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Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 2 hrs ago | 535 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile causes stir at Chiredzi Hospital
There was pandemonium at Chiredzi District Hospital today after a huge crocodile was spotted in a storm drain at the biggest health referral health institution in the Lowveld.The reptile...Published: 2 hrs ago | 397 | by Staff reporter
Bus crew members jailed 8 months for violating lockdown regulations
Two bus crew members who are employed by a South African bus Company, Mulaudzi Bus Services were today jailed for eight months for violating the national lockdown regulations which prohibit inter-city...Published: 2 hrs ago | 516 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe platinum output up 4%
According to the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) latest Platinum quarterly report for the third quarter of 2020, Zimbabwe saw a marginal increase in platinum output in a period where global d...Published: 9 hrs ago | 335 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe taking cautious approach on Covid-19 vaccine rollout
Zimbabwe is taking a cautious approach towards the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines that some African countries are set to roll out amid indications that government could delay the programme while observ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1523 | by Staff reporter
'Home remedies don't cure COVID-19'
HEALTH experts and stakeholders have warned that home remedies were not a cure for COVID-19, but only relieve symptoms and offer the body a fighting chance against the respiratory virus.This f...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1786 | by Staff reporter
Urban councils to carry out water audits
Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) president Josiah Makombe has said that all urban councils should, by the end of this year, carry out water audits to address the challenges faced by local...Published: 14 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
Magaba, Siyaso traders defy COVID-19 regulations
BUSINESS has resumed at Mbare's Magaba home industry with informal traders defying COVID-19 lockdown regulations and going about their usual operations.This is despite that the government rece...Published: 14 hrs ago | 353 | by Staff reporter
Demolitions for wetland settlers
PEOPLE that built houses and businesses on wetlands must expect demolitions after the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) ordered them to vacate the land before it institutes prosecutions or demolit...Published: 14 hrs ago | 491 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 home remedies gain popularity
TRADITIONAL herbs and steaming have become popular home remedies against Covid-19 which has killed 772 people in Zimbabwe. Social media platforms are daily awash with messages on the efficacy ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 639 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 hits rural communities
The second wave of Covid-19 has impacted rural communities, which were previously seen as safe havens, with many positive cases and deaths reported since the beginning of the year. Most rural ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 492 | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1491 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe (Zanu-PF) and China enjoys excellent relations' - of course, China is guarantor of no regime change
Zanu-PF and its apologists are renowned for their single-mindedness belief in offence as not only the best but only defence. It is, therefore, a novelty to see them scrambling to mount a rear-guard de...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:22hrs | 355 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chatunga in nasty social media fall out with ex-lover
The late former president Robert Mugabe's son Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe recently had a nasty fallout with an Instagram model and the alleged ex-girlfriend only identified as 'moniker Mimi Charasa' wh...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:00hrs | 6959 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours overwhelmed by COVID-19
AS AUTHORITIES continue to battle to contain the deadly coronavirus, amid alarming deaths and new infections in the country, Zimbabwe's stretched funeral parlours say they are now being overwhelmed by...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:34hrs | 2879 | by Staff reporter
Indiscipline driving up COVID-19 infections in Zimbabwe
THE government has raised a red flag over failure by Zimbabweans to respect the hard lockdown regulations as the country continues to battle rising Covid-19 infections and deaths.This comes as...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:32hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals run out of oxygen
MEDICAL practitioners have called on government to urgently intervene and put measures in place to ensure adequate supply of oxygen as most health institutions in the country are constantly running ou...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: Burial rites set to change
"AMA, where am I ever going to see you? Is this how it's going to end?" cried a heartbroken 21-year-old Chido Sibare as the funeral hearse carrying her mother's body drove past.Her mother succ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:32hrs | 813 | by Lorraine Muromo
200 die in seven-day Covid-19 bloodbath
ZIMBABWE last week experienced its worst week with spiking Covid-19 infections and 200 deaths as the country continues to suffer the consequences of the second wave of the global pandemic.With...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe govt in talks with China, Russia for Covid-19 vaccine
THE Government is set to vaccinate at least 80 percent of the population once negotiations with potential suppliers of the vaccine, China, Russia and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been comp...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Malianga, Gwaradzimba declared national heroes
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Co...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:18hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Fake Covid-19 certificates scam exposed
