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264 Covid cases in schools
Schools have recorded about 264 Covid-19 infections since the resumption of lessons, with the affected pupils being isolated in sick bays or in special dormitories. In Mberengwa, Lutheran Chur...Published: 11 hrs ago | 202 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate insists on handling Chin'ono trial
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday insisted on presiding over trial of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after dismissing his application for her recusal from the matter. Muchuc...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:55hrs | 1868 | by Staff reporter
Sibanda, Masuku stick to Bosso
Goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda and midfielder Nqobizitha Masuku have reversed their earlier decision to quit Highlanders and were yesterday expected to join the rest of the squad in training as they prepare...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:48hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt wants to appear wealthy 'Mbinga' in the eyes of the world, yet can't even feed own children!
So, the Zimbabwe government is up to no good - again! I am sure we have all come across (at least once, in our lives) that guy who wants to appear wealthy in the eyes of the community - shops ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1224 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jah Prayzah, Killer T performs at 'G40' party, detained at Airport
Musicians Jah Prayzah and Killer T were detained for more than four hours at RGM International Airport on Monday after performing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political archenemies in Cape Town,...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | 4382 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players undergo pre-training Covid-19 testing
LONG-SERVING Highlanders' goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda and midfielder Nqobizitha Masuku were among players that underwent Covid-19 tests yesterday in preparation for resumption of training. Bosso ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Police besiege Chamisa event
PoLiCe in Bulawayo yesterday forced mDC alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to prematurely end his address at an event to mark the party's 22nd anniversary, saying it was not sanctioned.The police ...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:02hrs | 3755 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants collide over policy
CIVIL servants say they will not be intimidated by government's decision to invoke the no-pay, no-work policy and vowed to continue pressing for better working conditions.Public Service Commis...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:02hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Number of war vets needing limbs declines
THE number of ex-combatants needing artificial limbs for injuries sustained during the armed liberation struggle has been falling over the years, the Defence and War Veterans ministry has revealed....Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:48hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
ZESA bosses exonerate Jere in US$3, 5 million meter tender
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company bosses who are state witnesses in the case in which Helcraw Electrical director Farai Jere implicated in a fraudulent US$3, 5 million smart m...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:46hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman kills husband, throws body parts in three pit latrines in SA
The bail hearing for a 42-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who in 2015 allegedly killed her husband during a domestic dispute has been postponed to September 21 at the Mogwase Magistrate Court in North West...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prison officers protest over poor working conditions
About 400 Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officers undergoing different specialist training at Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North province reportedly staged a protest on Monday over p...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:29hrs | 841 | by Staff reporter
Muleya, if Zanu PF is blatantly rigging elections (and it is) then how can '2023 be won on voter registration'
Common sense is the ability to change one's position on a subject matter when the overwhelming evidence before you support change.My grandparents believed the world was flat, for example; thei...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 17:36hrs | 1036 | by Wilbert Mukori
ZLHR seeks release of refugees arbitrarily detained in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has asked Chief Immigration Officer Respect Gono to cause the release of some refugees, who were rounded up from Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge by some Zim...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 15:13hrs | 368 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's new biography confirms political brinkmanship with Chiwenga
THE political war of attrition between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has found expression in the President's controversial new biography as internecine unresolved le...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 4564 | by Staff reporter
Schools demand COVID-19 certificates after outbreaks
SOME schools around the country are demanding that pupils produce COVID-19-free certificates before they are admitted for the last term of the year following outbreaks within the first week of reopeni...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:29hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Sick bays set up at boarding schools
Schools today reopen for non-examination classes for the long second and final term of 75 teaching days for these classes, without exeat weekends, and with temporary holding and sick bays set up at mo...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:16hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
War vets expose ugly Zanu-PF fights
WAR veterans in Mashonaland West province have laid bare deep-rooted factionalism in Zanu-PF and blasted their national chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa for accusing other former freedom fighters of be...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:11hrs | 2753 | by Staff reporter
Joel Ngodzo, back in boyhood colours
BULAWAYO based Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams have declared their readiness for the resumption of football this month, with the bulk of them putting in arrangements to start training.Highla...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1219 | by Staff reporter
We need to repair our sick politics
AS strange as it might sound or seem, you can be sure there is an imbecile somewhere in our beloved teapot-shaped country that is very unhappy the weatherman is forecasting we might have a very good r...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 85 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwean referees appointed for international assignments
ZIMBABWEAN football referees will be busy this month after receiving appointments to officiate in international matches on the continent. Referees on the Fifa panel were appointed to handle ma...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:47hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 Knox Butho out of Bafana match
ZIMBABWE have been dealt a heavy blow after midfielder Butholezwe Ncube and striker Knox Mutizwa tested positive for Covid-19, automatically ruling them out of the World Cup qualifiers against South A...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
2 South Africa-based Warriors test positive for Covid-19
THE Zimbabwe national team have been forced to drop two players who tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of the opening Group G World Cup football qualifier against South Africa.ZIFA spokesperso...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 17:58hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
10 protesting teachers arrested
TEN teachers were arrested yesterday in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, for protesting against non-payment of salaries by government.Their lawyer Gift Mtisi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2020 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 recovery rate now at 90%
