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Those He wants to destroy, God first makes them mad
Some of our people what has gotten into them, playing hide and seek with self then crying 'wolf'? Galivanting the world over groveling for the tightening of the noose on the neck of the motherland the...Published: 13 hrs ago | 941 | by Tondo
Since when did funerals become hard hat areas?
People may have their differences, beliefs and preferences but chasing someone from a funeral is against African tenets, traditions and the much cherished Ubuntu. The good book teaches us to mourn wit...Published: 13 hrs ago | 895 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Border-lying communities get tough on returnees
RURAL communities in Matabeleland provinces have taken it upon themselves to curb the increase in imported COVID-19 cases by apprehending returnees from South Africa and Botswana sneaking into the cou...Published: 24 hrs ago | 674 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 612 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 139 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Repatriated body triggers COVID-19 scare in Chivhu
HEALTH workers in Chivhu have called on government to prioritise community education on COVID-19 after a family held a normal two-day funeral wake for a dead relative whose remains were repatriated fr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 784 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Elderly barred from funerals
COMMUNITY leaders in Matobo have banned pregnant women and the elderly from attending funerals while consumption of food at such events is also no longer permitted as part of strategies adopted to pre...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reveals what killed Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Mnangagwa told mourners who were gathered at Shiri's house that, "Now that...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:38hrs | 9499 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 8178 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 disaster looming in Zimbabwe
The opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said the regime had failed to manage the pandemic, warning of more COVID-19 deaths that a disaster was looming if the situation did not improve."We are co...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi in Tanzania for Mkapa funeral
VICE President Kembo Mohadi left the country this morning to attend the funeral of former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa who died on Thursday at Dar es Salaam Hospital where he had been admitted f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 1939 | by Staff reporter
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police sued for tightening COVID-19 lockdown measures
A Harare woman has approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside increased demands by police officers enforcing the country's Covid-19 lockdown measures at checkpoints.In her court c...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1694 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders arrested for lockdown violation
TWO church leaders in Gwanda have been arrested for holding a church gathering without the necessary requirements such as sanitisers and a thermometer as part of measures to prevent the spread of Covi...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Stiffer conditions to pass roadblocks
Police at roadblocks will now be seeking more detailed documentation signed by an employee's chief executive officer or general manager so that those legitimately going to work in an essential service...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Cop charged for head-butting driver
A POLICE officer from Bulawayo's Mzilikazi police station appeared in court facing charges of assaulting a Nyaradzo Funeral Services driver, who was picking up mourners at Ross Camp.Aleck Tung...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 909 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten checkpoint screening
POLICE say they will only allow people with exemption letters signed by senior executives to pass through checkpoints as the government continues to tighten lockdown restrictions.President Emm...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:03hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1638 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs father-in-law
A GWANDA man has been sentenced to perform 315 hours of community service for assaulting his father-in-law during a misunderstanding. Siqokoqela Nyathi (40) of Sinkugwe Village was convicted o...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Concern raised over corpses smuggling
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over reports that bodies of Zimbabweans who could have died from Covid-19 in neighbouring countries are being smuggled into the country, saying that could be a source ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Curfew regulations clarified
THE gazetted legal statutory instrument amending lockdown regulations by setting the 6PM to 6AM curfew, now requires church gatherings, jogging, walking and cycling to take place not earlier than 8AM ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 5020 | by Staff Reporter
BCC warns against smuggling of corpses
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned residents against smuggling groceries into the country following reports that omalayitsha (cross-border transporters) were either sneaking in corpses with basic ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Shakespeare Mukoyi's father died of Coronavirus?
