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Zimbabwe female magistrates sexually harassed at work, says former boss
CORRUPTION accused former chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has made startling claims Zimbabwean female magistrates were being sexually harassed at work.The one-time topmost magistrate said t...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1521 | by Staff reporter
MLF is unfazed by Biti's beliefs
As MLF, we are unfazed by the beliefs of the student of history, Tendai Biti. In a voice note circulating on social network, Biti is heard saying he believes in a unitary zimbabwe, he does not believe...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 16:21hrs | 2321 | by MLF
Early rains bring smiles to Bulawayo
HEAVY rains experienced in parts of Matabeleland since Monday have temporarily eased water challenges in Bulawayo where some residents have harvested the resource for domestic use.Before the l...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2920 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers refuse to return to work
AN acute shortage of sanitiser, PPE and clean water is putting pupils and school staff at risk of Covid-19, say unions.Teachers in Zimbabwe are refusing to return to work after the resumption ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 16:53hrs | 2696 | by Staff reporter
Residents boil sewer water to drink
CLOSE to 15 years since it was established, residents in Mbundane in Umguza District, adjacent to Mganwini (Bulawayo) still have no water connected to their households with residents forced to illegal...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi
TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Securit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 3098 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 240 | by Staff Reporter
King Mzilikazi's Commemoration 2020
The Covid 19 pandemic protocols made it impossible for formal annual first week of September celebratory gatherings and festivities to take place at the Royal Palace, Emhlahlandlela in the Matop...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 09:10hrs | 787 | by Prince Zwide Peter Khumalo
New emergency project to help displaced people in Zimbabwe fight COVID-19
Displaced people living in temporary settlements in Zimbabwe are to get help to protect themselves against COVID-19 in a new project led by education and sociology experts at the University of Notting...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:39hrs | 217 | by Agencies
Chamisa prison visit caused trouble for Ngarivhume and Chin'ono
#JULY31 protests organiser, Jacob Ngarivhume says MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's recent visit to Harare remand prison angered authorities who ordered he and investigative journalist Hopewell Chi...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:35hrs | 4267 | by Staff reporter
Beerhall turned into hospital
Tatenda Tavern in Chitungwiza's Unit H suburb is to be converted into an infectious diseases hospital, not just for the present Covid-19 pandemic, but to give the town its own facility for any other d...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:00hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Sidojiwe Hostels: A Covid-19 time bomb
Built for bachelors who worked in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area in the 1950s, the now-derelict and crowded Sidojiwe Hostels are a ticking time bomb for disease outbreaks in the city including the...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:32hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Kezi Clinic lies derelict 10 years on
KEZI Clinic in Matobo District, Matabeleland South province, has been lying derelict for more than 10 years after local communities contributed material resources towards its rehabilitation.Ke...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
BCC pleased with BF progress
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is pleased with the progress they have made in the renovations at Barbourfields Stadium in order for the venue to meet the Confederation of African Football (Caf) requi...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:15hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
BCC to lease out public toilets
THE cash-strapped Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is mulling leasing out its public toilets after failing to service them owing to economic hardships.Health services director Edwin Sibanda told a ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland central not serious about COVID 19 preparedness
I am based in Mash Central Mazowe district and would like to raise my concern about COVID-19 suspects handling, testing and reporting.Mash central is being reported as one of provinces with low ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 324 | by Worried Glendale Member
Talent Chiwenga kills a couple driving to sister's funeral
A very sad day ended badly for the Madzimgira family in Harare. A couple was killed in a car crash while driving to a funeral of their sister who had passed on suddenly in Harare Zimbabwe. ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 20:39hrs | 14375 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 856 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents petition over mayor's US$2 land deal
Residents dumped mock coffins at the Luveve housing offices in Bulawayo in protest against contaminated water, which has resulted in 60 diarrhoea cases being reported, while five people have died as a...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents sleep in water queues
Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:46hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Minister Obadiah Moyo 'detained' in his bedroom?
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo, who was arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers Friday night, is reported to have spent the same night at his home before coming to court the next...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1117 | by newzimbabwe
Families sleep in water lines as drought grips Bulawayo
TWICE a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people - some of whom have slept there overnight - and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe's second-largest city.A...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti: The story of my arrest in Mnangagwa's tinpot Zimbabwe
"It was farcical and surreal like a poorly scripted Mr Bean film without the comedy", says MDC Alliance vice-president of his recent arrest.This article was first published by ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 19:23hrs | 6823 | by Tendai Biti
Biti's lawyers in high speed chase
LAWYERS representing MDC Alliance officials were yesterday involved in a high speed chase with detectives after they drove away their clients from court without notifying them.MDC vice preside...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:37hrs | 6039 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Khupe fight escalates
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said it was time for Zimbabweans to act against rights abuses and economic problems bedevilling the country.Chamisa spoke after MDC leaders, includ...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:57hrs | 4523 | by Staff reporter
'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 | 520 | 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 | 588 | 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 | 2298 | 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 | 1502 | 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 | 332 | 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 | 597 | 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 | 396 | 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 | 4433 | 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 | 407 | 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 | 505 | 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 | 1283 | 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 | 470 | 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 | 243 | 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 | 2243 | 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 | 1366 | 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 | 2754 | 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 | 688 | 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 | 1059 | 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 | 399 | 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 | 359 | 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 | 318 | 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 | 3387 | 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 | 368 | 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 | 1646 | 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 | 619 | by Staff reporter
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