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SIM swap fraudster hits malayitshas, gets access to Mgcini Dlamini's phone number
Technology has negated tasks like queuing at a bank or at a licensing department, but there are also inherent security threats associated with it. As the lockdown hit, fraud incidents looks li...Published: 7 hrs ago | 836 | by Staff reporter | Live
Covid-19 Zim Lockdown: Gendered impacts, implications and effects on women and girls as primary caregivers
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global challenge that affects our lives and our work. Zimbabwe is under a total lockdown for a period of 21 days from Monday 30th March 2020 as a precautionary and m...Published: 9 hrs ago | 241 | by Alfred Towo
Lockdown break-ins worry cops
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province have raised concern over cases of unlawful entry and theft from business premises which have become rampant during the prevailing lockdown resulting in loss of go...Published: 17 hrs ago | 148 | by Staff reporter
3 armed robbers arrested
Police have arrested three other members of a gang of armed robbers that raided a Chinese-owned mine in Lalapanzi and several houses in Bulawayo, stealing a total of US$20 000, bringing the total arre...Published: 17 hrs ago | 256 | by Staff reporter
Cop rapes teenager
A police officer stationed at ZRP Chinamhora in Domboshava has appeared in court facing rape charges after helping a colleague to rape a teenage girl they found with her boyfriend in the bush. ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 241 | by Staff reporter
Fake news on Covid-19 causing unnecessary panic
Governments through out the world battle to tackle the biggest health emergency in a generation, as another pandemic gripped the world with fear. It is the pandemic of fake news on Corona virus. Would...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2144 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean makes it on Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list
Zimbabwean youthful businessman, Paul Makaya has been named in the Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 list.Paul is the founder and chief executive of Bergast House, a digital solutions company focusi...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 16:39hrs | 1975 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown: Police demand 'risk allowance' bribes from public
Police manning roadblocks in Zimbabwe's roads top enforced the 21-day lock down declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa are demanding bribes termed as "r...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 12:34hrs | 1130 | by Moyo Roy
'I'm proud of your discipline during lockdown' said Mnangagwa - contrarily 'Soldiers go crush our enemies!'
"Wishing a blessed Sunday to my brothers and sisters in lockdown. I am proud of the way you have responded to this challenging situation, with discipline, commitment, and spirit. The road is long, but...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 538 | by Nomusa Garikai
Imports surged before lockdown
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it recorded a seven percent increase in imports coming into the country a week prior to the closing down of borders to non-essential traffic and the impleme...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:58hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army called in to enforce lockdown
THE military has been roped in to complement police in enforcing the 21-day lockdown, a strategy that is being implemented by other countries throughout the world to contain the spread of Covid-19. ...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
State firms privatisation drags
THE privatisation of subsidiaries and associate companies of state-owned Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe (IDCZ) is moving at a snail's pace as most offers are well below market value, a...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
What does the supreme court ruling against MDC tell us
The opposition MDC with all its divisions and branches has been put on the limelight again. The task before the MDC is a very easy one. It is for the MDC to show that they are capable and able to prac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3650 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'I am proud of you' Mnangagwa tells Zimbabweans
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he is impressed by how Zimbabweans are adhering to the lockdown regulations. Mnangagwa spoke to 5the media after he had a drive-through tour of Mabvuku, Tafar...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 14:00hrs | 3159 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cops descend on lock-down violators
POLICE have, as per their recent warning, increased the number of roadblocks in the country - stopping and sending back both motorists and passengers in Zupco buses without a good reason to be on the ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 12:03hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Did Welshman Ncube copy thesis from student?
A simple google search leads to a Nehanda Radio article of November 14, 2011 which claims that almost 9 weeks after attacking Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as an "uneducated person who has no capac...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 10:57hrs | 4208 | by Staff reporter
'Govt must give free 300 kWh power per household for lockdown'
MDC legislator Settlement Chikwinya has called on the government to given each household 300 kw to compensate for the loss they have incurred during the 21 days lockdown."Zimbabwe is largely a...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 10:39hrs | 1046 | by Stephen Jakes
UK based Zimbabwe artiste overcomes coronavirus
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED gospel music minister Rhoda Tongogora, popularly known as Mai Tongogara, has exclusively opened up to Standard Style how she contracted and overcame the novel coronavirus (Covid-1...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown cops injured in Chirundu
Two police officers in Chirundu were injured after a motorist tried to run over them while they were doing patrols to ensure that residents in the border town comply with the 21-day national lockdown ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:54hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Rethinking paltry pension payouts
WITH the coronavirus (Covid-19) causing significant economic and social disruptions across the globe, its impact is likely to be keenly felt by the most vulnerable members of society.The pande...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor in soup over alliance with opposition
ZANU-PF leadership in Chikomba District wants council chairman Isarel Dhikinya stripped of his post for working closely with MDC Alliance councillors, which the leadership says was not in line with pa...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:29hrs | 1832 | by Staff reporter
Letters of hope, Covid-19!
