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Alliance executives stampeded to voice their support for Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office-bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 411 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance leaders rally behind Chamisa
MDC Alliance leaders and former office bearers of the opposition party yesterday rallied behind their beleaguered president Nelson Chamisa after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he had assumed ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1974 | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri takes aim at Chamisa
TORMENTED top MDC official and ex-party vice president Elias Mudzuri has launched an indirect attack on disputed party leader Nelson Chamisa he accuses of personal egos and ambitions in his bid to sta...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2393 | by newzimbabwe
Covid-19 cost Beitbridge SMEs R3,5m daily
SMALL to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Beitbridge are feeling the heat as a result of the national lockdown meant to manage the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The country's major borde...Published: 6 hrs ago | 131 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scare at Zimbabwe Police Station
OFFICERS at Bulawayo Central Police Station pressed the panic button when a local returning from South Africa, who is also a fraud suspect, started coughing uncontrollably in the holding cells leading...Published: 6 hrs ago | 437 | by Staff reporter
Police should descend heavily on those who breach lockdown
Tuesday, the second day of Zimbabwe's 21-day lockdown was exactly the opposite of the first day as it was characterised by widespread defiance of the laid down regulations. There was a complete disreg...Published: 6 hrs ago | 206 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new minimum wage riles employers, employees
Both employers and employees are not happy with the minimum wage that was gazetted recently by Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima. According to Statutory ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Clark Mpofu: Zanu-PF had no reason to declare him a national hero
May Clark Mpofu's soul rest in eternal peace and may his gallant deeds be forever etched in the hearts and minds of those who care to know the truth about his sterling contribution which is a painful ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2319 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Khupe has more to worry over Supreme Court MDC leadership verdict than Chamisa
---- as this could signal end of her political careerThe 31 March 2020 verdict by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court, over the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leadership wrangle, between...Published: 18 hrs ago | 8460 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nyaradzo shortchanging policy holders, stops home removal of bodies
Nyaradzo Group has with immediate effect stopped services such as removal of bodies from homes and all bodies are being treated as Covid-19 contaminated.In a statement, Nyaradzo Group said tha...Published: 20 hrs ago | 2979 | by Staff reporter
1 680 inmates released
More than 1 600 prisoners who qualified for release under the Presidential amnesty gazetted last week were released from various prisons this morning.Only 53 women benefited from the amnesty a...Published: 20 hrs ago | 956 | by Staff reporter
Where are the traditional healers and prophets at this time of corona virus?
It is with no doubt that Covid 19 substantially contributes to the burden of disease and health care provision in sub-Saharan Africa, where traditional healers play a major role in care, due to both t...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 09:54hrs | 514 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Residents defy Mnangagwa's lockdown order
THERE was widespread defiance yesterday of the Government directive for people to stay home during the 21-day lockdown period that came into effect on Monday. Government has come up with a num...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:31hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls thunders
THE thunderous sound of the mighty Victoria Falls is back as the Zambezi River's water levels have significantly risen, giving hope of recovery in the tourism sector once the Covid-19 threat has been ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 3255 | by Staff reporter
Dear King Bulelani Khumalo
Dear King BulelaniKaLobhengula KaMzilikaziMbulazi, Mtungwa wena KaMatshobana, Wena KaNgwalongwalo,In this unfortunate situation of Corona Virus, that we find ourselves in, I wo...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 15:47hrs | 1175 | by Ayanda Manala Sibindi
Bulawayo City team doctor cheats death
BULAWAYO City Football Club team doctor Mkhokheli Nyala cheated death by a whisker on Saturday night when the car he was traveling in overturned four times just before the Fairbridge tollgate along Bu...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
High lockdown compliance on Day-One
THE majority of Zimbabweans yesterday complied with the Government's lockdown directive as most of them stayed at home while a few visited shopping centres to buy essential goods.President Mna...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: Mnangagwa's taskforce hails Zimbabweans
Vice President Kembo Mohadi this morning chaired the meeting of the inter-ministerial taskforce on the Covid-19 pandemic with Zimbabweans largely responding positively to the calls to stay at home. ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:53hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to be in hard times after corona virus
The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China, has infected more than a million people and it's still counting. Its spread has left businesses around the world counting costs and rea...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 657 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Police warn shebeen operators
POLICE have warned people illegally setting up shebeens in the country's suburbs during the 21-day lockdown, saying offenders will be arrested. The lockdown, a principal measure announced by P...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
LOCKDOWN: Zimbabwe heeds call to stay at home
Zimbabweans have largely observed Government's call to stay at home and limit movement as a measure to contain the spread of Covid-19.The usually busy and noisy Bulawayo-Harare Road section th...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 18:47hrs | 1601 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lockdown more of entrenchment than fighting #Covid-19
Zimbabwe tonight will go on a countrywide lockdown following a worldwide outbreak of Covid -19 pandemic, an illness caused by the novel human corona virus. The pandemic first emerged in China befo...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 11:20hrs | 1144 | by Iphithule Thembani kaMaphosa
South African Rand falls to record overnight low against dollar
The rand fell to its lowest level ever against the dollar in overnight trade, as global markets reacted to the downgrade of SA's last remaining investment-grade credit rating to junk by Moody's....Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:36hrs | 3939 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt follows recommendations by Chamisa's MDC
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo has fired Victoria Falls mayor Somvelo Dhlamini and declared his ward 9 seat vacant following recommendations by the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC party....Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:30hrs | 3049 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown is in national interest, uphold it
From a partial shutdown that was in force over the past few days, Government escalated its response to Covid-19 from midnight to a total national lockdown until April 19. On Friday, President Mnangagw...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to monitor returnees from SA
GOVERNMENT has recommended the monitoring of more than 13 000 Zimbabwean nationals who entered the country through Beitbridge Border Post after South Africa entered a three-week lockdown on Friday las...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:00hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Khupe backs Mnangagwa's lockdown
THE MDC-T has welcomed President Mnangagwa' s decision to put the country on total lockdown beginning tomorrow. In a statement, the Dr Thokozani Khupe-led party said the number of Covid-19 cas...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 18:57hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China and will instead lead the country's battle to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a top governme...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:40hrs | 4427 | by Staff reporter
A Zimbabwean's story Coronavirus: What's it like to be treated for COVID-19 in A FOREIGN LAND
A Zimbabwean man who was rushed into intensive care after contracting COVID-19 has opened up on how his ordeal began when he started feeling the funny symptoms which turned into a collapsed lung....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1286 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Matemadanda rallies the country against corona virus
Honourable Victor Matemadanda the deputy minister of Defence and the National Political Commissair of ZANU PF has called upon ZIMBABWE to put aside any political differences and rally behind the presi...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:29hrs | 721 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
When democrats discover despotism as a cure
MOST often, in times of crisis, it seems no one remembers to secure the asylum, from which looneys - fools, nutters, ignoramuses and the downright stupid - always escape.If only they spent the...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:27hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Of life in the COVID-19 era
A little over a week ago England wicketkeeper Jos Butler nearly broke the internet when a video of the 29-year-old and wife Louise doing pilates, surfaced.The Englishman was in full Test gear ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:24hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
United we can fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and ha...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:22hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 675 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
We let her down: we should hang our heads in shame!
