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'Bulawayo returnees sharing buckets, crowded facilities'
RETURNING citizens housed at the United College of Education (UCE) and the Bulawayo Polytechnic College are sharing buckets, crowded bath facilities, not observing social distancing during meals and h...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Vulnerable Zimbabwean families get measly $180 cushion
PARLIAMENT on Wednesday questioned the rationale behind government giving out a measly $180 COVID-19 assistance to the vulnerable people when the prices of basic foodstuffs and other important commodi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:27hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 returnees panic as one of them tests positive
The first Covid-19 case in Masvingo, a Rujeko woman travelled from Botswana in the company of her daughter who had two children and the four were staying in the same room at Masvingo Teachers' College...Published: 23 May 2020 at 14:44hrs | 2291 | by Staff reporter
Should men and boys be included in menstruation discourses?
While menstruation is a natural biological process and a symbol of pride for humanity, it is often regarded as dirty and surrounded by stigmas and taboos that only exist to violate the rights and free...Published: 09 May 2020 at 16:22hrs | 1488 | by Clemence Machadu
Call for completion of Bindura Covid-19 centre
MINISTER of state and provincial affairs for Mashonaland Central province Monica Mavhunga has called for a speed completion of Covid-19 isolation centre in Bindura.Speaking at Bindura's isolat...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 11:51hrs | 312 | by Simbarashe Sithole
BCC must decentralise licencing of vendors and informal traders
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association has appealed to the Bulawayo City Council to decetralise licencing of vendors and informal traders as it starts removal of the traders from the city centre to ...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 11:51hrs | 594 | by Stephen Jakes
BCC to set up market stalls in suburbs
THE Bulawayo City Council has identified and designated areas for the setting-up of agro-food distribution hubs and vending sites at each suburb in its efforts to reduce decongestion in the Central Bu...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
CONFIRMED - Mugabe coup announcer's attacker among UK returnees
ONE of the United Kingdom-based Zimbabweans who attacked Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo and his delegation while on Government business in London is among the 26 ret...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:13hrs | 4422 | by Staff reporter
Social distancing a mere formality for Mbare flats
ZIMBABWE does not have time.The government has to do many things in the shortest possible time - before the effects of the rampaging Covid-19 epidemic become insurmountable.From setting up...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:53hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
BCC to ban vending in CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling a permanent ban on informal trading in the central business district (CBD) post-COVID-19 lockdown as part of measures to bring sanity in the city, Southern E...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:33hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
'Returnees will stay in quarantine' decrees govt - until catch COVID-19 and recover or leave in a coffin
Government give returnee Zimbabweans quarantined Belvedere Teachers' College bottled water and tell them they must stay put! "The institution had running water, but what they wanted was boreho...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 10:06hrs | 1279 | by Wilbert Mukori
UK returnees to stay put in Belvedere
GOVERNMENT has insisted that Belvedere Technical Teachers' College in Harare is a safe and comfortable space to use as a quarantine site for the Zimbabweans who returned from United Kingdom, despite t...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:22hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 isolation centres leave a lot to be desired
ZIMBABWE'S response to the COVID-19 outbreak came under the spotlight after returnees from the United Kingdom were this week put under a two-week quarantine at Belvedere Technical Teachers' College in...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Returning Zimbabweans expose govt
ZIMBABWEANS, who returned home on Monday from the United Kingdom and reportedly refused to be quarantined at Belvedere Teachers' College in Harare, preferring hotel accommodation have opened up, accus...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:40hrs | 2238 | by Staff reporter
'We won't stay and risk catching Covid-19,' says returnee - Zanu-PF blundering
When it comes to this Zanu-PF government carrying out its statutory duty of protecting the nation from the dreaded coronavirus, it is clear the regime has no clue. The regime claimed, indeed even boas...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 20:52hrs | 1356 | by Nomusa Garikai
Hotel craving UK based 'snobs' says 'Nick Mangwana a liar'
ON Monday, Information Ministry permanent secretary made claims a group of 65 Zimbabweans returning from the United Kingdom was refusing to be taken into compulsory quarantine at Belvedere Teachers Co...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 17:03hrs | 2748 | by Staff reporter
