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Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note.Late one evening, Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Harare, Z...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1986 | by Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
40,000+ to die from coronavirus in South Africa by November
More than 40 000 people are expected to die from the coronavirus in South Africa by November, one million people will be infected and the country is unlikely to have enough ICU beds at the peak of the...Published: 19 May 2020 at 23:02hrs | 3697 | by Staff reporter
MDC 'self abductors' must help investigators
Although many of the reported so-called abductions have been shown to be fake in the past, each such report needs to be carefully and openly investigated to find answers to at least three questions: W...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
EU refuses to fund Mnangagwa's administration
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out prospects of providing budgetary support to the broke Zimbabwean government, citing "massive misuse" of public funds as exposed by various audits and the failure ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 2180 | by Staff reporter
How strong democratic values help defeat a pandemic
If ever the world needed a reminder of the critical importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is it. The coronavirus knows nothing of national boundaries, ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:56hrs | 199 | by Brian A. Nichols, United states ambassador
COVID-19 virus no match for global political thuggery
Clearly, the world has been turned upside-down, inside out.The new coronavirus - Covid-19 - has made possible what we previously thought unimaginable.It has weaned sports junkies from ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:56hrs | 88 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe reopens tobacco auction floors
Zimbabwe farmers started selling their tobacco crop on Wednesday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month....Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 13:45hrs | 464 | by Reuters
Rhodesian - Zimbabwe comparisons: Cutting off the nose to spite the face
There is always a danger of forming opinions without full context. It is equally and also similarly minacious to try and equate unrelated times in history with sights on furthering an agenda. Since th...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 07:42hrs | 287 | by Leroy Dzenga
Don't Africans get tired of being poor?
And so it begins - Africa's gladiator fight with the most virulent of viruses to affect mankind in recent memory.And for the umpteenth time we are being reminded that this would be another Dav...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:03hrs | 160 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe records a budget surplus, But
Zimbabwe recorded its first fiscal surplus since 2011 as a result of significant contributions from Intermediate Monetary Transfer (IMT) Tax, subdued investment on capital expenditure and civil servic...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 715 | by Victor Bhoroma
Covid-19: More Zimbabwean nurses have died in England than in Zimbabwe
Twenty nine Zimbabweans have died in the UK and Twenty four Of them are nurses and doctors and care workers. This number is five times more than those who died in the whole of Zimbabwe. It has been sa...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 09:37hrs | 4267 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
29 Zimbabweans die of Covid-19 in UK
At least 29 Zimbabweans living in Britain have died of Covid-19, mostly nurses and other medical staff, according to the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. The pandemic has so far killed at least&n...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:41hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 lockdown: Coercing the poor, coddling the rich?
From the perspective of reducing the negative public health effects of the coronavirus, national lockdowns will almost certainly - if adhered to - reduce the number of coronavirus transmissions while ...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 22:21hrs | 903 | by Seán Muller
40 000 mine workers to undergo COVID-19 testing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says mines are to resume operations during an extended lockdown, a plan that would need at least 40 000 mine workers to be immediately screened and tested for COVID-19....Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:05hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
When spectacles meant too much education
Years back in the village there was a retired educator who donned spectacles as a 'corrective' measure for his poor eyesight. The vertically challenged former classroom practitioner walked abo...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 254 | by Gabarinocheka
ZESA Negligence of Duty 'Customer Service' to Clients is Simply Unacceptable
MDC Alliance Secretary for Energy and Power Development Jasmine Toffa has said the party has noted with grave concern the disturbing trend by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) customer ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 16:36hrs | 1258 | by Stephen Jakes
Lockdown to wipe out 25% of Zimbabwe jobs
ZIMBABWE should brace for massive economic dislocation as business leaders project that 25% of formal and 75% of informal jobs in the country will be lost as a result of Covid-19 amid calls by industr...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Reverend, followers arrested over Easter Sunday service
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday arrested congregants of the Revival of Jesus Miracles Ministries in Nketa suburb for conducting public services in violation of lockdown regulations, as most churches reso...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
How Mike Auret tried to stop Gukurahundi
THE sad death of prominent Zimbabwe political activist Mike Auret in Ireland this morning is a significant event in the history of human rights in the country and its predecessor Rhodesia.Aure...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 09:37hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to Reuben Tendai Mbofana
Dear Tendai, I have just finished reading your article that stood out from many other articles I have just read today in Bulawayo 24. Although your contribution was more of a religious Good Fr...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 12:12hrs | 1573 | by Nomazulu Thata
Churches cancel Easter gatherings
CHURCHES in Zimbabwe have, in an unprecedented development, this year cancelled their traditional Easter retreats with most religious organisations resorting to live streaming their services during th...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 08:02hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Collapsed health sector facilities a sign that govt did not invest in health
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said the collapse of health sector facilities in the country is a sign of the government's failure to invest in the health sector for a long time since independence....Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 10:15hrs | 281 | by Stephen Jakes
Covid-19: Where is God in all this . . .?