ELEVEN people died while 70 tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday in Zimbabwe as the country's recovery rate keeps improving. On Sunday the rate stood at 90 percent up from 89 recorded on Saturday. ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:31hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Unions cast doubt on new school term
Two unions representing teachers yesterday cast doubts on the smooth re-opening of schools tomorrow, saying their members would not be able to go back to work because of poor pay.In a surprise...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Millers back fresh policies
ZIMBABWE'S milling industry have showered praises on under fire Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube for "continued strenuous efforts" in maintaining fiscal discipline to rebuild the troubled economy....Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:13hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
International Youth Day: Youth VOW to transform food systems for Human and Planetary Health
Youths were urged and vowed to take matters into their hands and not to shun agriculture as a business during the ActionAid and Global Platforms organized 2021 International Youth Day Virtual Commemor...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:12hrs | 115 | by Alfred Towo
Big break-though for Benjani
BENJANI MWARUWARI's appointment, as the Warriors assistant coach, has been warmly welcomed by the domestic football fraternity. They feel he will now get a golden chance, to be groomed inside the tren...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:34hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's senior doctors fume over lockdown extension
Zimbabwe's senior doctors on Wednesday questioned the government's latest Covid-19 lockdown extension, calling it "unscientific" in the face of declining infections and hospitalisations, ZimLive repor...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 08:27hrs | 3976 | by Staff reporter
Craig Ervine captains Zimbabwe for Ireland, Scotland tours
Craig Ervine will captain Zimbabwe for their limited-overs series in Ireland and Scotland. Zimbabwe had named the 18-member squad last week but hadn't named a captain.Ervine will be the fifth ...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 08:27hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
'AU, Sadc can rein in rogue Zimbabwe soldiers'
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called on Parliament to appoint persons from the African Union (AU) and the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) to head the Independent Complaints Commission ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | 3383 | by Staff reporter
Moderna starts human trials of experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
United States pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna last Wednesday started trials of its experimental mRNA HIV vaccine.Moderna has enrolled 56 healthy adults without HIV to test the...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 10:58hrs | 4948 | by Staff reporter
Evicted Zanu-PF supporters stranded
About 200 families that were evicted from a farm on the outskirts of Marondera in June are still living in the open as the government is yet to fulfil its promise to resettle them.The families...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Will the Zambian winds blow in Zimbabwe?
IF the opposition in Zambia wins the elections this year, then the Zimbabwean opposition will win the elections in 2023. The Zambian opposition won the elections. Therefore, the Zimbabwean opposition ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:10hrs | 203 | by Tawanda Majoni
When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment
Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 436 | by Bishop Lazi
Chamisa urges Africa to emulate Zambia
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has called on fellow African leaders and African state institutions to emulate the "excellent precedence" set by neighboring Zambia after successfully ho...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Marange teen mother's parents face arrest
POLICE yesterday said they had arrested Hatirarami Momberume, also known as Evans Momberume (26), following the alleged death of a 14-year-old minor on July 15 while giving birth at the Johane Marange...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:23hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Ngarivhume petitions Parliament over electoral reforms
TRANSFORM Zimbabwe president Jacob Ngarivhume, who organised the world famous #31July Movement last year, has petitioned the parliament to expeditiously implement electoral reforms and address t...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:06hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Councillor calls for disinfection of public areas to curb Covid-19
Bulawayo deputy mayor and Ward 1 Councillor Mlandu Ncube has implored the council's health department to disinfect public spaces in the city in order to contain the spread of Covid-19.In the l...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:59hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
'Thinking that the military are just wearing overalls (military gear) for Chamisa to just rule, fear God'
MDC had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms including reforms of the military, Police, CIO and Prison Services; sadly, the golden opportunity was wasted because not even one ref...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:53hrs | 541 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ex-coloniser UK flags Zimbabwe as risky
THE United Kingdom (UK) has designated Zimbabwe as a risky investment destination owing to high-level corruption, warning its citizens against doing business in the southern African country.In...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1419 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 3 Shangaan chiefs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has elevated three Shangaan headmen to chiefs in a move that has been described as a plot to douse the simmering tension between Zanu-PF and the Shangaan community....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 968 | by Staff reporter
Zambian activist tells Zimbabwean youths to 'guide your votes'
ZAMBIAN youth activist and former African Union (AU) youth simulation forum president, Joseph Kalimbwe has urged Zimbabwean youths not to vote and leave polling stations, but stay until results have b...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Black capitalists and new colonisers
The promises of liberation have not been met and polls show persistent discontent with the Mnangagwa government.The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1553 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Student takes Zimsec head-on over seized results
A 2020 O-Level student, Ashley Mutandwa, has taken the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) head-on following the seizure of her results on allegations on examination cheating.Zimsec h...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Fresh anti-Zimbabwe govt protests coming
PROMINENT leaders of Zimbabwe's pro-democracy movement vowed to return to the streets on Monday next week to protest for political and electoral reforms.This was announced by Transform Zimbabw...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 13:52hrs | 2251 | by Staff reporter
'Internet censorship worst in Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE recorded the worst internet censorship rankings in southern Africa despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation promises to usher democratic reforms.Zimbabwe is one of the ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:52hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Malema refuses to reject Zimbabwean linked Johannesburg mayor
South Africa's firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema has refused to be canvassed to reject Johannesburg's new mayor - whose father was an immigrant from Zimbabwe.Jolidee Matongo was el...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 07:52hrs | 7442 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe soldiers must respect human rights'
THE National Transitional Justice Working Group Zimbabwe (NTJWG) has called on government to ensure that soldiers do not perpetuate human rights violations in the country, adding that those found on t...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
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