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COVID-19: Zimbabwe's exemptions to the lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 2 hrs ago | 452 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Zimbabwe begins 21-day lockdown
Zimbabwe begins its 21-day lockdown today as it tries to curb the spread of Covid-19 in a country, which has limited testing capabilities. The latest update from the Ministry of Health and Child...Published: 2 hrs ago | 121 | 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: 2 hrs ago | 96 | 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: 2 hrs ago | 67 | 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: 2 hrs ago | 156 | by Staff reporter
Strict new curbs on life begin countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 2 hrs ago | 169 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Mnangagwa's lockdown
The government yesterday moved to exempt certain sectors from the lockdown that begins tomorrow after industry warned that forcing all companies to shut down will ground the fragile economy.Pr...Published: 23 hrs ago | 6348 | 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: 23 hrs ago | 624 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
21-day 'quarantine': The nuts & bolts
Ministerial Taskforce to start visits to provinces today.All inter–city public transportation to cease.ZUPCO to provide inner-city buses only.Private vehicles not to carry mo...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:28hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
United we can fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and ha...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:22hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Top Zimbabwean aviation expert gets Coronavirus
Zimbabwe's top aviation expert Jerry Haas has announced that he has tested positive with the deadly coronavirus. In a Twitter post on Saturday Haas said, "The last couple of days I hadn't been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:20hrs | 8594 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga returns home from China
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.Chiwenga's private jet hired from Dubai landed in Harare...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:25hrs | 11097 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5365 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa office's corruption exposed
A DAMNING audit report has implicated the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) in a murky deal in which it arm-twisted Zesa Holdings into handpicking businessperson Kuda Tagwirei's company, Sakun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2665 | by Staff reporter
Rautenbach's monopoly bleeds Zimbabwe
THE newly enacted bio-fuels policy of Zimbabwe exposes how local tycoon Billy Rautenbach's monopoly in ethanol production has crippled the country financially despite the availability of cheaper ethan...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2156 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: ZIMBABWE LOCKDOWN!
President Mnangagwa has with effect from Monday declared a total lockdown on the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 which has infected more than 500 000 people worldwide. The pandemic, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses welcome US$ relaxation
The black market exchange rate for the United States dollar is likely to fall following the relaxation of the usage of free funds by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Thursday. Business le...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 161 | by ED Mnangagwa
Sakunda walks the talk on Covid-19 response
SAKUNDA Holdings will this Friday begin taking delivery of its US$3 million equipment and protective clothing to be used in fighting COVID 19 as the fuel ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1049 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Breaking Covid-19 rules in Zimbabwe can get you a year in jail
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has enacted a law that allows the arrest of people who defy his Covid-19 lockdown measures, but the public seems unfazed.Under statutory instrument (SI)...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1856 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Treasury in coronavirus scare
Top directors in the Ministry of Finance have gone into self-isolation after getting into contact with the late Zororo Makamba who passed on this week due to coronavirus.Makamba succumbed to t...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1988 | 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
Mnangagwa sets Matuke on witch-hunt for Matutu, Tsenengamu handlers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Zanu-PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke to lead a task team that will to probe senior party officials believed to be funding party youths to issue ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:32hrs | 6120 | by Staff reporter
UK Home Office and the most dangerous pandemic for a generation #COVID19
Dear Editor, It's not only inhumane for UK Home Office to carry on detaining people in these circumstances, but it's actually a danger to public health, nationally. "The BBC understands that a...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1436 | by Bigboy Sibanda
High Court orders Zera to suspend licensing fees hike
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to suspend its new licensing requirements for fuel companies after a successful challenge by indigenous firms, it has emerged...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:40hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Warriors coach Loga's salary revealed
WARRIORS coach, Zdravko "Loga'' Logarusic, earns a salary of US$7 000 a month and is likely to have pocketed, at least, US$70 000 by the time he leads his team into a competitive football match for th...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
Crowded open markets face closure
The Mbare Fresh Produce Market, Mupedzanhamo and other public markets with huge traffic can be closed any time if there is need to do so as a way of stopping the spread of coronavirus in the country, ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:42hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Achieving an efficient interbank market
The Zimbabwean government announced that it was going to introduce a managed floating exchange rate system in order to manage exchange rate volatility. The move is also aimed at bringing transparency ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:32hrs | 1129 | by Victor Bhoroma
Achieving an efficient interbank market
The Zimbabwean government announced that it was going to introduce a managed floating exchange rate system in order to manage exchange rate volatility. The move is also aimed at bringing transparency ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 11:58hrs | 915 | by Victor Bhoroma
