Search / Obadiah moyo
Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi
TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Securit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 3086 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
ZACC busts US$3m Covid-19 racket
SENIOR Government officials reportedly connived with private suppliers to siphon US$3 million from Treasury by inflating prices for Covid-19 consumables, it has been learnt.The matter is being...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:29hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Corruption Commission busts US$3m Covid-19 racket
SENIOR Government officials reportedly connived with private suppliers to siphon US$3 million from Treasury by inflating prices for Covid-19 consumables, it has been learnt.The matter is being...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:44hrs | 249 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zanu-PF that 'soldier needed to silence nurses'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare that he appointed Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to head the Health portfolio to sort out striking doctor...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 6694 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa felt Chin'ono 'crossed the line'
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono has narrated how President Emmerson Mnangagwa was infuriated following a series of articles he had written exposing how the first family was corruptly benefiting from gove...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:01hrs | 7654 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's sons are corrupt: Mliswa
OUTSPOKEN Norton legislator Temba Mliswa (independent) has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons Collins and Sean of engaging in criminal activities and associating with suspected con-artist, De...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:52hrs | 6143 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa twins have 'corrupt relationship' with Delish Nguwaya'
In a bombshell voice note sent to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's twin sons Shaun and Collins, Norton MP Temba Mliswa - who enjoys close ties with the Zanu-PF leader - hits the roof accusing the duo of...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:12hrs | 2924 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over appointments
Zimbabwe women Lawyers association (ZWLA) and women's academy of Leadership and Political excellency (walpe) have taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court for failing to observe gender balance in h...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2976 | by Staff reporter
Women sue Mnangagwa
WOMEN's representative groups have approached the High Court seeking leave to sue President Emmerson Mnangagwa for making Cabinet appointments that are not gender sensitive. Zimbabwe Women Law...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 4352 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to ban medical trips abroad for 'everybody'
Vice president and health minister Constantino Chiwenga has announced the government will ban overseas medical flights for all Zimbabweans, saying the trips are bleeding the country of scarce foreign ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:58hrs | 9470 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns doctors not to use patients as pawns
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has warned health professionals against using patients' lives as pawns while bargaining for better working conditions.Addressing journalists in Harare yeste...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 4415 | by Staff reporter
ZACC seizes US$8m mansions, luxury cars
TEN mansions and 22 luxury vehicles worth US$8 million were recently seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from high-profile figures who failed to account for their source of wealth...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 529 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
'Sanction are causing incapacitation and fuelling corruption' - do tell, what incapacitations diamonds looters are suffering
”There is a relationship between sanctions and corruption, whereupon due to incapacitation of Government or the private sector to provide competitive salaries in the region, workers end up engaging ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 16:28hrs | 1231 | by Nomusa Garikai
Govt sweats over Drax payment
Government is in a dilemma on whether to retain or pay US$2 million to Drax SAGL International for the supply and delivery of medicines and consumables as part of a US$20 million contract it later can...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | 4174 | by Staff reporter
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1277 | by African Arguments
Chiwenga restructures health ministry
GOVERNMENT has started restructuring the country's healthcare system and has since assured health workers that efforts are underway to ensure that they return to work.Vice-President Constantin...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 17:57hrs | 8293 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe did not lose any money on DRAX 'deal'
FINANCE and economic development Permanent Secretary Mr George Guvamatanga has insisted that Zimbabwe did not lose any money from the alleged fraud regarding Drax International Covid-19 procurement de...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 17:16hrs | 1549 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga still to meet doctors, nurses
The new Minister of Health, Constantino Chiwenga is yet to meet doctors and nurses to address the challenges plaguing the country's public health system. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association said t...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3993 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Adventist Lawyers' damning statement on Mnangagwa
On the 13 of February 2020, we issued a statement condemning corruption in our society and calling on Government to the following values,I. That though justice must be deliberate yet it cannot...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 19:44hrs | 6181 | by Adventist Lawyers Association
Why I Don't Support #FreeHopewell
What the world still needs to understand is that borders are powerful creations. They affect so many things and variations in geographical vicinities. By merely crossing a bridge, fence or walkway acr...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 4442 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Zimbabwe divisions deepen as activists decry 'rampant abuses'
Facing high triple-digit inflation, a currency capitulation and corruption allegations, Zimbabwe has become fertile ground for civil unrest.a government crackdown on peaceful protesters and th...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:29hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Catholic Church is bigger than Zanu PF
