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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: 3 hrs ago | 799 | by Staff reporter
Calls to implement devolution grow louder
THE distribution of resources to fight the COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the need for government to fully implement devolution of power to allow provinces to map their own action plans to handle such ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 109 | by Staff reporter
Peter Ndlovu wants a Sunday Marimo statue at Rufaro Stadium
FORMER Warriors star striker and captain Peter Ndlovu has implored local football authorities to build a statue at Rufaro Stadium in honour of Sunday Chidzambwa, who recently announced retirement from...Published: 3 hrs ago | 525 | 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: 3 hrs ago | 166 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe minimum wage set at equivalent of US$100
The Ministry of Public Service , Labour and Social Welfare has set the minimum wage for all employees at the equivalent of US$100 except for agriculture and domestic employees.According to Sta...Published: 3 hrs ago | 992 | by Staff reporter
'Urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni, Thorngrove hospitals'
THE Government has said there is an urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni Medical Centre and Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients in Bulawayo. The bu...Published: 3 hrs ago | 116 | by Staff reporter
Critical industries, services exempt from lockdown
AS the national lockdown begins today to avert the spread of Covid-19, Government has said that critical industries and essential services will remain operational to ensure uninterrupted supply of bas...Published: 3 hrs ago | 128 | by Staff reporter
Police urge lockdown compliance
POLICE yesterday encouraged Zimbabweans to comply with the requirements of the national 21-day lockdown that begins today saying failure to do so will result in them being arrested and prosecuted. Pre...Published: 3 hrs ago | 91 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown is in national interest, uphold it
From a partial shutdown that was in force over the past few days, Government escalated its response to Covid-19 from midnight to a total national lockdown until April 19. On Friday, President Mnangagw...Published: 3 hrs ago | 41 | by Staff reporter
Nurses association urges members to report for duty
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association has called off plans to withdrew labour and have advised its membership to report for work with effect from today following response to some of its concerns by Governme...Published: 3 hrs ago | 88 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to monitor returnees from SA
GOVERNMENT has recommended the monitoring of more than 13 000 Zimbabwean nationals who entered the country through Beitbridge Border Post after South Africa entered a three-week lockdown on Friday las...Published: 3 hrs ago | 118 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to monitor prices, availability of basic commodities
Government and the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe will monitor prices and availability of basic commodities during the 21-day lockdown period that starts today to protect ordinary people from unjust bus...Published: 3 hrs ago | 175 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown stalls Zimbabwe's 10-year census
A partial lockdown in an attempt to avoid the worst of the Covid-19 virus has stalled the preliminary stages of Zimbabwe's preparations for the 2022 census.However, it is business as usual els...Published: 16 hrs ago | 663 | by Staff reporter
BCC water cuts puts people's lives in danger
Bulawayo Vendors Trust has said the Bulawayo Water cuts puts people's lives at greater risks of corona virus.The trust said Bulawayo vendors and informal traders have shown deep concern of con...Published: 22 hrs ago | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
'Postpone exam registration'
TEACHERS have appealed to the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to postpone examination registration to avoid the spread of the deadly coronavirus when headmasters travel to provincial and...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1019 | by Staff reporter
Innscor fires all contract workers
Innscor Africa has reportedly sent a message to its contract workers informing them that their contracts have been terminated due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic that has registered 7 cases i...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 09:06hrs | 4366 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 576 | 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: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
BCC bars public, media from full council meeting
MEMBERS of the public and the media will be barred from this week's full council meeting as the Bulawayo City Council works towards implementing policies against the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Water shedding to get worse
BULAWAYO residents will soon have to endure more than four days a week without water supplies after council announced on Friday that it was considering reviewing upwards the water shedding schedule....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 460 | 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: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Zifa transfer window closes
WORLD football governing body, Fifa is mulling extending the player-transfer window period in consideration of the disruption caused by the coronavirus epidemic.The window for leagues using th...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's lockdown regulations likened to apartheid era
The government has slammed critics who have likened the national lockdown to measures under apartheid rule.Addressing the media on Saturday, ministers who are part of the national command coun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1627 | by Staf reporter
'Zanu PF must account for Makamba debacles' - good start but must self-empower too
A lot has been said about the tragic events surrounding the late Zororo Makamba's death but, sadly, most of it has been the usual static noise. So when I heard something coherent, a diamond amongst th...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:48hrs | 2991 | by Wilbert Mukori
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2170 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls mayor office declared vacant
