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Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll jumps to 13
Zimbabwe is moving fast towards confirming its 1 000th Covid-19 patient, with the total reaching 942 yesterday after 41 more positive tests on Thursday and 16 yesterday. The death toll rose to...Published: 23 hrs ago | 673 | by Staff reporter
3 more die of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
Three more people have died of Covid 19 bringing the cumulative number of deaths in Zimbabwe to 12 as confirmed cases have risen to 926 after 41 new cases were recorded yesterday.Two deaths we...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:27hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
Riot police deployed to deal with nurses and doctors in Harare
The government has deployed members of the riot police to deal with doctors and nurses who were planning to engage in a peaceful demonstration at Sally Mugabe hospital. ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 10:03hrs | 6806 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The rise and fall of Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa is now a public figure and celebrated name in Zimbabwean media. While Ruvheneko has scored high profile jobs with high profile responsibilities in the Zimbabwean media circles, ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 20:02hrs | 9314 | by Alexio Muzuva
From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1578 | by Robert Sigauke
Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa defends CapiTalk FM station manager
Veteran broadcaster Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa has posted a social media post expressing disappointment on Zimpapers which has suspended the station manager of its talk radio station, CapiTalk FM Ny...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 11:52hrs | 3801 | by Mandla Ndlovu
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4870 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa speaks on mine shooting
The Chinese national who has been charged with shooting and injuring two people at a mine in Gweru over a salary dispute will receive a fair trial, without discrimination, in accordance with the count...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
5 die in accident
Five people died in an accident in the Mavhuradonha mountains on their way to a burial in Tete area in Muzarabani.The accident occurred earlier today when the vehicle they were travelling is s...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:21hrs | 4057 | by Staff reporter
Health sector showdown looms
GOVERNMENT and striking health professionals are headed for a showdown after the Health Service Board indicated that it will not be able to pay salaries in United States dollars as demanded by the wor...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1569 | by Staff reporter
Senior nurses join juniors' strike
SENIOR nurses at public hospitals have joined their juniors in a nationwide strike, paralysing the public health delivery system.Nurses and junior doctors across the country declared a strike ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4909 | by Staff reporter
Self service and saving lives
On the 17th of June health workers woke up to realise that their already compromised salaries had been further cut spurring them into an immediate industrial action that started at Parirenyatwa Group ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1142 | by Godard Thabani Bvungidzire
Doctors joining nurses' strike
JUNIOR doctors have threatened to go on strike, joining the industrial action by nurses that started last week citing deteriorating working conditions, which will negatively affect the country's battl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Teenage wife stabs hubby to death
A Harare woman appeared in court yesterday for fatally stabbing her husband during a domestic dispute over a telephone call that the latter had received after they had retired to bed. Paidamoy...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter
Nurses' strike rages on
THE countrywide strike by nurses at public hospitals which started on Friday continued into the weekend with the health professionals saying they would only resume duty after receiving United States-d...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 2569 | by Staff reporter
Tempers flare at war vet burial as Zanu-PF factionalism widens
TEMPERS flared at the burial of liberation war fighter Steben Chiweshe in Muzarabani on Saturday as the newly-installed Mashonaland Central interim provincial war veterans executive blocked former cha...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2285 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Nleya and Sadza
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent his condolence message following the death of liberation war veteran and ZIPRA Commander, Stanely Nleya. He has also extended his deepest condolences to the Sadza...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 19:46hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest striking nurses
POLICE yesterday arrested health and general workers at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare as nurses and some doctors deserted major hospitals across the country following a call by their unions to d...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2013 | by Staff reporter
MDC and politics of denial psychology and deflection
WE are a pretty impressionable people. We all like to say that we are independent, free individuals who make up our own minds, but the reality is that we are heavily influenced by the company we keep....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1700 | by Jonathan Chando
Zimbabwe civil servants reject pay offer
CIVIL servants, through the Apex Council, yesterday rejected government's pay offer of a 50% raise and US$75 allowance for three months as doctors and nurses declared a full-blown strike.Prote...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter
Govt must do more for civil servants
Nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare demonstrate against poor working conditions on WednesdayFinally the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government has realised that to live hu...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 484 | by A Mbire
WATCH: Police threaten doctors and nurses
A video footage of a Zimbabwe Republic Police officer threatening medical practitioners who were demonstrating at Parirenyatwa hospital on Wednesday has gone viral on the internet.The video sh...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 19:09hrs | 7115 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: Bulawayo doctors and nurses engage in mass protests
Health practitioners at United Bulawayo Hospitals have engaged in a mass demonstration demanding to be paid a decent wage. The doctors and nurses carried placards with messages written: I want...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 10:12hrs | 7275 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$ for Zimbabwe civil servants
GOVERNMENT yesterday raised salaries of its restive workers by 50% and awarded them a non-taxable monthly allowance of US$75 as nurses at public hospitals picketed in the morning protesting poor salar...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1836 | by Staff reporter
Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe shutdowns a response to 'threats' says Charamba
Security forces shut down Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe in recent days in response to "planned mischief" by anti-government activists and the opposition, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman said We...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 19:19hrs | 8019 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING:Nurses and doctors in mass demonstration
