traffic and banned all recreational activities as his government intensifies the fight against the spread of coronavirus....Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 10:22hrs | 3268 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 1484 | by Nomusa Garikai
Presidential Affairs minister Gumbo assesses EMA project in Beitbridge
Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Jorum Gumbo has visited Beitbridge's ward 3 Fula village to assess the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) sponsored project aimed at addressing land degra...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa has failed public hospitals
THE deplorable state of public healthcare in Zimbabwe shows how the government got its priorities wrong resulting in thousands of people dying from curable diseases.Public healthcare is now in...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1453 | by Upenyu Shayai
'It takes more than just Closing Schools and Tertial Institutions,' Mnangagwa told
ZANU PF leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered the closure of all schools and tertiary institutions in the country on Tuesday 24 March as a precautionary measure to curb the widespread of COVID-19....Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2968 | by Prince Njagu
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1230 | by Nomazulu Thata
Bush bakeries score successes
Shurugwi home bakeries are making a lot of successes amid skepticism that the public has about the business concept.The home bakeries projects in Shurugwi North were initiated by Shurugwi Nort...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:24hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
ZANU(PF) and MDC have destroyed our country
A Zimbabwe Communist Party official Ngqabutho Mabhena has posted on Facebook indicating that the ruling Zanu PF and the opposition MDC have destroyed the country.His post states that the Zimba...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 11:32hrs | 2819 | by Steve Grays
Harare Mayor sets the record straight
Today the Mayor of Harare, Herbert Gomba has decided to decode his own narrative of the city's status quo.When you came at the summit of the metro where there ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:56hrs | 414 | by Daniel Itai
TB-related deaths increase in Bulawayo
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded an increase in the number of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-related deaths at its clinics.According to the latest council minutes, in January this year the local au...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 13:21hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ups coronavirus surveillance
ALL travellers coming into Zimbabwe through the Beitbridge Border Post are now required to undergo mandatory tests for coronavirus (Covid-19) before being issued with a clearance pass that allows them...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 09:01hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus linked woman dies in Zimbabwe?
A woman who recently visited China died after being referred to a Harare hospital designated to handle coronavirus patients, but the government said she was free of the disease.A statement by ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 09:00hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
MP spearheads schools facelift
Matobo North MP Edgar Moyo has launched an ambitious programme to construct classroom blocks at schools facing a serious shortage of infrastructure particularly in resettlement areas.In an int...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:34hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Criminals steal solar panels from hospitals and clinics
WELL-ORCHESTRATED syndicates stealing solar panels installed at Beitbridge's rural hospitals and clinics to help cushion the health facilities against load-shedding have become a menace, compromising ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 403 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's minister commissions pay-toilet
MINISTER of State for Mashonaland East Province Apolonia Munzverengwi this week opened a pay toilet and commissioned $2,5 million maintenance equipment at Chikomba Rural District Council offices....Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:59hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Upgrading prestige stadia but not neglected hospitals - bizarre, but then ruling elite don't use latter
Work on the upgrading of the National Stadium in Harare and Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo, prestige projects, has started in earnest. The Chronicle is full of coloured pictures of the work been do...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1255 | by Nomusa Garikai
Students in China safe, claims Embassy
No single Zimbabwean studying or working in China has been diagnosed with coronavirus, the Chinese Embassy in Harare has said. The embassy yesterday assured parents with children studying in that coun...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:49hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Furore as govt blocs mayor, EU envoy
Gweru councillor Josiah Makombe has accused the government of scuttling the city's efforts to engage the European Union (EU) to explore funding opportunities after the bloc's envoy was blocked from me...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:58hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt zooms in for critics with Chinese help
Zimbabwe is laying the ground for a modern state underpinned by use of artificial intelligence (AI) to boost security in the cities, but critics fear President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government wants to...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:54hrs | 184 | by Dumisani Ndlela
2 die of diarrhoea in Gweru
THE Gweru City Council has declared its water is safe for drinking after laboratory tests showed it was not contaminated after two teenage boys died of diarrhoea last week.There was a diarrhoe...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:49hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo clinics hikes charges
THE cost of basic health care at Bulawayo clinics mainly serving people who cannot afford private doctors and hospitals has gone up, putting lives of thousands of people at risk.The local auth...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:47hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Patients being turned away from clinics as healthcare costs outpace earnings
THE cost of basic health care at Bulawayo clinics mainly serving people who cannot afford private doctors and hospitals has gone up, putting lives of thousands of people at risk.The local auth...Published: 01 Mar 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1093 | by Staff Reporter
Typhoid scare hits Gweru
GWERU has been hit by fears of a fresh typhoid outbreak after two people in the densely-populated suburb of Mkoba died in the past three days showing symptoms of the disease, while dozens complained o...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 08:00hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
'ZESA committing genocide in Matobo' says Linda Masarira
LEAD Zimbabwe President Linda Masarira has taken ZESA head on over what she called systematic genocide through the continued lack of electricity in Matobo District. Masarira said the company was b...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1729 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why Mnangagwa's handling of Gukurahundi genocide is doomed
This lot do not get it, they probably never will because they are either clueless, unwilling or both.Supporters of President Emmerson Mnangagwa have been at pains to try and tell us that this ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:21hrs | 361 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Zacc probes Mnangagwa's presidential scholarships
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on Monday revealed that it was probing the Presidential Scholarship Programme and the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm), with the fi...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
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Nhaka Foundation begins charity at home in Zimbabwe
In this interview, Patrick Makokoro, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nhaka Foundation, discusses the organisation's efforts at supporting education and health care in rural regions in Zimba...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:04hrs | 93 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Cimas CEO advocates B2B relationships over tariffs
Medical aid societies need to pursue B2B engagements , where they approach individual health service providers to negotiate agreed prices, Cimas Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Vulin...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:15hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Ndolwane Clinic to become a hospital
A NEW clinic is being constructed in Mambo Village in Ward 7 in Bulilima district which is meant to enable villagers' easy access to health services.Mambo villagers walk to Tokwana and Masendu...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1757 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 17:35hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
'Free data to marginalised areas,' MPs urge telcos
Members of Parliament yesterday said telecommunication companies (telcos) must give free data access to schools in marginalised areas as part of community development projects.The issue was ra...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:21hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
MP holds school heads to account for 0 to 3% pass rate - real change guaranteed is when people hold MP to account
"Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Leve...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 08:58hrs | 808 | by Nomusa Garikai
Polad foreign jaunts a waste of scarce foreign currency
AS Zimbabwe's economy sinks to plumbing depths, with the country's hospitals and clinics without basics such as gloves, bandages and painkillers, fringe political leaders under the Political Actors Di...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:47hrs | 228 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Revolutions if don't chuck out leaders a.s.a.p' said G Orwell - 40 years, our supremacists still there
"Despite all the hurdles and all the barriers, Zimbabwe in 2019 leaped 15 places in the Global Ease of Doing Business rankings. As we look to improve this in 2020, privatisation is a big part of this ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1266 | by Nomusa Garikai
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