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Mnangagwa son-in-law linked to attempt to seize CSC cold chain facility
Cold Storage Company (CSC) management in Harare is battling to ward off attempts by a close friend of President Mnangagwa's son-in-law Gerald Mlotshwa to seize control of a refurbished cold-chain faci...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean farmers to cash in on cannabis global boom
Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers like Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortun...Published: 11 May 2022 at 11:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pampers army, police
ZIMBABWE plans to splurge millions of United States dollars to procure about 1 000 brand new vehicles for the security services sector next year, to bolster their operations in a move that is likely t...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Sand poachers degrade Bulawayo
RAMPANT sand poaching and chopping down of trees is causing environmental degradation in and around Bulawayo amid revelations that the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) only has five rangers instead of 74 n...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media
I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really goi...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Economy snuffs out Zimbabwe smokers' income
Zimbabwean smokers lit up 8% fewer cigarettes this year, and the biggest drop is in the cheapest brands, as the economy snuffs out incomes.BAT, the country's biggest cigarette maker, saw sales...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smoking 'damages eyes as well as lungs'
Millions of people in the UK are putting their sight at risk by continuing to smoke, warn specialists.Despite the clear connection, only one in five people recognise that smoking can lead to b...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by BBC
Guard against uncontrolled fires
Whilst EMA is doing a great job in public awareness on the dangers and damages caused by veld fires, everyone must do their bit in eradicating the menace. Boxes of matches and lighters are not...Published: 22 May 2019 at 20:24hrs | | by Thomas Murisa.
Fighting corruption is everyone's child
The 'corrective' austerity measures occasioned by the on going reforms can pull Zimbabwe out of the black hole we find ourselves in. It was never going to be easy turning back our fortunes after corru...Published: 10 May 2019 at 22:44hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
'IPSOS poll exaggerates 'illicit cigarette' market share'
Following the publication of an Ipsos survey on the "illegal cigarette market" and related issues, which was carried by various South African publications, an impression was given that British A...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Lekan Ayo-Yusuf
Mnangagwa resurrects Beitbridge District club
THE Beitbridge District Club, once a social assembly point for white commercial farmers prior to independence, and the entire Beitbridge community after independence, relived its past glory last week....Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fire incidents explained
Zimbabwe Republic Police has urged members of the public to be cautious of individuals or groups who are trying to link recent fire incidents to all sorts of speculations yet facts on the ground are c...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's Turning Point
COMRADE Elison Mupamawonde (born 1950 in Bikita), whose Chimurenga was Soft Magarasadza last week spoke about how ZIPRA out-gunned Rhodesian forces at Chirundu during the liberation struggle and how t...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to maximize and change your tailgating experience
It is without a doubt that tailgating is an American tradition. Drinking, eating, and hanging with friends right before watching an exciting game of ...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Cannabis farming has come to the land
The carte blanche to lawfully grow 'weed' has attracted huge interest from bona fide overseas investors and locals. Forget the 'for medicinal purposes' clause, cannabis has been legalized, period. ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 13:36hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Tobacco farmers get $25m in 9 days
Tobacco farmers have grossed $25,8 million from 8,9 million kg of the golden leaf delivered, nine days into the 2018 marketing season.In 2017, farmers had delivered 10,4 million kilogrammes wo...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Our chiefs can now campaign for us, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am glad that as we prepare for the upcoming elections which we have no excuse not to win by the 98 percent margin now standardised by peer d...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by CZ
People only die from what's meant to kill them
'Something must kill a man!' As heartwarming and pleasant as that phrase sounds, it's a nagging reminder that neither of us will be lucky to get out of Earth alive! Well, of course, except the Astrona...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Nimi Princewill
'Stop smoking' plea as habit kills 50,000 South Africans every year
Smoking kills more than 50,000 people in South Africa each year, about a third of them before the age of 60, it was revealed on Tuesday as health experts and anti-smoking campaigners (Madiba Youth Org...Published: 30 May 2017 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Juju at Dynamos
Zimbabwe's global avatar has maxed out on grand narratives and pop consumables but occasionally underestimated the place of biography as a long night of the soul.Dynamos Football Club legend M...Published: 15 May 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Stanely Mushava
This below the belt kind of thinking! Stinks to high heaven!
