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Informal traders reject high rentals at Egodini Bus Terminus
INFORMAL traders in Bulawayo continue to shun trading bays at the recently opened Egodini bus Terminus Phase 1 saying the monthly rentals are too exorbitant.Following the re-opening, the Bulaw...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russian flight paramedic instructors Zimbabwe - bound
Russian flight paramedic instructors are expected in the country this week to start training local air ambulance personnel, paving the way for the launch of Zimbabwe's first national air ambulance ser...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secure cancer treatment machines
The GOVERNMENT has purchased a set of new advanced radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer, which will soon be installed at two major public hospitals.Funding has also been secured to procu...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Macheso, Gemma's world tour oversubscribed
SUNGURA muso Alick Macheso continues to fly high with his latest offering Tinosvitswa Nashe which he has taken to international stages.Macheso and his energetic band, Orchestra Mberikwazvo are...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Male contraceptive pill found 99 percent effective in mice
A team of scientists said they had developed an oral male contraceptive that is 99 percent effective in mice without causing side effects, and could enter human trials by the end of this year....Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by AFP
Zimbabwe hits 5 million first Covid-19 jabs
ZIMBABWE passed the five million mark for first doses of Covid-19 vaccination last week with the record breaking blitz now in progress seeing more than 1,39 million doses administered in the last two ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Omicron survives longer on plastic surfaces and skin
The two most recent major variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have proven to be more infectious than their predecessors.Experts increasingly agree that the virus spreads primarily through the air...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'No risk yet from SA Covid variant'
The country does not face any significant risk yet from the new Covid-19 variant recently detected in South Africa, health experts have said.On Monday, South Africa's National Institute for Co...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus update 2021 spring: What is the Delta variant?
It is 2021 and we have not fully recovered from Covid-19 and what the pandemic did to the world. So, what's new in 2021? Although we have good news with the vaccine for the virus discovered, distribut...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 fourth wave imminent'
HEALTH experts have warned that Zimbabwe faces a fourth wave of deadly COVID-19 virus if the country fails to get more people inoculated, and that a third jab might be needed to help fight off emergin...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta variant accounts for 79% of Zimbabwe Covid-19 infections
ZIMBABWEANS should ensure they always follow laid down Covid-19 prevention measures to avoid the introduction of deadlier strains of the disease in the country as the virulent Indian Delta variant now...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WHO warn there is a more dangerous Covid-19 variants emerging and declare
The WHO has warned there is a 'strong likelihood' of dangerous Covid variants spreading around the world as they declared the pandemic 'nowhere near finished.An emergency committee of the glob...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is 3 months behind COVID-19'
LOCAL health experts yesterday noted that Zimbabwe was three months behind the ever-mutating COVID-19 virus, and suggested that the best brains were now required to tame the tide.This came as ...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Many COVID-19 deaths unreported'
ZIMBABWE'S rising COVID-19 cases could be just a tip of the iceberg, with more sick people going untested, with some succumbing to the lethal virus unrecorded, health experts said yesterday.Th...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines failing to match new COVID-19 variants'
WORLD Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the world was at a dangerous point in its fight against COVID-19 as vaccines were failing to stem the tide against...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vehicle radiation checks to start
Food and water testing for cancer causing radiation elements in imported foods will begin this year as the Government has already set up a Gamma Spectrometry Laboratory in Harare which is expected to ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's water works under scrutiny
THE Radiation Protection Authority of Zimbabwe (RPAZ) wants to investigate Bulawayo City Council's water and waste water purification facilities to establish if there is any contamination.Acco...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
The new dispensation a replica of Mugabe era
The narrative of the November coup which ushered in President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot be white washed and will remain in the Zimbabwe's history.I now plead with the indulgence of...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mliswa urges Mnangagwa to bring back 'Gammatox'
Member of Parliament for Norton Temba Mliswa said ZANU-PF should take back the sacked members of the "Gammatox" faction chief among them Jabulani Sibanda and Ray Kaukonde rather than focusing on a tru...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Blow for Mnangagwa
The glue that had appeared to bind Zanu-PF after it got rid of "criminals" around toppled despot Robert Mugabe seem to be peeling off at critical stages when President Emmerson Mnangagwa is about to t...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe flies into factional storm
LOCAL artiste Jah Prayzah may have composed his popular ballad, Mudhara vachauya, to simply highlight challenges associated with long-distance relationships between many Zimbabweans and their love...Published: 26 Jan 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ncube stars in US show
TEMPE-BORN and-raised actress Alexandra Ncube is about to have the best week of her life.Knock on wood, of course.Ncube - pronounced NOO-bay - is starring in the first national tour of...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 10:02hrs | 1 | by AZ Central
Gammatox MP deserts his constituency
Zvishavane-Runde Member of Parliament, Freddie Moyo has reportedly abandoned his constituency as Zanu-PF factional fights reaches crescendo level.In a recent visit by the Mirror to areas under...Published: 01 Oct 2015 at 17:57hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Chinotimba fumes over WhatsApp insult
A 29-year old man was yesterday fined $100 for insulting Buhera South legislator Joseph Chinotimba on a WhatsApp group chat. Tatenda Benjamin Machingauta (29) used his Econet line 0773 136 840...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Off to another summit, Cdes
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet andPolitburo membersCOMRADES, as you are all aware, I am away for the Asia-Africa Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, so I won't be able to ad...Published: 23 Apr 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by CZ
Who gives a damn if they quit, Cdes?