Doctors and nurses have staged a demonstration at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals showing displeasure at the low wages which they were paid. The health practitioners sang songs demanding to be...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 10:44hrs | 8868 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Soldier bites off lender's nose, absconds court
A Chiredzi magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest for a Chikombedzi soldier who allegedly bit off the nose of a woman who had lent him some money.early this year, the accused Godfrey Chiwar...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:01hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere hires Kunaka to evict farmer
FORMER Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has allegedly hired a gang led by former ruling party youth leader Jim Kunaka to evict Mazowe district war veterans' chairman Elfanos Madzimunye from his Con...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 625 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clears quarantine centres
Another 285 returnees went home yesterday after testing negative for Covid-19 in mandatory quarantine facilities, with 115 more set to get their test results tomorrow. The continued quarantini...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:35hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
200 returnees to be released
Over 200 returnees in Harare's different quarantine facilities will be released today after testing negative to Covid 19 while those who tested positive have since been isolated at Beatrice Road, Wilk...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:50hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Lest we forget the commander in the Covid war general Dr Obadiah Moyo
As Zimbabwe starts to ease the lockdown sounds of car and bus horns hooting the lockdown silence away. This is the sound of thanks and start of victory in a long battle against coronavirus. Let us car...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1621 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa buckles under pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has succumbed to pressure from anti-corruption activists and cancelled a US$60 million contract fraudulently awarded to Drax International to supply drugs and...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9168 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa trial hits snag
THE trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa on charges of criminal abuse of office yesterday hit a brick wall after presiding magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo failed to report for...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
New termini for Zupco buses
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has identified seven bus termini which will be used by Zupco buses and kombis as designated picking and dropping points to decongest the central business district (CBD)...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 2287 | by Staff reporter
Bedside trial for battered MDC activist
A HARARE magistrate Monday conducted a hearing for MDC Alliance youth activist Womberaishe Nhende on the latter's bedside.Nhende, the opposition party's national youth assembly deputy spokespe...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Fresh fissures rock war veterans body
WAR veterans secretary in the Zanu-PF politburo Douglas Mahiya torched a raging storm in the ruling party circles at the weekend after he "officially" launched the war veterans league without the cons...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
MDC youth assembly Nhende appears in court in Hospital
MDC Alliance Youth Assembly National Deputy Spokesperson Womberaiishe Nhende is set to appear in court at Parirenyatwa Hospital this afternoon.Nhende who is still to recover from savage police...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 14:07hrs | 1210 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa attacks Mwonzora for abusing powers he does not have
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described his erstwhile colleague, Douglas Mwonzora as a loose cannon misinterpreting a recent Supreme Court ruling through abuse of authority he did not have....Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 09:00hrs | 7907 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa trial adjourned
THE trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa, on charges of criminal abuse of office, had to be postponed yesterday due to the absence of presiding magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA's Jeremy Brickhill narrates untold stories about Dabengwa
I have chosen to commemorate the life of Comrade Dumiso Dabengwa on the first anniversary of his passing by sharing some recollections of my own involving his less well known role in preserving the le...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:02hrs | 2785 | by Jeremy Brickhill
24 months jail for killing gold ore thief
A security guard from Kwekwe has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for fatally shooting a suspected gold ore thief once in the head with a Vanguard rifle. Francis Dhlamini (43) appeared before Bul...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Traditional medicine to be used in Covid-19 fight
ZIMBABWE and China will enhance collaboration in fighting the coronavirus through a cocktail of measures, which include development and use of traditional medicines.The country has been hostin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
More trouble for Energy Mutodi
Woes continue to mount for dismissed Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi after Zanu-PF Mashonaland East issued him with a prohibition order.The decis...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
Police to intensify night patrols
POLICE have noted an increase in the number of urban commuters who are being robbed, saying night patrols were now being intensified to protect the masses. Criminals are now targeting people w...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Hypocrisy and more power inspired hypocrisy
iN the centre of harare there is a world-famous building named Karigamombe which is Robert Mugabe's example of self-glorification at the expense of a man named Joshua Nkomo, who was considered by Muga...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 252 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
War vet feasts on Tyson's oranges
MAZOWE district war veterans chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi is harvesting where he did not sow as he defies a High Court order barring him from interfering with operations at a sprawling farm belonging t...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1502 | by Staff reporter
AfDB approves $13,7m grant to Zimbabwe
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $13,7 million grant towards Zimbabwe's COVID-19 response.The funds will provide a lifeline for targeted frontline responders and health perso...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:49hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
Family buries wrong corpse
A BINDURA family on Tuesday buried a wrong corpse following a case of mistaken identity.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the case."I can conf...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:58hrs | 3274 | by Staff reporter
Soldier in court for biting off lender's nose
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) attached to the demining regiment in Dumisa, Chikombedzi, yesterday appeared beforeChiredzi magistrate Regis Mawarire facing two charges of biting ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
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