MPs unite in fight against coronavirus
LEGISLATORS from across the political divide have put aside differences to rally behind the Government by undertaking Covid-19 awareness campaigns in their respective constituencies including mobilisi...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 07:12hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi tours the biggest Coronavirus isolation centre
Chairperson of the Ad-hoc Inter-Ministerial Task Force on Covid-19, Vice President Kembo Mohadi today toured Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital (BRIDH) and Parirentyatwa Group of Hospitals to ...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 17:58hrs | 1055 | by Agencies
Lockdown in the ghetto
THE lockdown issue has been done wrongly, especially to us in the ghettos. It has been set up in a way that negatively affects our wellness, wellbeing and livelihood.This is so because the peo...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 394 | by Vincent Mapiye
BF renovations still not enough for Caf grade
Bulawayo has to construct a new modern stadium if it is to meet the Fifa and Caf requirements to host international matches. It has emerged that renovations underway at Barbourfields Stadium will part...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife rescues quarantined Ruwa family
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has, through her Angel of Hope Foundation, provided portable bathrooms, toilets and sanitisers for the Sakudya family in Ruwa, whose four members have tested positive for...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 08:12hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Sell-outs: are they going to be exonerated if they contributed to the Mthwakazi-begging kitty?
There are three appeals in Mthwakazi region taking rounds: one was done by Comrade Ezra Tshisa Sibanda: he is appealing to the public to contribute to his crowdfunding, the money he is going to use to...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 18:01hrs | 3376 | by Nomazulu Thata
Beitbridge municipality disinfects border post
Beitbridge Municipality has started disinfecting the country's busiest border post as it intensifies efforts to minimise the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 14 000 people use Beitb...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabweans risk Coronavirus...flood Mbare market
It was business as usual on Tuesday at Mbare Musika as hordes of farmers flocked to the market to sell their wares after President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave green light for the market to be opened. ...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1640 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean deportees isolated – subjected to inhumane treatment
MORE than 260 Zimbabweans, among them deportees repatriated from neighbouring Botswana, are subjected to unhygienic and squalid conditions at Plumtree High School, which has been turned into an isolat...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Africa needs an African contextual response to COVID-19
The Norwegian Church Aid Southern Africa Regional Advocacy official Moreblessings Chidaushe has said as more African countries are implementing lockdown measures in concerted efforts to contain COVID-...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:47hrs | 818 | by Stephen Jakes
Top MDC official recounts prison 'hell'
A top MDC official, who was incarcerated together with 11 party youths in connection with protests in Chitungwiza last month, has described conditions under which they were held as hell.Stephe...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:38hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents go 4 days without water
A MAJORITY of Western Suburbs in Bulawayo have gone for four days without running water a time when global health experts are promoting strict hygiene to stop the Covid-19 outbreak. Council la...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:49hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Residents associations gang up to challenge govt on COVID-19
Residents associations across the country have ganged up to call on the government and responsible authorities to act on the COVID-19 preparedness.In a statement residents associations (RAs) f...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 08:40hrs | 1005 | by Stephen Jakes
New settlements turn into squatter camps
Michael has to wash cars along George Silundika Street in Bulawayo so that his wife, Luba, and their 10-month-old daughter do not go to bed hungry. Besides the food he has to budget for on the $25 he ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:40hrs | 443 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Zimbabwe cash crisis worsens
The cash crisis in the country is worsening with pensioners being the hardest hit by the prevailing situation. Cash shortages have forced some people to sleep outside banks hoping to be served first d...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
'BCC bungled in water crisis'
THE Government has said the Bulawayo City Council bungled in submitting an application for the city's water crisis to be declared a state of disaster by sending their plea to the Ministry of Lands, Ag...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Green Day launched on 29 February. We make Bulawayo the cleanest city again!