MDC National Youth Assembly leader Shakespeare Mukoyi's father succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, a screenshot from an MDC-T Whatsapp chat group has alleged. According to a screenshot seen b...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 12:49hrs | 3869 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Drama as Coronavirus victim is buried with smuggled bags belonging to driver's clients
There was drama at the burial of a Coronavirus victim after family members of the deceased buried the body with four bags containing goods that were smuggled and destined to the funeral service compan...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 20:40hrs | 8284 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Nyamadzawo dies
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Alderman Reason Nyamadzawo has died.This was announced by MDC Alliance legislator for Kwekwe Settlement Chikwinya through his Facebook page."Have learnt with...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:24hrs | 1885 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa imposes curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday imposed a dusk to dawn curfew from today aimed at combating the coronavirus outbreak and warned that security forces would enforce the new measures. This...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 3277 | by Staff reporter
Night curfew, restricted business hours imposed
A night curfew from 6pm to 6am for all but essential services and a retreat to 8am to 3pm working hours for exempted businesses have been imposed from today, along with criminalisation of deliberate o...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:42hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa imposes 6PM to 6AM curfew
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a curfew that will begin at 6 PM to 6 AM in an effort to curb the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. Addressing the nations at State House Mnangagwa a...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 17:47hrs | 13071 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Power cuts, water pipe burst add to Parirenyatwa woes
THERE was chaos at Parirenyatwa Hospital's maternity wing, Mbuya Nehanda in Harare, last weekend following power cuts in the critical section, which was also unmanned as the nurses are on strike over ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:06hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
'July 31 protesters will be jailed'
AS THE economy continues to tank amid rampant public sector corruption, opposition parties have upped the ante by mobilising for July 31 anti-government protests.Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyam...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4207 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7386 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF leader fails to bury son
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka has had to endure a painful week-long mourning for his late son as health authorities are demanding his coronavirus Covid-19 test result before they can bury him...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 17660 | by Staff reporter
Chingwena accident sucks in top cop
A SENIOR police officer based in Harare allegedly attempted to cover up a road traffic accident involving prominent businessman Moses Chingwena, who ran over and killed a pedestrian, Shephard Mukatira...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Rest in Peace the Face of Manicaland Province MDC Alliance
Today is one of the darkest day as I heard the untimely death of Kerine Murwira. Kerine was my sister and a comrade in the Movement for Democratic Change.She died today due to serious headache...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 829 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Talent Chiwenga kills a couple driving to sister's funeral
A very sad day ended badly for the Madzimgira family in Harare. A couple was killed in a car crash while driving to a funeral of their sister who had passed on suddenly in Harare Zimbabwe. ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 20:39hrs | 14303 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Luveve continues to groan unto Death, laments Zapu President
Zapu president Isaac Mabuka has said he finds it very disturbing that people of Luveve continue to die because of the waterborne disease in that suburb but the local authorities seem to be deliberatel...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 445 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanuism invading opposition camps(hatred, intimidation, and intolerance)
Weeks ago I posted an article in which I was trying to explain my worry on MDC as the biggest opposition borrowing ZANU tactics.Hatred, violence, and intimidation used to be in ZANU DNA and ev...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:44hrs | 581 | by Kumbirai Stein Chivhuna
Drama as Nyaradzo and Harare hospital fight over Coronavirus corpse
Senior journalist Brezhnev Malaba has reported that there was drama in Harare when officials from Nyaradzo Funeral Services had an altercation with Sally Mugabe hospital workers over a suspected Coron...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 18:38hrs | 4627 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe pummels Chamisa faction
ACTING MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, pictured, and her team are unrelenting in their assaults on Nelson Chamisa and his top allies - signalling yesterday that they are now planning to sack 30 more party...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 11397 | by Staff reporter
SA based Zimbabwean records own suicide
A SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean phoned his relatives telling them that he was committing suicide, shot photos of a poisonous substance before drinking it after his wife of 15 years allegedly had an en...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2443 | 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
Khupe, Chamisa peace deal on the cards?
THE ugly infighting that has divided the MDC could soon come to an end, amid renewed attempts to unite Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa ahead of the party's planned extra-ordinary congress.A...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 11862 | by Staff reporter
Fighting at funerals unAfrican, stop it
MY Dear People,I would like to start by paying my deepest condolences to MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa following the death of his mother recently.The loss of a mother is a major blow ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:59hrs | 416 | by Dr Stop It
Drama at Chamisa mother's funeral
Tempers flared up in what should have been a somber moment when MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was burying his late mother in Gutu on Tuesday.Chamisa's mother collapsed and died in her gar...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 9307 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa opens up on his humble upbringing
A GRIEVING Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition MDC Alliance party, has, for the first time, opened up on his humble beginnings, saying his late mother was very instrumental in his meteoric rise t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:05hrs | 13536 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells mourners that he is unstoppable
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 7095 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rescues Khupe at his mother's funeral
MDC-Alliance hooligans allegedly manhandled and temporarily blocked MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe from attending the burial of Gogo Alice Chamisa, the mother to MDC-Alliance faction leader Mr Nelson...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 4587 | by Staff reporter
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