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Mnangagwa tightens lockdown
ZIMBABWE yesterday tightened the COVID-19 lockdown in major cities, with police and army blocking motorists and commuters from entering central business districts around the country after infections t...Published: 21 hrs ago | 5045 | by Staff reporter
Citizen arrest for Covid-19 escapees
One of the four ladies who fled from Vuti quarantine centre last week went through citizen arrest in Sanyati on Monday. She is among four women who fled from Vuti quarantine centre in Hurungwe coverin...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 19:22hrs | 1174 | by Naume Muza
ZANU PF official loses 28t of maize to thieves
ZANU PF Central Committee member Maidei Maswi allegedly lost 28 tonnes of maize to three machete wielding suspects at her farm in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central Province.The trio Lovemore Lovemor...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 17:04hrs | 1204 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
11 quarantine escapees fined $2 000 each
ELEVEN people who escaped from Mabhikwa High School in Lupane where they had been quarantined after returning from South Africa have each been fined $2 000. Mabhikwa High School is one of the provinci...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:05hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
List of quarantine escapees to be released
GOVERNMENT will soon publish names of people absconding from quarantine centres as part of measures to warn communities of potential risks within their midst. A total of 149 returnees hav...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to march to the US embassy on June 4 over slain black man
ZANU-PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States. ...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 08:58hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
US National security advisor's remarks condemned
Zimbabweans across the political divide have condemned remarks made by American President Donald Trump's top national security advisor, Mr Robert O' Brien that Zimbabwe, together with China,Russia and...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 17:27hrs | 2579 | by Innocent Mujeri
Stanbic starts distributing Covid 19 PPEs
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has kick-started the distribution of US$200 000 worth of equipment to health institutions throughout the country for use by frontline workers in th...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 15:42hrs | 154 | by Own correspondent
'Bulawayo returnees sharing buckets, crowded facilities'
RETURNING citizens housed at the United College of Education (UCE) and the Bulawayo Polytechnic College are sharing buckets, crowded bath facilities, not observing social distancing during meals and h...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Police ordered to descend hard on pirate taxis, kombis
GOVERNMENT has said police should come down hard on pirate kombis and taxis and also ensure there is tight security at quarantine centres. In Gweru, Bulawayo and other cities, private commuter...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:35hrs | 633 | by Staff reporter
Govt to decongest Bulawayo
GOVERNMENT is working on a new strategy of decongesting Bulawayo following an increase in the number of illegal vending activities in the Central Business District (CBD). Briefing journalists ...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane sells out quarantine evaders
FOUR Zimbabweans who illegally skipped the border from South Africa to attend a funeral in Umzingwane District in Matabeleland South Province have been placed in mandatory quarantine after the communi...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:58hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
'MDC squabbles benefitting Zanu-PF'
FORMER Speaker of Parliament and MDC national chairperson Lovemore Moyo was at some point a powerful figure in the main opposition party. He later threw in the towel and decided to form his own politi...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:57hrs | 2941 | by Staff reporter
Security forces deployed to quarantine centres
THE Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on Covid-19 headed by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi is now mandated to update the country on the regular fortnightly reviews of the indefinite national lockdown announced...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:40hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
'I am coming back to Zimbabwe' Kasukuwere declares
Former Cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere is plotting a return to Zimbabwe to kick start a new political career, senior journalist Stanley Gama said. Posting on Twitetr Gamasaid on Sunday, "J...Published: 31 May 2020 at 18:03hrs | 7763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Security beefed up at Covid-19 isolation centres
SECURITY at designated Covid-19 isolation centres, especially those situated in border towns, is set to be upgraded to prevent quarantined returnees from escaping.Last night, Information, Publ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1010 | by Staff Reporter
Suspected poacher dies in police cells
A SUSPECTED wildlife poacher in Gwayi, Matabeleland North province, died of suspected poisoning while detained at Dete Police Station, with police saying they suspect he could have drunk the poison on...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:41hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
2 cops arrested
Detectives on Wednesday night fired warning shots to arrest a policeman and a member of a Harare neighbourhood watch suspected to be part of a group of rogue officers demanding bribes from truck drive...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:11hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records second highest daily coronavirus increase
Zimbabwe reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the second highest daily tally which took the country total to 149.On Wednesday, cases more than doubled from 56 to 132, stunning offici...Published: 29 May 2020 at 20:15hrs | 7961 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 23 people who escaped from Coronavirus centres
Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that it has arrested 23 of the 148 people who escaped from various quarantine centres across the country. In a statement issued on Friday ZRP said, "We a...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3333 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WANTED: Government reveals names of people who fled Coronavirus centre
Secretary Information Nick Mangwana has published names of four ladies who are on wanted list for escaping from Vuti Quarantine Centre on Thursday night. Mangwana said the four ladies, who liv...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:07hrs | 2747 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army, police flee Islamic terrorists in Mozambique
Mozambican military and police fled Macomia district after extremist Islamist militants launched a violent attack on Thursday, an online publication AFP reported on Friday morning.According to...Published: 29 May 2020 at 09:49hrs | 7897 | by Mandla Ndlovu
COVID-19 should not be used to clampdown on journalists - ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has said it notes with concern that the government is using the outbreak of COVID-19 as a scapegoat to arrest journalists going about their business and thi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:43hrs | 169 | by Stephen Jakes
No 5-star treatment for returnees, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabweans should brace for more COVID-19 infections as more locals continue to trick-le in from different countries. Mnangagwa was addressing dono...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:35hrs | 1992 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs terrorise Matebeleland South miners
