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Bulawayo residents drinking sewage-contaminated water
BULAWAYO residents could have been exposed to sewage and mud-contaminated water through seepage into burst water pipes, a lat-est council environmental, management and engineering services committee r...Published: 13 hrs ago | 923 | by Staff reporter
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 | 870 | by Staff reporter
Racism storm hits Zimbabwe Pepsi maker
WORKERS at Varun Beverages Zimbabwe Limited (VBZL), producers of Pepsi drinks, yesterday downed tools alleging racism, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices at the company.The worker...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF blames 'illicit market' plus usual suspects minus MDC for growing instability - 'It is the economy, stupid'
"The politics are being shaped from the market, it is as if we are being told, if you won't have MDC-Alliance for an opposition then we will create an opposition for you through illicit market activit...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 22:06hrs | 2247 | by Nomusa Garikai
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
'BCC might destroy damning diarrhoea outbreak evidence'
BULAWAYO residents have expressed fear that the local authority (BCC) could destroy evidence that implicates it in the diarrhoea, typhoid and dysentery outbreaks in the city which recently claimed a d...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:27hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest bond note snub
Mpopoma residents demonstrate at Mahomva shopping centre against the rejection of bond notes by general dealer shops on MondayDISGRUNTLED residents of Mpopoma high-density suburb in Bulawayo o...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
You said you are a listening President, so listen....
Dear Mr President, This is my first open letter to you Sir, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and I sincerely hope that it is received in good faith. You promised to be a listening President and I ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 3416 | by Paul Kaseke
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3445 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 8884 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government!
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has said Zimbabwe needs a fresh start and a people's government after the Zanu PF government has successively failed to ruin the country for 40 years now."Zi...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 10:03hrs | 1742 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mnangagwa facing an imminent end to his reign'
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 6207 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance itches for Mnangagwa showdown
THE MDC Alliance leadership has come out guns blazing, threatening a showdown with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, urging him to "resign or face the wrath of the people" in the wake of severe economic a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 798 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 777 | by Bloomberg
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
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
SA in record 6 500 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours
Another Covid-19 record was broken on Thursday, as 6,580 new cases of the respiratory illness were reported in the past 24 hours.This shattered the previous day's high of 5,688 cases. It means...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 16:58hrs | 847 | 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
Chamisa loses Harvest House row
UNDERFIRE opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has lost legal battle for control of the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House, popularly known as Harvest House, after the High C...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:39hrs | 4762 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire's $65 000 damages claim dismisseed by court
#THISFLAG social movement campaign leader and clergyman, Evan Mawarire, has lost a $65 000 damages claim he filed against police after the matter was dismissed by the High Court on June 8.Mawa...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
'Join protest demanding legitimate state' Chamisa called – he gave away legitimacy, wandering Jew
In Christian legend the wandering Jew is a character doomed to live until the end of the world because he taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion. He is doomed to wander, looking for something he ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 23:26hrs | 6194 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa extols US, Donald Trump
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has praised United States President Donald Trump for allowing an American company to supply farming equipment to Zimbabwe in support of the country's agricultural mechanis...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:16hrs | 1603 | by Staff reporter
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9944 | by Brian Raftopoulos
Fuel prices spark public outrage
AS Zimbabwe's fuel crisis intensifies, we took time to track the number of times the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) formally announced an increase in the price of fuel over the past 12 mo...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1916 | 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
Zimbabwean black lives matter too
THE world was recently seized by a series of demonstrations dubbed Black lives matter triggered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in the United States of America.Th...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 325 | by Terrence Wuragu
Senior nurses join juniors' strike
SENIOR nurses at public hospitals have joined their juniors in a nationwide strike, paralysing the public health delivery system.Nurses and junior doctors across the country declared a strike ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:24hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must stop reading prepared speeches
The Editor,Lately, I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Zimbabwe situation. I am one person who cheered President Mnangagwa (ED) on and was very hopeful that he will deliver for Zimba...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 7128 | by Sam Wezhira
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
Mnangagwa launches US$51 million John Deere mechanisation facility
President Mnangagwa has launched the US$51 million John Deere Mechanisation Facility that is expected to transform the agriculture sector and ensure the industry becomes the pathway out of poverty and...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1410 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 59 new COVID-19 recoveries
THIS Wednesday, the country recorded five more cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 530 since the onset of the outbreak in March this year.In a statement, The Min...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:19hrs | 1028 | 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
Selective outrage retrogressive to the African plight
WHEN we speak of the year 2020 the name Gorge Floyd wields more weight than the COVID-19 pandemic for obvious socio-political reasons. George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, in the USA....Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:05hrs | 114 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1006 | by Staff reporter
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
Army doctors deployed to Bulawayo
The Central Government has deployed army doctors to assist the City of Bulawayo in containing the outbreak of Gastrointestinal Disease which has left 9 people dead and more than a thousand seeking med...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 9603 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4887 | by Staff reporter
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
MDC jecha boys' tendency for mindless destruction
A walk along Harare's Simon Muzenda Street (formerly Forth Street), past a City of Harare paid parking lot, reveals a rusting body of a bus parked near the eastern part of the municipal space. ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1864 | by Nobleman Runyanga
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 | 627 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's security forces on high alert
The security sector is on high alert amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the ZCTU. This comes after the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Association staged demonstrations in M...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 08:12hrs | 17686 | by Staff reporter
3 Artuz members arrested over demo
THREE members of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) were arrested yesterday following a demonstration at the Mucheke district education offices in Masvingo where they handed a pe...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 confirmed cases top 500
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe reached 512 yesterday, although 438 of these are among returning residents in quarantine with only 74 people being infected within Zimbabwe, includin...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:48hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
The latest soccer news you must know about
Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, soccer leagues across the world were shut down. Things are starting to change rapidly. The world is starting to reopen and soccer is returning to the center stage. As ...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 21:48hrs | 2026 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwe teachers demonstrate...dump mock coffins on the streets
Zimbabwean teachers under the banner of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) took to the streets of Masvingo on Monday to protest against the meager salaries that the civil servant...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 11:49hrs | 5578 | by Mandla Ndlovu
1 111 cops resist transfer
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga (pictured) was on Friday left with egg on the face after more than 1 111 junior officers successfully challenged their "intermittent transfers" at their own...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 5941 | by Staff reporter
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