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More than 1,500 arrested for defying lockdown
POLICE have arrested more than 1 500 people across the country since the 21-lockdown started on Monday for defying rules and regulations stipulated under the directive which was put in place to minimi...Published: 16 hrs ago | 105 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown house parties worry cops
A Total of 875 people have been arrested countrywide on Day Five of the national lockdown for violating anti-Covid-19 regulations, at a time when police are raising concerns on "lockdown house parties...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:22hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police come down hard on lockdown violators
A TOTAL of 485 people were arrested countrywide yesterday as police cracked down on Zimbabweans who have been wantonly disregarding the 21-day lockdown that requires them to stay at home. The ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 5G technology linked to coronavirus pandemic?
Claims that 5G technology could be linked to the spread of the coronavirus have been spreading online for weeks.China was reportedly the first country to have more than 100 000 5G towers, with...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:36hrs | 2104 | by Staff reporter
Govt contradicts 'cheating' Nyaradzo on funerals
FUNERAL service providers nationwide have with immediate effect suspended the removal of bodies from homes and are burying the dead within 24 hours. The funeral parlours are treating all bodie...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 cost Beitbridge SMEs R3,5m daily
SMALL to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Beitbridge are feeling the heat as a result of the national lockdown meant to manage the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The country's major borde...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:25hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown fatigue on Day 3?
Residents yesterday continued to defy the lockdown order as police arrested 182 people throughout the country for the violations at a time when over 1 000 visitors from countries with confirmed Covid-...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:23hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Residents defy Mnangagwa's lockdown order
THERE was widespread defiance yesterday of the Government directive for people to stay home during the 21-day lockdown period that came into effect on Monday. Government has come up with a num...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:31hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
19 arrested for breaching lockdown restrictions
POLICE in Harare have arrested 19 people for illegally opening bottle stores and operating shebeens during the 21-day lockdown. The lockdown is a principal measure to contain the spread of Cov...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
High lockdown compliance on Day-One
THE majority of Zimbabweans yesterday complied with the Government's lockdown directive as most of them stayed at home while a few visited shopping centres to buy essential goods.President Mna...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
LOCKDOWN: Zimbabwe heeds call to stay at home
Zimbabweans have largely observed Government's call to stay at home and limit movement as a measure to contain the spread of Covid-19.The usually busy and noisy Bulawayo-Harare Road section th...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 18:47hrs | 1611 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Bulawayo and Harare on Lockdown Day 1
Residents of Bulawayo and Harare complied with the mandatory 21 days Lockdown decreed by the President on Friday. Pictures from Harare CBD show that all shops are closed and there is min...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 07:38hrs | 14563 | by Mandla Ndlovu
SA police use heavy-handed tactics to enforce the 21-day national lockdown
South African police used heavy-handed tactics to enforce the 21-day national lockdown in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on Saturday, firing rubber bullets and sjamboking those who would not get off the stre...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:16hrs | 2805 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2290 | by Staff reporter
Scores throng Beitbridge border ahead of lockdown
SOUTH AFRICA failed to close its border at midnight on Thursday as droves of Zimbabweans resident in that country thronged the Beitbridge border post to return home involuntarily.Thousands of ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2581 | by Staff reporter
British police mistake man's isitshwala /pap for drugs
A man arrested after a crash on the A419 and admitted dangerous driving had his drugs charges dropped after police found he was carrying sadza. Appearing before Swindon Crown Court, Tinashe Nd...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:37hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe clear travellers
Zimbabwean and South African immigration authorities yesterday worked round the clock to clear the final batch of travellers entering the country through Beitbridge Border Post. Human traffic ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 165 | by ED Mnangagwa
Breaking Covid-19 rules in Zimbabwe can get you a year in jail
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has enacted a law that allows the arrest of people who defy his Covid-19 lockdown measures, but the public seems unfazed.Under statutory instrument (SI)...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1862 | by Staff reporter
Harare probes Makamba's death
The Harare City Council will probe broadcaster and socialite Zororo Makamba's death following his family's scathing attack on authorities.Makamba became the first Zimbabwean to succumb to the ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 8047 | by Staff reporter
Telcoms revenue jumps 181%
The telecommunications industry's annual revenue for year 2019 surged 181 percent to $4,5 billion compared to $1,6 billion recorded in the prior driven by inflation induced price hikes. Last y...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rolls out Covid-19 campaigns
The Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial executive has joined in the fight against the spread of Covid-19 by rolling out awareness campaigns across the province.The party convened a special provincia...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:23hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Zimra suspends processing of immigrants rebate on vehicles
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) on Tuesday suspended the processing of returning residents immigrants rebate on vehicles until further notice citing possible exposure of its staff to COVID-19....Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA close borders
Zimbabwe and South Africa will at midnight today formally close Beitbridge Border Post to non-essential human traffic in line with the two governments' robust plans to curtail the spread of Covid-19 w...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:23hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers suspends printing of publications
ZIMPAPERS has with effect from next week suspended the publication of five newspapers including B-Metro and uMthunywa as the country's largest integrated media house goes into semi-lockdown in an effo...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:22hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-SA transporters suspend services
