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As COVID-19 stalks the continent, Masiyiwa donates 45 Ventilator ICU sets to Zimbabwe
Businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has donated 45 Ventilator Intensive Care Unit (ICU) suites to Zimbabwe in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Masiyiwa, who has been leading a ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 674 | by Agencies
Mutare former town clerk in fraud storm
Former Mutare town clerk Obert Muzawazi was arrested last week on fraud charges after he reportedly duped desperate homeseekers by selling them non-existent stands.Muzawazi, who resigned in 20...Published: 11 hrs ago | 289 | by Staff reporter
Family feuds over tombstones
A family feud has spilled into the courts following the alleged mistreatment of tenants, The Weekender reports.House Number 39 Tenderere is at the centre of the dispute between Patience Jimu and her e...Published: 17 hrs ago | 802 | by Staff reporter
Sex-starved teacher bashes wife
ASSAULTING his wife for denying him conjugal rights earned a Buhera teacher three months imprisonment.On Wednesday last week, Charles Kufakwatenzi (52) appeared before Chipinge magistrate Mr P...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white farmers reject Mnangagwa's offer
A FORTNIGHT ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government a said it was offering about 800 commercial farms as compensation to farmers who had lost their land during the violent land seizures that be...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2165 | by newzimbabwe
Mask shipment bound for Germany was reportedly diverted to the US
A shipment of masks made by US manufacturer 3M that was bound for Germany was diverted from Thailand and sent to the United States instead, according to a report from the Financial Times.The d...Published: 17 hrs ago | 467 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1425 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 982 | by Sibanengi Dube
Woman pays R850 debt with sex for 3 days
A Bulawayo woman who has been under unbearable pressure from her neighbour over an 850 rand debt made a shocking decision to be debt-free when she offered him sex in exchange for the money she owed hi...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:25hrs | 2662 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's movement offers solution to fighting Coronavirus
Tyson Wabantu Movement has issued a statement urging the government of the day to implement tough measures in fighting the dreaded Wuhan virus that seen positive cases rise to nine in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:28hrs | 2277 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 triggers massive share sell-offs on ZSE
Share prices on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) are expected to plunge during the national lockdown and beyond as companies engage in massive sell-offs on the stock market in the face of the global ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:52hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt, civil servants headed for clash
GOVERNMENT and its workers are headed for a showdown amid revelations the civils servants were demanding United States dollar-denominated salaries post the Covid-19 pandemic.In the past, the g...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown and economic responses
ZIMBABWE went into lockdown on Monday over the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen the United States, at 164 387 cases (at the time of writing, Tuesday), becoming the country with the highest number of co...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 108 | by Brett Chulu
Mnangagwa launches US$2.2b appeal for assistance
Zimbabwe needs US$2,2 billion of humanitarian aid over the next 12 months, with over two thirds for drought relief food and agriculture and US$220 million to fight Covid-19, according to a formal appe...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 20:12hrs | 3321 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Zwelinzima Vavi tests positive for Coronavirus
South African media have reported General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Zwelinzima Vavi has revealed that he tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus.Vavi...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1581 | by Mandla Ndlovu
#Covid-19, residents demand water in battle to combat deadly epidemic and avert crisis
A RESIDENTS’ representative group has hauled Chitungwiza Municipality and central government to court seeking an order compelling them to urgently act and ensure provision of water to residents at a...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:05hrs | 215 | by Stephen Jakes
Salaries showdown looms
A SHOWDOWN is looming between the government and its workers after the Labour ministry gazetted Statutory Instrument 81 of 2020, which pegged the minimum wage at an equivalent amount of US$100....Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 13:31hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
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 | 319 | by Dorothy Tembo
Students stand in for striking nurses
STUDENT nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have been commandeered to replace nurses who went on strike last week demanding COVID-19 risk allowances and personal protective equipment."Ou...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
Sneaking in minimum wage is scandalous
HE routinely leaves home daily before day break. His aim is to catch the cheap government-owned Zupco bus at 5:30am so that he gets at his workstation at 7.In his small worn-out satchel is a p...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 714 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
For autocratic regimes, COVID-19 is a window to consolidate power
Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?Last Friday, the Zimbabwe government published ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 163 | by New York Times
Baker's Inn reduces bread supply
BREAD manufacturer, Baker's Inn, says it has reduced supply of bread onto the market due to depressed demand following the 21-day national lockdown period. Speaking by telephone from Harare ye...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:34hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal fights break out in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo were yesterday called to restore order at mealie meal queues in the city centre and Nketa Suburb as residents fought over the commodity. Anti-riot police were called to disp...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
James Makamba breaks silence on Zororo's death
PROMINENT businessman and politician James Makamba yesterday opened up for the first time about his son Zororo's death, saying it has left a void which cannot be filled.Zororo, 30, became Zimb...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 15:13hrs | 1757 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Sibanda pleads with doctors and nurses not to abandon patients
