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To deal with the Coronavirus threat, the Government needs to repatriate stolen funds
The Coronavirus pandemic that has brought nations like Italy, France, Spain to its knees, is already in Zimbabwe. The closure of schools, the banning of gatherings of more than 50 people has begun and...Published: 6 hrs ago | 734 | by Mhungu Mushoga
Kasukuwere's movement offers solution to fighting Coronavirus
Tyson Wabantu Movement has issued a statement urging the government of the day to implement tough measures in fighting the dreaded Wuhan virus that seen positive cases rise to nine in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 2013 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Indian twins named 'Corona' and 'Covid'
The pandemic caused by a new virus may have brought the world to its knees, but that has not deterred a couple in Chhattisgarh to name their newborn twins as ‘Corona' and ‘Covid', ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1330 | by Staff reporter
Global COVID-19 cases top 1 million
The coronavirus pandemic has passed its landmark moment, as over one million people worldwide have tested positive for the disease, according to figures from multiple sources.The total number ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1288 | by Staff reporter
A fool and his pen, what a bad combo!
April Fools' Day has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures. The media embraced the tradition and have been participating in the Apri...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:50hrs | 1934 | by Tafara Shumba
COVID-19 puts a damper on April Fools' Day
The coronavirus has put a damper on April Fools' Day this year, with calls not to spread fake news about the pandemic, and people on social media urging others not to joke about Covid-19 or its possib...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:07hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Health experts explain 21-day lockdown
HEALTH experts yesterday said the 21-day national lockdown that starts today is vital in curbing the spread of coronavirus as it allows infected people to show symptoms, get treatment and heal within ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Top MDC official recounts prison 'hell'
A top MDC official, who was incarcerated together with 11 party youths in connection with protests in Chitungwiza last month, has described conditions under which they were held as hell.Stephe...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga returns home from China
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.Chiwenga's private jet hired from Dubai landed in Harare...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:25hrs | 11347 | by Staff reporter
War vets support 'fungibility' ban
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has dismissed a story in a local weekly newspaper headlined "Fungibility shares ban unlawful", as an act of intimidation towards Gove...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:35hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
SA lockdown slows Zimbabwe firms
THE 21-day lockdown in South Africa due to the outbreak of Covid-19 is likely to constrain local industry operations as the country depends on imports from the neighbouring country, the Confederation ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans unhappy
A WORLD happiness report released last week has ranked Zimbabweans among the saddest citizens in the world, only higher than the war-ravaged Afghanistanis and South Sudanese.The World Happines...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:14hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus death spikes in Europe while Zimbabwe sees nothing wrong
The whole of Europe is witnessing growing death toll from Covid-19 as Zimbabwe criticised over carefree attitude. The coronavirus outbreak has turned into a global pandemic, as the wo...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 15:58hrs | 4027 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe among world's unhappiest countries
ZIMBABWEANS are among the world's saddest people with the recent annual United Nations world happiness report ranking the country in the top five of the world's unhappiest countries.The southe...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 13:30hrs | 2877 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is sucked into multi-million Zisco assets stripping
A fresh probe has revealed that the government facilitated a shady US$225 million deal meant to strip the comatose Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) of its critical assets.The investigat...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1072 | by Everson Mushava
Bulawayo hospitals get 'dead' equipment
The bulk of the medical equipment bought in India for government health institutions in Bulawayo is old, while some of it is not working, the Ruth Labode-led parliamentary portfolio committee on healt...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:36hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
US$5 for a mask in Zimbabwe
IN Italy, it is not illegal drug traffickers that the police are after anymore, but pushers of masks and sanitisers.Could Zimbabwe find itself in a similar situation?A survey by this p...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:29hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zesa audit opens can of worms
IN what demonstrates the depth of rot and corporate malfeasance at Zesa Holdings, one of the power utility's subsidiaries traded with a supplier for over 10 years without a valid contract after an ear...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 16:52hrs | 2118 | by Staff Reporter
Pastor 'smuggles' dangerous drugs
A PASTOR from Bulawayo allegedly smuggled heroin, morphine and codeine weighing more than one kilogramme and worth $130 000, wrapped in a parcel that contained a small Bible, bottles of holy water and...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
How coronavirus has hurt Zimbabwe's ailing economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa finally declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) a national disaster on Tuesday.On Monday, a day before Mnangagwa's declaration, the Health ministry revealed that a Uni...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe registers US$52,8m trade surplus against South Africa
ZIMBABWE recorded a US$52,8 million trade surplus against South Africa, its major trading partner, after exporting goods worth US$218,4 million to the neighbouring country in the month of January 2020...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's health problems resurface
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was airlifted to China on Sunday after his health deteriorated.The 63-year-old disappeared from the public eye more than two weeks ago – missing three off...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:11hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Investor dumps Ekusileni Hospital project
THE long-awaited re-opening of the Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo has suffered another setback as the Indian investor who had expressed interest in the project has withdrawn under unclear circum...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:11hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Advocate Miriam Tose Majome: noch etwas, noch etwas!!