LOCAL Government Minister July Moyo has ordered the Victoria Falls Town Council to elect a new mayor after he declared vacant, the position following the sacking of Somvelo Dlamini as mayor and counci...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
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 | 478 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster, teacher refused rice after Mnangagwa Cleanup Campaign
There was fracas at Glow Service Station in Masvingo CBD after a councillor defied instructions and refused to give a school head and a teacher 3kg rice each allocated to them for attending President ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:27hrs | 6847 | 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
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 | 1159 | by Agencies
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 | 7950 | by Staff reporter
6 MDC youths arrested over Kwekwe demo
MDC Midlands provincial youth chairperson Sekai Marashe and five party activists were brought to court yesterday following their Saturday arrest for leading a flash protest against President Emmerson ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1035 | 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 | 3228 | by Staff reporter
Mater Dei, Masca set up COVID-19 wing
THE Medical Aid Society of Southern Africa (Masca) is leading an initiative to capacitate Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo to establish an isolation and treatment wing for coronavirus patients.M...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy social distancing advice
Informal traders in Bulawayo are defying the health workers and government advice for citizens to maintain social distancing and stay at home to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, whic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei upgrades 2 COVID-19 treatment centres
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has embarked on a project to upgrade St Anne's Hospital and jailed rapist and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke's state-of-the-art Rock Foundation Medical Hospital in Harare...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Of shrinking internal democratic space in MDC
One of the key changes which President Mnangagwa rang on his assumption of power in November 2017 was opening up the democratic space. This saw MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa clockin...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 319 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Thorngrove hospital still to get funding for coronavirus equipment
THORNGROVE Hospital in Bulawayo, which is one of the two infectious diseases hospitals that have been established to cater for coronavirus patients, is still ill-equipped to admit patients as governme...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 249 | by newzimbabwe
Covid-19 death scare in Makokoba
THERE was panic in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb yesterday after funeral parlours allegedly refused to collect the body of a man suspected to have died of Covid-19 at his home. False claims that ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 974 | 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
Council limits mourners at burials to 30
THE Bulawayo City Council has implemented a raft of measures to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 including shutting down of khothama weekend market and limiting to 30 mourners attending burials....Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:13hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Energy Mutodi pushes for Domboshava to be an urban zone
The Deputy Minister of Information, Media, Publicity and Broadcast services Dr Energy Mutodi has called on Local Government authorities to turn Domboshava into an urban zone.Domboshava i...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 15:48hrs | 1265 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sakunda Holdings responds to COVID-19 fight assistance call
Sakunda Holdings has come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and re-equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital in an effort to assist government in the fight agai...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2963 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Chamisa's MDC accused of trying to gain political mileage during a crisis
GOVERNMENT has gagged the opposition MDC from commenting and speaking authoritatively on COVID-19, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accusing the opposition of trying to gain political milea...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4651 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Residents express concern over water rationing
BULAWAYO residents have expressed concern over the city council's move to continue with water-rationing following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), whose prevention demands high level of hygiene...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
BCC facilities operate without fire alarms
BULAWAYO City Council's (BCC) Large City Hall and its revenue offices in the central business district are operating without fire alarm systems and extinguishers, exposing employees and visitors to da...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 196 | 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 | 1820 | by Staff reporter
Queues hamper social distancing
THE shortage of various goods, services and cash has seen most people failing to maintain social distances as they spend long hours in queues where they risk contracting or spreading Covid-19. ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Doctor speaks on Zororo Makamba's death
Senior Health reporter Wilkins Hospital says it did all it could to save the life of Zororo Makamba, given the resources at its disposal. The hospital said before admission into the isolation facility...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 3410 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig points gun at daughter's 'boyfriend'
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial political commissar Jevas Masosote was recently in the eye of a storm after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a man he accused of impregnating his teenage daughter who is s...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:02hrs | 8975 | by Staff reporter
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