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Millers mull roller meal price hike
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has announced plans to increase the price of subsidised roller-meal to between US$2,50 and US$3 to cushion millers from infla...Published: 4 hrs ago | 907 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa in control over financial sector'
The Government will win the economic war with President Mnangagwa determined to overcome economic challenges arising in the nation, Zanu-PF secretary for science and technology Ambassador Christopher ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2191 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4563 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1613 | by Staff reporter
Intercity bus travel reintroduction measures to be announced next week
Zimbabwe says it will reintroduce intercity travel after the interrogation of the request by public transports sector, 3-mob reported.In a statement, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Se...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 18:42hrs | 7483 | by Staff reporter
AIPPA scrapped
The new Freedom of Information Bill became law yesterday after being gazetted following the approval of the final amended version from Parliament by President Mnangagwa. The new Act, a giant s...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 807 | 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 | 1487 | by Thandekile Moyo
Namibia exposes Mnangagwa govt's COVID-19 test kits donation lies
The government of Namibia has denied ever donating rapid COVID-19 test kits to the government of Zimbabwe. The statement by the country's embassy in Zimbabwe comes after a claim made by the Zimbabwe M...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Blitz on traders refusing bond notes
Police have arrested seven traders who rejected bond notes and coins, which remain legal tender, and are ready to arrest anyone else reported for rejecting this legal cash. The blitz comes aft...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Millers to withhold products from shops rejecting bond notes
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) yesterday threatened to stop supplying their products to wholesalers and shops refusing bond notes and coins, which are still legal tender.Memb...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:51hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches US$51 million John Deere mechanisation facility
President Mnangagwa has launched the US$51 million John Deere Mechanisation Facility that is expected to transform the agriculture sector and ensure the industry becomes the pathway out of poverty and...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1449 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mum on Obadiah Moyo's fate
GOVERNMENT has remained mum on the fate of the Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo out on $50 000 bail over allegations of corruption.Addressing post Cabinet briefing, Information minister Monica ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:20hrs | 4837 | by Staff reporter
Luveve deaths caused by water shedding
GOVERNMENT has attributed Bulawayo's diarrhoea outbreak in Luveve and surrounding suburbs that has killed nine people to water shedding and vandalism of pipes, and released an additional $7.4 million ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch tractor facility
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to launch the John Deere agricultural equipment supply facility that is part of Government's mechanisation development programme, said Information, Publicity a...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe filling stations to operate 24 hours
THE government has given filling stations the green light to operate around the clock in a bid to ease the shortage of the commodity in the country.In a statement last night, Information minis...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:33hrs | 4301 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa disowns Twitter account
War veteran's leader Chris Mutsvangwa Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa has disowned Twitter accounts in his name saying they are creations of self-exiled G40 kingpin Jonathan Moyo.This comes after ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:47hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 confirmed cases top 500
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe reached 512 yesterday, although 438 of these are among returning residents in quarantine with only 74 people being infected within Zimbabwe, includin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 shuts Zimbabwe's South Africa consulate
Zimbabwe has temporarily closed its consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, after two staff members tested positive for Covid-19.Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Moni...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 304 | by Xinhua
'Bond coins, notes still legal tender'
Bond coins and bond notes are still legal tender, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa reiterated yesterday and traders are legally obliged to accept them. ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt fears uprising'
CONTRADICTIONS have rocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government with top officials giving conflicting explanations as to why heavily armed soldiers and police blockaded major cities between Monda...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 3866 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube blasts Mnangagwa, Chiwenga
FORMER War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has blasted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies Kembo Mohadi and Contanstino Chiwenga for allegedly dumping fellow freedom fighters soon after l...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 16509 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown enforcement tightened
The tightening of police roadblocks on highways leading into city and town centres yesterday was part of law enforcement measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, and not meant to frustrate essentia...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:33hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
For how long can Mnangagwa cling on to power?
