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Minister predicts flat COVID-19 curve as MDC calls for compulsory testing
Deputy Information Minister Dr. Energy Mutodi has claimed that the lockdown measures put in place by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government have helped stop the spread of CoronaVirus in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1185 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Mnangagwa speaks on increasing lockdown days
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told the nation that he is yet to announce whether he will extend the lockdown at the end of 21 days or not after making consultations. Speaking made the revel...Published: 11 hrs ago | 4854 | by Mandla Ndlovu
All health workers should be tested for Covid-19, Mnangagwa 'told'
Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) boss Enock Dongo reportedly "told" president Emmerson Mnangagwa that all health workers should be tested for Covid-19.According to permanent Secretary for In...Published: 12 hrs ago | 867 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Lockdown loses momentum
THERE are growing concerns that the ongoing 21-day national lockdown that was imposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to combat the spread of coronavirus is running out of steam.This comes as ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 997 | by Staff reporter
UZ seeks to scrap programmes such as Sociology, lecturers, admin clash
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe(UZ) lecturers are up in arms with the institution's administration for allegedly seeking to scrap several programmes and replacing them unilaterally without consulting the acade...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1684 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's COVID-19 bungling exposed
GOVERNMENT has been accused of bungling and not conducting enough tests to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed three people in Zimbabwe, with doctors demanding an audit of circumsta...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Remittance queues back
Remittance beneficiaries are back in their long queues after Government allowed citizens to access their monies from the diaspora in the second week of the lockdown.Most remittance facilities ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 767 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, COVID-19: Zimbabwe economy's biggest threats
At the core of a functional democracy is the commitment by citizens to constantly demand to be governed well through active participation in public affairs and holding those in public offices to fully...Published: 20 hrs ago | 500 | by Jameson Dapi
No movement of people, vehicle during Easter: Police
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned people and motorists against moving out of their residence during this Easter holiday, saying no movement of people or vehicles will be allowed on the country's...Published: 20 hrs ago | 679 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga engages Zacc over Mnangagwa's son
Controversial businessman Frank Buyanga has shopped one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons to human rights and anti-corruption watchdogs, accusing him of corrupting a judge.The South Afric...Published: 20 hrs ago | 824 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF hijacks Wold Bank funds'
OPPOSITION MDC mayors have come out guns blazing accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of working to hijack a social welfare programme funded by the World Bank running into millions of United States dolla...Published: 20 hrs ago | 624 | by Staff reporter
Police warn against travelling at Easter
POLICE have arrested 2 885 people countrywide for disregarding lockdown regulations and warned people against travelling during the Easter holidays because the lockdown is still on. Easter holidays st...Published: 20 hrs ago | 209 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army concern over lockdown defiance
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has noted willful defiance of the lockdown order, hence it is deploying personnel for joint operations with the police to ensure compliance. The country is und...Published: 20 hrs ago | 477 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife rescues quarantined Ruwa family
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has, through her Angel of Hope Foundation, provided portable bathrooms, toilets and sanitisers for the Sakudya family in Ruwa, whose four members have tested positive for...Published: 20 hrs ago | 229 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Chamisa fight over MDC HQ
A BATTLE to control MDC headquarters Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, formely Harvest House, has erupted between factions of the party headed by dethroned president Nelson Chamisa and reinstated secre...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 14:19hrs | 3088 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wishes Chiwenga dead - Zanu pf official
Embattled Zanu PF official Goodman Musariri who was dragged to court on Saturday for undermining the authority of the president sensationally claimed that president Emmerson Mnangagwa and his clan wis...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 09:29hrs | 12551 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Covid-19 got heads rolling in Zimbabwe starting in March - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the outbreak of Covid 19 across the world has set heads rolling in Zimbabwe with government and various stakeholders scrambling to find solutions and preve...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 918 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's youths threaten bloodbath over party HQ
Militant MDC Alliance youths have threatened to end the country's 21-day national lockdown by taking to the streets to resist the planned takeover of their headquarters by MDC-T secretary-general Doug...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 2896 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mthuli should be restrained
THE COVID-19 pandemic is causing more than a medical problem across the world. Economies across the globe have caught the cold, some more than others and soon, a co-ordinated multilateral solution may...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4415 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabweans fume over lockdown brutality
STATE security agents deployed to enforce the 21-day national lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus have been accused of terrorising residents in several towns and cities, with some...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:08hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T stopped 'Young Dictator' Chamisa from winning 2018 election
FORMER MDC-T Vice President Obert Gutu says his political outfit only contested the 2018 national elections to block MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa from winning the plebiscite....Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
PSC distributes 33 newly acquired buses
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) has started distributing 33 buses, which were last month commissioned by President Mnangagwa under the Civil Service Buses Transport Fund to ferry civil servants. ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Govt to expedite Covid-19 testing, treatment & isolation centres
GOVERNMENT has resolved to expedite and prioritise the establishment of Covid-19 testing, treatment and isolation centres in provinces and districts in line with the thrust of decentralisation of test...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as markets open
CHAOTIC scenes were witnessed at the market place in Bulawayo yesterday as it was teeming with people, mostly vendors who jostled to buy fresh produce. It took police and soldiers to maintain ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Social distancing worry for Mbare Musika
Zimbabwe's largest fresh produce market, Mbare Musika, officially reopened yesterday, but with social distancing and washing of hands not being observed. Such measures were, however, in ...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe brought army Commanders to a Cabinet meeting to confront G40
In 2017, President Robert Mugabe invited military Generals led by General Constantino Chiwenga to come and defend the controversial Command Agriculture project that gobbled about Three billion United ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 22:41hrs | 5397 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa has not suspended rentals
