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Bulilima West MP distribute PPEs in Plumtree
Bulilima West Zanu PF legislator Dingumuzi Phuti today distributed personal protective equipment to frontline workers in various clinics in the district."Today I handed over sanitisers, fac...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:49hrs | 294 | by Stephen Jakes
100 escape from quarantine centres
NEARLY 100 returning residents have escaped from various quarantine centres where they were confined as part of mandatory measures to control the spread of Covid-19.The law prescribes that all...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
Laduma ladlula: lakhothama iqhawe lezwe.
Ibandla elidala le ZAPU lisungule inhlelo ezizathatha iviki eyodwa egcweleyo likhumbula owaye ngu Mongameli walo umuyi u Dr Dumiso Dabengwa owayesaziwa ngegama elithi"The Black Russian''loba ''DD'...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:42hrs | 908 | by ZAPU
Omalayitsha feel Covid-19 pinch
IT'S a Tuesday morning and Dennis Dube, popularly known as Ndlesto, is basking in the sun gazing at the pride of his life, a spotless Quantum that is parked at a car park in Emakhandeni suburb. ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's eased lockdown is a lockdown no-more?
52 Days into the lockdown, and the Ministry of Health and Child-Care reported that as at 20 May 2020, cumulatively a total of 18 244 rapid screening tests and 14 618 PCR diagnostic tests had been cond...Published: 21 May 2020 at 11:23hrs | 2717 | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
Civil servants conned in grocery scam
HUNDREDS of civil servants in Matebeleland South province are reportedly counting losses after paying huge sums of money to a conartist a fortnight ago who reportedly misrepresented that he could supp...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana Boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19.According to Habakkuk Trust report villagers who are engaged...Published: 18 May 2020 at 15:45hrs | 924 | by Stephen Jakes
Purported installation of Mambo king inimical to unity
THE purported installation of a Mambo king is inimical to the unity of Mthwakazi. It is tribal and divisive.Mzilikazi established a Mthwakazi nation, also known as a Ndebele nation, not a trib...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 779 | by Reinford Khumalo
Illegal entry points a cause for concern
Illegal entry points along the Zimbabwe-Botswana boundary line in Bulilima may result in the unchecked community spread of Covid-19. Local villagers, who are engaged in menial jobs as maids and herd b...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 307 | by Habakkuk Trust
Please help, our daughter has been brutally assaulted by Zimbabwe Secret Service: Joanne Mamombe our girl-child!
Is this the rogue government that begged funding for coronavirus from international donors just last month of April, asking for forgiveness from the western donors for their past actions and insulting...Published: 15 May 2020 at 20:24hrs | 5015 | by Nomazulu Thata
Inter-city travellers violate lockdown
A NUMBER of people are increasingly travelling between cities and provinces without exemption in violation of level two lockdown regulations banning inter-city travel. Some Zimbabweans continu...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:29hrs | 2471 | by Staff reporter
Wanted fugitives among returnees
Several alleged criminals who crossed Zimbabwe's borders into Botswana and South Africa to escape prosecution are hidden among the returnees quarantined in centres across the country. Police y...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Botswana, Zimbabwe relations are an embarrassment
AT least 1 300 Zimbabweans living in Botswana have been expelled from Botswana following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Last week Vice-President Kembo Mohadi went on a tour of Plumtree bord...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 31920 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
2 Botswana deportees fined
TWO deportees from Botswana who escaped from Bulawayo Polytechnic isolation centre a few days before the end of their mandatory 21-day quarantine period, have each been fined $800. The two wer...Published: 09 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Health ministry sets nursing interviews dates
Controversial E-Nursing May 2020 intake shorlisted applicants have been summoned to attend interviews from the 11 - 15 May 2020. The online nursing application process has been marred with con...Published: 08 May 2020 at 12:34hrs | 1616 | by Michael Mdladla Ndiweni
Zimbabwe rugby payer dies in UK car accident
RUGBY legend and Zimbabwe national team coach Brendon Dawson has described the death of forward Sanele Sibanda as a blow to the Sables' revival. Sibanda (29), popularly known as Smiley, died l...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
2 deportees escape quarantine, fined $800 or 3 months in jail
TWO men who were recently deported from Botswana were last week fined $800 each for escaping from quarantine at Bulawayo Polytechnic.Moses Gondo (41) and Silas Zimunya (44) pleaded guilty to t...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Rise and shine Zimbabwe
After attending a burial of my sister in February, in Plumtree, it was only normal that we would gather, lighten the moment a little bit and catch up as close family and extended family alike. It was ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 869 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Zimbabwe HIV, TB patients in Bots, SA raise lockdown alarm
