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Malawian border jumpers deported
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
28 Malawian border jumpers to be deported from Zimbabwe
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:14hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest another firearms smuggler
A CHINHOYI man was last week arraigned before Chiredzi magistrate Joy Chikodzenge over allegations of dealing in firearms without registration as defined by section 14 of the Firearms Act Chapter 10:9...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
Fake stamps syndicate man fined $100,000
A 44-year-old Beitbridge man who is part of a syndicate using fake customs and immigration stamps to illegally clear travellers and goods at the country's port of entry has been fined $100 000 by a Be...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:03hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
IOM rescues cross-border traders
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has started rolling out support programmes to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 pandemic on informal cross-border traders in the Sadc region. ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Low turnout for vaccination in Matebeleland South
FRONTLINE workers in Matabeleland South province are reluctant to take the Covid-19 vaccine as the first phase saw less than half of the targeted workers taking their first jab.The province ma...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:38hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Police step up border anti-smuggling patrols
As legislators call for modern technology, including drones, at border posts to help immigration officers identify wanted criminals and prohibited immigrants trying to enter Zimbabwe, police are stepp...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:11hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
Houses encroaching into Joshua Nkomo Airport
LAND developers in Bulawayo are reportedly encroaching into the land reserved for expansion of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport land, Southern Eye has learnt.This was revealed in a recent report b...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo frontliners to get second vaccination
FRONTLINE workers in Bulawayo who last month received their first dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine will this week get their second doses with continued calls for more health care workers to get ...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
8 000 border jumpers arrested
At least 182 border jumpers were arrested over the weekend countrywide bringing the total number so far to 8 299 of suspects nabbed under the ongoing operation as the police continue to increase patro...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
Border Jumpers arrested
At least 182 border jumpers were arrested over the weekend countrywide bringing the total number so far to 8 299 of suspects nabbed under the ongoing operation as the police services continue to incre...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1563 | by Staff reporter
Shock over high numbers of stateless learners in Matabeleland
AS many as 300 out of 700 learners at a primary school in Kezi, Matabeleland South province, were found to have no identity documents during a fact-finding mission by a Parliamentary committee, render...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:30hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe borders to open soon, says Mthuli Ncube
ZIMBABWE will next week receive another consignment of Covid-19 vaccine procured by Government from China to bolster the country's inoculation efforts to achieve the herd immunity, Minister of Finance...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:28hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Mass vaccination starts in Vic Falls
ZIMBABWE yesterday marked a year after it reported its first Covid-19 positive case in Victoria Falls, triggering unprecedented events that have seen the country recording 36 652 cases, 34 249 recover...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:44hrs | 469 | by Staff Reporter
Parents abroad demand that their children do law and medicine
A career is medicine is stressful enough for the doctors who see it as a calling. For those who do it because their parents forced them, it could be critical and indeed it becomes a punishment. Tradit...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:28hrs | 780 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Soldiers take over vaccination programme
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga has said government will soon rope in soldiers to speed up the second phase of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme. G...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1283 | by Stephen Mpofu
Thousands are arrested for border jumping
OVER 8 000 people have been arrested so far across the country as police intensify their fight against border jumpers at a time the nation's entry points remain closed in a move aimed at curbing the s...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 16:06hrs | 1870 | by Staff reporter
Man runs bogus immigration office at the border
A 44-year-old man believed to be part of a syndicate running a bogus immigration office in Beitbridge was early this morning arrested by border officials during a sting operation.Thomas Chidza...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 16:05hrs | 2299 | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccine safe, envoy insists
CHINESE Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Gu Shaochun, has defended the Sinopharm vaccine produced by the Asian giant, saying that it is safe amid indications that the rollout is floundering due to public scept...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean refugees return from Botswana
FORTY-EIGHT Zimbabweans who were refugees in Botswana returned home yesterday following a joint initiative by Government, Botswana as well as the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Most of...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 760 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges nation to get vaccinated
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has exhorted citizens to be vaccinated as part of broader efforts to minimise the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed 1 501 lives. The immunisa...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 05:01hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's porous borders 'now a security threat'
ZIMBABWE's porous borders are posing a serious security risk as they expose the country to a litany of illegal activities, including smuggling and criminal syndicates roaming undetected, a damning rep...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2248 | by Staff reporter
Survey shows Zimbabweans reluctant to get Covid vaccine
A Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) survey has revealed that the majority of the country's citizens, particularly those in outlying areas, are unwilling to take the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine....Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Logarusic secures work permit
ZIMBABWE national football team coach, Zdravko Logarusic has secured a work permit extension, which has paved way for him to take charge of the Warriors' preparations for the crucial Africa Cup of Nat...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Chinese investor up for rape
A HARARE-BASED Chinese investor, who allegedly raped his 17-year-old housemaid for months, promising to take her to China was on Wednesday hauled before magistrate Judith Taruvinga, who granted him $1...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
ZNA clears air on Chipinge incident
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed a report by a non-governmental organisation, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) alleging the army concealed evidence that its troops deployed in Chipinge a...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:57hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
