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Lancet Lab workers down tools
LANCET Clinical Laboratories employees yesterday staged a sit-in at their workplace over poor remuneration, demanding salaries in United States dollars or the black market rate equivalent.Thei...Published: 13 hrs ago | 864 | by Staff reporter
Avenues Clinic to covid-19 test all elective admissions after 'significant increase in cases' - how many?
Dear Medical Director, The Avenues ClinicI direct your attention your letter of 01 July 2020 below."TO: All Specialists, Casualty Officers, Matrons...Published: 14 hrs ago | 259 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bulawayo pushes for out of court settlement
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is reportedly pushing for an out-of-court settlement with residents who dragged it to court demanding answers to the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreak in the city....Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean embassies in dire straits
ZIMBABWEAN embassies are in dire straits with diplomats not being paid for several months, while living in squalid conditions as the government owes close to US$30 million for services rendered and re...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:23hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
A Win for Malawians ls A Win for Zimbabweans
Democracy has triumphed over in Malawi.The Courts proved they can deliver justice independently without external influence from those in power.In the end the Court declared a new election afte...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1004 | by A Kadada
Mixed reactions over re-opening of schools in Zimbabwe
Various stakeholders across the southern African country have expressed mixed feelings over the reopening of schools on the 28th of July this year.Prior to the reopening of schools, the govern...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:15hrs | 4023 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe records 17 new COVID-19 cases, 11 more recoveries
ZIMBABWE this Tuesday recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 591.Of the positive cases, 13 are returnees from South Africa while three are local ca...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 20:18hrs | 2550 | by Staff reporter
Cop force-marches boss to charge office at gunpoint
A POLICE officer based at Zezani Police Station in Beitbridge, Matabeleland South province has been locked up for allegedly force-marching his superior from his home to the office at gunpoint, protest...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2330 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt neglecting COVID-19 positive nurses'
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has accused the government of neglecting Mpilo Central Hospital nurses who contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty and are now quarantined at the Elangeni Traini...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Malaria death toll rises to 279
THE malaria death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to 279 since January amid reports that 306 365 have been infected with the disease. In April the deaths stood at 201 with 185 585 cases countrywide...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases show signs of stability'
Chief Coordinator National Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said although it is too early to claim victory, Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases seem to be stabilising, with very low leve...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40' - done a lot worse, it's madhouse
Dear Grace Kwinjeh, First of all, I would like to thank you for this insightful contribution, "Is Khupe an MDC or Zanu-PF creation?" in Bulawayo24."A pattern that continues to repeat i...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 20:33hrs | 3386 | by Wilbert Mukori
Anxiety as schools open for June exams
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is reportedly ill-equipped to smoothly run the June examinations as the Education ministry has not deployed equipment to combat the spread of COVID-19....Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8883 | by Staff reporter
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Namibia exposes Mnangagwa govt's COVID-19 test kits donation lies
The government of Namibia has denied ever donating rapid COVID-19 test kits to the government of Zimbabwe. The statement by the country's embassy in Zimbabwe comes after a claim made by the Zimbabwe M...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 'The worst still to come'
DR Solwayo Ngwenya, a veteran medical practitioner is a worried man. He believes there seems to be lack of seriousness in flattening the coronavirus curve by the ordinary citizens and officials to an ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South running out of quarantine space
AUTHORITIES in Matebeleland South have called on the Government to urgently avail more Covid-19 quarantine and isolation centres and to upgrade existing facilities to enhance their capacity to handle ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Typhoid outbreak in Bulawayo
TESTS done at private laboratories to ascertain the cause of 12 deaths and illness to more than 1 500 residents of Luveve in Bulawayo have revealed that they suffered from typhoid and dysentery....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Foreign students to produce Covid-19 free certificates
FOREIGN students who are doing final year studies at country's universities are expected to produce Covid-19 free certificates and subjected to the mandatory 21-day quarantine while undergoing testing...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
400 Covid-19 positive cases from South Africa
RETURNEES from South Africa have accounted for more than 70 percent of Covid-19 positive cases reported in the country after 400 locals who were domiciled in the neighbouring country tested positive s...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:21hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Football restart gathers pace across Africa
Some football Leagues in Africa have been declared over, but Tanzania have forged ahead, returning to competitive football last weekend while clubs in Morocco and Egypt resumed training on Thursday ah...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:22hrs | 369 | by Busisani Ncube
Zim Government under spotlight over property rights: Paul Westwood saga
During the 2017 episode, one of the key fundamentals which the military reiterated during the seizure of power, was the restoration of legacy, getting rid of the purported criminals around Robert Muga...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 1061 | by Charles Murindo
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 14258 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa associate's bail ruling reserved
The High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which Delish Nguwaya is contesting the decision of the magistrates' court to deny him bail on charges of misrepresenting to Government that his comp...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
'We demand release of Obert Masaraure now!' ZCP says
The incompetent and uncaring Zimbabwean government has once again unjustifiably arrested members of ARTUZ for peacefully demonstrating against the dire economic situation and protesting for a living w...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:53hrs | 1916 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
Top Swaziland born lawyer leads 'Obadiah Moyo must go' campaign
