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Legislating patriotism will never silence Zimbabwe's real patriots
The circus of Zimbabwe continues!Once again, we find ourselves witnessing the familiar theatrics of excitable ZANU PF legislators, now feverishly pushing for the enactment of a so-called "Nati...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 11:03hrs | 91 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Water barons exploit Bulawayo's deepening water crisis
Unscrupulous individuals in Bulawayo are taking advantage of the city's worsening water crisis by selling scarce water at high prices and charging extra fees for delivery to desperate residents unable...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to empower traditional leaders to issue IDs
The Zimbabwean government has been called upon to expedite efforts in training traditional leaders to issue essential primary documents, such as birth and death certificates.This initiative is...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 16:07hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
German's Scholz blames Ukraine aid for government collapse
The key reason for the collapse of Germany's ruling coalition was the refusal of Finance Minister Christian Lindner to support a budgetary plan that would increase aid to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scho...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 16:03hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must be bold in FDI drive
Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga has disclosed that the government has been inundated with demands from prospective investors seeking Zimb...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 08:24hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 1734 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Parents call for a downward review of Zimsec exam registration fees
WITH about a month left before the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) 2024 examination registration deadline, parents have called for a downward review of the registration fees.Whil...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
St Faith High School Priest shows off punching skills
TEMPERS flared at St Faith's High School on Wednesday, with a priest from the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland showing his boxing skills as parents who escorted Form Five learners bulldozed their way in...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean Minister blasts civil servants
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Judith Ncube yesterday blasted slothful civil servants in the province as she demanded servant leadership from public officers.Minister Ncu...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'A PhD to become the minimum qualification for headmasters in Zimbabwe'
THE Government is set to review school heads and teachers' qualifications with a PhD being the most desirable qualification for a school head as it moves to ensure delivery of quality education in the...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 11:49hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Schools warned against arm-twisting parents
As schools opened smoothly yesterday with cholera protocols and procedures being observed, the Government warned rogue school administrators against holding parents and guardians to ransom by turning ...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Hailstorm ravages Beitbridge
On Tuesday evening, heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms caused extensive property damage valued at thousands of dollars in the Lesanth resettlement area, located in Ward 13 of Beitbridge distr...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC at your door step
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change has resorted to door-to-door campaigning as part of efforts to mobilise voters following the barring of over 90 of its rallies by the police for various reason...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School heads facing disciplinary action
Some school heads who were turning children away for non-payment of school fees are up for disciplinary action as they contravened Government policy.This was said by the Deputy Minister of Pri...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 16:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
1.8 million pupils register for BEAM support
AT least 1,8 million pupils have been placed under the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) as the Government commits to ensure that vulnerable learners access quality education.Public Ser...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Mayor defends Harare-Minsk twinning arrangement
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has defended his decision to meet a Belarusian delegation led by President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, where he signed a memorandum of understanding to twin the capital ...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Substance abuse not necessarily due to idleness but poor socialization and mindset!
With the scourge of drug and alcohol abuse on a worrying upward trajectory, the question of how to deal with this pandemic had been, understandably, uppermost on the nation's lips.There have b...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt warns schools turning away learners
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry insists that schools have no mandate to turn away learners for delayed payment of fees.Speaking to NewsDay the director for communications and advo...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Limpopo Health MEC berates Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa again
UNAPOLOGETIC Limpopo Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) for Health, Phophi Ramathuba has gone into overdrive, once again berating a Zimbabwean patient saying she was considering billing President...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is doing nothing, I'm doing his job' - SA health minister in new rant
A new video has emerged of South Africa's health minister for Limpopo province railing at the Zimbabwe government for presiding over a failing health system.Dr Phophi Ramathuba complains that ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man challenges Zimbabwe's Police Act
A MARONDERA man, Kenias Shonhai has filed a High Court application challenging the constitutionality of Zimbabwe's Police Act saying it is discriminatory and inconsistent with the country's Constituti...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals turn away pregnant women
PUBLIC hospitals are reportedly turning away pregnant women due to lack of sundries needed for childbirth.The dire state of the country's health delivery system has prompted nurses to call for...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools defy govt on fee
SCHOOLS are defying a government directive that they should not turn away pupils who have not paid school fees.When schools opened for the second term on May 4, the Primary and Secondary Educa...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tech drifts that are changing the gaming business
In the previous ten years, the universe of betting has quickly advanced. This is expected essentially to the turn of events and development of the web. The ubiquity of web-based betting is obvious aro...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 16:34hrs | 36 | by Staff Writer
Makeshift beds for expecting mothers
