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Tagwirei supporters hit back at Mutsvangwa
Allies of local business magnate Dr. Kudakwashe Tagwirei have launched a spirited defence of the controversial tycoon, following sharp criticism from Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa. The g...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 14:56hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Will freebies silence Zimbabwe war veterans?
The recent calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's resignation from war veterans, led by Blessed Runesu Geza, have exposed a simmering discontent at the heart of Zimbabwe's leadership. Their accusati...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:11hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi, CCC MP in ugly funeral bust-up
A funeral in Beitbridge turned tense on Monday when two lawmakers, Senator Tambudzani Mohadi (Zanu-PF) and Sithabisiwe Mulowa (Citizens Coalition for Change, CCC), engaged in a heated exchange at the ...Published: 21 Nov 2024 at 06:27hrs | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Man and daughters arrested for murder of his parents
Police in Masvingo have arrested a man and his three children in connection with the murder of the man's parents on allegations of witchcraft and casting misfortune on the man's family.The man...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 20:39hrs | 680 | by Stephen Jakes
Family arrested for alleged double murder in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested Rameck Chidinhika (53) and his three daughters - Constancia Chidinhika (28), Vimbai Chidinhika (19), and a 15-year-old juvenile - following the alleged murde...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 12:38hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine not allowed to attack Kremlin with US-supplied missiles
Washington has not authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied missiles to attack targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, President Joe Biden has said. His comments came after the US permitted Kiev to...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 17:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cancer patient among thousands to trial personalised vaccines
Thousands of NHS cancer patients in England are expected to get access to trials of a new type of treatment using vaccines to fight their disease.Thirty hospitals so far have signed up to the ...Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans urged to take flu jabs
Zimbabweans have been urged to get flu vaccine shots to prevent evolving influenza viruses as winter approaches.Since the Covid-19 pandemic, winters have been characterised by severe influenza...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:49hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Additional staff deployed at Zimbabwe borders
WITH the anticipated huge volume of human and vehicular traffic this festive season in the aftermath of the last two years of Covid-19 travel restrictions, the country's border authorities say they ha...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt rolls out Covid-19 vaccination blitz
A Covid-19 vaccination blitz is starting this week in parallel with the second phase of the special polio vaccination campaign, so parents and older children can get their Covid-19 jabs when they take...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:11hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Public urged to wear face masks for own safety
Zimbabweans should abide by the conditions that the Government set when it lifted the mandatory wearing of face masks for their own safety, and not out of fear of being arrested, the polic...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Rap Queen Awa to release Bosso song
POPULAR outspoken female rapper Awa Khiwe is set to release a song for her beloved football outfit, Highlanders Football Club after a considerable time of inaction.A lot of things have gone so...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 18:44hrs | 10 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Rural communities shun COVID-19 vaccine
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is still rife in some communities in the Midlands province with reports that in the first COVID-19 vaccination blitz, some parents and religious groups were deliberately wit...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vaccination blitz: Zimbabwe reaches 10m dose mark
ZIMBABWE has now administered 10 million jabs of Covid-19 vaccines with more than half the targeted population aged 12 and over now having had their first dose, a pair of major milestones in the natio...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube grilled over vaccines
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) was yesterday grilled by Parliament over the country's preference of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines over a wide variety of approved jabs wh...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hits 5 million first Covid-19 jabs
ZIMBABWE passed the five million mark for first doses of Covid-19 vaccination last week with the record breaking blitz now in progress seeing more than 1,39 million doses administered in the last two ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vaccination blitz begins
Vaccination teams moved into schools yesterday to open the expanded Covid-19 vaccination campaign, with a large number of learners in selected schools getting their first shots.The schools' bl...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Propaganda is a complex art and science not brazen disgraceful lies as witnessed in Zimbabwe state-controlled media
When I first thought of writing this article, my original idea was to accuse Zimbabwe state-controlled media of spewing shameless propaganda - which not only sought to sow seeds of hatred and division...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 16:57hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Prison officers in dock over convict escape
THREE Bulawayo prisons officers are in the dock for helping a dangerous prisoner serving 53 years in jail for armed robbery escape from a maximum-security prison in broad daylight.Talent Bheki...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khami Prison escapee recaptured
The ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) captured a convict that escaped from Khami Prison on Saturday.Jabson Shone was tracked down and captured by ZPCS' special tactics officers...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Squatter camp escapes Covid-19
KILLARNEY Squatter Camp in Bulawayo has not recorded any Covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.Zimbabwe has recorded more than 233 000 Covid-19 cases since the outbre...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Botswana imposes stiff penalties for the unvaccinated
Returning Botswana citizens unwilling to be vaccinated for Covid-19 face a fine of P5 000 (R6 500), a year in prison, or both, as the government worries about vaccines that will expire in April this y...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools reopening further delayed
Schools may only be able to reopen in three weeks at the earliest, depending on progress in limiting Covid-19 infection, with Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday extending the Level Two lo...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
China's 10m jabs gift major boost for Covid-19 fight
