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Zimbabwe now almost overrun by Covid-19 second wave
When the coronavirus pandemic began early in 2020, most Zimbabweans never took it seriously. Many were misled by social media where it was peddled that Corona is only for whites and only comes in wint...Published: 2 hrs ago | 625 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga warns pen-mercenaries
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said Zimbabwe was still in good stead to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that public health facilities were still...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally died of COVID-19
MANICALAND State and Devolution minister Ellen Gwaradzimba yesterday became the second high profile government official to succumb to COVID-19.This followed the death of Lands, Agriculture, Wa...Published: 4 hrs ago | 995 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime should stop weaponising law
THAT the arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono among others may complicate matters for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation's international re-engagement is not in doubt anymore.No...Published: 4 hrs ago | 362 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group decries abuse of criminal justice system
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (The Forum) has expressed concern over what they called an apparent trend of manipulation of the criminal justice system to punish dissent through prolonged and und...Published: 4 hrs ago | 164 | by Staff reporter
EMA urged to get tough on BCC
THE Environment Management Agency (EMA) in Bulawayo has been petitioned by a human rights organisation, Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) to release its charges against the Bulawayo City ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zinara eyes switch to electronic tolling
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) wants to switch from manual collection of toll fees to an electronic tolling collection (ETC) method that allows vehicles to pass through a toll gat...Published: 4 hrs ago | 243 | by Staff reporter
Government to repossess underutilised irrigation schemes
GOVERNMENT has come up with a Statutory Instrument that will see it repossessing underutilised land at irrigation schemes. The SI, which is expected to be gazetted soon, will result in members of irri...Published: 4 hrs ago | 83 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of '7-day destructive rains'
THE Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has predicted heavy and destructive rains for a seven-day period across the country until Wednesday. The rains started on Thursday spreading across ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 849 | by Staff reporter
Museveni takes commanding lead in polls
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in the country's presidential election, according to provisional results released yesterday, with 34 percent of the ballots counted....Published: 4 hrs ago | 407 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Covid-19 jab will be voluntary for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe announced on Friday that taking a Covid-19 vaccine will be voluntary for its citizens as authorities ponder inoculation logistics following reports that the country will receive three million...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2126 | by Staff reporter
23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says officials
The New York Post ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 3618 | by Staff reporter
Brian Molefe fingers Cyril Ramaphosa for Eskom's problems
Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe on Friday took aim at President Cyril Ramaphosa, blaming him for having been part of the problems the state-owned power utility faces today.According to Molefe, w...Published: 15 hrs ago | 914 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns social media users
Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has denied claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and face a critical shortage of beds and equipment....Published: 16 hrs ago | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa causes R2.5 billion investment cancellation
South African Breweries (SAB) has cancelled a further R2.5 billion of capital investment following the third blanket ban on alcohol sales, it announced on Friday.In announcing the ban, Preside...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 10:44hrs | 2102 | by Staff reporter
Minister throws party in violation of lockdown
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe allegedly hosted a party at his Dorking farm during the weekend.Apparently, over a hundred people attended the party and social distancing was not observe...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:23hrs | 6356 | by Anonymous Writer
Pharmacies can operate beyond business times set under the current hard lockdown
Pharmacies have been given the green light to operate beyond business times set under the current hard lockdown.Covid-19 national task force deputy Amon Murwirwa said that pharmacies offer ess...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime getting taste of own medicine, and shouldn't mourn about US 'hypocritical' bullying
If ever there were profound lessons life has taught me, these are that, 'we reap what we sow', 'what goes around, eventually comes around', and that 'poetic justice' is never far away from those who b...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 922 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mugabe business empire crumbles
THE late former president Robert Mugabe's business empire has crumpled amid revelations that Gushungo Dairy Estate is being leased to a company linked to a millionaire businessman.A once thriv...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 5097 | by Staff reporter
MDC implosion sets back the struggle for change
Zimbabwe is stuck in mud. People of my generation were in their late 20s or early 30s when Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980. Those fortunate to be still alive are now elderly and on the cusp to ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1224 | by Tendai Dumbutshena
'Zimbabwe inflation fall no cause for celebration'
ZIMBABWE's year-on-year inflation rate ended the year 2020 at 348,5% down from a high of more than 800% in July but analysts say it is no cause for celebration as it remains way too high."The ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Steer clear of loan sharks
"Sir, if those assets just decrease by 25% and they remain on our books, that loss will be greater than the entire market capitalisation of this company," said a young risk analyst named Peter Sulliva...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 347 | by Batanai Matsika
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 972 | by Kenneth Matimaire
'Mnangagwa must stop selective application of the law' - Pete's sake, he is a tyrant and that is what tyrants do
Zimbabwe has been a nation of protestors and human rights activists contend to say what is wrong in society but rarely ever come up with what should be done about and rarest of all do it!"The ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 379 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Local firms vie for CSC
A CONSORTIUM of local companies and industrialists are seeking to seize a 75% stake in the defunct Cold Storage Company (CSC) after tabling a US$225 million investment proposal to the government....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
One COVID-19 death per hour
ZIMBABWE's COVID-19 dilemma is likely to escalate if serious precautions to prevent its further spread are not taken, with official statistics yesterday revealing that one person is dying every hour i...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