"Hope is a mystery that forsees the beauty and the victory of the future. It is hope that testifies in our hearts that our nation will overcome this deadly virus. Our blessed and beautiful nation has ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 09:19hrs | 759 | by Eric Shikobela
Lockdown house parties worry cops
A Total of 875 people have been arrested countrywide on Day Five of the national lockdown for violating anti-Covid-19 regulations, at a time when police are raising concerns on "lockdown house parties...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:22hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
The year Spanish Influenza attacked Rhodesia
The Spanish Flu epidemic struck Rhodesia in early October, 1918, being introduced into the country by passengers arriving from South Africa by train. It spread quickly in all the urban centres before ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17hrs | 806 | by Jonathan Waters
Unfolding challenges of Muteswa's domestic abuse: Trials & tribulations of single women in Zimbabwe and the law of Karma!
What Chantelle Muteswa is currently going through and the amount of emotional challenges and humiliations she must cope with is just unimaginable by common sense. In her case, common sense is no longe...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1726 | by Nomazulu Thata
PHOTOS: ZRP uses Public Order Vehicles to sanitise COVID-19 hotspots
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has partnered Harare City Council in disinfecting suspected Covid-19 hotspots using Public Order Vehicles (POVs).The POVs are being used to disinfect suspect...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 18:37hrs | 2698 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors raise alarm over COVID-19 tests
LOCAL medical doctors have expressed concern over the low numbers of people being tested for the deadly coronavirus in the country as the United Nations (UN) yesterday warned that Africa could lose mi...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
South Africa amends lockdown regulations, allows travel for funerals but only with a permit
South Africa's Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has amended the regulations governing the Covid-19 lockdown, allowing for travel between cities and pro...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:33hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1004 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Digitisation progress charms Govt
MANY communities in remote areas now have access to radio services following the successful roll-out of Government's digitisation programme that has so far seen the installation of six gap filler tran...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:21hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zupco embarks on fumigation exercise on Harare bus termini
PUBLIC transporter, Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has, since Monday this week, been fumigating major bus termini in Harare's CBD in attempts to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:20hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ramps up fight against Covid-19
State universities and local firms have increased the production of drugs and materials required in fighting Covid-19, as Government intensified efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus. The ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:17hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
All hopes are now on Kasukuwere to carry the cross
Zimbabwe needs a Saviour now, more than ever. Many opposition characters and trusted leaders are crumbling under pressure and selling out, the masses are dejected and alone. Nelson Chamisa is em...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 16:37hrs | 6589 | by Peter Moyo
The cost of coronavirus in Africa: What measures can leaders take?
With the novel coronavirus COVID-19 having reached the African continent, countries are getting ready to manage the spread of the virus and ensure that their fragile health systems can cope. Images fr...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:33hrs | 321 | by Dorothy Tembo
Nakamba feels safe
MARVELOUS Nakamba says he is well amid reports that the Warriors and Aston Villa midfielder could have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus.The midfielder could have been expos...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
What people are doing to pass lockdown time
BULAWAYO residents are using the 21-day total lockdown declared by the Government to combat the spread of Covid-19 to engage in yesteryear activities and revive hidden talents to kill time. Th...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:32hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Gates to Victoria Falls closed
Gates to the iconic Victoria Falls have been closed to the public in line with the 21-day lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. This has happened on the back of significant increase of wate...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1247 | 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 | 816 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police patrol streets as Zimbabwe begins coronavirus lockdown
Zimbabwe on Monday began enforcing a three-week lockdown in its fight against coronavirus after the disease left one person dead and infected six others.President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1379 | by AFP
Zimbabwe, like China, has fake covid-19 news it's 20 years in jail for truth
Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess because decades of bad governance. One of the most common manifestation of bad governance is bad policies. This monolithic de facto one-party, Z...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 744 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'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 | 511 | by Staff reporter
5 Common eating disorders in women everyone should know about
Eating disorders are a group of psychological conditions that are associated with an unhealthy relationship with food. Most of these eating disorders are associated with poor self-esteem and distorted...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:45hrs | 1318 | by Staff Writer
Jah Prayzah sends condolence message to Covid-19 victim
Zimbabwean artiste Jah Prayzah has sent his condolence message to James Makamba following the death of his son Zororo who succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19) last week."RIP Zororo M...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1925 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Mnangagwa's govt follows recommendations by Chamisa's MDC
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has fired Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dhlamini and declared his ward 9 seat vacant following recommendations by the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC party....Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3562 | by Staff reporter
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: 29 Mar 2020 at 19:23hrs | 4480 | by AFP
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa preaches Covid-19 unity
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa believes the outbreak of the coronavirus gives Zimbabweans an opportunity to bury their differences as they fight the pandemic.The coronavirus disease, which is also ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:21hrs | 1058 | 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 | 815 | by Edzai Zvobwo
With simple, fact-informed hygiene measures, Africa can slow COVID-19 spread
UN in Kenya in lockstep with the government to fight the novel coronavirus on all fronts.The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 09:01hrs | 234 | by Siddharth Chatterjee
A Zimbabwean's story Coronavirus: What's it like to be treated for COVID-19 in A FOREIGN LAND
A Zimbabwean man who was rushed into intensive care after contracting COVID-19 has opened up on how his ordeal began when he started feeling the funny symptoms which turned into a collapsed lung....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1306 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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