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Congestion hits Beitbridge border post
THE Beitbridge border post is failing to cope with increased traffic made up of mainly haulage trucks shuttling between Zimbabwe and South Africa.This has resulted in intermittent traffic jams...Published: 4 hrs ago | 99 | by Staff reporter
Inside the chaos at Zimbabwe's Covid-19 centres
The government, World Health Organisation and numerous other stakeholders are hailing Covid-19 isolation centres as a vital tool to contain the coronavirus pandemic, but it is not all rosy inside the ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 60 | by Staff reporter
Security forces deployed to quarantine centres
THE Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on Covid-19 headed by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi is now mandated to update the country on the regular fortnightly reviews of the indefinite national lockdown announced...Published: 4 hrs ago | 60 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 aid resurfaces on black market
While Government, corporates, organisations and individuals have opened their hearts and wallets, pooling resources to support those who are likely to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, shameles...Published: 4 hrs ago | 59 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga exposes the Mnangagwas
SOUTH AFRICA based Zimbabwe millionaire, Frank Buyanga says the recent corruption storm involving President Emerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins vindicates his earlier claims the first family was a crimin...Published: 4 hrs ago | 141 | by Staff reporter
Why is it okay for Blacks to kill Blacks, but an utter outrage when Whites kill Blacks?
As the whole world is thunderstruck by the unfolding scenes of massive anger-fuelled protests in the United States of America (US) over the barbaric and savage killing of an unarmed Black man - George...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1324 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Security beefed up at Covid-19 isolation centres
SECURITY at designated Covid-19 isolation centres, especially those situated in border towns, is set to be upgraded to prevent quarantined returnees from escaping.Last night, Information, Publ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 675 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's top bodyguard lands lucrative Covid-19 supply deals
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's top bodyguard won lucrative contracts to supply Covid-19 equipment to the ministry of health without going through a competitive bidding process, ZimLive can exclusively...Published: 30 May 2020 at 20:50hrs | 5073 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 cases now at 160
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 cases continue to rise as 9 returnees from South Africa and Botswana and 2 locals tested positive for the virus on Friday bringing to 160 the total number of confirmed cases....Published: 30 May 2020 at 10:16hrs | 3906 | by staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't close borders to returning citizens
More than 3,000 Zimbabweans - including busloads from South Africa - have been trekking back home in recent weeks and the Minister of Health and Child Care Obadiah Moyo has said that the government wi...Published: 30 May 2020 at 10:14hrs | 1528 | by Staff reporter
'We would rather die of COVID-19 than starve under lockdown'
INFORMAL traders have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lockdown regulations and are now back in full force, operating openly in the high-density areas at a time the country is recording a surge i...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:42hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital bans visitors
MPILO Central Hospital in Bulawayo has imposed an indefinite ban on patients' visits after recording four COVID-19 cases in a single day early this week. Authorities at the hospital had all al...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on security forces
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said Government is committed to improving the welfare of members of the security services. The President said this during the commissioning of 138 junior officers...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:12hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo quarantine centres riot
AGITATED inmates at Masvingo Polytechnic and Masvingo Teachers Colleges Friday clashed with members of the country's security services as they demanded to be given their test results and be releas...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:10hrs | 662 | by newzimbabwe
ZIFA to receive US$200 000 from CAF
ZIFA are expected to receive a US$200 000 financial injection from CAF, which represents their annual grant from the continent's football controlling body. CAF announced yesterday they will sp...Published: 30 May 2020 at 09:10hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: America officially pulls out of World Health Organisation
American President Donald John Trump has announced that his country has initiated steps to officially pulled out of the World Health Organisation after accusing the global body of failing to do ...Published: 29 May 2020 at 20:45hrs | 8035 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe records second highest daily coronavirus increase
Zimbabwe reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the second highest daily tally which took the country total to 149.On Wednesday, cases more than doubled from 56 to 132, stunning offici...Published: 29 May 2020 at 20:15hrs | 7697 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 23 people who escaped from Coronavirus centres
Zimbabwe Republic Police has announced that it has arrested 23 of the 148 people who escaped from various quarantine centres across the country. In a statement issued on Friday ZRP said, "We a...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3309 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's son speaks on corruption allegations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Collins Mnangagwa, has furiously denied allegations that he is part of the company which pocketed almost US$1 million after supplying the government with gros...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:23hrs | 3469 | by Staff reporter
Russia donates to Zimbabwe's war veterans
RUSSIA has reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe in various fields. This comes as the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Harare handed over of 1 500 tonne...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases jump to 149
THIS Thursday Zimbabwe recorded 17 more positive cases of COVID-19 bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 149. These are all returnees from Mozambique, South Africa and the United Kingdo...Published: 29 May 2020 at 16:09hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
MDC trio to challenge 'fake abduction' prosecution through ConCourt