When we say our thinking and our ways of life has not changed to better ourselves and our communities this is one classical example. It is just sad and backward to say a girl-child does not dese...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 20:19hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
'Secretive' bureaucracy controlling WHO Tobacco Treaty is 'a threat to public health' - new report
A recent report from the Royal College of Physicians concluded that vaping is "at least 95% safer" than smoking ...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by APO
Understanding the concept of multi-culturalism in German political landscape
Part four: 4.1 East Germany's multi culturalism When Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union and the Western allies it was divided into four parts...Published: 05 May 2016 at 19:26hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Miss Schools saga rages on
The outcry over hosting of Miss Schools pageant in a bar recently has grown louder with stakeholders in the industry, parents and promoters condemning organisers of the event and calling for action fr...Published: 20 Apr 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Our chiefs are lying, we openly smoke mbanje - Binga villagers
Ordinary villagers in Binga have attacked their traditional leaders for claiming that it was a myth that the district is highly associated with smoking mbaje.Villagers said they would openly s...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Seven-year-olds now hooked to smoking - Health ministry says
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has made shock revelations that children as young as seven years have started smoking.A Global Youth Tobacco Survey carried out from 2014 to last year by ...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Of Mega Deals and Mega Poverty'
As leader of a political party which is working tirelessly to win the confidence of the people of Zimbabwe, I have substantive interest in anxieties and expectations emanating from the litany of unful...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:10hrs | | by Professor Welshman Ncube
Public smokers to be jailed
SMOKING in public will attract a fine of $500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation sta...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo is the City of boozers
BULAWAYO Metropolitan Province has once again emerged as the place with the highest figures of heavy drinkers of alcoholic beverages, with a consumption rate of 38.3 percent compared to the national a...Published: 13 Jun 2015 at 12:48hrs | 1 | by Leonard Ncube
Axed Zanu-PF ministers step down, reaffirm loyalty to Mugabe
THE seven ministers fired on Sunday for conduct and performance below the expected standard have accepted their fate and expressed gratitude to President Mugabe for affording them an opportunity t...Published: 23 Dec 2014 at 05:17hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Doctors demand apology from Chimedza
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association yesterday demanded that Health and Child Care deputy minister Paul Chimedza apologise for calling them gobblers and smokers after exposing that their bos...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bans smoking allowed at Congress
Security manning entrance gates at the Sixth Zanu-PF National Congress barred smokers from taking with them their cigarette packs inside during body searches of delegates.Scores of people had ...Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 16:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public smokers face $500 fine or 6 months jail term
MINISTRY of Health and Child Care has called on the law enforcers to descend on public smoking offenders as the ministry intensifies its crackdown on citizens reluctant to comply with the Public Healt...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco company to pay wife $23b for cancer death
A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer.RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was hit with t...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 10:49hrs | | by BBC
'Legalise GANJA'
VILLAGERS in Binga, Matabeleland North, have called on the Zimbabwean government to legalise cannabis (mbanje, ganja, sensimilla, weed) for medical purposes, Southern Eye reported on Sunday....Published: 30 Mar 2014 at 08:50hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Africa should strongly support Uganda's stance on homosexuality
When God created a man, he later realised that he also needed to create a woman so that she becomes a man`s comforter, hence, the two would become a husband and a wife. God did not create a man t...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
E-cigarettes retail in Zimbabwe
Electronic cigarettes imported from the United States are being sold in Harare's Borrowdale suburb, in supermarkets and night clubs.The cigarettes come in five flavours, Menthol, Marlboro, Ca...Published: 31 Oct 2013 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor Welshman Ncube takes aspiring MDC candidates back to school
The Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC has resolved that aspiring party candidates for House of Assembly, Senatorial and council seats will have to undergo oral and written examinations, instead of con...Published: 09 Jun 2013 at 06:45hrs | | by Busani Ncube
Global facts in figures
Rwanda has the most female MPs in the world, Canada has the most computers but Iceland has the most internet users...Published: 08 Sep 2012 at 22:16hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Top fitness benefits you may be unaware of
The benefits of regular exerciseGetting fit through a programme of regular exercise has numerous benefits for your body and mind. However, there are also many little known health be...Published: 01 Sep 2012 at 10:15hrs | | by Realbuzz.com
Couple gets 100 lashes for having a child out of wedlock
The Islamists occupying northern Mali on Wednesday gave a couple 100 lashes of a whip for having a child out of wedlock as they continue enforcing shari'ah law, witnesses told AFP."At Sankore...Published: 21 Jun 2012 at 11:52hrs | | by AFP
Babies born to mothers who smoke have abnormal blood pressure
Babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy have been found to have abnormal blood pressure control which persists throughout the first year of life, according to a new study.Scientists...Published: 15 Dec 2011 at 16:56hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Harare Celebs Littering Facebook With Porn
As Facebook's graphic images policy tightens one wonders how some people from Harare are managing to post graphic images on their Facebook walls. Desmond Chideme aka Stunner, stunned everyone when he...Published: 05 Dec 2011 at 17:43hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
Irritating smokers' habits
What are the things that some (happily not all) smokers do that would make normally timid non-smokers reinstate certain medieval methods of dealing with offenders?...Published: 11 Nov 2011 at 05:28hrs | | by Susan Erasmus
Swine Flu: know the symptoms
Following the country's high alert for the H1N1 virus make sure you know the symptoms of the disease. DescriptionSwine flu, or pandemic influe...Published: 15 Jun 2011 at 14:05hrs | 3 | by Moyo Roy
Top 10: ways to prevent breast cancer
No,10 Lose weight Being overweight or obese has been found to increase breast cancer risk, especially for women after menopause, when -- because the ov...Published: 03 Aug 2011 at 21:19hrs | | by Michele Borboa, MS
Is the second-hand import car market a curse or a blessing?
If you own an import, and it acts up at one point or the other, it pays to know what some of the probable causes for the misdemeanour are, and these probable causes are sometimes preventable thr...Published: 12 Jan 2011 at 11:32hrs | 4 | by Byo24News
Scientists seek alcoholism vaccine
Chilean researchers said they are developing a vaccine against alcoholism that could be tested on humans starting next year and works by neutralising an enzyme that metabolises alcohol....Published: 11 Jan 2011 at 15:19hrs | | by AFP
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