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Govt fumigates public areas
Government has begun fumigating public areas in Harare in a bid to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in communities as the country's confirmed cases and deaths continue to soar. Nationa...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 09:19hrs | 998 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lockdown fatigue kicks in
The Herald Herald Reporters More people and vehicles are flouting Covid-19 lockdown rules as evidenced by a flurry of movements in residential areas and the Harare central business district. Manufactu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1136 | by Staff reporter
Govt warns on flooded rivers
Government yesterday warned people against crossing flooded rivers following a number of incidents of people being swept away or marooned. In a statement, Local Government and Public Works Act...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
$7bn for Covid-19 response
Government has set aside $7 billion for the heightened fight against Covid-19, with authorities yesterday calling for the tightening of restrictions to control the geographical spread of the virus. ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:03hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Chaos ahead of lockdown
THERE was chaos at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday as thousands of Zimbabweans made last-minute attempts to cross into neighbouring South Africa.In cities and towns, thousands of travellers f...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:28hrs | 1208 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's tighter lockdown measures gazetted
The lockdown amendment order moving Zimbabwe from Level Two national lockdown back to a Level 4 for 30 days, with a few additions suspending permission for church services and other gatherings, was ga...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi urges association to approach NPA
JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has urged United Chiredzi Residents and Ratepayers Association (UCHIRRA) to file a formal complaint against prosecutors whom it accuse...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:46hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's riot police bashes 11-month baby
POLICE in riot gear on Saturday accidentally struck a baby with a truncheon in Chiredzi barely two days after the world commemorated Human Rights Day on Thursday last week.The 11-month-old bab...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1588 | by Staff reporter
ZEC requires $8,6 billion for delimitation exercise
The $1,744 billion allocated in the 2021 National Budget by Treasury to allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to conduct the delimitation exercise ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, has b...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
The factions exposed during DCCs must be dealt with now
There are two primary causes for voter apathy: alienation and voter fatigue. Alienation is defined as,the sense that voters feel like the political system does not work for them and any attempt to inf...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 15:24hrs | 693 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
3 candidates withdraw from Zanu-PF DCC elections
Three candidates who were contesting for positions in the upcoming Zanu-PF District Coordination Committee (DCC) elections have pulled out at the 11th hour due to what some party insiders believe is a...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Mbare tender scandal rocks council
Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recent...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Kambuzuma residents swimming in sewerage
AT a community meeting facilitated by Combined Harare Residents Association in (CHRA) Kambuzuma last week, it emerged that res-idents are living with raw sewage due to the failure by the City of Harar...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:08hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Schools reopening today
Next year's examination classes Grade Six, Form Three and Form Five return to school today, with the Government assuring parents that all necessary precautions have been taken to minimise the risk of ...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
Mbare Musika shut down
The City of Harare Council has announced that it is shutting down the Mbare Musika Bus Terminus to conduct renovations.The Council further said the temporary ranks shall only accommodate buses...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | 8944 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Harare closes off Mbare Musika bus terminus
The country's busiest bus terminus Mbare Musika has been closed to the public for renovations, the City of Harare said on Monday.The terminus was temporarily shut down following an outbreak of...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:25hrs | 3360 | by Staff reporter
Let's support the Global Compensation Deed agreement, says Musikavhanu
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu, has come out gun blazing in full support of Government decision to sign the Global Compensation Deed (GCD) saying the move demonstrates t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:22hrs | 521 | by David Mwanza
Strict rules in place for intercity passenger safety
Strict new operating procedures and an upgrade of terminuses so they are secure with controlled access and washing facilities are among the measures being introduced to ensure the resumption of interc...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance calls out ZANU-PF officials
MDC Alliance's National spokesperson, Stephen Chuma, has fingered some of the ZANU-PF officials as the ones behind the continued brutal attacks that some of their members are encountering.Acco...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2117 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
All we can do for now is take precautions
The Coronavirus continues to wreck havoc across world populations with no signs of slowing down. Scientists the world over are busy in their labs trying to cross the T's and dot the I's ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 493 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9955 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance's role in undermining national development
President Mnangagwa continues to pursue an ambitious economic reform agenda that has, within a short space of time, seen the budget deficit being tamed, economic fundamentals once again in place and a...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 1730 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Mnagnagwa loyalists facing purges from Zanu-PF
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu-PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:07hrs | 5217 | by Staff reporter
Malilangwe lion goes loose
A team of wildlife scouts from Hippo Valley and Malilangwe Trust Conservancy are tracking a large lion which strayed and is believed to be roaming somewhere in Hippo Valley Game area, TellZim News can...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:10hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF shedding crocodile tears
THOSE whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Ablating the lipstick off the crocodile would need quite an enumeration; the cacophony of deceit and deception, the apophasis in seeking divin...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:39hrs | 495 | by Evangelist Sendekai W T
Maid vanishes with employer's child, day after starting work
A 32-YEAR-OLD maid reportedly vanished with her employer's daughter and various wares a day after assuming employment.Vimbai Taonezvi appeared in court answering to the allegations and she wil...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
No longer the Sunshine City
The Zimbabwe capital city which was once called Salisbury during the colonial era changed its name to Harare on 18 April 1982.During the second anniversary of Zimbabwean independence, th...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 14:37hrs | 980 | by Leonard Koni
Decolonise Zimbabwe Parliament
The commencement of every session of Parliament is marked by a rather banal exercise.In each day that the House is sitting, the Sergeant at Arms walks into the House with a silver-gilt ornamen...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 241 | by Lincoln Towindo
Truckers arrested over US$22 000 fuel theft
TWO Bulawayo truck drivers allegedly ganged up with three accomplices, one of them a South African trucker and stole 28 000 litres of diesel worth US$22 000 which was imported by a Beitbridge petroleu...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 10:31hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe parliament to dump British traditions'
AS Zimbabwe builds a new parliament set for opening next March, Speaker Jacob Mudenda says the national assembly will finally break from British parliamentary traditions for homegrown cultural norms a...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Thief steals car from fuel queue
A DARING thief allegedly stole a car from a petrol queue at a filling station in Harare after tricking the owner that he could refuel easily. Prosper Makono of Chitungwiza has since appeared a...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
The Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture in Zimbabwe: Have we learnt anything from the pandemic?