China donated another 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, bringing its gifts to 12 million doses, and ensuring that with its own purchases Zimbabwe now has access to adequate stocks to give the unv...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe has adapted to Covid pandemic
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the country has adapted to the new Covid-19 normal and people can now engage in their normal day-to-day activities despite the scale of the prevalence of the pand...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says there are no winners or losers in Zanu-PF
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday urged party cadres, who did not make it in the recently held provincial elections to avail themselves, their experiences, skills and competencies towards building the rev...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 18:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
HIV pill seen as a game-changer
A NEW injectable option for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) pills, Apretude, which is administered once every two months, has been described as a game-changer against HIV exposure.Scientif...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe buoyed by Chinese jabs
ZIMBABWE received on Monday an additional batch of 1 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine from Sinovac Biotech, a donation that follows hot on the heels of a pledge by China to give a further 600 milli...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:44hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chisora battered by Parker
Zimbabwe-born British heavyweight boxer Derek Chisora was sent crashing to the floor and was punished by a barrage of heavy punches by Joseph Parker in their heavyweight rematch in Manchester on Satur...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Enough vaccines for everyone'
President Mnangagwa yesterday said the country has enough Covid-19 jabs for everyone who wants to be vaccinated, including those who want a third dose in the wake of the new Omicron variant.Mo...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Efficient public transport system crucial'
The ongoing modernisation of the economy and increase in productivity requires an efficient public transport system as enunciated in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).This was said by...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Omicron Schools to remain open
SCHOOLS will remain open until the end of the term on 17 December despite a resurgence of Covid-19 that has seen numbers of new cases rising.Some universities have, however, reportedly stopped...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Booster jabs for elderly, front liners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday announced that Covid-19 booster shots can be given to those fully vaccinated as there are enough stocks already in the country for everyone with more coming, as a way of ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires 20 million Covid-19 doses
Zimbabwe has acquired a total of 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, enough for almost 10 million people, a development that places the country among the top rated countries in procuring Covid-19 su...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires 20M Covid-19 doses
ZIMBABWE has acquired a total of 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, enough for almost 10 million people, a development that places the country among the top rated countries in procuring Covid-19 su...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 23:34hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
99% Govt workers vaccinated?
CLOSE to 99 percent of Government workers in Zimbabwe have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of next month's deadline by which all civil servants must be immunised or face disciplinary acti...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'High temperatures won't stop 4th wave'
HEALTH experts have warned of a deadlier fourth wave of COVID-19 in the forthcoming festive months of December and January, saying the high temperatures being experienced in the country were unlikely ...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Level 2 lockdown extended
The Level Two national Covid-19 lockdown has been extended by a further two-weeks with no further relaxations and citizens are being urged to follow all required safeguards as complacency continues to...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt exposed over COVID-19 vaccines
MEMBERS of the public who were vaccinated with the first jab of the Indian Covaxin COVID-19 jab and failed to get the second dose might be forced to restart the vaccination exercise using Chinese Sino...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Unvaccinated civil servants 'fired'
CIVIL servants who defied government's order to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should not report for duty starting Monday, their employer said yesterday.The civil servants will also be denied ...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Russia rubbishes UK vaccine theft claims
Claims in the British press that Russian spies stole the blueprint for the British-made Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are unfounded, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.An October 10 arti...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Herd immunity Dec target unlikely to be attained
ZIMBABWE's ambitious target of attaining 60% Covid-19 herd immunity by December is in doubt, with only 15.9% of the country now fully vaccinated , three months before the government's set deadline to ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe probes 4 deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe investigated four deaths over possible links to Covid-19 vaccines, officials said on Sunday.The four cases were among 96 reported post-vaccination adverse reactions, but none of them ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa considers reopening borders
THE Government is considering re-opening land borders to the general public in time for the festive holidays as the country has officially gone past the Covid-19 third wave and continues to see a decl...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex workers urged to get Covid-19 jabs
SEX workers have been urged to get vaccinated against Covid-19 because of the nature of their business which does not allow physical distancing.Sex work is one of the sectors in the country th...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe considers reopening borders
THE Government is considering re-opening land borders to the general public in time for the festive holidays as the country has officially gone past the C...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe hits 3 million first jabs
More than 3 million Zimbabweans, 20 percent of the entire population, have now entered the national vaccination programme by having their first shot of Covid-19 vaccine with more than 2,157 million of...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo second city to attain herd immunity, claims Chiwenga
THE country's second largest city, Bulawayo, will soon become the second city after Victoria Falls to achieve herd immunity, with 64% of the targeted population having received the first dose of COVID...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Midlands close to herd immunity
The Midlands province is moving fast towards achieving herd immunity with over 31 percent of the population having been vaccinated across the province so far. According to the provincial...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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