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Chiwenga's appointment cynical
MY Dear People,The continued hardships that Zimbabweans have experienced since 1980 have sent them into a permanent state of stupor and numbness.As a result, the leadership, especially...Published: 14 hrs ago | 594 | by Dr Amai
What becomes of unwanted babies?
IT is a common national habit to turn a blind eye or be very judgmental about problems that we are too uncomfortable to deal with such as unwanted teen pregnancies or the necessity of providing contra...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:37hrs | 314 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3751 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers challenge regulated business hours
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has taken the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to court challenging timelines that dictate that businesses should close ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:18hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA doesn't require proof of recent negative COVID-19 tests
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to correct misleading information that was contained in an internally generated notice that was issued to clearing agents on the 6th of August, 2020. ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:38hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe commemorates World Breastfeeding week
Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating the World Breastfeeding Week held during the first week of August each year.Officially launching the National World Breastfeedi...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 114 | by MoHCC Comms
PHOTO: Mnangagwa dumps expensive jet...uses Air Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has resorted to using the national Airline Air Zimbabwe with reports from ZANU PF saying the expensive jet that he usually charters terminated the contract it had with ZAN...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 13:18hrs | 6311 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4034 | by Terence. T. Simbi
New Health minister Chiwenga faces tall order
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally replaced the dismissed and corruption-tainted Health minister Obadiah Moyo with his deputy, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to the portfolio.Zimbab...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1332 | by Staff reporter
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 370 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Matemadanda jumps on Malema's throat
Comrade Victor Matemadanda lashes out at "idiot Malema" outspoken South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema who has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a fool...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 00:40hrs | 8121 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
System glitch leaves scores of Zesa clients stranded
SCORES of consumers were left stranded in Bulawayo yesterday, failing to buy prepaid power tokens as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) online system had some techn...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
No power cuts till year end, industry assured
INDUSTRY is assured of consistent power supply after State power utility Zesa Holdings said it will not effect load shedding until end of this year despite recent significant increase in demand for el...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Shiri was poisoned, says his family
THE family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Ch...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 8181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to release more prisoners
THE International Coalition Against Coronavirus for Africa (ICAC) Zimbabwean chapter has urged authorities to release more prisoners from overcrowded correctional facilities, which the organisation sa...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland central not serious about COVID 19 preparedness
I am based in Mash Central Mazowe district and would like to raise my concern about COVID-19 suspects handling, testing and reporting.Mash central is being reported as one of provinces with low ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 308 | by Worried Glendale Member
Coronavirus hits Harare City Council..offices shut down
I extend my warmest greetings to you all the residents and visitors to Harare and would like to take this opportunity to reinforce the message against the fight against Covid-19.Harare City Co...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 18:57hrs | 3425 | by Deputy Mayor Enock Mupamawonde
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's lockdown is clumsy, weird
ONE thing that the "new dispensation" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa will always be remembered for with frustration and contempt is its clumsy articulation of policy.You would have thought th...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:15hrs | 5390 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
James Makamba eyes huge comeback
NATHAN Shamuyarira, Webster Shamu, James Makamba and Supa Mandiwanzira are some of the names that easily come to mind as having made the successful transition from journalism into the murky world of b...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:55hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
Government gives conditions for churches to operate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has clarified conditions under which religious organisations can be able to operate during the lockdown regulations that were intensified by the President rec...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 14:21hrs | 9640 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ekusileni in dire straits
AUTHORITIES at Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo are struggling to raise the US$3,4 million required to upgrade the facility to enable it to cater for COVID-19 patients.Authorities said the...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:29hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Demo timing might be wrong
THE July 31 planned demonstrations have stirred controversy in and outside the country as the date has coincided with the spike in COVID-19 cases. The obtaining situation in Zimbabwe clearly s...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 730 | by Pardon Maguta
Zimbabwe curfew fuels tension