Whilst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak first hit the Wuhan province of China in November 2019, it soon spread to the rest of the world, and now it has affected over 4 million people, causing over ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 18:44hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
The Impact of COVID-19 on agriculture in Zimbabwe: Have we learnt anything from the pandemic?
Whilst the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak first hit the Wuhan province of China in November 2019, it soon spread to the rest of the world, and now it has affected over 4 million people, causing over ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 11:14hrs | 338 | by Peter Gambara
Zimbabwe to enforce ban on selling of second-hand clothes
Zimbabwe's textile and leather industry has been under siege from an influx of second-hand clothes, shoes and leather products that forced some players in the sector to close down.The Governme...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 00:15hrs | 4388 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is not vindictive malicious or petty, Matemadanda tells failed asylum seekers as UK returnees demand to stay at Sherato
The deputy minister Of defence and The ZANU PF NATIONAL POLITICAL COMMISSAR said Zimbabwe has shown that it is not petty or malicious. Cde Matemadanda spoke as one of the United Kingdom-based Zi...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 4079 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Social distancing a mere formality for Mbare flats
ZIMBABWE does not have time.The government has to do many things in the shortest possible time - before the effects of the rampaging Covid-19 epidemic become insurmountable.From setting up...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Drones to spray disinfectants over large public areas in Zimbabwe cities
GOVERNMENT has given Clean City, which is 100% owned by Cassava Zimbabwe a seal of approval to deploy drones which will be used to spray disinfectants over large public areas in the fight against the ...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 entrepreneur encourages caution at big markets
Young entrepreneur Ashlee Nyathi, who specializes in supplying Kapenta at most big markets in the country has urged his fellow suppliers and their custome...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 19:11hrs | 1196 | by Agencies
Chamisa's mayor orders halt to murambatsvina after outcry
Harare mayor Herbert Gomba on Sunday ordered a halt to the demolition of informal market stalls following a public outcry.The City of Harare and the government have used the cover of the coron...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 15:44hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Municipal cops in bribery storm
Some Harare municipal police officers have been fingered in corruption, including demanding kickbacks from people defying lockdown regulations. They allegedly demand hard cash or goods, mostly...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:59hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa led council destroys illegal vending cabins, stalls
Harare City Council teams over the weekend demolished vendors' illegal cabins and stalls in Mbare and Highfield, but vendors complained that the destruction was done before the promised new market are...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:56hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Premature death of independence
BITRHDAYS are important days in one's life. They are observed to mark the passage of time, reflecting on achievements of the past year and recreating new dreams to carry one through the new year. Or c...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:40hrs | 271 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Covid-19 confirmed cases reach 24, tests conducted 2 493, deaths recorded 3
Substandard sanitisers are readily available at Mbare Musika Market, as unscrupulous dealers capitalise on the unavailability and unaffordability of authentic ones. Industry and Commerce Minister Seka...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Vendors Initiative donates Covid-19 health packs to traders
The Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) in conjunction with Citizens Manifesto have donated Covid 19 health packs to Informa...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 322 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa ally wades into roller-meal wars
Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has waded into Chiredzi subsidised roller-meal wars and is backing Chiredzi West MP Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF), who reportedly grabbed the staple ...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4844 | by Staff reporter
Residents confront 'abusive' police, army enforcement teams for not wearing masks
TWO Chinhoyi residents have petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel police officers and soldiers, who are currently enforcing the national lockdown to wear protective clothing in the cour...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:10hrs | 321 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten lockdown movement rules
Police were tightening enforcement of lockdown movement rules yesterday following significant increases in the number of people driving into Harare city centre during the second week of the lockdown. ...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 07:51hrs | 329 | 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 | 163 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1652 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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