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NUST conducts 10 000 DNA paternity tests
Since acquiring specialised equipment in 2014, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST)'s Applied Genetics Testing Centre (AGTC) has conducted over 10,000 paternity tests, making it a ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital’s lab gains international certification
The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Zimbabwe’s healthcare system, with an annual investment exceeding US$200 million aimed at improving health outcomes across the countr...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 19:35hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree Town Council plans to demolish vending structures
The Plumtree Combined Residents and Development Association (PCRADA) is in conflict with the Plumtree Town Council over the council's plans to remove informal traders from the central business distric...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:40hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Residents work with Pumtree Hospital for improved service delivery
PLUMTREE Combined Residents and Development Association (PCRADA) chairperson Richard Khumalo has said they have been authorized by the district hospital to be the middlemen for residents wheneve...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:28hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
220,000 Zimbabweans troop back home for Christmas
MORE than 220 000 people flocked into Zimbabwe over the last week for the festive season, marking a significant surge in arrivals compared to last year when the Government started easing stringent ent...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt lifts ban on boarding school visits
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has lifted a ban against parents and guardians visiting children learning in boarding schools but retained standard operation procedures to curb the spr...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps mandatory wearing of masks, Covid-19 vaccination certificate requirement
THE Zimbabwean government has scrapped the mandatory wearing of masks and now allows tourists to come into the country without any proof of vaccination or Covid-19 PRC tests.This comes after t...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lifts mask, Covid-19 PCR test requirements
Zimbabwe on Tuesday lifted the mandatory wearing of face masks as a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19, while also removing a requirement for visitors to show evidence of vaccination or p...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
God promises 15 more years to anyone who will vote for Mnangagwa, says Madzibaba
A SELF-proclaimed Prophet of John the 5th of Africa Apostolic church has made sensational claims that God will reward everyone who votes Zanu-PF at the next polls with 15 more years of life, over ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt allays new COVID-19 variant fears
Government has allayed fears around the recent discovery of a new COVID-19 variant XBB.1.5 in neighbouring South Africa (SA) saying it had necessary measures and safeguards in place to control the var...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police invisible in communities'
NATIONAL police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi has urged police officers to improve their engagement with members of the public following complaints of police invisibility in communit...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Botswana lifts all Covid-19 restrictions, including for travellers
Botswana on Wednesday repealed all remaining Covid-19 restrictions including the mandatory wearing of masks and proof of vaccination or PCR tests at its borders.The southern African country, w...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 19:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa police to go on strike
The South African Police Union (SAPU) confirms that it has been issued a certificate to strike, which covers all labour unions affiliated to the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)....Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
How migrants who move between Zimbabwe and SA access healthcare in border towns
Zimbabwe and South Africa share a 225km common border. There is only one official border crossing, at Beitbridge. An estimated 15 000 migrants and refugees from Zimbabwe and other countries cross dail...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Vinayak Bhardwaj
Border jumping, smuggling between Zimbabwe, SA persist
ILLEGAL travel between Zimbabwe and South Africa has persisted, despite joint efforts to thwart the practice by both countries, it has emerged.The two governments recently launched a joint ope...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:07hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Packed programme as ZITF roars to life
THE 62nd edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) begins tomorrow with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta now unable to come for the official opening as earlier scheduled following the dea...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vaccination blitz: Zimbabwe reaches 10m dose mark
ZIMBABWE has now administered 10 million jabs of Covid-19 vaccines with more than half the targeted population aged 12 and over now having had their first dose, a pair of major milestones in the natio...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo experiences COVID -19 decrease in first, second dose recipients
BULAWAYO Provincial Covid-19 has experienced low numbers of people who have taken both the first and second dose of the COVID 19 vaccinations due to a number of challenges.Bulawayo's weekly re...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Traffic surges at Beitbridge border post
THE number of travellers using the Beitbridge Border has increased from an average of 3 500 to 5 000 per day after the Government lifted restrictions on non-essential travel.A few weeks ago, C...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will not rush to lift COVID-19 safety measures
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would not be pressured to lift COVID-19 restrictions after neighbouring South Africa announced that it would ease the measures this month following pressure from business,...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hits 5 million first Covid-19 jabs
ZIMBABWE passed the five million mark for first doses of Covid-19 vaccination last week with the record breaking blitz now in progress seeing more than 1,39 million doses administered in the last two ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hospitalised cases of Covid 19 continue to decrease
Government has revealed that the cases of Covid 19 who get hospitalised continue to decrease in the country, a sign that the nation is not able to manage ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:06hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
New border movement rules gazetted
Travellers vaccinated against Covid-19 may with immediate effect now travel through the country's ports of entry and exit after the Government put in place the necessary legal instruments in line with...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimdef in huge High Court setback over tender
PAN-AFRICAN technology and software firm, Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) has won its High Court case against Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef), over a tender where the quasi-government ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 testing scrapped for fully vaccinated arrivals
