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Zimbabwe reaches new vaccination milestone
Zimbabwe has recorded another positive achievement in its Covid-19 vaccination roll-out and has been listed among 13 African countries that have reached the World Health Organisation (WHO) target to f...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:06hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
No jab, no job takes effect
AT least 10 percent of civil servants could be affected by the Government's decision to bar unvaccinated employees from reporting for work. Cabinet on Tuesday resolved that unvaccinated civil servants...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:55hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU vaccination challenge suffers body blow
THE High Court has struck off the roll of urgent cases an application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) in which the labour movement sought an order barring companies from demanding COVID...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
No vaccination, no work for civil servants
All civil servants must now be vaccinated against Covid-19 before being allowed to report for duty after being given time to get their jabs, while churches are now permitted to move from 100 people at...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:41hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU vaccines case hit snag
The High Court has struck off the roll with costs an urgent application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), seeking to prohibit employers including Government from compelling unvaccinated...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 19:20hrs | 746 | by Staff reporter
1 million more doses expected today
Another one million Covid-19 Sinovac doses are expected to arrive today taking Zimbabwe's total deliveries to over 11 million doses, as the country goes overdrive to protect its people from the pandem...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination rates continue to dwindle
While the third wave of Covid-19 infection continues to trickle down to just 4,8 percent of its mid-July peak, the vaccination rate is also continuing to slow with 286 134 jabs given last week between...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 380 | by Staff reporter
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, says Mnangagwa
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, as the Second Republic continues on its journey to build the economy through provision of transport services and other infrastructural developmen...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:50hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Anxiety as Zimbabweans' permits expire in December
SOUTH Africa has not said a word regarding the status of Zimbabweans staying in that country under the Zimbabwean Special Dispensation Permits (ZSDP) which are set to expire in December.Zimbab...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:49hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
ID card not requirement for Covid-19 vaccination, health ministry clarifies
No Zimbabwean should be denied a Covid-19 vaccine on account of having no identity documents, the health ministry said on Wednesday.Deputy health minister John Mangwiro said it should be enoug...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:41hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF pin hope on Chinese and Russian vaccination
Zanu PF Midlands provincial secretary for information and publicity Cornelius Mupereri thanked the government for relying on Chinese or Russian vaccines during the Kwekwe district restructuring exerci...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 15:02hrs | 439 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimbabwe govt COVID-19 response driven by ignorance and ego than logic and science
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make global headlines, and issues of how to respond to it - most particularly, faced with restive populations divided between those who want to be vaccinated, and...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 17:27hrs | 742 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Matebeleland South records 307 COVID-19 cases of vaccinated patients
MATEBELELAND South province has recorded 307 COVID-19 cases involving fully vaccinated patients.This is out of a total of 4 666 cases recorded in the province since the start of the third wave...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:28hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Will the IMF US$961m windfall rescue Zimbabwe?
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid-19 has caused substantial long-term global macroeconomic environment change, and the pandemic inflicted long-term scars on the global economy....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 238 | by Learnmore Nyamudzanga
We need to repair our sick politics
AS strange as it might sound or seem, you can be sure there is an imbecile somewhere in our beloved teapot-shaped country that is very unhappy the weatherman is forecasting we might have a very good r...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 85 | by Bishop Lazi
'Top bankers assigned to guard Zimbabwe's IMF windfall'
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube laid out a solid spending plan for the US$961 million recently injected by the International Monetary Fund (iMF), saying the windfall would be guarded by three top banker...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:01hrs | 4889 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools seek bailout from Govt
BULAWAYO schools have asked Government to bail them out as they are failing to pay more than $23 million they owe the Bulawayo City Council in water billls and one of the affected schools' water suppl...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:46hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
'New SA COVID-19 variant hits Zimbabwe'?
THE new COVID-19 variant, C.1.2, first detected in South Africa and a few other countries a few months ago, has reportedly spilled into Zimbabwe amid fears it could trigger the fourth wave of the high...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives 15 000 Sputnik V doses
Zimbabwe received 15 000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine from Serbia, a gesture which will go a long way in boosting vaccination of people against Covid-19. The vaccine was received by Health and Child Car...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Zinasu resists govt vaccination policy
ZIMBABWE National Students Union (Zinasu) has demanded an end to discrimination of students by institutions of higher learning on the grounds that they are unvaccinated.In a letter dated Augus...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:30hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Africa to receive 10m additional COVID-19 doses
African Union member States are set to receive additional 10 million doses of Astra-Zeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines over the next three months through a new partnership between the French governme...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Use it or lose it, Zimbabwe new farmers told
Zanu-PF women's league boss Mabel Chinomona, who is also Senate President, has been told to utilise her farm in Chirumhanzu, Midlands, by her juniors as she risks losing the property, in what is seen ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:59hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC fears Zanu-PF will use IMF US$1 billion for 'electioneering'
Close to US$1 billion released to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could be misused by the Zanu-PF government to finance its 2023 election campaign, the Movement for Democratic Change...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 19:35hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter
Do we need more diseases that freak out our leaders for them to finally attend to crumbling health care system?