CROSS border transporters plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa route have suspended services as SA is now under lock-down with effect from today. The Zimbabwean Government closed borders to human ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post closes tonight
Zimbabwe and South Africa will at midnight jointly close Beitbridge Border Post to non-residents with only Zimbabwean residents allowed to travel north and South African residents to move south. ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:18hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Emergency cases only at hospitals
Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals are now only attending to emergency cases while all admitted patients who can cope will be discharged, measures which will remain in place until Co...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Slow movement in border traffic
HUMAN traffic at some of the country's border posts was still flowing as the directive to restrict access to all traffic except cargo and returning residents as directed by the President on Monday nig...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1554 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to feels impact of SA lockdown
With over half a thousand confirmed cases of Covid-19, South Africa has moved its response a notch up. The country has effected a 21-day lockdown starting from March 26. This is aimed at reducing case...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Crowded open markets face closure
The Mbare Fresh Produce Market, Mupedzanhamo and other public markets with huge traffic can be closed any time if there is need to do so as a way of stopping the spread of coronavirus in the country, ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:42hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
Compulsory testing powers gazetted
As Zimbabwe confirms its third Covid-19 infection, the infection has been declared a formidable epidemic disease in terms of the Public Health Act, allowing the Minister of Health and Child Care to ma...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Khupe urges politicians to unite in the fight against Coronavirus
MDC-T president, Dr. Thokozani Khupe has urged politicians to unite and fight against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic which has since taken a toll on the southern African country.Yesterday...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 15:44hrs | 512 | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa bans travelling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night closed the country's borders to human traffic and banned all recreational activities as his government intensifies the fight against the spread of coronavirus....Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 10:22hrs | 3273 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shuts borders
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday declared the country's borders closed for both inbound and outbound traffic except cargo and returning residents in an unprecedented step to halt the ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 10788 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe closes borders after COVID-19 death
ZIMBABWE yesterday closed its borders as government tightened measures to control the spread of coronavirus after the country recorded its first casualty from the pandemic, journalist Zororo Makamba, ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa govt response to COVID-19 sluggish'
HUMAN rights lobby group, Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has accused government of exhibiting a sluggish response to the worldwide coronavirus disaster, claiming there was a tragic disp...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:38hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Controls hit cross border traders
Traffic at border posts was restricted yesterday as new rules by Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Zambia were being formulated and border officers were awaiting instructions. At Kariba and Chirundu, v...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Zupco hikes fares
Zupco bus and kombi fares doubled yesterday to cover rising costs, but are still well below those charged by independent operators. The last increase was in September last year. Zupco bus fare...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus unites Mnangagwa, Chamisa
OLD political foes President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa have finally found cause to unite and join hands in the fight against the ravaging coronavirus.In neig...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:28hrs | 3123 | by newzimbabwe
South Africa locksdown
The National Coronavirus Command Council has decided to enforce a nation-wide lockdown for 21 days with effect from midnight on Thursday 26 March, ending on April 16th, 2020.Full speech from T...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe women still vulnerable to sex trafficking
SIMILO NTULI (not her real name) looks like an ordinary, fashion-savvy woman in her twenties. As a hairdresser and beauty therapist in Zimbabwe's second-largest city of Bulawayo, Ntuli has her finger ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:56hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors issue strike threat
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has proposed that hospitals scale down to emergency mode and the cessation of all routine outpatient departments operations, as they decried the lack o...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:54hrs | 1906 | by Staff reporter
US$5 for a mask in Zimbabwe
IN Italy, it is not illegal drug traffickers that the police are after anymore, but pushers of masks and sanitisers.Could Zimbabwe find itself in a similar situation?A survey by this p...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:29hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for land in Zimbabwe's new capital city
At the centre of a vast swathe of magnificent landscape of prime farming land north-west of Harare lies a mountain that dwarfs its lush green environs. The rich red soils, have for years, been the hal...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 2041 | by Staff reporter
Police to enforce Mnangagwa decree
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) says it will ensure President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decree banning gatherings of more than 100 people is religiously followed by "conducting patrols, surveillance and...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:52hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to upgrade aviation system
Transport minister Joel Matiza says the government is upgrading the country's air traffic communication systems and equipment in line with technological advancements. Government is considering...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:51hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo roads a 'state of disaster'
BULAWAYO'S roads are deteriorating at an alarming pace due to lack of maintenance, with council saying it cannot raise the required US$700 million to rehabilitate the city's 2 100km road network. ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:19hrs | 690 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus scare: Govt responds to ZLHR's concerns
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) has responded to concerns raised by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) over threats posed by coronavirus in Zimbabwe and assured people that it has ...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 829 | by Stephen Jakes
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 | 985 | by Stephen Jakes
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