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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: 2 hrs ago | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Painful lessons from our COVID-19 so far
The confirmed number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases worldwide crossed the half a million mark last week and still going. The world's biggest cities and towns are on lockdown; so are the biggest marke...Published: 2 hrs ago | 152 | by Tapiwa Gomo
WHO warns of 'dramatic evolution' of virus in Africa
The World Health Organisation's regional director for Africa on Friday warned the continent faced a "dramatic evolution" of the coronavirus pandemic. Of the 47 countries in the WHO Africa regi...Published: 3 hrs ago | 474 | by AFP
'Urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni, Thorngrove hospitals'
THE Government has said there is an urgent need to capacitate Ekusileni Medical Centre and Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital as isolation centres for Covid-19 patients in Bulawayo. The bu...Published: 3 hrs ago | 110 | by Staff reporter
Hive of activity as residents do last-minute shopping
THERE was a hive of activity in Bulawayo and Gweru yesterday as hundreds of people made last-minute shopping to beat the Government 21-day lockdown to flatten the coronavirus curve. President ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 111 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Bomber's plans ruined
FORMER World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa heavyweight champion Elvis Moyo has set-up a makeshift gym in his backyard where he is training with his 16-year-old son Craig, in South Africa during the c...Published: 3 hrs ago | 104 | by Staff reporter
Health experts explain 21-day lockdown
HEALTH experts yesterday said the 21-day national lockdown that starts today is vital in curbing the spread of coronavirus as it allows infected people to show symptoms, get treatment and heal within ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 98 | 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: 3 hrs ago | 41 | 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: 3 hrs ago | 103 | by Staff reporter
Jaure undergoes head surgery
DYNAMOS captain Partson Jaure yesterday underwent a delicate operation in Harare to mend a skull fracture he sustained in a car crash last week. Jaure, who has been admitted at Parirenyatwa Ho...Published: 3 hrs ago | 247 | by Staff reporter
South Africans want to buy cigarettes during lockdown
"High level" discussions are underway to allow for the sales of cigarettes during South Africa’s unprecedented 21-day Covid-19 lockdown, a well-placed source within the national government told Busi...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1783 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will be allowed to go and buy food
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that the country will go into lockdown from Monday in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus.So far, the country has recorded five cases and ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 18 hrs ago | 419 | by Staff reporter
Denial, stigma threaten fight against Covid-19
Stigma, peddling of fake news and myths threaten to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the effective handling of the coronavirus pandemic with many people in Zimbabwe still to take the outbreak...Published: 18 hrs ago | 259 | by Staff reporter
LISTEN: Ntsiki Mazwai's letter to Cyril Ramaphosa
Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai's daughter Ntsiki, a poet, in a letter she shared on her Twitter account on Saturday via three audio posts, lambasted South Africa president ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo braces for Covid 19
I love walking the streets of my hometown, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Every street, edifice and alley way holds many memories for me. Memories of happier times, when our now old and frail parents...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 08:56hrs | 411 | by Terence Msuku
Municipal police get arresting powers
HARARE municipal police were given temporary arresting powers through the SI 77 of 2020 as the fight against Covid-19 intensifies in the country with local authorities shutting down vending markets as...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Mazwai lambasts Cyril Ramaphosa for 'appeasing the white master'
Former journalist and anti-apartheid activist Thami Mazwai's daughter Ntsiki, a poet, in a letter she shared on her Twitter account on Saturday via three audio posts, lambasted South Africa president ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 142 | 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 | 83 | by Staff reporter
Govt lockdown impractical without economic cushioning measures
The nationwide lockdown, which is due to come into effect Monday, March 30, is a necessary step in containing the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. However, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 21:18hrs | 1786 | by Lloyd Msipa, People’s Party
'Army plots to abduct Thabani Mpofu during lockdown?'
