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Will Japan realize the Tokyo Olympics 2021?
Just months before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics is due to inaugurate, uncertainty continues to hang over whether the events should go ahead amid new waves of COVID-19 infections and risks posed by mutated ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 127 | by Staff Writer
Bosso chairman accused of fueling tension, division
Highlanders board chairman Luke Mnkandla has been accused of fueling tension and division by the board and generality of club members after allegedly taking sides with one of the candidates vying for ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1368 | by Steward Jubane, Sports Reporter
Nick Mangwana and the Medical Assassins, Did he mean any harm?
The past few days social media was awash with the news of the Permanent Secretary of Information Ndavaningi Mangwana's statement on the Medical assassins. Many sort to accuse Nick for alleging that th...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 19:53hrs | 1595 | by Dr Masimba Masimba
Conned to trade freedoms and rights for 'peace and prosperity' only to lose all to Banana Republic - haven't learnt lesson
Mnangagwa and Zanu PF do not like anything that threatens the regime's iron grip on power. The soaring numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths in Zimbabwe have been an eye opener for many Zimbabweans....Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:28hrs | 848 | by Wilbert Mukori
China: Zimbabwe 'all weather friend'
Antipathy between Zimbabwe and the West led to the Mugabe government to look east. As he said " We have turned east where the sun rises, and given our back to the west where the sun sets" In the midst...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 16:24hrs | 720 | by Rumbidzai Zimunya
COVID-19 vaccine only for the chefs
GOVERNMENT yesterday revealed that it was failing to import enough vaccines for citizens, and would prioritise Cabinet ministers and senior government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), the secur...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 3947 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe parlours downplay spiralling deaths
ZIMBABWE'S funeral assurance sector has allayed fears of possible collapse as the COVID-19 scourge intensifies and affects capacity to meet policyholder claims.Taka Svosve, the Zimbabwe Associ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:08hrs | 1047 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to increase pensioners monthly stipends
PENSIONERS have urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to increase their monthly stipends in order to cushion them from the harsh economic situation that continues to affect the country....Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Councils exposed by recent heavy rains
This cropping season's heavy rains have exposed the shortcomings of most local authorities that have been allocating home seekers stands in wetlands. Some of the culprits are land barons that ...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miner trapped to death
A 29-year old Bindura man died, while his two accomplices were injured at Gatawa farm while panning for gold on Saturday. Mashonaland Central Police Spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe conf...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 21:17hrs | 749 | by Lloyd Rabaya
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 3846 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
WHO warns of severe COVID-19 related mental problems
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted a surge in severe mental health cases as COVID-19 cases continue to rise worldwide, including in Zimbabwe.WHO director of the department of Me...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
'Situation calm after cyclone'
THE Department of Civil Protection (DCP) yesterday said the situation was calm in Manicaland province after Cyclone eloise hit the country on Friday night, despite heavy rains accompanied by strong wi...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:32hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents bitter over water-shedding removal delay
BULAWAYO residents have complained over continued water-shedding even after the dams that feed the city's water reservoirs recorded significant inflows following heavy rains.Water cuts have co...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:32hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | 127 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mnangagwa's minister says, 'this is war' as coronavirus runs amok
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe's raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country's soaring deaths and infections.Speaki...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:09hrs | 1909 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 won't be defeated by empty political rhetoric, says Biti
Zimbabwean former Finance minister Tendai Biti, also main opposition MDC Alliance deputy president, says the virulent Covid-19 pandemic, surging and killing more people, won't be defeated by empty pol...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1270 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, We Deserve Better
On 24 August 2018, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled that Zanu PF leader Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa had been legitimately elected as President of Zimbabwe, effectively ending the challenge by the t...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:52hrs | 1981 | by Fungai Chiposi
Increasing water levels at Kariba dam
The Zambezi River Authority hereby wishes to provide an update to the public regarding the water situation in the Kariba Catchment and lake levels at Kariba Dam This update is a follow up to that of 2...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 11:42hrs | 2461 | by Munyaradzi Munodawafa
Tendai Biti's letter to World Bank on Zimbabwe COVID-19 aid
In May 2020, the World Bank dipped into a special health fund to provide US$7 million to Zimbabwe to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus.The US$7...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:09hrs | 4055 | by Staff reporter
Vaccine at Zimbabwe State House?
Once again in a desperate move to cause anarchy and pandemonium in Zimbabwe an audio which featured Mr Simba Chikanza and an i identified male made rounds. The audio was celebrating the deaths of Zimb...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:02hrs | 7561 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mwonzora calls for 'dialogue fo build synergies' - had cure since 2008, reforms, lacked competent leader to implement
When some people have nothing better to say, the repeat themselves. Mwonzora is back at calling for national dialogue as the solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political paralysis."H...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 08:21hrs | 868 | by Nomusa Garikai
Khupe refused to vacate Parly top post?