CABINET FILES AND CZ's NOTEBOOKDear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I laughed this week when I got the news that Morgan - who has never won any election in his whole political l...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 08:16hrs | | by CZ
Mujuru ghost haunts Zanu-PF
MONTHS after the ouster of former vice president, Joice Mujuru, and her key allies in the top echelons of government and Zanu-PF, ugly infighting continues to hound the revolutionary party from grassr...Published: 02 Apr 2015 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai, Welshman Ncube should resign and pave way for young generation
Tsvangirai, Ncube and all other members who have been at the fore front for the struggle to remove President Robert Mugabe should all resign and pave way for a young and vibrant generation to rescue Z...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 10:16hrs | | by Musavengana Hove
Zanu-PF headaches
INTENSE jockeying for positions has erupted in Mashonaland East ahead of the April 30 deadline that was given by Zanu-PF's national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, for the election of a new p...Published: 12 Feb 2015 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere wants 'endless' mandate for Mugabe to rule Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has said President Robert Mugabe should be given an "endless" mandate to lead Zimbabwe as he joined the bandwagon of those bootlicking the 91-year-old...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 15:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe a God-given leader,' says Tyson
Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour 'Tyson' Kasukuwere has said President Robert Mugabe should be given an "endless" mandate to lead Zimbabwe as he joined the bandwagon of those bootlicking the 91-year...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF faces new factional wars
Zanu PF's newly appointed political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday dissolved the party's Mashonaland East interim provincial executive as infighting in the revolutionary party takes a new ...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Only 4 ministers will survive after Zanu-PF congress,' says analysts
Some political analyst believe that President Robert Mugabe's cabinet will be dysfunctional after Zanu-PF's 6th Congress. The main reason is that most of the ministers have been gammatoxed beyond reco...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa gammatoxed beyond recognition
THE Zanu-PF secretary for administration, who is also Minister of Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, must be ruing the day he came up with the term "gammatox". Cunningly coining the mischievous te...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Maggie Mzumara
War collaborators denounce Jabulani Sibanda - Video
A representative of the war veterans pledged the association's loyalty to Zanu-PF, the President and First Secretary, Robert Mugabe and the First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe.He also criticised the ...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 14:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let them go home, they have failed!
Put simply, failure is the opposite of success. Owing to three long decades of gross misgovernance, our beloved country has been reduced to a monumental failure. Indeed, everything that could go w...Published: 17 Aug 2014 at 09:45hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Mugabe lashes out at 'inept' Zanu-PF leadership
Zanu-PF leader and First Secretary, Robert Mugabe has comedown hard on party leaders for failing to properly organise the Zanu-PF Youth League conference underway in Harare.He said he receive...Published: 08 Aug 2014 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital to offer full cancer treatment
Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo is set to start offering full cancer treatment in the next two months as installation of equipment is currently underway at the institution's radiotherapy centre....Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman and daughter drag man to court for maintenance
On Tuesday, with the help of her daughter a Bulawayo woman dragged her husband to court demanding $3,815 maintenance, accusing him of neglecting his family.Munetsi Masedewe, who is co-director...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 04:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gold on Earth might have come from colliding dead stars: research
WASHINGTON - All gold on the Earth might have come from extreme crashes between dense dead stars, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.Gold is not only rare on our planet, but also rare in ...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 13:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Russia launches manned spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-22
According to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, a Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians has blasted off successfully from the Kazakh steppes on a mission to the International...Published: 14 Nov 2011 at 09:01hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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