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Masiyiwa steps up face masks campaign
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has urged people to wear masks in the fight to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.This comes at a time the World Health Organisation (WH...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 105 | by Agencies
The three pendulums of Zimbabwean politics
The names Mugabe, Mujuru and Mnangagwa have hogged the headlines of Zimbabwean politics for over a century collectively. The three have nothing to show for the hectares of space that their names have ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:58hrs | 2753 | by Joseph 'Slovo' Mupokosera
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 | 1493 | by Thandekile Moyo
HLF steps up Testing in Zimbabwe with free testing for the poor
Businessman and Africa Union Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa has announced free COVID-19 testing in Zimbabwe, along with ramped up testing for the broader population at cost, through his Higherlife Foun...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:41hrs | 555 | by Agencies
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 | 4421 | by Agencies
Cassava Fintech launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against Coronavirus
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the te...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:56hrs | 130 | by Agencies
Temba Mliswa defends Kuda Tagwirei
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswea has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Zanu PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei after reports that he could soon become Zimbabwe's biggest gold...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 16:22hrs | 3532 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa organising funding for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe will receive funding support to buy medical equipment to fight Covid-19 from Afreximbank as part of the African Union's initiative to help its members combat the pandemic, businessman Strive ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:41hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
AU Special Envoy speaks on the importance of Testing
Why we need Testing, Tracing, and Isolation: The leader of a small country in the Caribbean with about 100,000 people, wanted to make sure that his coun...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 10:22hrs | 1282 | by Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators
Strive Masiyiwa has announced the arrival of 45 full ICU ventilators in Zimbabwe which the businessman ordered a couple of months back. The billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, who is ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:51hrs | 175 | by Agencies
Masiyiwa donates 1 000 ventilators to Zimbabwe
BUSINESS tycoon Strive Masiyiwa yesterday announced the arrival of 45 full intensive care unit ventilators in Zimbabwe, for which he placed an order a couple of months back.The billionaire ent...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
Death has robbed us of our affable Raymond Njanike
INSPITE of the many bereavements I have had over the years, nothing prepares me for the loss of dear and close friends. Not even the fact that I do my fair share of laying to rest a number of those we...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:51hrs | 2059 | by Philip Mataranyika
Mnangagwa faces a people-powered change
Emmerson Mnangagwa told us the voice of the people is the voice of God. He didn't listen to either. Now he faces a people's power movement.This article was first published by ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 22:50hrs | 11207 | by Siphosami Malunga
EcoCash unveils online self-service portal for agents, merchants and other channel partners
EcoCash has unveiled an online self-service portal which allows its agents, merchants, billers, bulk payers and payroll channel partners to submit their applications online without the need to physica...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 08:40hrs | 3673 | by Agencies
Starving Zimbabwean doctor begs for aid
A MEDICAL doctor employed by the Health and Child Care ministry at Beitbridge District Hospital has publicly declared her poverty and begged for help via Twitter.The NewsDay confirmed Sandra K...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1131 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa champions AU COVID-19 fight
THE African Union (AU) has set in motion a bid to raise resources for the procurement of 15 million COVID-19 test kits per month for distribution to member States as the regional body up-scales testin...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:45hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa pledges to coordinate Covid-19 supplies
TOP Zimbabwean businessman Dr Strive Masiyiwa has pledged to coordinate the procurement and distribution of Covid-19 supplies by the private sector to unblock the supply chain. Dr Masiyiwa, wh...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Ecocash loses court case against RBZ
High Court of Zimbabwe has thrown out an application by EcoCash for the restoration of thousands of agent lines terminated by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for suspected illegal forex trading. ...Published: 26 May 2020 at 13:56hrs | 9783 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans billionaire's company takes over SA data centre
AFRICA Data Centres, part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has completed the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Tier IV data centre in Johannesburg from Standard Bank, Africa's largest bank. The ac...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2785 | by Staff reporter
Econet reopens shops and service centres countrywide
Econet Wireless has begun reopening its shops following the lifting of some COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. But the company cautioned customers to be patient as it ramps up p...Published: 19 May 2020 at 19:25hrs | 1316 | by Agencies
'Key to stopping covid-19 is ITTIT and civic collaborative effort' - keep corrupt government and it come to naught
"Writing on his popular Facebook blog following his appointment by the African Union as a Special Envoy to Coordinate the Africa Private Sector Initiative for the Procurement of Personal Protective Eq...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:24hrs | 485 | by Nomusa Garikai
Covid-19: Masiyiwa tips govts
BUSINESSMAN Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the "ITTIT" formula for fighting the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic as governments across the continent gradually ease national l...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa urges collaboration among private sector, NGOs and faith-based organizations in combating COVID-19 in Africa
Businessman Strive Masiyiwa has urged Africans to adopt what he calls the 'ITTIT' formula to fighting the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic as governments across the continent gradually ease...Published: 16 May 2020 at 15:05hrs | 865 | by Agencies
WATCH: Zimbabwe top artists release Coronavirus song
Strive Masiyiwa's Cassava Fintech International (CFI) through the Sasai Team Talk has produced a prayer song for Zimbabwe titled The BlessingZW. The song saw top Zimbabwean musicians...Published: 12 May 2020 at 10:42hrs | 1537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is failing the MDC-Alliance dismally! I should be forgiven if I say he is an implant
You do not need to be a lawyer to recognize the chronic errors MDC-Alliance made after Richard Morgen Tsvangirai's death. It is equally surprising that a political party blessed with several lawyers, ...Published: 09 May 2020 at 20:26hrs | 8616 | by Nomazulu Thata