Covid-19 has threatened our basic threads of our existence. It has challenged everything we hold dear. It has questioned everything we consider precious. It harasses, it annoys, and it persists. We ar...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:19hrs | 334 | by Hlakanipha Mbongolwane
WHO warns against easing virus measures too early
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has no blanket recommendation for countries and regions for easing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but urged them not to lift them too earl...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:57hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Trump warns 'there will be death' in a grim assessment of the days ahead
US President Donald Trump has warned Americans to prepare for the "toughest week" of the coronavirus pandemic yet, predicting a surge in deaths.At his daily briefing, Mr Trump said "there will...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 09:11hrs | 2360 | by BBC
Mr Trump, please cut us some slack
Despite romanticising rural life perhaps a tad too much, Bishop Lazi will openly admit that some village folk are an idiosyncratic lot.For those who might not know them, it takes time getting ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 193 | by Bishop Lazi
BREAKING: Record 630 deaths in New York state
Governor Andrew Cuomo says there have been a record 630 deaths in a single day in New York state.The total number has risen to 3,565. The state has now recorded 113,704 positive cases, wi...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 16:45hrs | 3045 | by Staff reporter
Prayer or science in the face of COVID-19
"If churches are being shut down for the purpose of saving lives. Was there a need for them in the first place? Even church pastors are waiting for the coronavirus to clear so they can continue healin...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:27hrs | 963 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Barbourfields Stadium and National Sports Stadium ban stands
BARBOURFIELDS Stadium in Bulawayo and the National Sports Stadium in Harare remain banned from playing host to Caf-sanctioned international senior men's matches for failing to meet required minimum st...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stadia fails March inspection, gets June ultimatum
Warriors still risk playing their matches outside the country if Covid-19 recedes after communication from CAF that local stadiums failed to meet the required minimum standards after an inspection in ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:26hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Police patrol streets as Zimbabwe begins coronavirus lockdown
Zimbabwe on Monday began enforcing a three-week lockdown in its fight against coronavirus after the disease left one person dead and infected six others.President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1386 | by AFP
'Ban social media corona virus chit-chat' argue Zanu PF - fearful truth will open our eyes, at last
"His (Chamisa) cheerleaders prayed and wished that the country suffers from this coronavirus that has killed thousands globally and in his unfathomable melancholy Chamisa appropriates for himself powe...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 21:04hrs | 2977 | by Wilbert Mukori
PSL urged to change programme
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has been urged to dump its normal league format and come up with a crush programme to fill in the gap of what will be left when the coronavirus-induced ban on public ga...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
ZCC puts trips to Moria on hold
The Zion Christian Church (ZCC), which is the largest African-initiated church operating across southern Africa, has called on congregants to put their plans to go to the House of Moria in Limpopo on ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1027 | by AP
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 | 1288 | by Nomazulu Thata
Another Mthwakazi party to be formed in South Africa
A new political party will be officially launched at Hillbrow Theatre in Johannesburg on Saturday 28 March.Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance (MDA) will compete for the Matebeleland vote with parti...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:10hrs | 1127 | by Ndou Paul
Should Mnanggwa stop making jokes?
There is a question that is being discussed among President Mnangagwa's legion of ardent supporters and loyalists; should the President abandon humour as a device for engaging his audience? Not everyo...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 09:05hrs | 1266 | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa repossesses Chikwinya's farm
FORMER Women's Affairs minister Nyasha Chikwinya has lost her farm measuring 149 hectares after Lands minister Perrance Shiri recently refreshed a 2016 government decision to withdraw her offer letter...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 15:44hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ policies are litany of promises to be broken' Sadly, povo who suffer consequences are powerless - change is overdue
"Unsurprisingly, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s 2020 monetary policy statement is more of the same — a tired litany of promises waiting to be broken and targets queuing up to be missed. Govern...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 08:58hrs | 1625 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Suspect (4th) coronavirus tested negative' official twitter - wilfully inadequate and cause to fear the worst
A suspected coronavirus case (fourth one in Zimbabwe) was reported at Masvingo Provincial Hospital on Sunday morning.The individual had travelled from Dubai and test result was negative."In Ma...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:51hrs | 358 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
RBZ not printing any Zimdollars
THE government said yesterday that the country was not printing money unduly and would stick to its targets aimed at stabilising the Zimbabwe dollar, to reduce prices.This comes as the Reserve...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:52hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
Warriors coach unfazed
WARRIORS coach Zdravko "Loga" Logarusic is unfazed by the Confederation of African Football (Caf)'s decision to ban the country's main stadiums from hosting international matches and has urged his cha...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:57hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's plans dead in water
THERE is no respite in sight for long-suffering Zimbabweans, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) joining other important bodies this week in warning that the country is headed for a mega econom...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 16:56hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is open for business' mantra now rings hollow
ZIMBABWE's failure to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2019, with investment plummeting by more than 50%, demonstrates that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "Zimbabwe is open for business" man...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe risks 'deep humanitarian' crisis, IMF warns
Zimbabwe faces a grim economic outlook this year and is also at risk of an extreme humanitarian crisis, the International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday.An IMF team issued the warning after ...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 19:37hrs | 883 | by AFP
IMF meeting on Zimbabwe set for Monday
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold its crucial meeting on Zimbabwe in Washington DC on Monday next week, businessdigest has learnt.The Bretton Woods institution will discuss the economic ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should brace for more chaos
By now it should be unquestionably clear that there are two things that are bogging down our determined and collective efforts to escape the clutches of begriming poverty: corruption and sanctions....Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:30hrs | 382 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4879 | by George Mkhwanazi
New research examines Mnangagwa's promises
A RAND Corporation research report by Alexander H Noyes assessing Zimbabwe after former President Robert Mugabe was published as part of the corporation's national security division on February 6, 202...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:20hrs | 966 | by Pearl Matibe
Chikwinya denies audit report allegations
Former Cabinet minister Ms Nyasha Chikwinya has denied allegations of underhand dealings involving the acquisition of vast tracks of State land and sale of residential stands in Harare.She sai...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:45hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
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