It is really strange, in fact, creepy, how people appear freaked out and terrified by the thought of death and dying.Honestly, as much as most of us are not suicidal, and not actively seeking ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 17:37hrs | 239 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mwonzora's $60 million windfall sends tongues wagging
The MDC Alliance has queried the government's swift disbursement of funds under the Political Parties Finance Act to the Douglas Mwonzora led-MDC-T, saying this never used to happen before the 2019 sp...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:27hrs | 4743 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa misfires on Covid jabs?
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa's propensity to mislead his audience has come to the fore again after he lied during an interview with a Zambian Television station that all the Covid 19 vaccines...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1628 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination cards go missing at hospital
Police in Hwange are appealing to anyone with information that would led to the recovery of 18 Covid-19 vaccination cards that went missing at St Patrick's hospital on Thursday. The 18 cards, ...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 17:58hrs | 902 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe exports increase by 35,5%
THE value of exports from Zimbabwe increased by 35,5 percent in the first six months of the year to US$2,52 billion compared to US$1,86 billion in the corresponding period last year, official data sho...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:35hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to use IMF funds to support beleaguered Zimdollar
THE government will hold back $500m of the $961m IMF funds to support the currency which has plunged.Zimbabwe will use more than half of the $961 million allocated by the International Monetar...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 18:37hrs | 1301 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lockdown extended by 2 weeks
The modified Level 4 lockdown has been extended by a further two weeks and Government is encouraging everyone to get vaccinated and to fully embrace the standard measures of masking, social distancing...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives US$1bn IMF windfall today, Biti will cry
Zimbabwe is set to get an injection of around US$1 billion, its allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today, with part of the money earmarked for healt...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2712 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Bulawayo endorses Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF Women's League has said President Mnangagwa is ticking all the national development boxes in line with his electoral promises and the wing had therefore, endorsed his candidature for the 2023 ...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Churches offered group vaccinations
Churches willing to have their members vaccinated as groups can approach the Ministry of Health and Child Care so that teams of doctors and nurses within a church can get the required doses. People wi...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Moderna starts human trials of experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
United States pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna last Wednesday started trials of its experimental mRNA HIV vaccine.Moderna has enrolled 56 healthy adults without HIV to test the...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 10:58hrs | 5048 | by Staff reporter
When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment
Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 436 | by Bishop Lazi
Zanu-PF Women's League launches face masks project
The Zanu-PF Women's League yesterday launched a massive face masks sewing project in Matabeleland South during which 13 000 face masks were distributed to the 13 constituencies in the province as part...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:25hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records high Covid-19 deaths
BULAWAYO recorded the highest Covid-19 deaths on Thursday following the demise of eight people from 17 that succumbed to the virus nationally.Harare recorded three fatalities, Manicaland and M...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 17:29hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers challenge mandatory vaccination
A GROUP of lawyers, going by the moniker Anti-COVID Vaccines, has initiated moves to sue government, churches and employers over compulsory vaccination of employees and congregants.The lawyers...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1585 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now medical oxygen, industrial gas sufficient
ZIMBABWE is now medical oxygen and industrial gas sufficient following the official opening of its first Air Separation Unit (ASU) plant expected to transform the country's health and agricultural sec...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Court operations further suspended
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has directed all courts to further postpone pending criminal and civil matters to next Tuesday in response to the extension of the Level four lockdown by President Mnangagwa ...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:09hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
1.5 million more Covid-19 doses coming
Zimbabwe is expected to take delivery of 1.5 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines in three batches with the first consignment scheduled to arrive this afternoon while the last has been set for Saturday...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 16:37hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Fury as South Africa exports J&J vaccines to Europe, starving Africa
Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines produced in South Africa to countries in Europe, which have already immunised large numbers of their people and hav...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:47hrs | 1329 | by AP
Employers adopt no jab, no entry policy
TAKING a cue from government, several companies in Zimbabwe are making proof of vaccination a prerequisite for employees to enter their premises in a bid to curb the spread of the novel virus....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves closer to herd immunity?
More than 2 million Zimbabweans have received their first Covid-19 jab as the country moves towards attaining herd immunity of 10 million people. Government which is pushing hard to attain her...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:44hrs | 658 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Ramaphosa hold talks
President Mnangagwa yesterday held a tête-à-tête with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the 41st Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government here. Foreign Affairs...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Black capitalists and new colonisers
The promises of liberation have not been met and polls show persistent discontent with the Mnangagwa government.The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 09:25hrs | 1553 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Bad deals hold back Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S development trajectory remains under threat from nepotism and corruption, the Zimbabwe Coalition for Debt and Development (Zimcodd) said last week.Zimcodd said this concoction of go...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:46hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Low turnout as churches resume service
The resumption of sit-in church services for fully-vaccinated congregants got off to a slow start countrywide yesterday, with different Christian traditions driving the decision to reopen, while compl...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus update 2021 spring: What is the Delta variant?
It is 2021 and we have not fully recovered from Covid-19 and what the pandemic did to the world. So, what's new in 2021? Although we have good news with the vaccine for the virus discovered, distribut...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 09:40hrs | 610 | by Staff reporter
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