Its high time we put our act together and we assist our daughter Chantelle Muteswa dear Zimbabwean women. We can't let the girl fight such a brutal war on her own without assistance from Zimbabwe wome...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:23hrs | 4008 | by Nomazulu Thata
WATCH: Mphoko exposes United Bulawayo Hospitals
Senior Zimbabwean doctor Siduduzo Mphoko has posted a video on social media showing the United Bulawayo Hospitals empty without any doctor or nurse on site. Mphoko lamented the situation ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 12:23hrs | 4543 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Impact of COVID 19 on Zimbabwean Economy
The outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to the world economy and to Zimbabwe's fragile economy too. So far the virus has infected close to 470 000 people from 200 ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:08hrs | 848 | by Victor Bhoroma
Titanic clash looms over US$400m NRZ tender
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board has finally formally notified Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) of its decision to re-tender the US$400 million deal to recapitalise the mo...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:05hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
South Africa now sub-investment grade
Rating agency Moody's has cut South Africa's sovereign credit rating to sub-investment grade, meaning the country now has a junk rating from all three major international rating agencies. The ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster, teacher refused rice after Mnangagwa Cleanup Campaign
There was fracas at Glow Service Station in Masvingo CBD after a councillor defied instructions and refused to give a school head and a teacher 3kg rice each allocated to them for attending President ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:27hrs | 6919 | by Staff reporter
Business as usual as Covid wreaks havoc
Hundreds of thousands of people in the five southern provinces of Zimbabwe continue to do business as usual including gathering in overcrowded places, selling food in the streets, hugging and clubbing...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:26hrs | 1367 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies nation against coronavirus
Every Zimbabwean has a role to play in protecting their families and communities against coronavirus, President Mnangagwa has said. Writing on his Twitter handle, @edmnangagwa, the President r...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
USA prepares to evacuate citizens from Zimbabwe
AS THE deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) sweeps across the globe with confirmed cases in Zimbabwe, Western countries like the United States are preparing to evacuate their citizens who are stuck in the co...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:12hrs | 4126 | by Staff reporter
64 Ethiopians found dead in container in Mozambique
MORE than 60 suspected undocumented migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday in a cargo container in Mozambique's northwest Tete province, a hospital official said."A truck transporti...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:38hrs | 3406 | by AFP
Tagwirei grabs Kereke upmarket clinic to set up coronavirus hospital for the elite
BUSINESSMAN Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his Sakunda Holdings have taken over jailed Zanu-PF ex-MP Munyaradzi Kereke's upmarket hospital in Harare's Mt Pleasant suburb with claims the facility will only ad...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1474 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabweans unhappy
A WORLD happiness report released last week has ranked Zimbabweans among the saddest citizens in the world, only higher than the war-ravaged Afghanistanis and South Sudanese.The World Happines...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:14hrs | 1661 | by Staff reporter
Herentals expelled again
HERENTALS have described their latest expulsion from the Premier Soccer League as a weird act which they claim exposes a hidden agenda to destroy their club. Yesterday, the Students were slapp...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 1280 | by Staff reporter
False prophecies are another type of plague
'Prophets' are stampeding trying to outdo each other on making pronouncements over the Coronavirus plague that has caused deaths and great panic worldwide. If indeed the men of God 'saw it coming' why...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:30hrs | 996 | by Tondorindo
Could ignorance be a COVID-19 Cure?
The human body is an amazing machine. I am a Mechanical Engineer by training, but l have also delved in Mental Health and Psychology.On an old and ignorant car, the single problem you would fa...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 11:25hrs | 727 | by Ryton Dzimiri
A clerical call on ZEC to postpone by-elections until decisive measures are implemented to reduce exposure to Covid-19 pandemic
Zimbabwe's embattled leader Emmerson Mnangagwa last week declared COVID-19 a national disaster. Along with the declaration came a host of largely copycat ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 03:49hrs | 385 | by Magugu Benard, Zapu Secretary of Elections (NEC)
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