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa openly attacked the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop Conference (ZCBC) Archbishop Robert Ndlovu in particular. Let me remind you that the Catholic Church is not ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2547 | by Concerned
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary flies family in private aircraft after beating Covid-19
Super-rich ministry finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has celebrated beating the coronavirus by hiring a private aircraft to fly his family to Victoria Falls.Guvamatanga was hospi...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 2950 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns hospitals
VICE-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has warned hospitals which are demanding Covid-19 clearance certificates from people seeking medical services as well as those capitalising on the global pandemi...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:56hrs | 2198 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's endemic corruption needs strong institutions
ONE thing that has hurt Zimbabwe is the politics of impunity – that one steals money and still gets away with it.Corruption is fundamentally a problem of governance. It thrives in economies ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:51hrs | 212 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Calls for Chin'ono's release grow louder
CALLS for the unconditional release of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono continue to grow louder with Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Information, Media and Broadcasting Services chairperson Prince Du...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 09:47hrs | 4045 | by Staff reporter
18 more die of Covid-19
Zimbabwe's health delivery system is being reformed and restructured, new Health and Child Care Minister Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said yesterday, promising a new era in healthcare. ...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Roll call and the destruction of the Salisbury fuel tanks 1978
There has been a lot of confusion on the role ZPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of t...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:53hrs | 5266 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Zimbabwe activists decry ‘unprecedented clampdown' after arrests
INVESTIGATIVE journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has over the years leveraged his large social media following to share posts about human rights abuses and alleged government corruption.On June 20, ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 12:00hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's shock move: Details emerge
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga opted to take over the Health and Child Care portfolio following differences with President Emmerson Mnangagwa over the sacked Obadiah Moyo's successor, it has emer...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 34135 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga appointment illegal, says Veritas
LEGAL watchdog, Veritas says the appointment this past week, of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as substantive Health Minister violated national laws, contrary to claims by other legal experts the...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:43hrs | 1110 | by newzimbabwe
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 523 | by Tawanda Zinyama
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1875 | by newzimbabwe
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 11627 | by Staff reporter
New Health minister Chiwenga faces tall order
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally replaced the dismissed and corruption-tainted Health minister Obadiah Moyo with his deputy, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to the portfolio.Zimbab...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1348 | by Staff reporter
Only a miracle will rescue ED from #ZimbabweanLivesMatter revolution
With the current Zimbabwean Lives Matter Movement, it will only take a miracle for President Mnangagwa to see the 1st of October, the famous crocodile current actions resemble the last kicks of a dyin...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 5919 | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa's MDC Alliance criticise appointment of unqualified Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 22:23hrs | 4147 | by Reuters
Mnangagwa 'puts Dr Chiwenga in a trap?'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bizarrely appointed his Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Last month Obadiah Moyo was sacked as...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:50hrs | 6195 | by Staff reporter
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports.In addition...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 4283 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
How Tawanda Muchehiwa was tourtered by CIOs
Tawanda Mathuthu, the nephew of ZimLive Editor Mduduzi Mathuthu was abducted on Thursday, gruesome tortured and asked to drink his urine, it has emerged. Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jona...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:45hrs | 7386 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 143 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3690 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'My new partner is worse than the one I had before'
IN 2013, we had good neighbours, a couple who suddenly started having problems in their marriage and would seek our help to solve their issues. They were not really big problems as such, but misunders...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:32hrs | 4702 | by Joseph Maniragena
Mugabe coup announcer speaks on activists' arrest
Those wishing Zimbabwe ill are twisting the recent arrest by police and subsequent remand of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume for their own ends, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1355 | by Obey Manayiti
Mnangagwa's govt warns US against interference?
THE arrest of political activists Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume last week, was a pre-emptive move by authorities to quell a potentially violent foreign-funded insurrection meant to destabilis...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:56hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono arrested for subversion not whistle blowing '
Zimbabwe will keep the re-engaging route with all nations open but will not be bullied into surrendering it's sovereignty by Western countries that are working with local political activists to subver...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 20:02hrs | 2257 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Mutsvangwa statement on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Ngarivhume
Government would like to set the record straight on the arrest of Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume and their subsequent appearance in court. We have noted with dismay, a well-coordinated local a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 4284 | by Monica Mutsvangwa
Load More Stories