TENSION has gripped Zimbabwe after President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid fears the Zanu-PF leader, who is failing to proffer solutions to deepening socioeconomic problems, ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:23hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
The Patriotic Front white President Darryl Collet's message to Zimbabweans
My fellow Zimbabweans;This is the first time I address you as President of The Patriotic Front. And I do it with great honor and humility. TPF is a multiracial movement born out of a collectiv...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5341 | by Darryl Collet
African Development Bank set to join landmark $20 billion Mozambique LNG financing
The African Development Bank has concluded its bid to co-finance the construction of Mozambique's integrated Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant by signing a senior loan of $400 million for the transfor...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:23hrs | 836 | by Stephen Jakes
Panic as Covid-19 hits Zimbabwe prisons
Two positive Covid-19 cases have been recorded at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, adding to unofficial reports of a coronavirus death at the same place and a third case at the correctional services...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:20hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
Fight Covid-19 misconceptions
This idea of stigmatizing people coming from other countries about corona-virus is absurd. Any human being, not only those coming from other countries can be inflicted with the virus. As people living...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 269 | by Sam Wezhira
Covid-19 epicentre shifts to Bulawayo
THE Covid-19 epicentre has shifted from Harare to Bulawayo with health experts warning that Matabeleland provinces are under heightened threat due to their proximity to South Africa, Africa's epicentr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 10,000 mark for days
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases have surpassed 10,000 for days running, indicating the approaching of the infection peak, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday. In the pas...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
SA firm steps in to ease hunger among destitute Zimbabweans
Some Zimbabweans living in South Africa have benefitted from aid distributed by a Johannesburg headquartered company, T2N, and the Gauteng Food Security Committee since lockdown began in March....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:52hrs | 1556 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Mnangagwa calls for help to resuscitate ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appealed to various stakeholders to participate in the development of a National Development Strategy in efforts to rebuild the ailing economy.This comes as Zi...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 6136 | by Staff reporter
VACANCY: Sky Metro FM searches for a Finance and Administration Manager
FINANCE CONTROL & BUDGETING• Ensure financial integrity and accountability and maintain internal controls.• Generate timely monthly, quarterly, yearly financial reports in complian...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1031 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: ZANU MP Keith Guzha dies...Coronavirus case suspected
ZANU PF Member of Parliament Keith Guzha has died due to suspected cases of Coronavirus. The body of the former AAG president who broke away to form National Business Council Zimbabwe wa...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 09:46hrs | 16501 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases reach 985
The number of confirmed infections of Covid-19 tested in Zimbabwe reached 985 by last night, with 18 deaths and 328 confirmed recoveries. The Ministry of Health and Child Care reported three m...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2960 | by City Press
BF stadium set for partial demolition
Bulawayo's ceremonial home of football, Barbourfields Stadium is set for partial demolition as part of the refurbishment works in line with CAF requirements.As part of efforts to ensure that E...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:54hrs | 2038 | by Staff reporter
Adventists challenge UZ's Saturday exams
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe Seventh Day Adventist Students Association has approached the High Court challenging the holding of examinations on Saturday 11 and 18 July.The association said if they ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:03hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
The owners of Zimswitch revealed
On Wednesday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect.According to the statement, all mobile money transmissio...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 14238 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala slept in urine soaked blankets
MDC Alliance deputy chair, Job Sikhala has filed a $1,5 million lawsuit against Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe, police and the prosecutor general over his arrest and prosecution last year....Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Shoppers influx at supermarkets during lockdown irks council
The influx of citizens at most shops in the city centre during lockdown has irked the city council which is worried that this would increase the spread of the Covid-19.This is revealed in the ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3714 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
The Politics of Cyber Security: A State of Anarchy?
"Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle.The realm of electronic communication, viz-a-viz cyberspace has taken a complex turn into a murky, treacherous, if sometimes not a total ridicul...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:09hrs | 951 | by Bongani Mazwi Mkwananzi
Pupil writes exams from quarantine centre
A 16-YEAR-OLD pupil from a high school on the outskirts of Bulawayo is writing his Ordinary Level June examinations under quarantine in Bulawayo after returning from Botswana recently. The tee...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
1 in 3 children in Zimbabwe malnourished
ONE in three children are chronically malnourished in Zimbabwe and the situation may worsen amid Covid-19 which has forced the country to channel most of its resources towards preventing the viral inf...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:35hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
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