A viral social media on Tuesday claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa had directed landlords and landladies not to demand payments from their tenants during the 21-day lockdown, which ends on April 19....Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 19:35hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa used black magic to win election - Zanu pf official
A Zanu PF official in Mashonaland Central province Goodman Musariri has accused president Emmerson Mnangagwa of using black magic to dupe electorate....Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 17:41hrs | 3046 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Conman posing as Zimbabwe's ambassador to SA seeks 'donations'
Zimbabwe's ministry of foreign affairs on Tuesday said an impostor, claiming to be its ambassador in South Africa David Hamadziripi, had been soliciting money and donations from unwitting members of t...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:31hrs | 812 | by Agency staff
Zimbabwe churches go digital for COVID-19 ravaged Easter
AMID the coronavirus (COVI-19) wreaking havoc across the globe, governments have responded with lockdowns and bans on large gatherings.In all likelihood, the annual Easter congregations will b...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:30hrs | 426 | by Agency staff
'Zimbabwe prison still free from Covid-19'
ONE of the released inmates who benefited from the Presidential Amnesty has declared that prisons are still safe from coronavirus although it is not a place to stay.Tatenda Govere, 31, was sho...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:24hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
Charamba dismisses Mnangagwa's 'statement' on rentals as fake news
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet who is also Presidential spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, dismissed as fake news a statement attributed to President Mnangagwa purporting to direct...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:22hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wishes Boris Johnson quick recovery
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa joined other world leaders in wishing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery after the British leader was diagnosed with the coronavirus.PM Johnson (55) tested p...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:22hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Lockdown brings prejudice to over 96 percent Informal Workers
The announcement by Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe to put the country under a 21-day lockdown amid the widespread of the coronavirus pandemic was welcomed by most citizens, but the 96 perce...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:11hrs | 525 | by Prince Njagu
'Nothing can sanitise Chamisa's illegal transgressions' says Chamboko - Hear! Hear!
Dear Moses Chamboko, Thank you very much for your sober analysis of the recent Supreme Court judgement on the legality of Chamisa's takeover of the MDC-T following Tsvangirai's death. The fact...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:04hrs | 2249 | by Wilbert Mukori
WATCH: Zimbabweans risk Coronavirus...flood Mbare market
It was business as usual on Tuesday at Mbare Musika as hordes of farmers flocked to the market to sell their wares after President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave green light for the market to be opened. ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1592 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt must have considered livelihoods of citizens before locking down the country - MDA
Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance (MDA) leader Hloniphani Ncube has said a government that loves and respect the people that would have voted it into power, must have considered the livelihoods of t...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 11:29hrs | 1587 | by Stephen Jakes
Government endorses Prophet Makandiwa as a true Man of God
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi says the government recognizes Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa as a true Man of God and pleaded with him sand other Prophets to lead the nation in praying to Go...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 11:16hrs | 3846 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus live news: Boris Johnson in intensive care as Japan declares state of emergency
Zimbabwe's health minister has warned people against selling unregistered Covid-19 self-test kits.Obadiah Moyo told the state-owned Herald newspaper that all test kits have to be evaluated by ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe turn to sangomas in COVID-19 fight
A traditional healer has joined the COVID-19 fight as the number of confirmed cases has risen to 10 in Zimbabwe.Kenneth Chivizhe, a registered traditional practitioner, is said to have a herba...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 10:51hrs | 1716 | by Staff reporter
Govt warns of Mnangagwa doctored rentals letter
Government has warned Zimbabweans to be on the lookout for a fake letter purportedly written by President Emmerson Mnangagwa directing property owners not to charge rent because of the 21-day lock dow...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 10:25hrs | 3675 | by Moyo Roy
Plumtree High School used as a Coronavirus quarantine centre
The prestigious Plumtree High School is currently being used as a quarantine centre for Zimbabweans returning from Botswana, Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana has revealed. Mangwana said...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 09:31hrs | 499 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa & Chamisa unite for Boris Johnson
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have wished British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for coronavirus, a speedy recovery after he was sent to the In...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1819 | by Moyo Roy
Mnangagwa and Chamisa messages wishing Boris Johnson a speedy recovery
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his nemesis Nelson Chamisa have sent messages wishing the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery. Johnson is currently admitted to the hospital...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 09:01hrs | 1615 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean doctor tells her story about treating Covid-19 in New York
A Zimbabwean doctor working in New York says she sometimes feels helpless in the fight against Covid-19 - and without a vaccine or cure, says the world should work more to flatten the curve.Dr...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1799 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aide threatens state clampdown on lockdown violators
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's aide George Charamba has threatened that government would be forced to take extraordinary measures if the people continue to ignore the 21-day lockdown rules.Mna...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa eases coronavirus lockdown to allow diaspora remittances flow
Zimbabwe will allow citizens to access remittances from the diaspora and permit farmers to take their produce to the market, easing a three-week coronavirus lockdown that analysts fear could push the ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 593 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa must resign, says Zanu-PF official
A ZANU-PF official based in Mashonaland Central province was on Saturday taken to Bindura Magistrates Cours for allegedly calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign.Goodman Musariri, wh...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2498 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora takes charge, locks up MDC HQ
MDC-T secretary-general Mr Douglas Mwonzora yesterday claimed to have taken charge of the opposition party's affairs and locked up the party's headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (MRT) House. This...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:08hrs | 1033 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diaspora remittances take a knock
COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on diaspora remittances in Zimbabwe where some households, which depend on assistance from relatives abroad, are in dire straits, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Developm...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 08:07hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
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