Afreximbank trains Zimbabwe bankers on trade finance
THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) last week delivered a training programme for Zimbabwean banks to help enhance their technical skills in trade finance.Trade finance plays a key rol...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk buys laptop, mobile phone for $150,000
SUSPENDED Gweru town clerk Elizabeth Gwatipedza is in the eye of a storm after an audit showed that she bought herself a mobile phone and a laptop for $150 000 using council funds.Gwatipedza w...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus death spikes in Europe while Zimbabwe sees nothing wrong
The whole of Europe is witnessing growing death toll from Covid-19 as Zimbabwe criticised over carefree attitude. The coronavirus outbreak has turned into a global pandemic, as the wo...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 15:58hrs | 4013 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Foreigners leaving Zimbabwe in fear of lack of preparedness to prevent Covid-19 outbreak
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has claimed that Zimbabwe is currently experiencing mass exodus of foreigners who fear that if they get infected with the Covid 19 disease they would not get any treatme...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 07:28hrs | 3238 | by Stephen Jakes
Police arrest 700 illegal forex dealers
Police in Bulawayo arrested more than 700 suspected illegal forex dealers and vendors in a four-day blitz to restore sanity in the central business district of the city. About 80 percent of the suspec...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:59hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash increases transaction limits
In a move expected to bring relief to the transacting public, EcoCash has increased daily and monthly transaction limits for merchants or bill payments and for single transactions.The monthly ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:58hrs | 3124 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and his dark sense of humour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has never been a prolific orator like his predecessor the late Robert Mugabe, he seems to have been trying to compensate for that lack of the gift by using humour....Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 7138 | by Staff reporter
Zesa's US$500m plan to end load-shedding
Zesa has cobbled up a US$500 million plan to end rolling electricity cuts by building solar power plants across the country in partnership with private investors.Zimbabwe last year introduced ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:40hrs | 1828 | by Staff reporter
Fuel service station operators cry foul
ENERGY and Power Development Minister Advocate Fortune Chasi has expressed dismay over allegations by small petroleum players in Matabeleland that they are having their franchises unfairly terminated....Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:35hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU programme of the handover of flood relief items to Binga community.
On Friday 20/03/2020 ZAPU held a Handover Ceremony of Donated Goods for Binga Flood Victims at its Offices at Rudd Road in Byo, after Invites were made to every Member of the Party.Through nat...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 16:53hrs | 588 | by Staff Reporter
'Preparedness plan will minimise import of covid-19' - boastful dog putting out fire with his puny fart
"My Government, through the Ministry of Health and Child Care, has put in place measures to minimise the import of COVID-19 into the country and ensure health safety to all citizens,” said President...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 19:26hrs | 852 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Walter Mzembi calls for banning of ZANU PF
Former ZANU PF cabinet Minister Walter Mzembi has urged the Chairperson of Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Busisa Moyo to ban ZANU PF from exhibiting at the prestigious platform.Postin...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 11:14hrs | 7922 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jobs bloodbath hits Zimbabwe firms
A staggering 210,333 jobs were made redundant in 2019 as local companies threw workers onto the streets in response to the realities of a debilitating liquidity crunch, low productivity, punitive real...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3059 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for land in Zimbabwe's new capital city
At the centre of a vast swathe of magnificent landscape of prime farming land north-west of Harare lies a mountain that dwarfs its lush green environs. The rich red soils, have for years, been the hal...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in fuel forex abuse storm
PARLIAMENT is investigating the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s weekly foreign currency allocations to fuel importers amid revelations that foreign companies and some retailers who do not import the ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:42hrs | 3233 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's apology to Zimbabweans
The MDC Alliance in a bid to please their sponsors elsewhere have plunged the nation into the pool of confusion and suffering. The sanctions which are imposed on Zimbabwe has made the business and eco...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 19:44hrs | 3483 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fuel players challenge licence fees hike
THE Indigenous Petroleum Association of Zimbabwe (Ipaz) has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to interdict the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) from effecting th...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Overloaded ZUPCO buses to continue operating despite crowd ban
PUBLIC transporter, Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO)'s buses will continue operating despite a government ban on any gatherings of more than 100 people.President Mnangagwa introduced ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1332 | by newzimbabwe
Military surveillance could endanger democracy
The commander of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) announced early this month that the military would start snooping on civilian communication on social media, which "poses a dangerous threat to our na...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 927 | by Dumisani Ndlela
We are fine with our culture and traditions!
Miriam Majome: Barely 36 hours of writing about medieval traditions and cultural "beliefs" in our communities, we read today once more in Bulawayo24 about a classic case of the power of Sangomas and c...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1209 | by Nomazulu Thata
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