I read your articles with great interest because I know there is a message always for me to take home with. Your last two articles; "Public Drinking and Educated Fools" and "Black Business and Superst...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1256 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chamisa's supporters to spend another weekend behind bars
The 15 MDC activists charged with public violence over the skirmishes that rocked Chitungwiza on February 29 this year will spend another weekend behind bars after their bail hearing application yeste...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 15:43hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
MDC activists denied bail
THE 12 MDC activists who were arrested in Chitungwiza some two weeks ago for public violence are set to languish in prison until next Tuesday after High Court judge, David Foroma failed to read "badly...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:56hrs | 206 | by newzimbabwe
Govt blacklists suppliers not offering after-sales service
THE government has banned hospitals from purchasing equipment from companies that do not offer after-sales services, saying it has been incurring high service costs.Last month, the Senio...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:15hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe churches reject Constitutional Amendment Bill
CHURCH leaders in Gweru have rejected proposed constitutional amendments and pledged to mobilise their congregants to oppose them ahead of public hearings to be held in the city on March 30.On...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 19:05hrs | 1746 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe used as route to kidnap foreigners in South Africa
Zimbabwe is one of the countries that are used by a syndicate of kidnapers to adduct wealthy people and hold them for ransom, a South African newspaper has reported. The paper said the syndica...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 11:09hrs | 3677 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Upgrading prestige stadia but not neglected hospitals - bizarre, but then ruling elite don't use latter
Work on the upgrading of the National Stadium in Harare and Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo, prestige projects, has started in earnest. The Chronicle is full of coloured pictures of the work been do...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 19:03hrs | 1261 | by Nomusa Garikai
Govt blocks Zimbabwe students stranded in China
Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo has said Zimbabwean students stranded in China after the coronavirus outbreak should stay in the Asian country because their return might be "dangerous", in...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1123 | by Staff reporter
Gunshots in Chitungwiza...police clash with MDC youths
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police in Chitungwiza arrested 13 MDC members who were gathered at the house of MDC Deputy National Chairperson Job Sikhala in St Mary's. The arrested ar...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 11:22hrs | 6303 | by Mandla Ndlovu
First discover your purpose, it will birth the leader in you
The purpose is the discovery of a reason for your existence and is defined as the original intent for the creation of a thing and your purpose is key to your passion. Your strengths of breakthrough in...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:32hrs | 134 | by Enos Denhere
US piles pressure on Mnangagwa's govt
THE United States is ratcheting up pressure on the Zimbabwean government to expeditiously compensate families of the six people who were shot dead and those injured on the streets of Harare by the mil...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 4499 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu in tribal war with Obert Mpofu?
Embattled ZANU-PF Youth leader Lewis Matutu has been accused of practicing tribalism by questioning ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu's academic credentials.Media reports recent...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 3427 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe: African Development Bank Executive Directors conduct consultative mission, tour project sites
HARARE - A seven-member delegation of Executive Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) visited Zimbabwe on a week-long fact-finding mission where they held meetings with a number of ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 13:30hrs | 529 | by APO
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:28hrs | 728 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Kasukuwere lauds Mugabe's reign
FORMER cabinet minister and G40 kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere has showered glowing praises on late former state leader Robert Mugabe while reserving snide comments for his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:51hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere taunts Mnangagwa's 'real criminals'
FORMER cabinet minister and G40 kingpin Saviour Kasukuwere has showered glowing praises on late former state leader Robert Mugabe while reserving snide comments for his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 2914 | by newzimbabwe
Major facelift for Mutare General Hospital
THE Government is spearheading urgent repair works at Mutare Provincial Hospital and the procurement of more drugs ahead of next week's medical mission by Indian surgeons who are expected to conduct o...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 12:53hrs | 1074 | by Staff Reporter
Online casino in fast growth in India
In the past decade, online gambiling has been growing rapidly in India and this has provided job opportunities for a lot of people. The rapid rise can be credited to growth of the middle class, use of...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:25hrs | 1075 | by Staff Writer
Is the US ready for a gay president?
When the ancient Romans saw the African horse (the zebra), they announced that those who want to experience wonders must visit Africa. Today, the surprising showing of 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, a ga...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:41hrs | 628 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Monetary policy to focus on rate stability
The exchange rate and its implications on inflation or price hikes is probably the most closely monitored economic factor in Zimbabwe right now, and that is for a very good reason.If one...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:31hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri's faction behind Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu?
Chris Mutsvangwa began his solo anti Kuda Tagwirei crusade in 2018 during an interview with the Standard he said, "One of the optimal conditions to attract investment is free competition. The RB...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 13:05hrs | 3652 | by Nicholas Ncube
Zanu-PF hawks query Mnangagwa's capacity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 election campaign, which has been underway since the Zanu-PF Esigodini Conference in 2018, is increasingly coming under scrutiny within government, the ruling party...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 7762 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri, Chimonyo deny shooting victims compensation
DEFENCE Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo have refused to pay two shooting victims over ZW$800 000 in damages for injuries ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe charms ICC
The International Cricket Council (ICC) and Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) have begun engagements that are set to culminate in Zimbabwe hosting more international events following the successful staging of the...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1275 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara's Zimsec prognosis will hurt the poor
Renowned and leading African scientist and scholar, Professor AGO Mutambara, ignited a storm with his recent piece alleging shameless and scandalous grade inflation by ZIMSEC citing a school where 79 ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1699 | by Munya Gwisai
Lafarge chief executive leaves Zimbabwe operations
CEMENT producer, Lafarge Zimbabwe chief executive Siame Kaulule has left his position, a year after assuming the post.Kaulule joined the company from Lafarge Holcim in the United Kingdom where...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2268 | by Staff reporter
Indian embassy to host education fair in Zimbabwe
THE Embassy of India in conjunction with the Higher Education ministry will host a Study in Gujarat roadshow on February 20, to promote the State as an education hub.India's Minister of State ...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 06:17hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
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