The much-feared members of the Zimbabwe Military Intelligence are reportedly plotting to abduct famed lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu and award-winning journalist Hopewell Chinn'ono. South ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:32hrs | 7455 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA police use heavy-handed tactics to enforce the 21-day national lockdown
South African police used heavy-handed tactics to enforce the 21-day national lockdown in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on Saturday, firing rubber bullets and sjamboking those who would not get off the stre...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:16hrs | 2740 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's lockdown regulations likened to apartheid era
The government has slammed critics who have likened the national lockdown to measures under apartheid rule.Addressing the media on Saturday, ministers who are part of the national command coun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1626 | by Staf reporter
Mnangagwa ally cracks whip on business over COVID-19
As the country recorded its third case of Covid-19 and one death, the Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has ordered all big businesses to avail hand sanitizers and temp...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1926 | by Staf reporter
'Chamisa refused to meet Mnangagwa and Mbeki at State House'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa refused to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa and South African politician Thabo Mbeki at the State House for a political and economic dialogue. South Africa's Institu...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 11:36hrs | 8641 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga returns home from China
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has returned from China where he received medical treatment for two weeks, the presidency confirmed.Chiwenga's private jet hired from Dubai landed in Harare...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:25hrs | 11106 | by Staff reporter
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 | 818 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5384 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, Chamisa must swallow pride'
THE move by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to block the proposed mediation by former South African president Thabo Mbeki reflects the lack of seriousness and lethargy by government to engagement in mean...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:09hrs | 3070 | by Staff reporter
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 | 821 | by Staff reporter
More Zimbabwe health workers go on strike
MEDICAL personnel at the privately run Avenues Clinic in Harare downed tools yesterday in protest over lack of personal protective equipment in the wake of the deadly coronavirus.There are sus...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
Govt managing COVID-19 information: CSOs
GOVERNMENT has been challenged to come clean on COVID-19 by disseminating correct information on the pandemic in Zimbabwe amid concerns that testing centres were only in Harare and Bulawayo, leaving t...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Scores throng Beitbridge border ahead of lockdown
SOUTH AFRICA failed to close its border at midnight on Thursday as droves of Zimbabweans resident in that country thronged the Beitbridge border post to return home involuntarily.Thousands of ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2486 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 confirmed cases spikes to 7 in Zimbabwe
THE number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Zimbabwe has risen to seven, with one of them having succumbed to the disease. In a statement yesterday, the Permanent Secretary i...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:40hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Chivero sucked into match-fixing scandal?
HERENTALS FC have reason to smile after the Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee acquitted them of match-fixing allegations levelled by Bulawayo Chiefs. The scandal had sucked in...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's 40km, 1.8m-high Zimbabwe border fence goes ahead
WORK has started alongside the Beitbridge border post with construction teams building the 1.8m-high fence which will span 20km on each side of the border post between SA from Zimbabwe.Constru...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 494 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe clear travellers
Zimbabwean and South African immigration authorities yesterday worked round the clock to clear the final batch of travellers entering the country through Beitbridge Border Post. Human traffic ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 479 | 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 | 241 | by Staff reporter
'Terrence Mukupe mentally challenged,' says Prophet Bushiri
CONTROVERSIAL South Africa-based church leader, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has sensationally claimed that former deputy finance minister, Terrence Mukupe has a mental problem and should urgently seek he...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
ED shutdown Zim after allowing people from covid hit SA in - Zapu
Opposition Zapu has rapped president Emmerson Mnangagwa for delaying to lockdown Zimbabwe allowing people from covid 19 hit South Africa to come in and sp...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 06:54hrs | 1592 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa announces support for Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has announced that he is fully behind the decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to declare a 21-day lockdown due to the coronavirus. In a statement on Friday eveni...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 18:42hrs | 9021 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Mnangagwa locksdown Zimbabwe for 21 days...deploys army
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown to deal with the deadly coronavirus starting from 30 March.Another development announced by the President is that the Co...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 18:06hrs | 7464 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ramaphosa might have coronavirus
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested negative for coronavirus, the presidency said in a statement on Thursday.President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested negative for the coronavirus, h...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 17:21hrs | 4337 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's lockdown may push Zimbabwe to the edge
As South Africa's 21-day national lockdown comes into effect, the ramifications of this decision will be felt strongly across the Southern African region, most acutely by its northern neighbour, Zimba...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 16:09hrs | 5139 | by Webster Zambara
WATCH: SA soldiers beating up motorists as requested by Ramaphosa
SA National Defence Force soldiers are already being accused of abusing power.They were allegedly caught on camera beating up motorists.Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday evening when he addr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 16:06hrs | 10205 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans living in South Africa urged to cooperate with authorities during lockdown
Zimbabweans living in South Africa have been urged to cooperate with the neighbouring country's authorities during the 21-day lockdown, which began on Friday.As part of measures to contain the...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 14:44hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga snatches son movie style
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga yesterday allegedly hired two armed men to kidnap his son movie-style from his former girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa as the row over their son's custodianship turned nasty....Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 14:36hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus - Mnangagwa to impose national lockdown
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is considering a national lock down in an effort to nip the spread of the deadly coronavirus.In a communic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:34hrs | 5534 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe Treasury in coronavirus scare
Top directors in the Ministry of Finance have gone into self-isolation after getting into contact with the late Zororo Makamba who passed on this week due to coronavirus.Makamba succumbed to t...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1988 | by Staff reporter
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