A journalists and former Radio Zimbabwe Presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has made a passionate plea with nurses and doctors not to abandon patients just because of Covid 19 saying not all pat...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 13:43hrs | 472 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 802 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe setting up 67 makeshift isolation centres
THE Government is working on establishing 67 makeshift isolation centres, producing and importing medicines, acquiring protective clothing and producing masks and hand sanitisers for distribution amon...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1944 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube redirects 2020 budget allocations to fight Covid-19
GOVERNMENT has availed $500 million and approved recruitment of 4 200 health workers as part of a wider Covid-19 (coronavirus) mitigation measures, that include redirecting the 2020 budget expenditure...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:56hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Gweru councillors in stands, tender storm
Gweru councillors allegedly allocated themselves residential and commercial stands and influenced the awarding of lucrative contracts prejudicing the local authority of much money, according to a repo...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:55hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Millers suspend operations
THE Small-to-Medium Scale Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (SMMAZ) says its members have suspended operations due to shortage of maize to produce roller meal. Speaking by telephone yesterday, ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:55hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to be in hard times after corona virus
The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China, has infected more than a million people and it's still counting. Its spread has left businesses around the world counting costs and rea...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 665 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe parallel market rates nosedive
THE value of the United States dollar against the Zimbabwe dollar on the parallel market has nosedived due to a drop in demand, economists have said.The depreciation comes hardly a week after ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 18:58hrs | 7805 | by Staff reporter
James Makamba speaks on Zororo Makamba's death
Business mogul James Makamba has broken the silence for the first time since the death of his son Zororo Makamba who was a celebrated media personality.Makamba said his family endured pain dur...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 13:39hrs | 7302 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Perrance Shiri given 2 week ultimatum to handover seized farm
A MARONDERA businessman and farmer, Godfrey Gonese whose farm was seized by government in 2014 and given to an Italian citizen, Francesco Marconati, has demanded Lands Minister Perrance Shiri to retur...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 09:11hrs | 3418 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabweans flee to rural areas
THOUSANDS of food insecure families in Harare and other cities and towns yesterday flocked to their rural homes after failing to stock up enough food supplies to last them until the end of the 21-day ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:30hrs | 2765 | 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: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:13hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Hive of activity as residents do last-minute shopping
THERE was a hive of activity in Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday as hundreds of people made last-minute shopping to beat the Government 21-day lockdown to flatten the coronavirus curve. President ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:12hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Businessman challenges auctioning of property
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman Ismail Moosa Lunat has approached the High Court challenging the auctioning of his property over a debt of more than US$384 000 that he owes fellow businessman Mr Mohamm...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:11hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Delta raises caution on beverages supply
ZIMBABWE'S largest beverages maker, Delta Corporation, says it has not scaled-down operations but supplies would likely go down after Government announced a total lockdown starting today in light of t...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 252 | 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: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:07hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
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
Denial, stigma threaten fight against Covid-19
Stigma, peddling of fake news and myths threaten to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the effective handling of the coronavirus pandemic with many people in Zimbabwe still to take the outbreak...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:37hrs | 299 | 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 | 803 | by Edzai Zvobwo
The history of economic thought
Classical economics lays the basis for modern day economic thought. The Classical Economists included Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus. These touted capitalism and free markets as drivers of ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:09hrs | 226 | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
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 | 1298 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 602 | 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 | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@ 40: Joshua Nkomo and the Liberation Footpath (Part 2)
This is a continuation of the instalment published last week in this paper.It is also believed that Dr Nkomo's decision to take part in Lancaster Conference was largely driven by the advice he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 300 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 676 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
We let her down: we should hang our heads in shame!
Its high time we put our act together and we assist our daughter Chantelle Muteswa dear Zimbabwean women. We can't let the girl fight such a brutal war on her own without assistance from Zimbabwe wome...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:23hrs | 4022 | by Nomazulu Thata
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