Ramaphosa appoints Strive Masiyiwa
AFRICAN Union chairman and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Zimbabwean billionaire Mr Strive Masiyiwa to coordinate a private sector-led continental effort to procure critical per...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 9170 | by Staff reporter
The emperor parades naked
DIPLOMACY, some say, is the idea of telling someone to go to hell and they look forward to it. Zimbabwe has been used to the idea of being a country that is a pariah State and more specificall...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1012 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Masiyiwa ranked the most influential businessperson in the world
Telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has been ranked by CrowdTangle as the most influential businessperson on Facebook. The list includes Mark Zuckerberg who is number 2, Richard Branson who is num...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 17:56hrs | 4062 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'I won't talk about sanctions' says Masiyiwa - why not, need no-hold-barred to get out of this mess
"While I don't want to get into the issues around how and why there are sanctions, everyone knows that I personally had to flee my country, Zimbabwe, because of persecution 20 years ago," said Strive ...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1690 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Strive Masiyiwa leads campaign for Zimbabwe
Businessman Mr Strive Masiyiwa has appealed to the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral institutions for humanitarian support for Zimbabwe in the wake of the e...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:58hrs | 3465 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must introduce wealth tax and improve our health sector as Nguwaya donates drugs
Mr D Nguwaya a Zimbabwean business man has challenged other Zimbabwean businesses to come together and help the government to fight COVID 19. Mr D Nguwaya is a decorated dedicated Zimbabwean business ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 17:45hrs | 2283 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Masiyiwa declares war on COVID-19...deploys 100 000 test kits to ramp up testing in Zimbabwe
Pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa has given 100 000 test kits for use in testing people from vulnerable and poor communities in Zimbabwe for the COVID-19 coronavirus.Masiyiwa has recentl...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 17:37hrs | 2834 | by Agencies
Triple threat of COVID-19, food shortages and economic crisis
Some restrictions of an initial 21-day lockdown that began last month, and was later extended by two more weeks, to contain the spread of CoVID-19 are being eased as the government tries to offset the...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 119 | by The New Humanitarian
Corporate Zimbabwe unites in the fight against Covid-19
WHILE the coronavirus pandemic has exposed mankind to one of the worst disease outbreaks in modern times, it is also bringing out the best in people.With global giants such as Alibaba, Roche a...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:59hrs | 174 | by Robin Mungate
362 people with disabilities families receive food donations from Strive Masiyiwa
TELECOMMUNICATIONS mogul Strive Masiyiwa's Higher Life Foundation has donated food hampers to families of 362 people with disabilities (PWDs) to avert starvation during lockdown.The donation c...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 08:08hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube yet to release COVID-19 funds
GOVERNMENT's incapacity to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country was exposed in a case currently before the High Court where the Health ministry disclosed that Treasury has not yet ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:32hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
'A disaster is loading in Zimbabwe,' says Chamisa
The Covid-19 coronavirus, which has killed 100 000 people across the world, could be stalking Zimbabwe silently.There were concerns about poor preparedness, inadequate testing and socioeconomi...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 15:14hrs | 3427 | by Staff reporter
President Mnagagwa's Administration being caught napping again?
Government received praise for the noble gesture to put the country under a 21-day lockdown in the wake of the widespread of COVID-19 across the globe. The ZANU PF led administration has yet again bee...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 10:52hrs | 608 | by Prince Njagu
Why Obert Mpofu ditched Joshua Nkomo and joined Mugabe's Zanu-PF in 1980
From Zapu and becoming Zanu-PFCDE Robert Mugabe's electoral popularity 1980 at independence only proved that the future of Zimbabwean politics resided in Zanu-PF. The coalition government whic...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 08:40hrs | 786 | by Obert Mpofu
Mnagagwa's administration being caught napping again?
Government received praise for the noble gesture to put the country under a 21-day lockdown in the wake of the widespread of COVID-19 across the globe. The ZANU PF led administration has yet again bee...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 21:02hrs | 1230 | by Prince Njagu
Open letter to Reuben Tendai Mbofana
Dear Tendai, I have just finished reading your article that stood out from many other articles I have just read today in Bulawayo 24. Although your contribution was more of a religious Good Fr...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 12:12hrs | 1583 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Dire shortage' of equipment to fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
Medics in Zimbabwe have warned there is a "dire shortage" of ventilators, oxygen tanks, biohazard suits and N95 face masks for healthcare professionals fighting the coronavirus pandemic.In a s...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Postpone June exams, says Zimta
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has proposed the postponement of the June and November 2020 examinations owing to the failure by teachers to travel to their nearest centres to administer the...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
As COVID-19 stalks the continent, Masiyiwa donates 45 Ventilator ICU sets to Zimbabwe
Businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has donated 45 Ventilator Intensive Care Unit (ICU) suites to Zimbabwe in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Masiyiwa, who has been leading a ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 21:35hrs | 3401 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe bans selling of alcohol
Zimbabwe has banned the selling of alcohol during the 21 days countrywide that was declared by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The ban was effected from Thursday 2 April 2020. Police Spo...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1086 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 270 | by Financial Mail
Masiyiwa's solution for the shortage of hospital beds as Africa braces for Coronavirus
On his popular Facebook blog, Strive Masiyiwa proposes a solution to how African countries can address the shortage of critical hospital beds to nurse Coronavirus patients.He writes:"W...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1651 | by Agencies
Corporate Zim unites in the fight against Covid-19
WHILE the coronavirus pandemic has exposed mankind to one of the worst disease outbreaks in modern times, it is also bringing out the best in people.With global giants such as Alibaba, Roche a...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 11:13hrs | 556 | by Robin Mungate
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