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Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1604 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe records 17 new COVID-19 cases, 11 more recoveries
ZIMBABWE this Tuesday recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 591.Of the positive cases, 13 are returnees from South Africa while three are local ca...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1297 | by Staff reporter
Cop force-marches boss to charge office at gunpoint
A POLICE officer based at Zezani Police Station in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South province has been locked up for allegedly force-marching his superior from his home to the office at gunpoint, protest...Published: 24 hrs ago | 2272 | by Staff reporter
Child marriage costs hubby
A Mbire man left Guruve magistrates courts in stitches after he queried the wisdom of having to be subjected to a trial over impregnating his 15-year-old wife.The suspect who cannot be named t...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:49hrs | 3777 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Plot to oust Khupe gathers pace
VULTURES are circling over MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe with insiders saying there is a plot to oust her by end of this month after she failed to convene an extraordinary congress (EOC) with...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:22hrs | 14627 | by Staff reporter
Interim Zisco board chair leaves in a huff
ECONOMIST Gift Mugano has resigned as Ziscosteel interim chairperson after Industry minister Sekai Nzenza reportedly censored him for making remarks that were deemed in 'conflict' with his role as a b...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
FAO doubts Zimbabwe's cereal import capacity
ZIMBABWE'S cereal import requirements for the 2020/21 year are estimated at about 1,1 million tonnes amid concern over the country's capacity to access offshore supplies at a time it is battling worse...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Key concerns on the Forex auction system
The Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is cautiously yielding to free market demands for the complete liberalization of the foreign exchange market and scrapping of various consumption subsidies that were...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 4268 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases show signs of stability'
Chief Coordinator National Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said although it is too early to claim victory, Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases seem to be stabilising, with very low leve...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1736 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema summoned over schools reopening
PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2421 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mustn't defend abusive Chinese employers
I WAS left shell-shocked after watching the ZTV 8pm news bulletin on June 26 when President Emmerson Mnangagwa literally gave the Chinese the right to shoot us because Zimbabweans are also committing ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 543 | by Tatenda Masawi
Khupe changes congress date
THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T was yesterday forced to change its extra-ordinary congress date from September 4 to July 31 following legal advice from its lawyer Lovemore Madhuku. The faction had to re...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 2895 | by Staff reporter
6 more returnees test Covid-19 positive
SIX more people, all returnees from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing Zimbabwe's cumulative total to 567 cases since the outbreak of the global pandemic in March. ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in congress U-Turn
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date.This comes ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 6751 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 559 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy run by master criminals fleecing the poor
Ordinary Zimbabweans have suffered for years as a result of currency manipulation and corruption by the elites who have siphoned US dollars away into their overseas bank accounts. Now, a recent ruling...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1426 | by Thandekile Moyo
Boarding schools open today
BOARDING schools will open today to receive pupils who will be writing June/ July examinations that start on Tuesday.As part of ensuring the smooth running of examinations, the Government has ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
'US$1 billion to back Zimbabwe forex auction'
Local banks have $1 billion in foreign currency accounts (FCAs) while the country has healthy inflows to sustain the newly introduced forex auction system that replaced the interbank with effect from ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Football restart gathers pace across Africa
Some football Leagues in Africa have been declared over, but Tanzania have forged ahead, returning to competitive football last weekend while clubs in Morocco and Egypt resumed training on Thursday ah...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:22hrs | 334 | by Busisani Ncube
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 14002 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4719 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 delays Zimbabwe wagons delivery from Russia'
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza has claimed that the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was supposed to take delivery of 100 wagons from Russia in January, but the consignment has been delayed ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's house built on sand
TYPICAL of the biblical foolish man who built his house on sand, the political winds seem to have come to blow the MDC-T house away, three months after its construction.Hardly three months aft...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:36hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
'Now is the time to liberate ourselves' - Why long wait? New Dotito puppy tale of the unexpected
Zimbabwe's corrupt and incompetent politicians, right across the political divide, take the Zimbabwean electorate for fools! It was only after Joice Mujuru was booted out; "baby dumped", as Gr...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 20:08hrs | 1963 | by Nomusa Garikai
Ex-Chipangano commander leads protest against Chinese violence
ONCE feared Zanu-PF youth boss, Jim Kunaka will lead a public protest against continued violence allegedly visited upon Zimbabwean workers by Chinese employers.The demonstrations, organised un...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:12hrs | 983 | by newzimbabwe
