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Zanu-PF slates US envoy
United States of America's envoy to Zimbabwe Ambassador Brian Nichols' failure to denounce the violent insurrection that happened at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on January 6 - killing five people an...Published: 22 mins ago | 17 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance call for 'streetifying people's anger' - real change will come from implementing reforms
"It is Zanu-PF itself that has become a super-spreader of perfidy and unbridled falsehoods as exemplified by its statements alleging growth in the country's economy and the cheap allegation that victi...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1429 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Cyberocracy: from prospects to reality?
Implications for Political Communication and Digital Diplomacy for Zimbabwe and the Developing WorldIn 1992, David Ronfieldt writing for the RAND Corpo...Published: 18 hrs ago | 112 | by Taurai Mutoti
Married woman demands maintenance from ex
IN a rare maintenance case that stunned people at Mutare Civil Courts last week, a married Mutare woman applied for maintenance of her two-year-old child from her ex-boyfriend.Franscisca Musun...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1875 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now almost overrun by Covid-19 second wave
When the coronavirus pandemic began early in 2020, most Zimbabweans never took it seriously. Many were misled by social media where it was peddled that Corona is only for whites and only comes in wint...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 2652 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Museveni takes commanding lead in polls
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in the country's presidential election, according to provisional results released yesterday, with 34 percent of the ballots counted....Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
30 more Zimbabweans die of Covid-19 bringing total to 666
THE country recorded 741 new Covid-19 positive cases and 30 deaths on Wednesday. All 741 cases are local cases with 263 cases from Harare alone. A total of 3 386 PCR tests were conducted and this mean...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:20hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
Army-linked Anjin grabs richest diamond claim
AN army-linked miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, grabbed the most lucrative diamond claim in Marange from a firm owned by the government after being relicensed under unclear circumstances, it has em...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 1047 | by Kenneth Matimaire
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 recovery rate drops drastically
ZIMBABWE'S Covid-19 recovery rate has dropped drastically in the second wave of the new variant of the virus and most infections are local, showing that communities should adopt safe behaviours as the...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk tests Covid positive
BULAWAYO town clerk Mr Christopher Dube has contracted Covid-19. Mr Dube tested Covid-19 positive on Monday but did not need to be admitted to hospital. Over 24 000 people have contracted the ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth'
South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, "Covid fatigue" and a seriesof "super-spreader" events.On ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:43hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
38 more Zimbabweans die of Covid-19, scary 29% positivity rate
THE country recorded 1,017 new Covid-19 positive cases and 38 deaths on Wednesday. All 1,017 cases are local cases with 419 cases from Harare alone. A total of 3 507 PCR tests were conducted and this ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 20:04hrs | 3838 | by Staff reporter
Government to arrest those spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 and the vaccine
The CORONA VIRUS pandemic has shaken the world and gripped it with fear. In the last 24 hours I lost people very close to me due to COVID. there is no one who can say he does not know a family which l...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1230 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2447 | by Samantha Power
Tsitsi Dangarembga awarded the 2021 PEN Freedom of Expression Prize
Human rights organisation, English PEN champions the freedom to read and write. With the help of a community of writers, readers and activists, the organisation looks to protect freedom of speech, sup...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions must go
Trump crying foul after being... trumped and trampled in recent American elections. Elections stolen in great America, my foot! The cradle of democracy now turned 'mobocracy', who will guard the guard...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 15:52hrs | 238 | by Murisa Tondo
98 covid-19 positive out 123 tested: proof test regime wilfully inadequate - 'Seri kweguva!' Still, must learn lessons
Zimbabwe has handled the corona virus pandemic like it has everything else the characteristic blundering incompetence. "Masvingo marked a record single-day increase in the number of Covid-19 c...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:32hrs | 1498 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mahere protests jail conditions
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere will remain behind bars until Friday after a Harare magistrate deferred his ruling on the politician's application against placement on remand.The outs...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC leader arrested as fight for 'headlines' hots up - all deserted fight for reforms
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was launched by Morgan Tsvangirai and his friends in 1999 to answer the nation's cry for democratic changes as the only way to end the de facto one party, Zanu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 14:16hrs | 982 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
21 more Zimbabweans die of Covid-19
THE country recorded 820 new Covid-19 positive cases and 21 deaths on Monday. All 820 cases are local cases with 385 cases from Harare alone. A total of 1 518 PCR tests were conducted. New recoveries ...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 19:36hrs | 2130 | by Staff reporter
24 more Zimbabweans die of Covid-19
THE country recorded 978 new Covid-19 positive cases and 24 deaths in the last 24 hours. All 978 cases are local cases with 559 cases from Harare alone. A total of 4 936 PCR tests were conducted. New ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 22:17hrs | 2526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants reel from COVID-19
THE government has been hit hard by the lethal coronavirus, with more than 1 000 civil servants confirmed to have so far been infected by the disease - as Zimbabwe's total number of reported Covid-19 ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 899 | by Staff reporter
South African editors hit out at Zanu-PF's Tafadzwa Tuboy Mugwadi and Mnangagwa govt
The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef), which was accused by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of being fascist and biased in its reporting, has called for the release of Zimbabwean ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 10:29hrs | 3156 | by Staff reporter
Experts predict surge in Covid-19 cases
HEALTH experts have warned of a continued surge in Covid-19 cases in the country during the coming weeks and called on government to introduce and equip new decentralised treatment centres around the ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Reasons why by-elections spook Zanu-PF
ZIMBABWE is in perpetual election mode, so there is no harm yapping on this subject even as the year is just starting and we are more than two years away from the next national polls.The west ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 287 | by Tawanda Majoni
FC Platinum locked in the bus in Tanzania