PROMINENT human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has joined thousands of disgruntled health workers and ordinary citizens in calling for Health minister Obadiah Moyo to be fired from government over alle...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
PTUZ mobilises for boycott of exams invigilation
A COMBATIVE teachers' union has psyched up the educators to boycott invigilating the June examinations until government complies with a High Court ruling ordering it to equip schools with facilities t...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:32hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe quarantine centres new COVID-19 hotspots
I AM in quarantine and it's a mess." Many Zimbabweans woke up to this distressful text from humanitarian worker Munyaradzi Madziwa who had been quarantined at Mosi Oa Tunya Secondary School in Victori...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:31hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Unemployed volunteer nurses pitch up, turned away from Masvingo hospital
There was a circus at Masvingo Provincial Hospital Thursday after a group of 15 trained but unemployed nurses turned up at the health facility to purportedly take up posts rendered vacant by nurses wh...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:50hrs | 846 | by newzibabwe
HLF steps up Testing in Zimbabwe with free testing for the poor
Businessman and Africa Union Special Envoy Strive Masiyiwa has announced free COVID-19 testing in Zimbabwe, along with ramped up testing for the broader population at cost, through his Higherlife Foun...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:41hrs | 551 | by Agencies
Students, unionist set free for protesting against detention of abductees and demanding US$ salaries
CHINHOYI Magistrate Felix Mawadze on Tuesday released eight Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) students, who had been arrested for allegedly protesting against the clampdown on human rights defen...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 14:08hrs | 1289 | by Stephen Jakes
Willard Katsande set to release music album
FORMER Zimbabwe Warriors captain and current Kaizer Chiefs midfielder, Willard Katsande has made a surprise announcement to release a music album as he edges closer toward the end of his football care...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:23hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Driving School Owners urges government to re-open VID depots
The Vice President of Zimbabwe Driving School Owners Association ( ZDSOA) Edwin Ndlovu has called for the government of Zimbabwe to direct VID depots across the country to commence testing aspir...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 11:43hrs | 1415 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Blame Tsvangirai for your woes, says Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has told the MDC to blame its founding leader the late Morgan Tsvangirai for the chaos in the opposition party.Tsvangirai appointed Nelson Chamisa...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:14hrs | 3279 | by Staff reporter
HIV positive people at low risk of dying from COVID-19
A study by the South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) has shown that People Living With HIV (PLWH) are at less risk of dying from COVID-19 than those with underlying illnesse...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1693 | by Staff reporter
4 Zimbabwe embassy staffers test positive for coronavirus
FOUR Zimbabwe embassy in South Africa staffers and two members of their families tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the closure of the office for 18 days, although it has since partially opened alb...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 06:56hrs | 1023 | by Staff reporter
13 MDC legislators recalled, few fence-sitters remain 'true to their conscience' - what sell-out has a conscience
"We take the firm view that the state institutions, including parliament are being abused to reverse the will of the people and replace it with an unholy alliance between Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa and Ms ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 19:25hrs | 1488 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Cassava Fintech launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against Coronavirus
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the te...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:56hrs | 128 | by Agencies
Red Cross to start Covid-19 tests
Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) clinics will soon start polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests after receiving funding from the Coca-Cola Foundation to fight the spread of Covid-19. ZRCS has ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
New guidelines for Bulawayo clinics
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Health Services Department has introduced a raft of measures to protect health personnel and patients against Covid-19 at local clinics. The municipality runs 1...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 953 | by Staff reporter
13 more Covid-19 cases confirmed in Zimbabwe
Thirteen more Covid-19 infections in Zimbabwe were confirmed yesterday bringing the cumulative total to 525, with 448 being returning residents in quarantine centres and 77 being infected within Zimba...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to launch tractor facility
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to launch the John Deere agricultural equipment supply facility that is part of Government's mechanisation development programme, said Information, Publicity a...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Youth organisation call for immediate release of young activists
The Zimbabwe Youth Leadership Training (ZYLT) Alumni Association a platform for providing an efficient and democratic platform for debate, exchange of ideas and carriage of projects dedicated to the s...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:49hrs | 640 | by Stephen Jakes
Black lives matter-not at all, not in Zanu PF's Zimbabwe - 1 000 lost lives count 1 official death
Government has confirmed that schools will reopen on Tuesday July 28. In May government announced that schools will reopen 29 June but was forced to postpone to allow the relevant authorities "to mobi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 12:39hrs | 2266 | by Wilbert Mukori
Self service and saving lives
On the 17th of June health workers woke up to realise that their already compromised salaries had been further cut spurring them into an immediate industrial action that started at Parirenyatwa Group ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 1141 | by Godard Thabani Bvungidzire
US worries over abuse of women in Zimbabwe and not blacks in America
THE United States has expressed concern over the State-sponsored violence and political persecution of women in Zimbabwe and called for investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.This follo...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
13 more Mpilo Central Hospital nurses test positive
HEALTH workers, especially nurses, are at a high risk of contracting Covid-19. Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Judith Ncube has suggested that this is due to some members of the publ...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: General SB Moyo throws Delish Nguwaya under the bus
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Retired Major General Sibusiso Moyo has denied social media reports that jailed businessman Delish Nguwaya is a holder of a diplomatic passport. ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 20:13hrs | 8489 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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