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Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 6 hrs ago | 4848 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa donates coal to 5 Matabeleland hospitals
Five hospitals in the Matabeleland region yesterday recieved 2 000 tonnes of coal donated by President Mnangagwa for cooking and other hospital operations. Beneficiaries include Mpilo Central ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'puts Dr Chiwenga in a trap?'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bizarrely appointed his Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Last month Obadiah Moyo was sacked as...Published: 17 hrs ago | 5788 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe's new Minister of Health General Chiwenga talking about doctors
The newly appointed Minister of Health and Child Care General Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has set social media with Zimbabweans reposting a video of him mocking doctors...Published: 20 hrs ago | 7578 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports.In addition...Published: 21 hrs ago | 3856 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors send distress call
DOCTORS in private practice have appealed for government and corporate sector assistance in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) as they have been overwhelmed by patients turned away f...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 2767 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo police recover dumped, mutilated foetus
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a mutilated newborn baby that was dumped at a house in Barbourfields last week.Provincial spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Ba...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF cannot celebrate blocking July protests, given worsening economy, it is when, not if, for next protests
There is no doubt that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his cronies will view the nonevent July 31st Street Protests as a political victory. But if the truth be told, this is not even a Pyrrhic victor...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 19:56hrs | 2662 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Local transmissions constitute 95% of Bulawayo Covid-19 cases
LOCAL Covid-19 transmissions have risen alarmingly in the country, constituting more than 70 percent of all cases, while they make up 94,5 percent of Bulawayo's infections. This comes at a tim...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
Doctors scoff at Mnangagwa plea
STRIKING doctors have vowed to press on with their job boycott despite pleas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for them to return to work amid revelations that scores of people could be dying in their h...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 3441 | 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 | 776 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7471 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Dangarembga arrest triggers global storm
The arrest of award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year's Booker Prize, and several political activists on Friday has invited global condemnation and demands for thei...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:18hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
Govt makes it mandatory to test all corpses for Covid-19, virus kills 14 people in one week
AT least 14 people have died from Covid-19 on admission to health institutions across the country in the last six days with the Government making it mandatory for all corpses to be tested for the viru...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:28hrs | 733 | by Staff Reporter
Hospitals should not demand Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients
Hospitals should neither turn away patients nor demand a Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients, particularly in emergency cases, the Government has said.The exhortation comes after th...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:04hrs | 711 | by Staff Reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3600 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Death is Upon Us', The Question is Who is Next?
We underestimated the COVID-19 crisis, it is now upon us. Our people are dying, it might be you or me next. Your Excellency, Mr President Sir family and friends are being turned away at hospitals beca...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 08:55hrs | 8854 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town dispersed by police
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town were told to disperse by the police on Friday.When they refused, the police went to their cars to fetch their equipmen...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 death toll jumps to 76
COVID-19 cases continue to rise daily in Zimbabwe with the total number of people who have tested positive since March standing at 3 169 Friday.The death toll also rose to 67 after 14 new deat...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:52hrs | 3522 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe declares 12 new Covid-19 deaths previously missed
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll climbed to 53 on Thursday as the ministry of health announced 12 previously undeclared deaths which occurred between July 13 and 20.There were 213 new cases of t...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3562 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses closed, streets deserted on day of protests
Businesses were shut and streets deserted around Zimbabwe on Friday as security forces increased patrols to stop anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:31hrs | 2189 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 deaths jump to 53
Fifty-three people have so far succumbed to Covid-19, although 924 have recovered from the disease, an update released by the Ministry of Health and Child Care last night shows."Today (yesterd...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa urinates on the graves of Zimbabwe's heroes' Malema says
South African opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters, have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of undermining the war of liberation that was waged by Zimbabweans through signing a deal to compen...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 11:31hrs | 7119 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shiri died in his car while trying to get help
LANDS, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement minister Perrance Shiri, pictured, died in the wee hours of yesterday, days after his driver succumbed to the lethal coronavirus that is fast getting o...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:31hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a break
This Zanu PF government is a farce, a sham and a masquerade. The problem with this government is like a person who is going to the carpenter to pull their aching tooth. Imagine the type of a tool the ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1419 | by Leonard Koni
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
People emulate leaders behaviour, rotten leaders stir rot in all the nation: APA
Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has warned that people follow and emulate their leaders adding that rotten leaders bring the rot to the entire nation. The party said when in 1980 Mugabe mad...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 161 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF rigged election and now rigging covid-19 data with tragic consequences
This Zanu PF regime blatantly rigging the coronavirus statistics with disastrous consequences to us all! "The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors a...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1652 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2160 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
2020 Mid Term Budget Hits and Misses
The 2020 mid-term budget and economic review was delivered amid high inflation levels and declining economic productivity that has been worsened by the Corona Virus pandemic. The Zimbabwean economy is...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:38hrs | 1144 | by Victor Bhoroma
Hospital still 'urging for mandatory covid-19 testing' - we must hold Zanu PF to account for this
Detail matter! Zanu PF has committed murder, literally and metaphorically, again and again but has got away with it time and time again because the Zimbabwean people have either failed to notice, whic...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:08hrs | 720 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
A selfish proliteriate, a voracious educated elite and a rapacious ruling class - The opiate numbing Zimbabwe
Wrote in 1943, Karl Marx's celebrated dictum, "religion is the opium of the people," entered popular lexicon and according to Rosie Blau ,still resonates with 4,5 billion people the world over who ide...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 23:10hrs | 1760 | by Evangelist Sendekai W.T
Zimbabwe army ready to deal with 31 July protesters?
PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS Minister for Mashonaland West, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka says Zimbabweans who ignored warnings not to take part in anti-government protests planned for July 31 risked the wrath of securit...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:32hrs | 7211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has failed to justify imposition of curfew
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:23hrs | 3274 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa snaps as July 31 beckons
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has lashed out at foreign powers after attempts to clamp down on organisers of the proposed July 31 protests were met with global condemnation.Mnangag...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 14679 | 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 | 1069 | by Staff reporter
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6369 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt defends sacking of hospital CEOs
The sacking of chief executive officers (CEOs) of five major Government hospitals was part of the restructuring of the health system by Government to make it more effective and efficient, a Cabinet Mi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:34hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
African authorities deploy KC Wearable Smart Helmet to combat spread of COVID-19
With over 720,000 confirmed cases across Africa, COVID-19 has already claimed almost 16,000 lives. In their efforts to reduce the devastating impact of the disease, several national authorities have p...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 1536 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams Magaisa's hypocrisy
ZIMBABWE survived under the yoke of illegal sanctions that were imposed by the West following the land reform programme because of regular interventions by the Zanu-PF Government that include the Farm...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 2998 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1721 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mnangagwa impose curfew to contain covid-19 - madness, need nurses and PPE not soldiers and guns
I have listened to President Mnangagwa's address to the nation three times and still failed to understand what understand the purpose. Yes, the number of corona virus cases have increased significantl...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1067 | by Nomusa Garikai
66 positive Covid-19 cases at Bulawayo Prison
FORTY-THREE inmates and 23 prison officers at Bulawayo Prison have tested positive for Covid-19 amid reports that cases are on the increase in the city. Bulawayo has recorded 36 new Covid-19 c...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:02hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
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