The city of Bulawayo was once recognized as the cleanest city in the world. Until 90s, the city proudly ranked as the cleanest city in the region. Now most Bulawayo residents look around them, feel ov...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1427 | by Keep Africa Beautiful
Illegal activities in the city worry city councillors
The increase in number of illegal activities in the Bulawayo City Centre has worried the councillors in which they called on the police to intensify patrols.According to latest council minutes...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 09:17hrs | 1421 | by Steve Grays
Govt avails $13m for BF upgrade
GOVERNMENT has released $13 million to be used for refurbishing parts of Barbourfields Stadium to ready the ground for a Caf re-inspection ahead of the Warriors' Afcon qualifier against Algeria at the...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:53hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has failed disabled people
MDC Youth Assembly National Secretary for the Disabled Muslin Hwiza has said that Zanu pf run government has dismally failed to meet the needs for the Disabled in the country. Muslin said Zanu...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 12:10hrs | 292 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Public drinking and educated fools
WEEKEND afternoons in Harare as any Zimbabwean town go like this: The viscous African sun beats down furiously as gentle tropical breezes flirt pleasantly about.Gleaming SUVs and battere...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1742 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zanu-PF youths to feed on Chamisa's cattle, goats
ZANU-PF youths have continued with threats to descend on MDC President Nelson Chamisa's village home in Gutu, Masvingo.The youths say they will proceed to occupy the homestead and feed themsel...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:17hrs | 4441 | by newzimbabwe
MDC councils in stadium ban storm amidst abuse of office
The disqualification of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) to hold an AFCON qualifier match between Zimbabwe and Algeria has opened a can of worms within the MDC run urban Councils. Their ...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 12:03hrs | 2648 | by Tapiwa Mutonhodzi
Harare public toilets deplorable
Harare is sitting on a health time bomb as most of its public toilets are in bad shape and no longer fit for use.While council has refurbished public toilets in some parts of the central busin...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Caf requirements for Barbourfields Stadium
Pitch condition must be improved, and the surface must be green and marked clearly in white. - Team benches area needs general renovation and painting. - For evening matches, the floodlights L...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:57hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
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Nhaka Foundation begins charity at home in Zimbabwe
In this interview, Patrick Makokoro, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nhaka Foundation, discusses the organisation's efforts at supporting education and health care in rural regions in Zimba...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:04hrs | 95 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Enjoy your pumpkin leaves relish
Most rural Blair toilets have no roofs, leaving the structures exposed to the elements that can weaken them. A few have curved in posing serious danger to users especially children, the disabled and t...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 06:18hrs | 152 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Growing up eMalokishini back in the day
Cotton farmers made headlines this week for the wrong reasons. The merchants allege that the farmers are adding weight to their bales of cotton by hiding a few stones inside.I could not help but s...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:12hrs | 756 | by Wlliam Phiri
Throwback: Tsvangirai's open zip, open mouth and shut mind
Tsholotsho North Member of Parliament for Zanu-PF Professor Jonathan Moyo has attacked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai via the state media calling him "open zip, open mouth and shut mind".In ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:19hrs | 1383 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo goes for broke to force his way into MDC
ZIMBABWE's political chameleon in-chief Professor Jonathan Moyo has gone for broke in his bid to be admitted into the MDC Alliance leadership echelons.Moyo on Monday made wild revelation...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:17hrs | 5913 | by Staff reporter
Gwanzura stadium turned into a maize field
Hopes of football romance at Gwanzura Stadium seem bleak as the football pitch has been turned into a maize field....Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 11:18hrs | 6354 | by Staff reporter
Lupane storm-ravaged school renovations complete
REFURBISHMENT of classrooms and teachers' cottages at Komba Primary School in Lupane is now complete after a non-governmental organisation, World Vision and the Civil Protection Unit mobilised materia...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:01hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 1st Indian MP seeks closer ties with 'home'
For a young Gujarati hailing from a humble background, becoming a central government minister of a foreign country is beyond wildest imagination. But, not for Raj Modi who was born in 1959 in the smal...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Parents force open incomplete school
CONTROVERSY-riddled Glaudina Primary School in Harare yesterday opened its doors to students amid a misunderstanding between the parents and responsible authorities over inadequate infrastructure, wit...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:52hrs | 214 | by Staff rpeorter
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