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Bulawayo rolls out COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) in collaboration with the Health and Child Care ministry has launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in an effort to increase uptake of the inoculation programme.T...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
'MDC A will boycott 2023 elections' - why now, participated in all since ignoring 2013 SADC boycott plea
"Parties went into the 2018 elections after they had already been rigged as Zanu-PF had implemented cosmetic electoral reforms," wrote Chief Chiduku. He was spot on there.Parties did go into t...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | 1838 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF will never deliver free, fair polls
IS a free, fair and credible election possible in Zimbabwe in 2023? Certainly not.The ruling Zanu-PF party will never accede to the demand for free and credible elections as that will certainl...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:31hrs | 252 | by Chief Chiduku
NUST launches Covid-19 vaccination program
THE National university of Science and Technology launched its Covid-19 vaccination program for staff members and students today with the University`s vice Chancellor Professor Mqhele Dlodlo being the...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:28hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Human rights doctors express concern over low COVID-19 vaccine uptake
HUMAN rights doctors have expressed concern over the low uptake of COVID-19 vaccines as the country battles to control the spread of the respiratory virus.In a statement to mark World Health D...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:50hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | 5889 | by Staff reporter
Low turnout for vaccination in Matebeleland South
FRONTLINE workers in Matabeleland South province are reluctant to take the Covid-19 vaccine as the first phase saw less than half of the targeted workers taking their first jab.The province ma...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:38hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 vaccinations exceed 100,000
Zimbabwe has seen an increase in the uptake of Covid-19 vaccines over the past few weeks with the number of vaccinations now exceeding 100,000.That may sound minute for a country chasing a 10 ...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:53hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hailed for taking COVID-19 jab
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will today lead the COVID-19 vaccination exercise in Victoria Falls with analysts yesterday saying the move was likely to motivate ordinary Zimbabweans to get vaccinated a...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Tracy Mutinhiri: To use a race card in 2021 is unacceptable. My response!
It took some time to respond to Dr. Tracy Mutinhiri's reasons for leaving Chamisa and going back to Zanu PF. Much as it is your right to associate with whatever party of your choice, to label MDC-Alli...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 19:58hrs | 2076 | by Nomazulu Thata
President Magufuli: Letter to Prof. Lumumba of Kenya Cc. Energy Mutodi; Bcc African Presidents
Dear Professor Lumumba, Comrade Energy Mutodi is having his last laugh: he was spot on. He told us the bare truth about the President of Tanzania; the way he is handling the global pandemic wa...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1569 | by Nomazulu Thata
CSOs demand transparency in vaccine rollout
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) yesterday raised concern over lack of transparency in the disbursement of COVID-19 vaccine and called for the setting up of a monitoring and evaluation framework to ...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:50hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to get vaccinated immediately
TEACHERS, hospitality industry workers, tobacco merchants and their workers should get vaccinated with immediate effect, while restaurants are now allowed to have sit-in clients at 50 percent capacity...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 995 | by Staff reporter
Amnesty to decongest prisons
Cabinet received an update on the Covid-19 Outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs as chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force on the Covid-19 Outbreak. ...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, ministers shun COVID-19 jab
DOCTORS in Zimbabwe say they are worried about the slow pace of the country's Covid-19 vaccination programme for front line workers.But the statistics from the Ministry of Health are not that ...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 05:52hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccines inject fear into West as Zimbabwe rejoices
The coming in of Covid-19 has highly exposed global vulnerability. The pandemic has left the whole world puzzled, without any amenable solution to the devastating effects. But the vaccination ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1631 | by Dylan Chiwawa
Young female politicians face sexual harassment
Aspiring young Zimbabwean female politicians continue to face sexual harassment among several impediments in their quest to enter the political arena.Zanu-PF Seke-Chikomba women's quota Member...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 1844 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | 5506 | by Staff reporter
Sexgate claims VP Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi (71), who has been battling a series of sex scandals allegedly involving married women, his aides and students, yesterday resigned to "save government's image".In a...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 7223 | by Staff reporter
Border officials in huge turnout for Covid-19 vaccination
THERE was a huge turnout of essential service providers at the Beitbridge border post yesterday, mainly those working at the port of entry, to take up the Sinopharm jabs against Covid-19. Immi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi resigns to save image of the country
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday resigned to save the image of the Government and allow him space to pursue legal remedies in the wake of allegations on social media that suggested immoral behavi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:25hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Doctors give thumbs up to vaccination
Zimbabwean doctors, who are part of the frontline workers inoculated with their first doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine say it is safe and encouraged others to get the jab. Speaking to r...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:26hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will surpass 5 million votes, says Matemadanda
Zanu-PF has expressed confidence that it will surpass the five million votes it is targeting ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections as the opposition continues to crumble in the face of defections. ...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda, Chadzamira jumps the vacationing queue
Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Ezra Chadzamira and Zanu-PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda today headlined a group of senior Government and ruling party officials to receive the ...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:08hrs | 2642 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccinates 400 frontliners