THE Covid-19-induced lockdowns in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe have had a great impact on HIV-positive Zimbabweans and TB patients based in the neighbouring countries. A significant num...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tours Plumtree High school Covid-19 isolation centre
Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is also the chairperson of the Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Taskforce committee met the Bulilima and Mangwe district Taskforce teams to check the state of preparedness in t...Published: 03 May 2020 at 15:31hrs | 953 | by Stephen Jakes
Matebeleland South villagers in the dark about pandemic
parts of Matebeleland South are in the dark about the spread of the Covid-19 disease as they have no access to local media, including radio and television stations, it has emerged.Villagers in...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:30hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo is coming together
A group of prominent Bulawayo residents has taken the lead in helping to prepare the city's health facilities to handle Covid-19 patients at a time the government is struggling to put together a coher...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:25hrs | 3992 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi worried about Botswana returnees
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has said the deportation of Zimbabweans from Botswana was not being done procedurally as the neighbouring country was not giving the Government a notice when carrying out t...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:07hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
4 000 Diasporans troop back home
CLOSE to 4 000 Zimbabweans are trooping back home from countries all over the world to escape lockdown-induced hardships and inconveniences in their adopted home countries, it has been learnt....Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:55hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
SA based Zimbabweans send SOS
An estimated 3 460 Zimbabweans living in South Africa are in need of food assistance, while 2 191 are requesting repatriation back home.These figures were revealed by the Zimbabwean Embassy in...Published: 02 May 2020 at 16:45hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
After internal strife, Zapu reorganises
Following the split in ZAPU in 1971, it was time to reflect and analyse the situation in order to meaningfully analyse and interpret events that led to the fallout. Armed with analysis and interpretat...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 573 | by Pathisa Nyathi
The lost industrial glory of the city of Bulawayo
AFRICAN nationalism demands that the history of British colonialism must be condemned at every opportunity and I must be counted among those who lose no opportunity to condemn this phenomenal episode ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 853 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Leopard killer acquitted
THE man who was arrested for killing a leopard that had attacked him in January while on a mopane worm (amacimbi) harvesting expedition at a farm in Matobo District, Matabeleland South Province has be...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:08hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Govt apologises to deportees
THE Government yesterday provided a Zupco bus to transport part of the 100 female returnees and deportees from Botswana who were dumped at a hiking spot by officials from the Department of Social Welf...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:26hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Quarantined deportees dumped by roadside
ABOUT 100 female returnees and deportees from Botswana who were staying at the United College of Education (UCE) in Bulawayo were last night left stranded after they were dumped at a hiking spot by of...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:45hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabweans quarantined in Plumtree demand more condoms
Zimbabweans who quarantined in the border town of Plumtree have become the talk of the country after they finished four boxes of condoms in a day and demanded more.According to news reports, S...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 17:37hrs | 7076 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 isolation centres leave a lot to be desired
ZIMBABWE'S response to the COVID-19 outbreak came under the spotlight after returnees from the United Kingdom were this week put under a two-week quarantine at Belvedere Technical Teachers' College in...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
$8m cash facility benefits 47 000 needy households
GOVERNMENT has in the past two weeks, disbursed nearly $8 million to over 47 000 households towards urban food deficit mitigation as part of efforts to cushion needy families during the Covid-19 lockd...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 07:43hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Former legislator calls for govt to lockdown Plumtree supermarket
Former MDC Legilstaor for Bulilima East Norman Mpofu has called the government of Zimbabwe to shutdown the Gains Cash and Carry store in Pumtree saying it exposes citizens to Covid 19 infection....Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 09:14hrs | 1754 | by Stephen Jakes
