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Police arrest 200 teenagers who were having a party during COVID-19 lockdown
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested 200 teenagers who were having a party at number 344 Mukwa Drive, Westgate, Harare, in open contravention of the Government's COVID-19 regulations. ...Published: 56 mins ago | 351 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mnangagwa says 'help is on the way'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said "help is on the way," as the country reels from a rise in coronavirus infections and deaths that have claimed the lives of two members of his cabinet.In a tel...Published: 1 hr ago | 496 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not in COVID-19 quarantine
George Charamba, the interim Chief Secretary to the President, has rubbish allegations that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under 14-day quarantine after being in contact with one of his aides who pu...Published: 2 hrs ago | 601 | by Staff reporter
Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is fine
Nick Mangwana, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, has dismissed rumours that Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is fighting a tough battle against COVID-19.Announced on Twitter, Mangwan...Published: 3 hrs ago | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga airlifted to China? - Highly unlikely
There are unconfirmed reports that Zimbabwe Vice President Rtd Gen Chiwenga has been airlifted to China this evening as his condition deteriorated.This was revealed by the usually reliable Chi...Published: 13 hrs ago | 10635 | by Staff reporter
Retired Major-General Nyambuya NOT dead
Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well.There are some sections of the media which repor...Published: 13 hrs ago | 4736 | by Staff reporter
British Foreign Secretary tours Econet facility in Nairobi
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Dominic Raab, has visited an East African Data Centre in Nairobi owned by Econet subsidiary Liquid Telecom.The Foreign Secretary announced the visit on his Tw...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 18:04hrs | 994 | by Agencies
WATCH: Matemadanda rebukes being rushed to hospital after testing positive
ZANU-PF political commissar and Deputy Minister of Defence Victor Matemadanda has rebuked a rumour that he has been rushed to hospital after testing positive of Covid-19.In a video sent to Bulaway...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:34hrs | 7099 | by Staff Reporter
Four Tips to Circumnavigate the 'New' Workforce
The UN's Framework for the Immediate Socio-Economic Response to the COVID 19 Crisis warns that "The COVID-19 pandemic is far more than a health crisis; it is affecting societies and econ¬omies at the...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 602 | by Hamilton Katsvairo
Covid strikes Mnangagwa's VPs, cabinet ministers
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 15503 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in low spirits as COVID-19 ravages allies
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in "low spirits" as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two vice-presidents...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 3239 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono battles for freedom
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono yesterday insisted that he was being incarcerated under a nonexistent law when he appeared before High Court judge Justice Davison Foroma for bail hearing. Chin'on...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:38hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter
Bosso unwilling to let Muduhwa go for free
A MAJORITY of social media users who responded to a Twitter poll ran by Chronicle voted in favour of Highlanders FC allowing defender Peter Muduhwa to join Tanzanian champions Simba SC on a free four-...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe solves UN obligations problem, voting rights restored
Zimbabwe which had its voting rights at the United Nations General Assembly suspended over the country's mounting arrears on its financial obligations to the global body has solved the problem....Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1709 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo, the coup announcer, declared national hero
The late Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo, has been declared a national hero.The message was delivered by Defence and War Veteran Affairs Minister Oppah ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2165 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-based rapper to represent Zimbabwe at the MTV Africa Awards
MULTI-award-winning rapper Asaph believed he had a good chance in representing Zimbabwe at the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) Lister's Choice Category saying nothing is impossible in bagging the cont...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:11hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump's letter to Joe Biden. Twitter has some guesses on what's in it
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday told reporters that outgoing president Donald Trump had left him a "very generous" letter, in keeping with a long-standing tradition. Trump spokesperson Judd Deere ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 08:15hrs | 4400 | by Staff reporter
Chin'ono bail hearing set for today
INCARCERATED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's bail hearing over charges of communicating falsehoods will be heard today at the High Court after the State yesterday requested more time to file submission...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mourn SB Moyo
The death of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Rtd), yesterday morning from Covid-19 complications came as a great shock, President Mnangagwa said...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Mnangagwa is weaponising COVID-19
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, currently cracking down on political and civil society activists, is "weaponising" Covid-19 against its opponents in...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 18:45hrs | 2686 | by Staff reporter
Piwai Dzuda succumbs to Covid-19
Former gospel television show presenter Piwai Dzuda has died. He was 51.Dzuda is reported to have succumbed to Covid 19 on Tuesday evening.Fellow broadcaster Zandile Ndhlovu co...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 18:34hrs | 4876 | by Staff reporter
President grieves for SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa was visibly shaken by the demise of the minister of Foreign Affairs cde Sibusiso B Moyo. He has described Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo as a devoted public servant, friend...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 17:10hrs | 1846 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
BREAKING: Face of 2017 military coup that ousted Mugabe dies
Zimbabwe's foreign minister and face of 2017 military coup that ousted Robert Mugabe as president has died aged 61, according to multiple government sources.Highly place...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:01hrs | 7162 | by Staff reporter
Matanga orders Jonathan Moyo rape probe