OVER 400 frontline workers have taken the Covid-19 vaccine in Bulawayo within two days of the rolling out of the programme in the city. Bulawayo has four teams vaccinating frontline workers wh...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:46hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying COVID-19 Vaccines: The Truth
We are consumed by the desire to herald the truth in the age of increased information and knowledge. For this reason, we would like to demystify some dangerous misinformation that is being peddled by ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1523 | by Oliver Dube and Dr Stanley Maphosa
Covid-19 inoculation to begin in Bulawayo on Monday
The Covid-19 vaccination programme which started in Harare this Thursday will be taken to various parts of the country with Bulawayo getting the roll out underway on Monday.The move by Vice Pr...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 19:43hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination roll-out kicks off
Vaccination against Covid-19 starts tomorrow with 49 000 health workers and thousands of other high-risk frontline staff being scheduled for stage one of phase one using the first batch of the Sinopha...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Social media and the spread of fake news in Zimbabwe
IT is not often uncommon that a new phenomenon dramatically rises up with so much clout and influence that it breaks and reshapes established African norms and beliefs.Africans are traditionally a...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:12hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
AID to Africa is dead aid: It must be stopped
We need to ask ourselves critical questions; is foreign aid good for Africa? What purpose is it intended for? Is aid helping the people it is intended to assist in alleviating hunger and poverty in Af...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:56hrs | 797 | by Nomazulu Thata
Govt to vaccinate 10 million Zimbabweans against Covid-19 virus for free, Mutsvangwa breathes fire
The minister of Information and Broadcasting services has rubbished the headlines by Newsday which suggests that the government does not know which vaccine to buy. In the article published by Newsday ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 11:10hrs | 2325 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries?
A reflection on Nkirote, a woman from a small village in Kenya, and James, a country director of an NGO.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.90 a day. I have often ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | 1299 | by @NGOsceptic
Mwonzora sweats over 'Zanu-PF links'
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora and his party are struggling to shake off the Zanu-PF tag that is stalking them since the ouster of Nelson Chamisa as the party's president.Since the Sup...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 14:54hrs | 4842 | by Staff reporter
Dialogue is critical in the coronavirus fight
Despite promises of vaccines by the country's presidium, the nation remains worried by the coronavirus deaths and the number of new infections being recorded everyday. The situation in the country doe...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 08:17hrs | 448 | by Kurauone Chihwayi
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1041 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Build your own heroes' acre and bury your heroes there'
Zimbabweans were recently back to that time again when they lose sleep debating who is and who is not a national hero. This debate has been going on for as long as we have been a nation; that is, sinc...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:05hrs | 2459 | by Muckracker
Govt raps anti-vaccine church leaders
Government has rapped some church and community leaders trying to stop their followers from accepting Covid-19 vaccines and said only professional health personnel should comment on the jab. M...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
WHO warns of severe COVID-19 related mental problems
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted a surge in severe mental health cases as COVID-19 cases continue to rise worldwide, including in Zimbabwe.WHO director of the department of Me...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown infidelity on the rise
CHEATING in the times of a crisis like the current Covid-19 pandemic is not simple.As a consequence, everything is now online-work, entertainment and believe it or not even adultery.A ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 denial rife in Bulawayo
FEAR of losing loved ones is the only force that could motivate Bulawayo residents to change their behaviour and follow Covid-19 prevention measures. Over 27 000 people have contracted Covid-1...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:53hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Africa Factbook
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday signed copies of The Africa Factbook and accompanying letters, which will be distributed to the heads of state and government of the other 54 African Union countries. ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:17hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
'Brace for more demolitions in Harare'
HARARE provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti has warned of more demolitions, adding that people must not accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers if their illegal struc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:42hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 vaccine policy on cards
GOVERNMENT is in the process of coming up with a national COVID-19 vaccination policy, amid calls by a top health expert that the country must also embrace COVID-19 vaccines that meet international st...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:54hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Are Matabele and Shona people sworn enemies?
Are Matabele and Shona people sworn enemies? Well, Matabeles had no idea until Shona leaders announced it and even went on to declare an unprovoked war against them."Let's all Shonas, Zezurus,...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2200 | by Israel Dube
Christmas isn't Christian, it's a pagan tradition . . .
THE world over people always look forward to the next Christmas. In some cultures, years are measured by Christmas. People are sensitive when it comes to Christmas, and that's understandable. Mu...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:40hrs | 723 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 2002 | by crisisgroup
'Mthuli Ncube tax' a huge success
ZIMBABWE managed to avert a potential Covid-19 pandemic disaster while civil servants are receiving their salaries on time and infrastructural development projects are underway across the country - a ...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Fair or Unfair 2023 Election - Opposition is going to Win - Teedzai
Maxwell Teedzai, the leader of Zimbabwe's newest opposition part Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) has advised the opposition camp in Zimbabwe to stop wasting precious time on...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 18:11hrs | 2267 | by Agencies
Snake mystery puzzles Pumula South residents
RESIDENTS of Pumula South in Bulawayo woke up to the strange spectacle of a dead snake wrapped in black cloth and stitched with red thread on its side. The snake believed to be a black mamba, ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | 2618 | by Staff reporter
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