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Man kills HIV+ maid lover
AN ex-Lupane State University laboratory technician who fatally assaulted his 52-year-old maid whom he was having an affair with after discovering that she was HIV positive, was yesterday sentenced to...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2862 | by Staff reporter
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1517 | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa abducted, dumped near railway line
MDC Alliance youth chairperson for Goromonzi South, Davison Chamisa, who claims abduction by suspected state security agents in Ruwa Sunday, has been found, with claims of being drugged and dumped som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1897 | by newzimbabwe
Nguwaya bail ruling postponed
DELISH Nguwaya, who is challenging the magistrates' court decision to deny him bail, will know his fate tomorrow when the High Court is expected to deliver its ruling on his application for bail pendi...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe switches to substitute ARV drugs
THE government says it has a substitute for the second line drugs for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) which is currently in short supply.In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy m...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2260 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Chamisa abducted, forced to drink urine
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change has reported that its Goromonzi South Youth District Chairman Davison Chamisa has been located in Norton after been drugged, brutalized, assaulted....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 14:13hrs | 9087 | by Mandla Ndlovu
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4865 | by Robert Sigauke
Drax saga clouded by mist, says Judge
HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday said the infamous Drax International COVID-19 tender scam, which has led to the arrest of Health minister Obadiah Moyo for criminal abuse of office, ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate's bail ruling reserved
The High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which Delish Nguwaya is contesting the decision of the magistrates' court to deny him bail on charges of misrepresenting to Government that his comp...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo ejected from cabinet meeting
EMBATTLED Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo, who is on ZW$50 000 bail for alleged criminal abuse of office, was blocked from attending Tuesday's cabinet meeting by President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 6664 | by Staff reporter
Top Swaziland born lawyer leads 'Obadiah Moyo must go' campaign
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has joined thousands of disgruntled health workers and ordinary citizens in calling for Health minister Obadiah Moyo to be fired from government over alle...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Second regimen ARV shortage hits Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEANS living with HIV and on the Second regimen of the antiretroviral may be forced to default or change one of their drugs following an announcement that there is a nationwide shortage of secon...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 987 | by Staff reporter
Citizens petition Mnangagwa to fire Obadiah Moyo
TOP human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa Thursday led a team that submitted a petition signed by thousands of Zimbabweans demanding the immediate dismissal of Health and Child Care Minister, Obadiah M...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:54hrs | 427 | by newzimbabwe
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4889 | by Staff reporter
SA returnees receive medication
ONE hundred and twenty-nine people quarantined in Beitbridge after returning from South Africa have received medication for chronic illnesses.According to Beitbridge District Medical Officer (...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:45hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Africa celebrated a continent marred by criminality, slavery and human-organ theft
On the 25th of May the African time stood still: The rich continent was celebrating the 57 years of its existence: on this day, the AU acknowledges its successes and challenges. The continent has a hi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 13:23hrs | 536 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mliswa, Chatunga in twitter WAR over Grace Mugabe
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa is back again to haunt former President Robert Mugabe's family with demands for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to seize farms which are still in the hands of th...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 3371 | by newzimbabwe
Thorngrove Hospital wards to reopen
Bulawayo's Thorngrove infectious diseases hospital's closed wards are expected to re-open next week after undergoing a $74,7 million facelift. The project is on course with significant refurbi...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's associate in fresh bid for freedom
DRAX International representative Delish Nguwaya who landed in the dock two weeks ago on allegations of lying to the government in order to win a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement contrac...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 652 | by newzimbabwe
State builds its case against Obadiah Moyo
GRAFT accused Health minister Obadiah Moyo yesterday appeared in court and was granted $50 000 bail.The 66-year-old was arrested on Friday on graft charges linked to the US$60 million acquisit...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo arrest drama: Details emerge
Government officials allegedly put pressure on police to release Health minister Obadiah Moyo after his detention on Friday over the $60 million Covid-19 medical supply scandal amid fears his case wil...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:47hrs | 9001 | by Staff reporter
Same frog now in lipstick
IN more ways than one, courting love is similar to stalking prey.Although motivated by different designs, courting and stalking essentially entail stealthily winning an advantage in order ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 244 | by Bishop Lazi
Minister Obadiah Moyo 'detained' in his bedroom?