'Brace for more demolitions in Harare'
HARARE provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti has warned of more demolitions, adding that people must not accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers if their illegal struc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:42hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
Landela buying spree raises stink
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his triumphal entry into the citadel of power in 2017 by declaring that he would open the country up for business, thus promising a departure from the ruinous polic...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 817 | by Cliff Chiduku
Failed Zimbabwe govt economic policy met with excuses
I AM not an economist or financial fundi neither was I good nor enjoyed such subjects as economics and accounting, in high school but, to use a cliche, it does not take a rocket scientist to lose conf...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 131 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe prisons a death trap, says EU
THE European Union has raised a red flag over the continued incarceration of journalists and opposition leaders in Zimbabwe, as well as the poor state of the country's prisons which it described as de...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk tests Covid positive
BULAWAYO town clerk Mr Christopher Dube has contracted Covid-19. Mr Dube tested Covid-19 positive on Monday but did not need to be admitted to hospital. Over 24 000 people have contracted the ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 5 million votes achievable, claims Shakespeare Maya
Former National Alliance for Good Governance (NAGG) president, Dr Shakespeare Maya, who rejoined Zanu-PF in 2018 and was recently elected Chegutu District Coordinating Committee (DCC) secretary for sc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
SA MPs call for one-stop border concept at Beitbridge
A call for full implementation of the one-stop-border post concept at Beitbridge is seen as a solution to the perennial congestion challenges that take place there, South Africa's Parliamentary Portfo...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
47 die of Covid-19 in 24 hours in Zimbabwe
FORTY-SEVEN people died of Covid-19 yesterday to take the total number of deaths to 636, while 1 112 tested positive. All the positive cases are local transmissions, with 467 from Harare. Five...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get over 3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine
Zimbabwe is set to get over three million doses of vaccines at a cost of US$25 million from the 270 million jabs available to the African continent. The vaccines will cover 15 percent of Zimba...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in key post-Brexit UK investment indaba
Zimbabwe's engagement and re-engagement drive continues to bear fruit after the United Kingdom invited local businesses to participate in next week's Africa Investment Conference along with companies ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Drop charges against Chin'ono, Mahere and Sikhala, demands Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the Zimbabwean government to drop "malicious" charges against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition MDC Alliance officials Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to demolish illegal upmarket homes, lodges in Victoria Falls
The government is reportedly hunting for land barons who allegedly illegally parcelled communal land outside the world-class resort city amid indications more than 100 "illegal executive settlers" wil...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 643 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: 'The Second Republic'; Land history; Ownership and Productivity in the Post Mugabe era
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National University of Science and Technolog...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:34hrs | 871 | by Livingstone Kazizi
The UK Parliament trampled on Rushwaya's human rights
Ms Henrietta Rushwaya is alleged to have attempted to smuggle gold out of Zimbabwe, late last year. She was arrested at Robert Mugabe airport. From what one has read so far, she has since been charged...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:31hrs | 1954 | by Njabulo
5 test positive at Marondera roadblock
Five people have tested positive to Covid-19 at a security checkpoint set up by the ministry of health and child care in Marondera to curb the spread of the deadly virus.The five who tested po...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 21:13hrs | 2627 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe remains in extreme poverty range
The country's poverty datum line rose 5.5% to $4 670.04 in December from $4 425.64 the previous month. This means that a person required $143 or US$1.75 per day to purchase both non-food and food item...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 17:04hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Judgment: Zimbabwean farmers Luke Tembani and 24 others v the President of the Republic of South Africa and others
Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgment in a R2-billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, a...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:20hrs | 2044 | by Agencies
Rains improve availability of food in the Covid-19 era
COMMUNAL farmers in Gwanda say the summer season has come with a change of fortune in the food situation at a time when most families were facing challenges due to the Covid 19-induced lockdown....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:05hrs | 509 | by ZBC News
'GBV awareness campaigns during lockdown period crucial'
GOVERNMENT and its development partners have come up with various ways of reducing cases of Gender Based Violence-GBV during the lockdown period with at least 14 cases having been recorded in Chipinge...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:00hrs | 464 | by ZBC News
All hope is not lost
Crushing the peoples' voices is not the answer. No nation has ever risen or built by crushing the voice of justice.Zimbabwean citizens in all walks of life have been fighting for change at gre...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 13:26hrs | 572 | by Leonard Koni
SA army helicopters start Beitbridge border patrols, 108 arrested
THE South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF) has started deploying helicopters to patrol over the Limpopo River and 108 people using illegal crossing points have since been nabbed.The air p...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 12:01hrs | 2259 | by Staff reporter
Hydro-politics depriving Bulawayo and Matebeleland of water
MORE than a century ago in 1912, the people of Matebeleland and Bulawayo regions were promised that they will draw water from the Zambezi River, through the Matebeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP)....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:56hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe needs judiciary reforms to be open for business
THE Zimbabwean Constitution enshrines the principle of separation of powers among three distinct arms of government, which are the executive, consisting of the President and Cabinet, the legislature, ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:52hrs | 594 | by Mirian Mangwaya
Time to make Matabeleland Zambezi water project a reality
For the last three decades or so, Zimbabwe's largest cities have faced water challenges due to due to a combination of poor rains, droughtand mismanagement. The situation in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's s...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:51hrs | 608 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
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