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Vendors key part of Zimbabwe's informal economy
THERE'S no debate that vendors had become an eyesore and somehow a nuisance on the streets of urban centres around Zimbabwe, because of their tendency to invade pavements and large swathes of streets ...Published: 12 mins ago | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Singapore perks payback time for Mnangagwa
CROSS continental medical errands for the former First Family are not a justifiable cost to the taxpayer.They must be stopped immediately.As I see it, if deposed former President Rober...Published: 13 mins ago | 128 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Harare water contaminated with raw sewerage, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says Harare water is contaminated with raw sewerage owing to dilapidated and obsolete infrastructure, resulting in the frequent outbreaks of waterborne diseases."W...Published: 3 hrs ago | 727 | by Staff reporter
US ready to work with Zimbabwe
The United States of America is committed to working with Zimbabwe on developing a robust and vibrant Parliament and solving problems currently affecting the country's economic and political well-bein...Published: 5 hrs ago | 541 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must cut loose bad police officers
Government's decision to drive vendors off the streets of the Central Business Districts (CBDs) across the whole country, especially after the outbreak of cholera in Harare, has been generally warmly ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5753 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions affect the man on the street sir
The newly appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nicholas had an interesting interview with one of the pirate radio stations, Voice of America, wherein he was very economic with the ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1629 | by Tafara Shumba
Marondera boreholes contaminated
Water from some public boreholes in Marondera town is contaminated and unsafe for consumption, latest laboratory tests show.Following the outbreak of cholera in Harare, the Environmental Manag...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 15:49hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Clean up in Bulawayo
Bulawayo Metropolitan Cricket Association has joined hands with the rest of the country in fighting the cholera epidemic which has claimed over 30 lives by conducting a cleanup exercise in Bulawayo's ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 18:29hrs | 2523 | by Staff reporter
Rogue cops run amok in Harare
Some rogue police officers went on the rampage in Harare at the weekend - firing tear gas indiscriminately at commuters omnibus ranks before savagely assaulting revellers at night clubs.In the...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:20hrs | 2209 | by Staff reporter
Schools competition postponed due to cholera
The ministry of Primary and Secondary Education last week postponed the National Annual Science Sports and Arts festival due to cholera outbreak in some parts of the country.The NASSAF was sup...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:24hrs | 78 | by Stephen Jakes
Church slams Zimbabwe gay teacher
The church says the public announcement made by a deputy headmaster from a local private high school where he divulged his sexual orientation is unfortunate and overboard.The pastors concurred...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 19:30hrs | 4185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and Chamisa MPs fume over deferred vehicles
Legislators from both Zanu-PF and the MDC have expressed anger at the government's decision to suspend the purchase of new vehicles for them - with the money budgeted for that now earmarked to fight t...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 19:21hrs | 4044 | by Staff reporter
Raw sewage in streets of Harare
Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe's capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn.A cholera outbreak h...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | 4184 | by AFP
The 'Chimurenga Monologue' and falsification of history
From The 1st Matebele War To The 2nd Matebele Rebellion War versus The "First" Chimurenga War of June 1896: Repudiating The "Chimurenga Monologue" and Falsification of HistoryThis input does n...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 10:46hrs | 1559 | by Thembani Mthembo Dube
Police escalate fight against vendors
POLICE yesterday reinforced their security, with some police details getting onto the streets armed with AK-47 rifles, as the law enforcement agency upped its effort to evict defiant vendors from Hara...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:28hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Vendors run riot
RIOT broke out in Harare central business district yesterday when vendors clashed with police who were removing them from the streets.The running battles started at the corner of Simon Muzenda...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Brutalising vendors must stop
The Zanu PF government’s obsession and decision to evict vendors from the city centre is barbaric contemptuous and disrespectful. It is not the solution...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 16:53hrs | 3295 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
Chamisa's MDC anniversary celebrations next week
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has rescheduled its 19th anniversary celebrations to next week at Gwanzura Stadium after a ban on public gatherings due to a cholera outbreak.Chamisa, last week, cal...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:40hrs | 5035 | by Staff reporter
UNGA 2018: Articulating Zimbabwe's unique selling points
For the first time in 37 years Zimbabwe is represented at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly summit by a new leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who represents a refreshingly different poli...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:04hrs | 419 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Stop unnecessary traveling to cholera affected areas - MIHR
Matabeleland Institute of Human Rights has warned Zimbabweans to desist from traveling to the cholera affected areas indicating that such movements risk spreading the disease more fast than it can if ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | 798 | by Stephen Jakes
'West must support ED and no regime change for 20 years' argued Mutsvairo - so why bother
"IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government," wrote Bruce Mutsvairo."There are no two ways ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2392 | by Nomusa Garikai
Cops, vendors clash
VIOLENCE rocked Harare yesterday as police and vendors fought running battles as informal traders resisted efforts by government and council to remove them from the central business district as part o...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1678 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's '0% political skills' certainly working
While cholera is highly infectious, positivity can be as contagious too as a counter-measure along with medicinally treating the actual disease.Posted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, who has a ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:05hrs | 3570 | by Conway Tutani
Cholera hits Beitbridge
Of the four suspected cholera cases reported in Beitbridge yesterday, only one tested positive while three other patients were discharged, SoutherEye has heard.A woman who resides near Elangen...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Nust shut down
STUDENTS and staff at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) were yesterday ordered to return home after the institution ran dry following a water pipe burst. Nust Communicat...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
New minister cracks the whip