MACHETE gangs have wreaked havoc in Matebeleland South province, attacking miners and robbing them of their gold ore.The marauding gangs recently hit three mines in a week, leaving several inj...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Let's exercise vigilance
I WRITE to the people of Gweru to advise that we exercise vigilance and alertness in light of the imminent risk and danger of COVID-19.The fears raised in my last COVID-19 alert message a few ...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:22hrs | 170 | by Brian Dube, MP
Zimbabwe returnees complain of shambolic quarantine centres
ZIMBABWEAN citizens returning from abroad have complained that most quarantine centres have shabby and unhygienic facilities which promote the spread of Covid-19 rather than contain the disease....Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Harare is Zimbabwe's COVID-19 epicentre
Zimbabwe's capital Harare is leading in the number of COVID-19 positive cases with 59 confirmed, followed by Masvingo Province with 25, with the latest spike causing many people to panic.So fa...Published: 28 May 2020 at 17:43hrs | 1962 | by Xinhua
Chamisa's MDC Alliance wins in court
THE High Court has ruled that the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance is a political entity, adding more fire to the on-going fight for the control of the opposition party.In a ruling issued last ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 20301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers injured in freak accident
SOLDIERS deployed to enforce the COVID-19 lockdown order in Mashonaland East province escaped death by a whisker on Monday after their truck veered off the road and landed on its side while chasing a ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1681 | by Staff reporter
Human Rights Commission to probe man shooting
A Bulawayo man who was shot dead by police on Saturday was buried yesterday and a local Member of Parliament has engaged the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to investigate the matter. ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases spike
The number of confirmed Covid-19 positive cases jumped to 132 by yesterday from the 56 that were recorded by Sunday, with all 76 new cases, bar one, being recorded from quarantine centres housing retu...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:33hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
118 returnees flee isolation
NEARLY 120 Zimbabweans returning to the country have escaped from isolation and quarantine centres across the country as government said they posed the greatest threat to efforts to curb the spread of...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Thief steals car from fuel queue
A DARING thief allegedly stole a car from a petrol queue at a filling station in Harare after tricking the owner that he could refuel easily. Prosper Makono of Chitungwiza has since appeared a...Published: 26 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Kasukuwere's special message to Africa
Happy Unity Day fellow African brothers and sisters! It has been an interesting road from the time our founding fathers formed the Organization of African Unity envisaging a united Africa 57 years ago...Published: 25 May 2020 at 14:18hrs | 2902 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
99 returnees escape covid-19 quarantine hotspots - please go back, you make them habitable
Corona virus presents one of the greatest existential threat to mankind the world has ever faced. Whilst the virus has spared no nation on earth but how each nation will fare will depend on how well o...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:04hrs | 1422 | by Nomusa Garikai
Africa and Africans are never short of ideas
The precautions against Covid-19 are getting more dramatic and bizarre. My toddler neighbour or neighbour's toddler daughter had an idea of Martian ingenuity and innovation of extraordinary dimension....Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 194 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
MDC Alliance was on the right direction until......
The MDC Alliance was on the right direction until Komichi, Mwonzora and others decided to drag the party into the gutter for their personal political interests. All party cadres and structures should ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 10:10hrs | 4606 | by Christopher Nyamandi
Chaos at border as locals troop back
ZIMBABWEANS returning from South Africa have expressed frustration over confusing processes they are subjected to before admission to Covid-19 quarantine centres in Beitbridge.The confusion ha...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:54hrs | 2095 | by Staff reporter
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 234 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Celebrating an auspicious Day
TOMORROW is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent's calendar.On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Add...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:11hrs | 165 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
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 | 397 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash limits ridiculously low in comparison to similar markets
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been on a war path against EcoCash, one of Africa's successful mobile money service. The battle has been tariffs, barring of EcoCash agents and some crazy pronou...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:50hrs | 1410 | by Staff reporter
Why was Energy Mutodi fired?
Energy Mutodi has been hogging the lime light for all sorts of reasons. He has risen in Politics to be a deputy minister of Information. This was a ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 05:59hrs | 15594 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 2730 | by Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
PAC was meant to advice Mnangagwa, he should now listen
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a Presidential Advisory Council in January last year, it was taken as a sign that Zimbabwe was indeed in a new dispensation and that it was open for busines...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 3538 | by Staff reporter
Mtetwa, I'm done flattering tyrants: if ED 'committed no crime' then who is 'the monster of depravity'
My dear sister Beatrice Mtetwa, I am done with appeasing tyrants! We have allowed tyrants like Mugabe and Mnangagwa ride roughshod over us, denying us our freedoms and rights for the l...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:56hrs | 3885 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's son in gunning totting storm
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Tarirai, has landed himself in trouble after he reportedly fired into the air repeatedly, threatening to shoot a Zesa employee deployed to record the meter reading a...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 7362 | by Staff reporter
Stocktheft suspect escapes from remand prison, rearrested
A NTABAZINDUNA stocktheft suspect who allegedly escaped from remand prison recently, has been re-arrested.Obvious Mnkandla (25) appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Adelaide Mbewe last week cha...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:28hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabweans escape from South Africa jail
FOUR prisoners, among them three Zimbabweans awaiting trial, are on the run after escaping from their remand holding cells at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Services facility in Pretoria, South Afr...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:54hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
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