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Thokozani Khupe has refused to vacate the position to pave way for MDC-T's newly elected president Douglas Mwonzora ,triggering a fresh row in Zimbabwe's secon...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:35hrs | 5999 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 patients told to buy their own ventilators
Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world's most run-down health systems.Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues d...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
'Expect more Covid-19 cases and deaths'
THE public has been warned that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic being experienced in Zimbabwe is far from reaching its peak, hence there are high chances that more positive cases and deaths w...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:29hrs | 3109 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs retreat to farms as Covid-19 bites
SEVERAL government and Zanu-PF bigwigs have retreated to their farms and villages as the Covid-19 pandemic bares its teeth with four Cabinet ministers having died so far and President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:56hrs | 4020 | by Staff reporter
Death threats for Tendai Biti
MDC alliance vice-president Tendai Biti yesterday said unknown assailants besieged his law firm while others called on his mobile phone threatening him with death over his remarks that Zanu-PF was res...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:55hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
A staggering number of Zimbabweans dying outside hospitals
A huge number of Covid-19 victims in Zimbabwe are dying outside health institutions with half of the casualties in Matabeleland South succumbing to the respiratory disease before accessing treatment, ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:48hrs | 911 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Coronavirus and the mystery of infection
He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherentl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 517 | by Zifiso Masiye
Women politicians discriminating against each other
BEHIND every successful man is a woman, is a tired cliché in reference to the fact that a man's achievements are made possible by the support and work of their wife or female partner.In one o...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:43hrs | 204 | by Musa Makina
Uganda to maintain Facebook ban
Uganda will maintain its shutdown of Facebook, Twitter and other social-media platforms until the government deems they're safe from being used to inflame tensions in the East African nation, New Visi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:35hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
God takes the fight to Zanu-PF
Not long ago, Zimbabwe's Vice President and a remorseless henchman, Constantine Chiwenga fired healthcare workers across the binary for speaking out about the dire situation they were working under an...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 21:39hrs | 889 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
Zimbabwe's ex-Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance deputy leader Tendai Biti says the fact that the country's key political leaders and their business cronies are under Covid-19 siege locally ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:15hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties and gatherings.The President said in the "next hours, days and even months" there will be surging Covid-19 ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:14hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 2059 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Eloise wreak havoc in Chipinge
AT least three people have died, while a Science laboratory at Mt Selinda High School was damaged as heavy rains accompanied with strong winds continue pounding most parts of Chipinge since Friday eve...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:02hrs | 1558 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive Covid-19 vaccine 'soon'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country will receive its Covid-19 vaccine soon, adding that frontline staff in the fight against the pandemic shall be prioritised.Mnangagwa said this in ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:01hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter
God takes the fight to Zanu
Not long ago, Zimbabwe's Vice President and a remorseless henchman, Constantine Chiwenga fired healthcare workers across the binary for speaking out about the dire situation they were working under an...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 12:00hrs | 3937 | by MLF
Govt warns acting Harare mayor
PROVINCIAL development co-ordinator Tafadzwa Muguti has warned Harare deputy mayor Luckson Mukunguma that his decision to defy a suspension order from Local Government minister July Moyo would end in ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1872 | by Staff reporter
Gweru revises water rationing
THE City of Gweru has said it will revisit its tight water-rationing regime following the delivery of three high lift pumps from South Africa which are expected to increase water supplies.In a...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:27hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Lies have short legs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made many promises since he entered office in November 2017. He was greeted with all the confidence that the people could give from all quarters of society.His asc...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2916 | by Worried
Businessman breaks up marriage
THE serial bed-hopping antics of Plumtree-based businessman Bhekisisa Bhebhe, who was chucked out of his in-laws' house after his shenanigans were exposed, caused the marriage dissolution that befell ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1602 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo and the Continuity of the Struggle
On the dawn of November 15, 2017, the late hero of Zimbabwe's armed struggle assumed the symbolic biblical ‘‘voice of one crying in the wilderness'' to make a way for the New Dispensation.To t...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 22:50hrs | 1402 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
Heavy rains, strong winds expected
Heavy rains in excess of 50 millimetres associated with strong winds are expected in Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland tomorrow as moderate Tropical Storm Eloise which is currently in the northern...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
'Two health workers infected by COVID-19 each day'
At least two members of the health frontline workers in Zimbabwe's major hospital are contracting the dreaded COVID-19 virus per day and putting a strain on the country's health provision system....Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 640 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cripples freight industry
THE Shipping and Freight Forwarding Agents of Zimbabwe (SFFAZ) has implored the government to facilitate smooth flow of goods across borders amid confusion over lockdown rules.The industry is ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF to blame for COVID-19 deaths'
MDC ALLIANCE vice-president Tendai Biti has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of deliberately imprisoning opponents and critics in COVID-19-infested jails as a way of exterminating the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Residents bemoan delays in bodies collection
BEREAVED families in Bulawayo have complained over delays in the collection of bodies by health workers and authorities.Government recently ordered that every death should be treated as a COVI...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:36hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabweans survive South Africa's anti-immigrant drive?
South Africa's strong and extensive ties with Zimbabwe are buckling under the strain of COVID-19 economic challenges and migration. The nearly 500 undocumented migrants arrested on a daily basis tryin...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 13:29hrs | 1591 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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