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Zimbabwe waives duty on Covid-19 material
Duty on imported drugs and other materials used in the Covid-19 response has been waived, with Government expressing satisfaction with mitigation measures put in place by the Inter-Ministerial Taskfor...Published: 15 hrs ago | 82 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans flee to rural areas
THOUSANDS of food insecure families in Harare and other cities and towns yesterday flocked to their rural homes after failing to stock up enough food supplies to last them until the end of the 21-day ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:30hrs | 2705 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe army to enforce 21-day lockdown
Zimbabwe Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa says army will enforce Monday's lockdown since the country is in a war-like situation against COVID19. She warned churches not to gather during ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 20:23hrs | 7103 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Mnangagwa's lockdown
The government yesterday moved to exempt certain sectors from the lockdown that begins tomorrow after industry warned that forcing all companies to shut down will ground the fragile economy.Pr...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:19hrs | 8380 | by Staff reporter
21-day lockdown: Mnangagwa urges discipline
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to exercise discipline during the 21-day lockdown that starts tomorrow, saying staying indoors is the panacea to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:40hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 testing to decentralise
Government is decentralising laboratory testing for coronavirus specimens with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo joining the National Reference Laboratory in Harare ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa mourns Zororo Makamba
INFORMATION, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa has expressed sadness at the passing of broadcaster Zororo Makamba.Makamba, who was 30, succumbed to the Cor...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Evil ZANU-PF laughs at the poor in press conference
The recent announcement today that Cabinet is likely to be reshuffled can only be greeted with intrepid cautiousness. Their ability to just laugh at...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 16:08hrs | 6158 | by Thabo Makuyana
Information Bill sails through
The Freedom of Information Bill and the International Treaties Bill sailed through their final stages in Parliament yesterday and now await the assent of the President before they become law. ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:37hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Chief Samambwa spills the beans on Zimbabwe's 2018 elections
CHIEF Samambwa, from Midlands province, has spilled the beans, revealing that traditional leaders in the province campaigned for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the 2018 general elections and vowed to...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 4718 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga snubs Mnangagwa
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday allegedly snubbed his boss President Emmerson Mnangagwa's field day held at the latter's Pricabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, as reported power struggles con...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 6581 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to work smarter, not always harder
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday challenged farmers to embrace technology so they can work smarter, not harder, to improve yields. Speaking to farmers at his Pricabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe Dist...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 05:57hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers to access US$50m John Deere tractors
GOVERNMENT has assured farmers that they are eligible to access equipment for the assembling of tractors, combine harvesters and disc harrows under the US$50 million John Deere facility, with the equi...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:50hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Selous Scouts were led to Nyadzonya by sellout Nyati
WE continue our interview with Retired Major Wurayai Levis Masimbi pseudonym Simbi Dzewondo who on 9 August 1976 was one of the survivors of a callous raid by a column of 84 Rhodesian Selous Scouts le...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
It never rains but pours for Zim citizens as a cocktail of problems rock them - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has posited the adage, "it never rains but pours" plays out in the lives of Zimbabweans on a daily basis considering the array of endless problems faced by citizens without ...Published: 06 Mar 2020 at 10:16hrs | 987 | by Steven Jakes
Sacked Herald Editor exposes Monica Mutsvangwa and Nick Mangwana
Sacked Herald Editor Jorum Nyathi has accused Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa and her permanent secretary Nick Mangwana of engineering his exit from the state controlled newspaper as they wante...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 19:52hrs | 13498 | by Staff Reporter
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
Mnangagwa amnesty to benefit 5 000 prisoners
CABINET yesterday approved a general amnesty that will see a minimum of 5 000 inmates test freedom in a bid to decongest the prisons currently holding in excess of 22 000 prisoners against a carrying ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 08:08hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants want normal life, not freebies
OUR political leaders' arrogance and selfishness has become so brazen that it is easy to notice their corruption.They own big houses, stolen farms (often more than one), flashy cars (usually s...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:37hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must stop inciting his supporters, says govt
THE government yesterday said the Nelson Chamisa- led MDC must stop inciting its supporters to engage in violent demonstrations, adding the police will descend heavily on hooligans.The warning...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:53hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes win in Chimanimani
Zanu-PF has expressed confidence of retaining the Chimanimani East Ward 16 council seat in the March 14 by-election. The seat, which covers areas such as Gwindingwi, Silverstream, Duri, among ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus: Zimbabwe on high alert
ZIMBABWE remains on high alert at all its official entry points in view of the global health threat of coronavirus, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
The pupil who survived the dreaded Selous Scouts raid
ON 9 August 1976 a column of 84 Rhodesian Selous Scouts led by Captain Rob Warracker attacked Nyadzonya Camp in Mozambique, a facility that was populated mainly by non-militants and massacred over 1 0...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:50hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt vows to continue opening up airwaves
GOVERNMENT has pledged to continue opening up the airwaves and pleaded with players in the media industry to guard against compromising national security in their reportage.Speaking at the lau...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:37hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants savage Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have not only rejected the government's plans to introduce a welfare fund- that will see them contributing 2,5 percent of their salary to this pot every month- they have also slammed Fi...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 16:53hrs | 1209 | by Staff reporter