Returning Zimbabweans expose govt
ZIMBABWEANS, who returned home on Monday from the United Kingdom and reportedly refused to be quarantined at Belvedere Teachers' College in Harare, preferring hotel accommodation have opened up, accus...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:40hrs | 2237 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to extend TIPs of foreign cars in line with visa extension
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will only extend Temporary Import Permits (TIPs) for foreign-registered vehicles, which entered the country before the ongoing lockdown guidelines in lin...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:40hrs | 836 | by Staff reporter
'Returning Zimbabweans should not expect first-class treatment'
ZIMBABWEANS returning home in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic should not expect to be accommodated in upmarket facilities because the country is going through a major health crisis that requi...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 454 | by newzimbabwe
Hotel craving UK based 'snobs' says 'Nick Mangwana a liar'
ON Monday, Information Ministry permanent secretary made claims a group of 65 Zimbabweans returning from the United Kingdom was refusing to be taken into compulsory quarantine at Belvedere Teachers Co...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 17:03hrs | 2744 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to Zimbabweans not to despair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told Zimbabweans not to despair in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.This comes as the country is witnessing swelling numbers of people who have contr...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 17:42hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwean immigrants in Botswana head for Plumtree
Hundreds of Zimbabweans living in Botswana are heading to the Plumtree border, saying the Covid-19 crisis has left them on the edge of starvation.The immigrants usually survive by doing odd jo...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 549 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge opens for returning immigrants without conditions
ZIMBABWE will this week open the Beitbridge Border Post to receive without conditions more than 3 000 of its citizens most of whom crossed the border illegally into South Africa and have requested tha...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's video address on the occasion of the 40th Independence Day commemorations
INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2o209The First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa;Honourable Vic...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 14:24hrs | 771 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
Motorist shot at Bulawayo traffic lights during attempted robbery
A man was shot and wounded in an attempted robbery at a traffic-light-controlled intersection in Bulawayo, police said.The victim had stopped for a red traffic light at the corner of Masiyepha...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 16:43hrs | 2367 | by Staff reporter
Police launch manhunt for armed robbers
POLICE in Bulawayo have launched a manhunt for two thugs who shot a man who had stopped for a red traffic light in the city, in a failed robbery attempt. Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:32hrs | 837 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South seeks $22m to set up isolation centres
MATEBELELAND South Province requires over $22 million to renovate 15 buildings in the province into isolation centres and an additional US$1 492 000 towards construction of three new structures in a b...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Social safety net payouts begin
Vulnerable individuals in Bulawayo and Harare who are part of one million identified through the Social Welfare Department to benefit from the $600 million fund availed by the Government to mitigate t...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:19hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Govt condemns lockdown price hikes
GOVERNMENT has condemned businesses that are taking advantage of the ongoing lockdown to increase prices. This comes as some shops in parts of Matabeleland South province, especially rural ope...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 07:16hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Cape Town consulate rescues COVID-19-distressed Zimbabweans
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town, South Africa, is set to repatriate fellow countrymen based in the country who are finding the going tough owing to the extension of lockdown restrictions to fight ...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1711 | by Staff reporter
Minister sends SOS to Botswana deportees
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister Judith Ncube has appealed for assistance on behalf of 400 locals recently deported from Botswana and placed under 14-day quarantine in the city for Covid-19 monito...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:39hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Deportees congest Plumtree holding centre
THE government has moved in to decongest Plumtree High School, which has been overwhelmed by the influx of returning citizens and deportees from Botswana.The centre is currently holding about ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 971 | by Staff repprter
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