IN a shocking turn of events, pregnant women are sleeping on the floor at one of the country's biggest hospitals, Parirenyatwa's Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital as the public health facility fails to...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
By-elections credibility under threat
THE credibility of the 26 March by-elections is under threat as their outcome is likely to be manipulated because the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is compromised and militarised in favour of th...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Motorists resist Bulawayo's new parking fees
BULAWAYO motorists yesterday all but abandoned parking bays in the city centre's new parking zone where drivers must pay US$1 to park for 30 minutes.A new parking system came into force yester...Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 18:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans choking South Africa's health system
SOUTH Africa's Department of Health in Musina has raised concern over the influx of Zimbabweans seeking treatment, especially maternity services in that country.This emerged during a Zimbabwe-...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Gweru water woes force schools to turn away learners
Gweru's water crisis has worsened, forcing some schools to send learners back home on the first day of reopening, NewsDay has learnt.Most of Gweru high density suburbs: Mkoba, Ascot, Mambo, Mt...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors, medical aid societies square off
PRIVATE medical doctors have threatened to turn away patients on medical aid until they have been paid for their services.Medical and Dental Private Practitioners of Zimbabwe Association presi...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's office not open for business
MR President, I know you are preaching that your door is open. I appreciate that you're an open-minded President. But my dissatisfaction is about the Office of the President and Cabinet, which for fiv...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Inventor
Protesting Belvedere Teachers College students arrested
POLICE in Harare have arrested and seriously injured 11 student teachers at Belvedere Teachers College who were protesting over the decision to block them from accessing the campus before paying their...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Don't turn away children over school fees, levies, says Thabela
It is illegal for schools to turn away pupils due to non-payment of levies and tuition fees, Primary and Secondary Education secretary Tumisang Thabela has said.Speaking during a tour of Westl...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Churches divided over resumption of services
ZANU PF aligned cleric Obadiah Msindo says the government's decision to allow churches to resume services only for congregants that have been vaccinated against Covid-19 has exposed divisions among ch...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women abuse UK justice system to settle scores
John Mabhureza of Northampton United Kingdom sits in a corner in prison. He has grown so thin and he is not eating well. He has reduced himself into a silent dying man. Mabhureza's problems star...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 7 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Church can't turn away the unvaccinated
CHURCHES yesterday questioned government's sincerity in al-lowing them to reopen for sit-in services at a time when only about 10% of the country's population has been vaccinated against COVID-19. ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No one should be turned away from COVID-19 centres if they can afford to pay
It is12 midnight and I have all the effects of COVID-19. Zimbabwe is battling with the COVID-19 pandemic, one of my employees tested positive for the coronavirus (see attached doc). The fact that we w...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 12:34hrs | 15 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Shortage of staff slows Bulawayo mass vaccination
A SHORTAGE of health workers is dampening the mass vaccination drive in Bulawayo as centres are being overwhelmed resulting in some residents being turned away. Under the mass vaccination exer...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Passport office turns away hundreds
POLICE in Bulawayo on Tuesday turned away hundreds of people who had thronged the Registrars General's Office for the application and collection of passports defying Covid-19 regulations. As a...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'It's not mandatory to produce IDs during exams'
THE Primary and Secondary Education ministry yesterday said students at public and private schools who do not possess national identity cards could still register and sit for examinations without prod...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa shuts illegal immigrants from Covid-19 vaccination roll out
South Africa, which will take delivery of its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from India on Monday, has sparked controversy after declaring it will exclude millions of undocumented immigrants from it...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
18 travellers caught with fake Covid-19 negative test results at Beitbridge border
THE Limpopo department of health has identified 18 cases of fake negative Covid-19 test results being produced at the Beitbridge border post by people attempting to enter SA.Health MEC Dr. Pho...Published: 02 Jan 2021 at 14:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Slump in activity at Plumtree border
PLUMTREE Border Post has recorded a slump in the number of travellers passing through it this festive season compared to previous years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. An average of 1 000 peop...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Churches demand seat in Parliament
CHURCHES have started lobbying for a parliamentary seat to have issues affecting their constituency debated.The church representative organisations made the call in Bulawayo on Tuesday during ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chikurubi Prison boss admits to overcrowding
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has admitted that there is overcrowding at Chikurubi Maximum Prison after lawyers yesterday visited the prison following an order by High Court ju...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 5 | by Zanda Shumba
Pray, President Biden upgraded ZDERA Mark 2 effect change in 20 months, can't afford another 20 years waiting
"Mnangagwa's govt taking initiative to woo Joe Biden, Washington!" reported Daily News. "From the historical narration, the election of Biden may mean more of the same for Zimbabwe, although w...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Cross-border buses defy regulations
CHAOS continues to reign supreme at the Beitbridge Border Post as more cross-border buses continue to arrive without clearance from the Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa. Last week the embassy ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools reopening today
Next year's examination classes Grade Six, Form Three and Form Five return to school today, with the Government assuring parents that all necessary precautions have been taken to minimise the risk of ...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Educate partners with UK's SympliFi
Educate, a Zimbabwe-based education access and people improvement company, has partnered with UK-based Fintech company, SympliFi, to enable Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom to invest in the edu...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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