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance: An opposition effort built on a foundation of lies
Last week some of the issues making rounds on both the mainstream and social media included the arrest of MDC-Alliance deputy chairperson, Job Sikhala, MDC-Alliance spokesperson, Fadzayi Mahere and ac...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:45hrs | 273 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 225 | by Leonard Koni
Exchange control regulations and export growth
The monetary policy committee for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued a circular with changes to export surrender requirements on the 7th of January 2021. The changes include immediately removin...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 06:30hrs | 108 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's advisor outed for cheating on his wife
Businessman, pastor and member of President Mnangagwa's Advisory Committee, Shingi Munyeza, has stepped down as a Pastor of his church after being outed by his daughter for cheating his wife.T...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 20:21hrs | 9022 | by Staff reporter
Mediclinic justifies ties to apartheid era 'Dr Death'
Private hospital group Mediclinic South Africa has come under fire after it emerged that Dr. Wouter Basson is still practicing at its Cape facilities.Dr. Wouter Basson was the mastermind behin...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 17:02hrs | 851 | by Staff reporter
Allow African youths to take charge of their destiny
Democracy in Africa if not checked will be like a sheep being accompanied to a slaughtering house.Elections in Africa are slowly showing signs and symptoms of a dying democracy.The rec...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:12hrs | 452 | by Leonard Koni
Police follow up on Jonathan Moyo rape claims
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has directed police in Bulawayo to look for veteran modelling instructor Ms Sipho Ncube-Mazibuko as part of investigations following her rape allegations aga...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fights 'false' rape allegations by modelling agency boss
Former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo on Monday pushed back against "false and outrageous" allegations that he raped a former model and beauty pageant organiser over a decade ago.State media r...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:53hrs | 3450 | by Staff reporter
'Home remedies don't cure COVID-19'
HEALTH experts and stakeholders have warned that home remedies were not a cure for COVID-19, but only relieve symptoms and offer the body a fighting chance against the respiratory virus.This f...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
Loga in pre-match juju drama
WARRIORS coach Zdravko Logarusic rekindled the debate about the use of "juju" in African football after a picture of him with a dead bat found at centre circle of the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in YaoundĂ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:50hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:05hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga's lawyers dismiss death rumours
Frank Buyanga Sadiqi's lawyers have dismissed reports circulating on social media that the businessman died in a shooting yesterday.The story started with another businessman, Mutumwa Mawere, ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 19:09hrs | 1295 | by Staff reporter
Pfizer, aided by British govt trying to manipulate Zimbabwe over COVID-19 vaccine?
Pfizer, aided by British GVT via @HMAMelanieR is trying to manipulate Zimbabwean GVT over #COVID19 vaccines: Nobody knows long term impact of mRNA vaccines. So they want indemnity from all fut...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 16:50hrs | 2362 | by mmatigari
Sikhala, Chin'ono, Mahere being denied food
Douglas Coltart, a Zimbabwean political activist and lawyer, has revealed that the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers are denying MDC Alliance Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere, MDC A...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF skeletons tumble in Chitungwiza demolitions
LEAKED letters addressed to Chitungwiza Town Council bosses have exposed the government's involvement in the demolition of homes and other illegal structures in Harare and the dormitory town with the ...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:34hrs | 1654 | by Staff reporter
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 581 | by Stembile Mpofu
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: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:32hrs | 138 | by Taurai Mutoti
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 | 781 | by Staff reporter
Twitter prepares to hand over Trump's presidential accounts to Biden's team
As President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Inauguration Day, Twitter will be at work transferring its institutional "@POTUS" account to him, the company announced Thursday.According to the ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:48hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says officials
The New York Post ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 4736 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa lawyer's father dies
Prominent Harare lawyer, advocate Thabani Mpofu of 'the fulcrum' and 'the pith' fame has lost his father.Adv Mpofu is the lawyer of Nelson Chamisa the leader of the opposition MDC.The ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 19:33hrs | 4399 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally dies
Official sources have confirmed that Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba has died.She was 60.The cause of death is not yet known.Mary Mlisw...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 10:55hrs | 9190 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must stop selective application of the law' - Pete's sake, he is a tyrant and that is what tyrants do
Zimbabwe has been a nation of protestors and human rights activists contend to say what is wrong in society but rarely ever come up with what should be done about and rarest of all do it!"The ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 462 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Brace for more demolitions in Harare'
HARARE provincial development coordinator (PDC) Tafadzwa Muguti has warned of more demolitions, adding that people must not accuse President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ministers if their illegal struc...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:42hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Landela buying spree raises stink
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his triumphal entry into the citadel of power in 2017 by declaring that he would open the country up for business, thus promising a departure from the ruinous polic...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 880 | by Cliff Chiduku
All hope is not lost
Crushing the peoples' voices is not the answer. No nation has ever risen or built by crushing the voice of justice.Zimbabwean citizens in all walks of life have been fighting for change at gre...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 13:26hrs | 576 | by Leonard Koni
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