SOME members of staff at a private laboratory, Klosad Clinical Diagnostics Lab, in Harare's Avondale suburb, are issuing out certificates with fake negative Covid-19 results to international traveller...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 610 | by Staff Reporter
Gwaradzimba's death opens a can of worms
On the 15th January 2021 Zimbabwe lost another politician Ellen Gwaradzimba who was a Zimbabwean politician and Zanu-PF member. At the time of her death, she was Manicaland Provincial Affairs Mi...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 4825 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zinatha warns of fake, harmful Covid-19 herbs
THE Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) has cautioned the public not to buy, from the streets and other undesignated areas, traditional medicines sold by unregistered and "igno...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 19:11hrs | 1962 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges Zimbabweans not to panic
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has urged Zimbabweans not to panic, but to be even more vigilant in their daily lives as the country reels from the second wave of the lethal coronavirus.Th...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:20hrs | 2541 | by Staff reporter
Grandpa (73) slices privates in suicide bid
THE word suicide or death is not just scary, but too morbid to even imagine or think about.Having been a widower for the past 19 years and depending on his 34-year-old son and daughter-in-law ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:10hrs | 1212 | by Staff reporter
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: 16 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 2730 | 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: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:30hrs | 3356 | 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: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:57hrs | 2680 | by Staff reporter
23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says officials
The New York Post ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 4640 | by Staff reporter
30 more Zimbabweans die of Covid-19 bringing total to 666
THE country recorded 741 new Covid-19 positive cases and 30 deaths on Wednesday. All 741 cases are local cases with 263 cases from Harare alone. A total of 3 386 PCR tests were conducted and this mean...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:20hrs | 1464 | 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: 15 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | 1641 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1484 | 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 | 905 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe invites tenders for oxygen supply as COVID-19 cases surge
ZIMBABWE'S Health ministry invited tenders for the supply of oxygen to its medical facilities as the number of coronavirus infections surge.The request was made for hospitals already facing st...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
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 | 136 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 recovery rate drops drastically
ZIMBABWE'S Covid-19 recovery rate has dropped drastically in the second wave of the new variant of the virus and most infections are local, showing that communities should adopt safe behaviours as the...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 591 | 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 | 334 | 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 | 480 | 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 | 554 | 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 | 888 | by Livingstone Kazizi
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 | 2663 | 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 | 615 | by Mirian Mangwaya
4 escape death as plane crash lands in Zimbabwe
Four people aboard a single-engine Cessna plane are lucky to be alive after it crash landed in the Luunga area of Binga yesterday morning.The engine of the plane, registration number ZSIZG a C...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:48hrs | 2331 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth'
South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, "Covid fatigue" and a seriesof "super-spreader" events.On ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:43hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's corona deaths, infections keep soaring
CONCERNED medical experts have implored the government to follow the example of South Africa and close all its land borders, to curb the alarming spread of coronavirus in the country.Speaking ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:11hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe question Sikhala, Mahere, Chin'ono arrests
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe have expressed concern over the continued detention of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and MDC Alliance officials Job Sikhala and Fadzayi Mahere.The three are charge...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 09:05hrs | 2614 | by Staff reporter
Police increase heat on Covid-19 sinners
Police have set up a special crack unit to enforce discipline among ordinary citizens who are defying lockdown restrictions. This comes as there are growing calls for the government to further...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:31hrs | 1553 | by Staff reporter
Critical staff shortage hits Gweru
THE Gweru City Council finance department is failing to efficiently discharge its obligations due to shortages of staff in critical positions, mayor Josiah Makombe has said.In his recent prese...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:01hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
NRZ suspends commuter trains
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) on Friday suspended commuter trains in line with the COVID-19 regulations recently announced by the government.The suspension of commuter trains came am...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
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