African Women Leaders Network - Zimbabwe Chapter launched
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday launched the African Women Leaders Network Zimbabwean Chapter (AWLNZC) in Victoria Falls where the 6th South African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (A...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:27hrs | 218 | by Innocent Mujeri
'Army snubs Mthuli Ncube's 2.5% garrison shops tax scheme'
The Zimbabwe Army has reportedly snubbed an initiative by the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government to impose a 2.5% tax on civil servants so as to generate funds to subsidize garrison shops for the unifo...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 15:20hrs | 3373 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa jets off to Botswana
President Mnangagwa has left Harare for Gaborone, Botswana to attend the Bi-National commission to be held in that country tomorrow.He was accompanied by Minister and Economic Development...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 13:46hrs | 1889 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Special tuckshops for Zimbabwean soldiers, cops
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government says it will set up subsidised grocery shops in army barracks to cushion restive members of the uniformed forces from the rising cost of living, but made no i...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
Low-interest loans for all Government employees
All Government employees will be able to access low-interest loans from a fund set up with Government seed money and salary deductions from all civil service and defence forces staff. In addit...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges women to take up leadership positions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged women to take up leadership positions in the development agenda as they are the beacon of morality and integrity. He was speaking while officiating at the launch of ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
AU insists on Zimbabwe sanctions removal
African Union Commission, deputy commissioner Mr Kwesi Quartey has called for the removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by United States and its allies, saying they were negatively impacting on the...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe threatens mines over unpaid licence fees
Zimbabwe has given holders of mining concessions up to the end of April to pay US$11 million in outstanding annual fees or risk losing their licences, the mines minister said on Tuesday.Mining...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 20:27hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
Passport fees hiked to $150
Government has with immediate effect reviewed application fees for an ordinary passport from $53 to $150 and that of an emergency passport from $253 to $600. The move is aimed at clearing the ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:31hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
New measures to clear passport backlog
CABINET yesterday approved strategies to clear the passport backlog which will see the fees going up and those with free funds being allowed to pay in foreign currency. A Statutory Instrument ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Deadlock over minimum wage
SALARY talks in the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) have reportedly stalled after parties failed to agree on a minimum wage, with workers threatening to pull out of the negotiations and declare a s...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
6 TV licences issued to independent players
Government will have issued six television licences to independent players by August to improve diversity in information dissemination as the new administration liberalises the airwaves, Information, ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:03hrs | 426 | by Staff reportert
Zimbabwe to avail 19 campus radio licences
Government has gazetted a Frequency Allotment Plan and Regulations that enable the establishment of 19 on-campus radio stations to be operated by institutions of higher learning, Information, Publicit...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 134 | by Staff reportert
Zimbabwe remains on high alert for coronavirus
Zimbabwe remains on high alert, especially at ports of entry, for the deadly new coronavirus, amid reports that over 1 400 travellers have passed through the country's ports of entry that are screenin...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 109 | by Staff reportert
No rescue for marooned Binga families
FOUR days after the Binga flash floods, government is still battling to rescue the estimated 21 marooned and displaced families.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a post-Cabinet Press bri...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1322 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa's govt introduces roller meal coupons
Coupons will be issued within a week to targeted households to buy subsidised roller meal with the database of beneficiaries at an advanced stage, a Cabinet Minister has said. The coupon syste...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:48hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Breaking: Army fails to fly to flooded Binga
Villagers in parts of Binga affected by floods are still stranded on trees after the army failed to fly to area and rescue them due to bad weather. Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa, in a...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 18:39hrs | 4023 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Hatred appointed as new Herald editor
The Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers) appointed a substantive editor of its flagship Herald newspaper on Friday – 12 months after Joram Nyathi left the position.Hatred Zenenga, who was e...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 17:32hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
6 TV channels on the way
Zimbabwe is set to have at least six independent television channels with their licensing expected to be completed by August, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangw...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube urged to live within its means
LABOUR and business leaders within the Tripartite Negotiation Forum (TNF) Wednesday called on government to desist from borrowing, overspending and subsidising any product with little regard to the di...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 316 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa urges government to be in touch with communities
INFORMATION, Publicity & Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsavangwa said Cabinet on Tuesday held is first Cabinet meeting for the year 2020 in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa office...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa outlines 2020 plans
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said Government's focus this year will be on increasing productivity, growing the economy and employment creation, and directed leaders to spend more time with their comm...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Over 500 monitored for Coronavirus in Zimbabwe
AT least 506 novel Coronavirus cases are under surveillance in Zimbabwe while a special unit is being set up at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals to serve as a national command centre for mitigation mea...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
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