SA police net 1 796 in border patrols
South African police have intensified crime prevention operations along the border with Zimbabwe and the entire Limpopo province. Limpopo police spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said they a...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has sourced enough vaccines
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has assured the nation that Zimbabwe has sourced enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate at least 60 percent of the population.Appearing virtually before a parliame...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:39hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
South Africa goes after foreigners, to review permits/visas for all foreigners
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a five-member committee to review permits and visas issued to most immigrants who have been in that country since 2004. He s...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:22hrs | 3124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get 984 000 Covax vaccines
ZIMBABWE will soon receive 984 000 doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led Covax initiative.The country will receive the vaccines ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:55hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Border officials in huge turnout for Covid-19 vaccination
THERE was a huge turnout of essential service providers at the Beitbridge border post yesterday, mainly those working at the port of entry, to take up the Sinopharm jabs against Covid-19. Immi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Loga battles for work permit
WARRIORS coach, Zdravko Logarusic, who is battling to extend his work permit after his initial one-year permit expired, says there is no guarantee he will get his Euro stars for the final two AFCON qu...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccinates 400 frontliners
OVER 400 frontline workers have taken the Covid-19 vaccine in Bulawayo within two days of the rolling out of the programme in the city. Bulawayo has four teams vaccinating frontline workers wh...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination starts with health staff
The country's Covid-19 vaccination programme begins today in Harare with frontline health workers expected to be among the first to be inoculated. This follows the arrival on Monday of 200 000 vaccine...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs US$7m for corona vaccines
THE government is mobilising about US$7 million to acquire enoug hvaccines to inoculate 60 percent of the population with the first phase of the programme commencing on Thursday with frontline workers...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Journalists must be on vaccination priority list, says Misa Zimbabwe
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has urged government to include journalists among the first priority groups listed for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme.The med...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Why govt was sued over access to Covid-19 information
At the beginning of the year, Zimbabwe faced an unprecedented surge in the number of Covid-19 cases, but there was always a lingering feeling that the government was not telling the full story. ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:49hrs | 114 | by Nompilo Simanje
Priority list for vaccination released
Front-line health workers, ports of entry officials and funeral parlour workers will be among the first to be vaccinated for Covid-19 when the doses arrive in the country on Monday as expected, ahead ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:29hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
18 arrested in Beitbridge border operation
POLICE on Thursday arrested 18 people in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South for breaching immigration laws.The arrests were made as the police intensify their operation codenamed "No to border cri...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:36hrs | 1323 | by Staff reporter
Chunga jailed for life in SA over highway crimes
A 41-year-old Zimbabwean man believed to be part of a syndicate of armed robbers who have been terrorizing motorists along the N1 highway between Musina and Makhado towns in Limpopo province has been ...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:34hrs | 5618 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean border jumpers busted with illegal firearm in SA
South Africa's organized crime unit, the Hawks, have arrested four Zimbabwean border jumpers in Giyani, Limpopo province for illegal possession of a firearm.The quartet aged between 18 and 35 ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:51hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Mnangagwa's govt ordered to disseminate 'adequate' COVID-19 info
THE High Court has ordered the government to widely disseminate comprehensive and adequate information on COVID-19 testing, isolation and treatment at public and private institutions.This foll...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Enter the Covid passport: A new apartheid system
I stumble off the plane. It's seven in the morning and it's freezing cold. Half an hour ago I was downing a bottle of miniature red at 20 000 feet. I live wild! What can I say? I've been up for the be...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2258 | by Mufaro Makubika
Violent Chinese miner deported from Zimbabwe
A CHINESE man, who was recorded while assaulting his employees was last week, was ordered to leave the country by Bulawayo magistrate Mr Stephen Ndhlovu, for unlawfully and intentionally remaining in ...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 18:53hrs | 1857 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army dismisses false media report of alleged villagers assault
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dispelled false allegations which have been published in the media regarding the involvement of soldiers in assaulting Mberengwa villagers.In a statement, ...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:21hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
The Mthwakazi question: Who does or doesn't qualify to be Mthwakazian?
My intention is not to write on either the historical origins or the actual geographical boundaries of Mthwakazi State, highlighted in yellow on the above image, but I am more concerned with initiatin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2618 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
Beitbridge residents 'fed up' with the recently-deployed commandos
BEITBRIDGE residents are "fed up" with the recently deployed commandos from a crack Zimbabwe National Army unit and the Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit from Chikurubi who they accuse of committi...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 06:01hrs | 3390 | by Staff reporter
Illegal immigrants struggle in the UK
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the UK jobs market has changed substantially, take a look at what this means for recruitment and occupational shortages, as well as serious implications for people's...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1047 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Will Zimbabweans survive South Africa's anti-immigrant drive?
South Africa's strong and extensive ties with Zimbabwe are buckling under the strain of COVID-19 economic challenges and migration. The nearly 500 undocumented migrants arrested on a daily basis tryin...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 13:29hrs | 1603 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
23 disappear pending deportation
Authorities are investigating a case in which 23 Malawian border jumpers disappeared from Beitbridge main police station while awaiting transportation to Harare, pending deportation. Two of th...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:47hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
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