It honestly did not have to come to this. Having suffered under Robert Mugabe's cruel pharaonic rule for the biblical 40 years, Zimbabweans desperately deserved a rescue. This explained their euphoria...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1182 | by Siphosami Malunga
Mnangagwa rallies Zimbabwe to prayer and fasting
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will tomorrow lead the nation in the Presidential National Day of Prayer and Fasting to galvanise the moral and spiritual fortitude of the nation in its fight against Covid-19....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1025 | by Staff Reporter
Journalists barred from covering Mnangagwa's event
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's security personnel yesterday barred journalists from the independent Press from covering the launch of Zupco buses at Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) by the Zanu...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu backs under fire Mahiya
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has backed ruling party secretary for war veterans Douglas Mahiya for launching the war veterans' league.This comes after Zanu-PF political com...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:28hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa values free Press, claims Mutsvangwa
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had confidence in a free and private media and would strive to give it the space it desires to stave off the hostile encroaches...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Teachers plot interdict against schools opening
A TEACHERS' union said it would approach the courts to block the government's "ill-informed and premature opening of schools" in light of the increase in COVID-19 infections in the country.The...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1662 | by Staff reporter
11 escape Bulawayo Covid-19 quarantine
ELEVEN people have escaped from Bulawayo's quarantine centres while a total of 169 returnees have escaped countrywide, posing challenges in efforts to reduce the number of local Covid-19 transmissions...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
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 | 11204 | by Siphosami Malunga
Returnees to surrender IDs at quarantine centres
Government has resolved to confiscate national identification cards and passports for returnees upon arrival in the country to prevent them from escaping quarantine centres.Since the lockdown ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:47hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa seeks divine help as crises mount
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will lead a national day of fasting and prayer to seek divine intervention to deal with the country's worsening health, hunger and economic crises.Hopes that Mnang...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 5392 | by Staff reporter
Destabilising opposition will not make crisis go away
IN yesterday's issue of NewsDay we carried a story in which Zanu-PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa disclosed that Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was "helping" an opposition MDC faction to m...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1805 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa doesn't want to play by the rules'
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's failure to accept court rulings is evidence that he assumed power improperly within MDC, Zanu-PF Politburo member and secretary for Science, Technology and Deve...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 3657 | by Staff reporter
Schools' reopening date pushed to end of July
GOVERNMENT has announced that schools will be re-opened on July 28 to allow the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to engage Treasury and other stakeholders to mobilise for the provision of a...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 2360 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to announce day of fasting, national prayer
President Mnangagwa is expected to announce soon a day of fasting and national prayer as the number of confirmed Covid-19 patients reaches 314. Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
'Ziyambi, Zanu-PF behind MDC chaos'
ZANU PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa has said Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi was behind the chaos in the opposition MDC, telling party officials that he was using the courts to ensure tha...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 3619 | by Staff reporter
Zupco carrying capacity increased
Zupco buses can now carry more passengers under new Government health guidelines to ease public transport challenges, but truck drivers who have been running pirate services will be severely penalised...Published: 03 Jun 2020 at 09:45hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Border jumpers arrested, sent to isolation centre
AUTHORITIES in Chikomba district at the weekend apprehended two returnees from South Africa who entered the country illegally in breach of COVID-19 safety measures, while four others were nabbed in Um...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:29hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
List of quarantine escapees to be released
GOVERNMENT will soon publish names of people absconding from quarantine centres as part of measures to warn communities of potential risks within their midst. A total of 149 returnees hav...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to march to the US embassy on June 4 over slain black man
ZANU-PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States. ...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:58hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Security beefed up at Covid-19 isolation centres
SECURITY at designated Covid-19 isolation centres, especially those situated in border towns, is set to be upgraded to prevent quarantined returnees from escaping.Last night, Information, Publ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1032 | by Staff Reporter
'We would rather die of COVID-19 than starve under lockdown'
INFORMAL traders have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lockdown regulations and are now back in full force, operating openly in the high-density areas at a time the country is recording a surge i...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:42hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records second highest daily coronavirus increase
Zimbabwe reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the second highest daily tally which took the country total to 149.On Wednesday, cases more than doubled from 56 to 132, stunning offici...Published: 29 May 2020 at 20:15hrs | 8013 | by Staff reporter
Russia donates to Zimbabwe's war veterans
RUSSIA has reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe in various fields. This comes as the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Harare handed over of 1 500 tonne...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, stew over economy
President Mnangagwa has directed Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya to announce economic stabilisation measures following a meeting on Wednesday. ...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:45hrs | 4902 | by Staff reporter
'Mutodi fired after Moyo confronted Mnangagwa'
FORMER Deputy Information minister Energy Mutodi was axed after Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Busi Moyo (pictured) confronted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and threatened to resign from the governm...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:32hrs | 5887 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Covid-19 cases rise to 15
BULAWAYO has recorded three new Covid-19 positive cases bringing the number of confirmed cases in the city to 15 including nine recoveries and one death. The new cases are part of the 76 cases...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo nurse, three patients catch Covid-19
FOUR people in Bulawayo including a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital and a patient who went to the health institution for treatment have tested positive for Covid-19. The nurse from Cowdray Par...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo nurse tests Covid-19 positive
FOUR people in Bulawayo including a nurse from Mpilo Central Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.The nurse from Cowdray Park suburb was yesterday sent home to self-isolate while the thr...Published: 28 May 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1925 | by Staff reporter
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