THERE is need to change people's work culture and ethics and bury the "no hurry in Africa" attitude if the country is to achieve development targets set by President Mnangagwa in his 2030 vision. ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:39hrs | 1117 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stops luxury car purchases for cholera fund
Zimbabwe's government has suspended plans for ministers to buy luxury vehicles as the country continues to deal with a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 30 people.Last week, Finance M...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:16hrs | 2703 | by BBC
Strive Masiyiwa rings Mnangagwa
ECONET chair and founder Strive Mayisiwa telephoned President Emmerson Mnangagwa informing him about his company's US$10 million donation towards government strategies to combat the cholera outbreak....Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 08:02hrs | 28211 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council to apologise to Econet
The Harare City Council has said it will apologise to Zimbabwe's largest mobile telephone company Econet Wireless after municipal officials attempted to steal humanitarian aid meant to stem Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 3365 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP blocks municipal cops from confiscating vendors' wares
MDC Alliance Marondera Central legislator Caston Matewu yesterday caused a stir in the farming town after he ordered municipal cops to stop confiscating street vendors' wares.The youthful MP, ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
Time for West to back Zimbabwe
IF Western governments are sincere about political reforms in Zimbabwe, then they have to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new government.There are no two ways to it.Long-time fo...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 662 | by Bruce Mutsvairo
Harare needs $1 billion to end water woes
HARARE needs over $1 billion to end water and sewer reticulation challenges, which are the source of recurrent cholera outbreaks currently blighting the nation, newly-elected mayor Peter Gomba said ye...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:51hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
BCC urged to be vigilant to prevent cholera outbreak
RESIDENTS' associations and political parties have hailed the Bulawayo City Council for maintaining a high level of health standards which has kept communicable disease outbreaks at bay, but urged the...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Ministers, MPs' cars suspended
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday suspended plans to buy new vehicles for the new Cabinet ministers and Members of Parliament and channelled the money towards fighting the cholera ep...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1978 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in embarrassing climbdown
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has reportedly been forced to reverse his decision to fire newly-elected Masvingo mayor Advocate Collins Maboke from his post after residents in the country's old...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | 15640 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund cheats named and shamed
Harare City Council has named the four officials it suspended on allegations of inflating the prices of goods that were supposed to be bought to combat the cholera outbreak. The four are Phili...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Econet launches Cholera Crisis Fund
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's banking subsidiary Steward Bank, yesterday launched a $2 million National Cholera Crisis Fund that is meant to raise funds for the cholera crisis that has engulfed some part...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Over $29m mobilised for Zimbabwe cholera
Government has so far mobilised $29 million out of $64,1 million required to fight cholera, amid indications that the outbreak has been contained with the number of patients visiting health institutio...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council bans school feeding programme
Bulawayo City Council has temporarily banned the school feeding programme amid reports that the number of suspected cholera cases in the city has risen to 21.Speaking during a Zimbabwe Medical...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge put on high cholera alert
Beitbridge District has been put on high alert following a cholera outbreak which has affected several people and claimed 31 lives in Harare, an official has said. District medical officer Dr ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:18hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
The world awaits Mnangagwa's UNGA grand entry
Despite the challenges at home which include the cholera outbreak and economic challenges, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to travel to New York for his maiden United Nations General Assembly (UN...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 16:17hrs | 4042 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa tours Glen View cholera centre
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently touring the two cholera treatment centres in Harare – Glen View 1 Polyclinic and Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital.Speaking in Glen View, P...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:03hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Kariba on high Cholera alert
The Kariba District disaster preparedness team held an emergency meeting this Monday at the District Administrator's boardroom where all heads of departments and other critical players on service deli...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 10:14hrs | 811 | by John T Chirinda
Open for business starts with health funding, Mr Mnangagwa
ONE death is a death too many to justify. As the cholera outbreak ravaged populous Harare high-density suburbs Glen View and Budiriro for the second time within a decade, my heart grieves and prays th...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:28hrs | 619 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabwe teachers unions call for schools closure over cholera
Faced with a nationwide cholera outbreak that has claimed 31 lives and left thousands others infected, two leading teachers' unions have called for the closure of all schools until the disease is cont...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:27hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Gweru chases money changers off the streets
Gweru City Council's blitz against illegal vending has extended to unregistered money changers, with the local authority threatening to confiscate their cash if they resist.Municipal police, i...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Police clear Marondera of vendors
Police in Marondera have removed all vendors from the streets and seized their goods, including newspapers on sale.The blitz, which began on Monday, is meant to bring sanity to the streets fol...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves cholera fund
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved a budget of nearly $64 million for immediate needs in the fight against dual outbreaks of cholera and typhoid in Harare and other parts of the country, chairperson of ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance's infantile stunt self-defeating
ON our equivalent of 9/11, that is September 11, 1999, the MDC was launched in Harare by a combination of Western powers, white commercial farmers and industrialists opposed to Zanu-PF's decision to a...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to return of Zimdollar
According to Zimbabwe's new president, conditions are not yet right for foreign currencies to be replaced by the Zimbabwean dollar.Zimbabwe's new president on Tuesday ruled out an early return...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 19:37hrs | 11014 | by AFP
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