FC Platinum starlet Kelvin Mangiza has revealed that the team was locked in the bus outside Benjamin Mkapa Stadium forcing players and officials to jump out through the windows ahead of the crucial CA...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases breach 20,000 mark
Zimbabwe reported 839 new Covid-19 infections and 15 deaths on Saturday as the country continues to reel from the respiratory virus. The COVID-19 caseload now tops 20,000 and fatalities at 483...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 21:18hrs | 1692 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's security personnel test positive of COVID-19
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, currently on annual leave at a time Zimbabwe is battling the intensifying Covid-19 pandemic, including attendant deaths, was last week forced to abandon a trip to his She...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:41hrs | 4102 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has no strategy beyond lockdown
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has no comprehensive Covid-19 plan beyond the strict 30-day lockdown triggered by a recent spike in cases, spelling trouble in the health sector for his broke...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:38hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle radiation checks to start
Food and water testing for cancer causing radiation elements in imported foods will begin this year as the Government has already set up a Gamma Spectrometry Laboratory in Harare which is expected to ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Paternity cheat exposed
A Bulawayo woman was exposed as a paternity cheat after results of a DNA test showed that the child was not fathered by the man who she claimed was her daughter's dad.The bombshell came to lig...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group blasts Chiwenga's 'elitist' lockdown measures
BULAWAYO pressure group, Ibhetshu LikaZulu says the current Covid-19 lockdown measures recently announced will not achieve desired results because of government's elitist approach to the situation....Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:41hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Dumb advisors, deaf Executive
"JANUARY 2021 has been cancelled," is a joke that went viral in Zimbabwe last weekend.It is a joke premised on Zimbabwe's return to COVID-19 lockdown measures. These are the strictest conditio...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:29hrs | 548 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Covid-19 scare at Trojan Mine
Trojan Nickel Mine residents are living in apprehension as the number of positive COVID-19 cases continues to soar.This comes at a time when Zimbabwe, and the world at large, is also tussling ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 14:52hrs | 1082 | by Lloyd Rabaya
Sikhala to be arrested over a tweet?
Job Sikhala, vice chairman of the Nelson Chamisa led Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-Alliance), has alleged that the Mnangagwa regime wants to arrest him today.He was last arreste...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 11:17hrs | 3866 | by Staff reporter
Nurses down injections and thermometers
NURSES at major public hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo downed tools yesterday for fear of contracting the deadly COVID-19 virus after being forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE)....Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:40hrs | 1078 | by Staff reporter
Govt told to subsidise COVID-19 testing
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has called on government to subsidise COVID-19 testing so that it becomes affordable to every citizen to reduce cases of issuing of fake certificates.In its De...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Govt clears Warriors trip
Ill-prepared Zimbabwe Warriors will take part at this year's African Nations Championships (Chan) which kicks off in Cameroon next week after Zifa secured government clearance to participate in the to...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:36hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Trump dents US democracy claims, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday called for order in the United States following the chaos unleashed on Washington by pro-Donald Trump supporters, who do not want to accept Joe Biden's electoral...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:33hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reiterates call to end American sanctions
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has reiterated his call for an end to the vindictive illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Western countries as he congratulated Mr Joe Biden following his confirmation yesterda...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa blasts US after Capitol riot
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reacted to Wednesday's violent protests in the US capital after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building.Mr Trump had egged on his sup...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 19:03hrs | 2140 | by Staff reporter
US election 'fraud' protests - 4 shot dead
Four people died and 52 were arrested, Washington DC's police chief said, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday to stop Congress from certifying president-elec...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 10:36hrs | 2634 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa rejecting Zimbabwe COVID-19 test certificates'
TRAVELLERS' woes at Beitbridge Border Post continue mounting amid reports that South African authorities were rejecting COVID-19 test certificates issued by other countries including Zimbabwe, preferr...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:32hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
Maps to release debut maskandi album
FLEDGLING maskandi musician Busani "Maps Mabhayi" Maphosa will next month launch his debut album titled Enqameni close to a year after shelving the plans owing to COVID-19 lockdown.Known for h...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Govt told to tailor-make measures for COVID-19 hotspots
GOVERNMENT should identify COVID-19 provincial hotspots and implement tailored measures or different levels of the lockdown depending on the incidence of the virulent disease, human rights doctors hav...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:25hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Another COVID-19 case in Warriors camp
ZIFA have confirmed another case of coronavirus in the Warriors camp, with a member of the technical team the latest to return a positive result for the virus.Association spokesperson Xolisani...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:23hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa writes letter to Zimbabweans
Fellow Zimbabweans,When we began this journey 22 years ago, I was a young college student alongside my contemporaries. I was part of a generation of college students that joined veteran trade ...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:19hrs | 4182 | by Nelson Chamisa
Trump blocked by Twitter and Facebook
Donald Trump has been suspended from Twitter and Facebook after tweeting to supporters who attacked the US Capitol.In a social media message to protesters he said "I love you" before telling t...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:09hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Truck drivers give border authorities torrid time
PANIC has gripped Matabeleland South Province as there has been an increase in cases with truck drivers reportedly returning without valid Covid-19 free certificates, Provincial Medical Director Dr Ch...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 infected civil servants receive US$1000
CIVIL servants who contracted Covid-19 in the line of duty have started receiving health insurance cover ranging from US$650 to US$1 000 paid in local currency at the prevailing official exchange rate...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:04hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
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