Covid-19 testing for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Zimbabwe is no longer required, which should speed up business travel and help tourism, although the unvaccinated still have to present a r...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA, Zimbabwe round up border jumpers, smugglers
Zimbabwe and South Africa border officials on Friday conducted a joint operation to clean up the border area of smugglers and irregular migrants.Scores of people were arrested going either sid...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe land borders yet to reopen'
GOVERNMENT has not yet put in place the "necessary administrative instruments" for the reopening of land borders almost three weeks after Cabinet gave the greenlight for resumption of normal business ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Universities make $2 billion profits
LOCAL universities have made profits worth over $2 billion in producing Covid-19 personal protective as part of providing home grown solutions to national problems.In the past, industry among ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Borders await legal instruments to re-open
THE Government is still finalising legal instruments to operationalise a recent Cabinet decision for land borders to be opened to vaccinated ordinary travellers, Sunday News has established.Im...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe E-passport now in use
The new electronic passport (e-passport) is now acceptable as an official document at all ports of entry and travellers can safely use it for their foreign trips, the Immigration Department has said....Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Border officials ready for busy season
Authorities in Matabeleland South province where Zimbabwe shares borders with Botswana and South Africa have said they are prepared to handle an anticipated increase in vehicular and human traffic fol...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt lifts maize import ban
GOVERNMENT yesterday reopened all borders and lifted the ban on maize and wheat imports that was effected after the country registered a bumper maize.Land borders were closed over COVID-19 fea...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Borders reopen for the fully vaccinated
All ports of entry have been reopened to fully vaccinated travellers with valid Covid-19 PCR test certificates following convincing progress in the containment of the virus.Cabinet agreed to t...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa opens borders
Zimbabwe has resolved to open its borders to persons who must have had undergone a valid COVID-19 PCR Test not more than48 hours from the time of their departure for Zimbabwe."All ports of ent...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 18:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Botswana imposes stiff penalties for the unvaccinated
Returning Botswana citizens unwilling to be vaccinated for Covid-19 face a fine of P5 000 (R6 500), a year in prison, or both, as the government worries about vaccines that will expire in April this y...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean deportees not tested for COVID-19
SOUTH African officials have revealed that not all illegal immigrants, particularly Zimbabweans deported from the neighbouring country, are tested for COVID-19 before being sent back home amid concern...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Botswana bars visitors without booster shots
Botswana has introduced new COVID-19 guidelines barring entry to visitors that have not taken booster shots. The new measures take effect from today."Being fully vaccinated means having taken ...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
UAE lifts Zimbabwe travel restrictions
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s national crisis and emergency management authority has lifted restriction on entry for passengers arriving from 12 countries, including Zimbabwe beginning today....Published: 29 Jan 2022 at 14:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools to open 7 February
THE government has announced that schools will open for the 2022 learning calendar on 7 February while the curfew now starts at midnight ending at 0530hrs, easing some of the restrictive measures put ...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 21:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
NUST starts making PCR test kits
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is set to start manufacturing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) kits next month following delivery of a US$86 000 reagents manufacturing machine....Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
EU replaces Southern Africa travel ban with testing requirements
European Union member states have agreed to lift the air travel ban on southern African countries, which will allow more travel to resume.The decision lifts the so-called emergency brake intro...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Warriors hunt for the Lions of Teranga
ZIMBABWE received some good news after all players and officials returned a clean bill of health in their last Covid-19 tests before the opening Group B encounter of the delayed 2021 AFCON finals agai...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors get covid clearance
Zimbabwe Warriors in Cameroon have tested negative for covid19 giving them a greenlight for the team's Africa Cup of Nations opener against Senegal Monday afternoon.Kick off is at 3pm Zimbabwe...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grade 7 exam markers clash with ZIMSEC
TEACHERS marking 2021 Grade Seven examinations have vowed to resist the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC)'s decision to demand Covid-19 test certificates.ZIMSEC last week wrote a m...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
100 Bulawayo lockdown violators arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo yesterday arrested over 100 people for violating COVID-19 regulations,Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga on Tuesday urged officers commanding provinces to be tough w...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:27hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs raise Covid-19 alarm
CHIEFS have raised alarm over Zimbabweans sneaking into communities from neighbouring countries where they are based amid strong suspicions that some of them are border jumpers who are evading Covid-1...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sees decline in holiday travellers
ZIMBABWE has seen a reduced number of visitors and returnees this festive season after the Government introduced stringent quarantine regulations to contain a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections....Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:53hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC tells Mnangagwa to scrap quarantine law
The MDC Alliance on Monday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to scrap his quarantine rules for all arrivals which are due to lapse on Tuesday.Mnangagwa's announcement of the measures on N...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 paralyses Parly business
PARLIAMENT business ground to a standstill on Wednesday as legislators argued over whether the House should adjourn due to rising COVID-19 cases.The issue was raised as a matter of privilege b...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo, UBH service delivery threatened
OVER 170 doctors and nurses at Mpilo Central Hospital and the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) are in isolation after testing Covid-19 positive, a development that is likely to cripple health care serv...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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