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo, who was arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers Friday night, is reported to have spent the same night at his home before coming to court the next...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1111 | by newzimbabwe
'Drax International lied to Mnangagwa'
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana says controversial company Drax International lied to Mnangagwa by promising to donate US$60 million to Zimbabwe.In one video that was play o...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4637 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Latest on Minister Obadiah Moyo's arrest
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo who was arrested Friday for charges related to criminal abuse of office has arrived at the Harare Magistrates' Courts, chauffeur-driven in a silver Ford Ranger with a conv...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 12:07hrs | 4888 | by Mandla Ndlovu
We await Health minister Obadiah Moyo's charge sheet
THE Zimbabwe AntiCorruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo over undisclosed charges.Moyo, popularly known as Deejay Biscuit in social circles, has b...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1642 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9738 | by Staff reporter
Mahere calls for Collins Mnangagwa's arrest
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stop confusing Zimbabweans and arrest ministers involved in corrupt Covid-19 related deals.She was addressing...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1490 | by newzimbabwe
'Soldiers brutalizing my people,' says traditional chief
Guruve chief Chipuriro has denounced members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) currently enforcing Covid 19 lockdown laws in Guruve for brutalising his ...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:50hrs | 6798 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Covid-19 breakthrough drug dexamethasone is made in SA
The newly-discovered coronavirus breakthrough drug dexamethasone is produced and readily available in South Africa, giving hope amid a surge in both infections and deaths.The drug was already ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 14:03hrs | 3342 | by Busisani Ncube
HIV patients fail to access ARVs
PEOPLE living with HIV and AIDS are having difficulties in accessing second line drugs from public institutions and are being forced to buy them from pharmacies at US$25 for one-month's supply. ...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:36hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Britain unveils Coronavirus cure
The University of Oxford has reported that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland scientists have made a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus by discovering that ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 18:30hrs | 11556 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New twist to US$60m Covid-19 deal
A company that is at the centre of a US$60 million coronavirus supplies procurement storm, was cleared by permanent secretary in the Finance ministry, George Guvamatanga, lawyers defending its r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begged for $60m from dodgy firm
NEW evidence linking President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the controversial Drax International has emerged with a recent video and pictures showing the Zimbabwe leader in various engagements with the compa...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:07hrs | 504 | by newzimbabwe
Police make arrests in US$60m Covid-19 deals
Police on Friday night arrested Delish Nguwaya, Drax International local representative, facing two counts of fraud. He was remanded in custody pending bail application today. The State allege...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 988 | by Staff reporter
'Farcical and surreal'
'Farcical and surreal - like a poorly scripted Mr Bean film without the comedy' was how MDC Vice-President Tendai Biti described his arrest with other party leaders last week for trying to enter their...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1075 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mnangagwa pulled the plug on shady Covid-19 deals, claims Charamba
WITH the advent of the global pandemic, coronavirus (Covid-19), many civil society organisations have called for transparency in the use of various donations that the government has been receiving....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1972 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to dissolve government
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been urged to dissolve the current government and pave way for a National Transitional Authority. Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary General Mbuso Fuzwayo told this ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 13:20hrs | 14243 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covidgate scandal explodes in Zimbabwe
A controversial businessman with alleged links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's family was given government contracts worth US$42 million to buy materials to fight Covid-19 after supplying false info...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:10hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally in court over botched US$42m deal
DELISH Nguwaya, a country representative for Drax Consult SAGL and Drax International (LLC), yesterday appeared in court on allegations of defrauding Government of US$42 million in a botched medicinal...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:43hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Guvamatanga throws top govt officials under the bus
MINISTRY of Finance and Economic Development Secretary George Guvamatanga has this week absolved himself from any wrongdoing in the controversial procurement of COVID-19 medical supplies from Swiss-ba...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 7925 | by Staff reporter
Judge's son jailed 12 months
The son of a High Court judge was yesterday jailed for an effective 12 months for stealing goods and clothing items worth US$2 448 from his mother. Harare provincial magistrate Mrs Vongai Much...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:11hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt shooting itself in the foot
THE takeover of the headquarters of the opposition MDC-Alliance by the MDC-T faction led by Thokozani Khupe with the aid of soldiers and police officers, as well as the dramatic arrest of the MDC-Alli...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1259 | by Kudzai Kuwaza
Zacc quizzes NatPharm managers
Managers at the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) and Government officials were this week quizzed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) during investigations into procurement, inc...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:01hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
MDC A resorts to smear campaign to soil Mnangagwa's legacy
The social media was awash with news of corruption purported to be unearthed by Hopewell Chin'ono and his MDC A handlers. It was a big surprise that the target of the so called corruption was none oth...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 14:30hrs | 5093 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No longer the Sunshine City
The Zimbabwe capital city which was once called Salisbury during the colonial era changed its name to Harare on 18 April 1982.During the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence, th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 14:37hrs | 957 | by Leonard Koni
Lest we forget the commander in the Covid war general Dr Obadiah Moyo
As Zimbabwe starts to ease the lockdown sounds of car and bus horns hooting the lockdown silence away. This is the sound of thanks and start of victory in a long battle against coronavirus. Let us car...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1615 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa buckles under pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has succumbed to pressure from anti-corruption activists and cancelled a US$60 million contract fraudulently awarded to Drax International to supply drugs and...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9163 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa trial hits snag
THE trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office yesterday hit a brick wall after presiding magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo failed to report for...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
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