Border authorities intercept 21 smuggling commercial trucks
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have increased surveillance and anti-smuggling activities during the ongoing lockdown and 21 trucks and 22 other vehicles smuggling an assortment of goods worth m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:09hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Security guard steals VID money
A 21-YEAR-OLD Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) Rusape, security guard was jailed for 18 months after he broke into VID's accounts office and stole a cash box containing $7200 bond.Leonard A...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 15:18hrs | 1312 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Morocco's Botola League returns on July 24 after lengthy Covid-19 break
The Botola League of Morocco is set to return on July 24, which will be exactly 133 days since football activities were postponed in the north African country due to the Covid-19 outbreak.Gove...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 268 | by Busisani Ncube
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9924 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Covid-19 scandal: Procurement committee denies involvement
THE Special Procurement Oversight Committee (Spoc) has distanced itself from the ongoing Covid-19 scandal, saying all procurement was done through the Ministry of Health and Child Care in line with a ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
Shops ignore official exchange rate
RETAIL shops in Bulawayo yesterday continued trading using the parallel market exchange rate of US$1:$90, ignoring the new US$1:$57 rate announced by the central bank on Tuesday after the first day of...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:33hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
How RBZ, govt sabotaged plans to restore Zimdollar
UNITED States $75 allowances and allowing retailers to trade in forex show a government shifting into reverse gear, possibly ditching two years' worth of policy steps to end dollarisation.The ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 6331 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, parents resist schools reopening
TEACHERS and parents in Marondera have said there was no need for the reopening of schools in the wake of COVID-19 infections.Speaking during a Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)-or...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to reintroduce passenger train
GOVERNMENT has said the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train is coming back soon to relieve commuters who have been facing transport challenges since the lockdown came into effect in Ma...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
'Kombi' operators turn vehicles to mobile stores
Known as kombis in Zimbabwe, commuter omnibuses are no more, but in residential areas they have resurfaced, with conductors this time not shouting out for passengers, but for customers to rush for buy...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1093 | by Jeffrey Moyo, Anadolu News
Zimbabwe army, Chinese deal collapses
The military is terminating its platinum mining deal with a Chinese firm to pave the way for new investors after over a decade of unfruitful engagement.The development comes after Global Plati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 2585 | by Staff reporter
Pessimism grips forex platform
Business wants more "transparency more than promises" on the foreign currency auction system for the platform to succeed as the parallel market continued unabated yesterday, a day after monetary autho...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:36hrs | 2168 | by Staff reporter
MDC bulls have locked horns, they will fight to death - no glory for either much less for nation, 'Shaisano!'
Now that the MDC bulls have locked horns, there is no stopping the fight! There is death for both bulls, no glory! "Shaisano!" as one would say in Shona. Ever since the Supreme Court jud...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 13:10hrs | 2073 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe records 59 new COVID-19 recoveries
THIS Wednesday, the country recorded five more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 530 since the onset of the outbreak in March this year.In a statement, The Min...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:19hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Strive Masiyiwa's ventilators arrive in the country
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ventilator suites that were donated by businessman and Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa are now in the country ready to be deployed.Through his Higher Life Foundati...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 10:26hrs | 4405 | by Agencies
ZANU-PF president misfiring
What are we Zimbabweans waiting for, really! Should we wake up when the titanic hit the bottom of the sea. Our country will be in extreme poverty worse than today - it will be extremely painful. How m...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 4720 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Blame Tsvangirai for your woes, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has told the MDC to blame its founding leader the late Morgan Tsvangirai for the chaos in the opposition party.Tsvangirai appointed Nelson Chamisa...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 3279 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to be in charge till September
THOKOZANI Khupe will remain in charge of the MDC-T as acting president until September 5 when the party will hold its extraordinary congress at a yet to be announced venue.Party deputy spokesp...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1729 | by Staff reporter
Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight
WHEN we speak of the year 2020 the name Gorge Floyd wields more weight than the COVID-19 pandemic for obvious socio-political reasons. George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, in the USA....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 114 | by Nqaba Matshazi
HIV positive people at low risk of dying from COVID-19
A study by the South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) has shown that People Living With HIV (PLWH) are at less risk of dying from COVID-19 than those with underlying illnesse...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park police brutality case postponed to July
The case in which six police officers are accused of brutally assaulting two Cowdray Park women for allegedly violating Covid-19 lockdown regulations is now to set to commence on July 13.This ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:58hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
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