MDC Alliance MP Joanna Mamombe and two-party activists are set to take their bid to stop prosecution to the Constitutional Court.The Harare West legislator and activists Cecilia Chimbiri and N...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:27hrs | 1862 | by newzimbabwe
WANTED: Government reveals names of people who fled Coronavirus centre
Secretary Information Nick Mangwana has published names of four ladies who are on wanted list for escaping from Vuti Quarantine Centre on Thursday night. Mangwana said the four ladies, who liv...Published: 29 May 2020 at 14:07hrs | 2709 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's US$1 million Coronavirus tender saga takes new twist
United Arab Emirates based company Drax International which was recently caught in a procurement storm has threatened legal action against publications whom they accuse of making unsubstantiated c...Published: 29 May 2020 at 10:16hrs | 3520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa warns civil servants
Mnangagwa warns civil servantsPRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned civil servants against sabotaging government programmes, including the scandal-ridden Command Agriculture and presidenti...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:49hrs | 17771 | by Staff reporter
Teachers against school re-opening
Teachers unions have called on Government not to reopen schools after the country recorded a spike in coronavirus cases. ZIMTA secretary general Tapson Sibanda said that reopening schools coul...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1622 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 should not be used to clampdown on journalists - ZCTU
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has said it notes with concern that the government is using the outbreak of COVID-19 as a scapegoat to arrest journalists going about their business and thi...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:43hrs | 162 | by Stephen Jakes
Mthuli Ncube in catch-22 situation
THE provision of subsidies to small-scale gold miners in defiance of advice from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has left the government in a quandary amid a rapidly deteriorating economy....Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:30hrs | 1780 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe must get debt clearance from China'
FORMER State Enterprises and Parastatals minister Gorden Moyo has urged government to ask for debt cancellation from China so that the southern African nation could be able to contain the COVID-19 cur...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:23hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Clueless gaze in the face of free-falling Zimdollar
THE spectacular collapse of the Zimbabwean dollar in the past week has yet again exposed the government's bankrupt currency policies worsening the country's deepening economic crisis.The Zimdo...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe returnees complain of shambolic quarantine centres
ZIMBABWEAN citizens returning from abroad have complained that most quarantine centres have shabby and unhygienic facilities which promote the spread of Covid-19 rather than contain the disease....Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo nurse, three patients catch Covid-19
FOUR people in Bulawayo including a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital and a patient who went to the health institution for treatment have tested positive for Covid-19. The nurse from Cowdray Par...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Bosso engage staff on pay cuts
HIGHLANDERS have engaged their staff with a proposal to halve their salaries, while looking for sponsorship. Bosso have been hit by inactivity caused by the Covid-19 lockdown. Highlanders lost...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
UK based Zimbabwean social worker dies from coronavirus
Tributes have been paid to a "kind and selfless" Tower Hamlets social worker who died with Covid-19.Father-of-four Irvin Fantie Moyo, who worked for the council's social services department, d...Published: 29 May 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1034 | by Eastlondonadvertiser
WATCH: Ezra Tshisa Sibanda donates 20 beds to Thorngrove hospital
Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni has paid gratitude to veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sibanda for pioneering an initiative called Ezra Tshisa Sibanda and Friends that has donated 20 h...Published: 28 May 2020 at 20:56hrs | 2367 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Catastrophe looms in Zimbabwe, says SA's BusinessDay
As Zimbabwe enters the next phase of its coronavirus-induced lockdown - a partial but indefinite hold on economic activity - fears for the country’s economic future are rising.The economy wa...Published: 28 May 2020 at 20:45hrs | 3567 | by Chris Muronzi I BusinessDay
Mnangagwa vetoes call for GNU, talks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rejected the growing calls for political dialogue in the country, including the formation of a new government of national unity (GNU) to help end Zimbabwe's myriad cha...Published: 28 May 2020 at 19:21hrs | 10507 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus positive woman gives birth at Gweru hospital
Zimbabwean doctors have assisted a Coronavirus pregnant woman in Gweru to deliver after fears that the baby was going to be contaminated with the virus. Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana...Published: 28 May 2020 at 18:51hrs | 1005 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Alcohol timetable for South Africa announced
South Africa's Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma has announced the new timetable for the sale of alcohol in South Africa as the nation enters Le...Published: 28 May 2020 at 14:05hrs | 2779 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ministry of Finance denies giving Mnangagwa's son US$1 million
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance George Guvamatanga has refuted reports that the Treasury had paid an amount of US$1 million to Drax International, which is owned by Delish Nguwaya, a bu...Published: 28 May 2020 at 13:35hrs | 4612 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda disappointed by the living standards of health workers in Gokwe central
The deputy minister of Defense who is the member of Parliament for Gokwe Central comrade Victor Matemadanda distributed essential commodities to people in his constituency. Speaking on the occ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 11:59hrs | 1100 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZCTU predicts massive job losses
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has predicted more job losses as the effects of COVID-19 take a toll on the economy.The southern African country, which is grappling with an estimated une...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 1001 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF MP in COVID-19 awareness
FORMER Kuwadzana MP Betty Nhambu-Kaseke (Zanu-PF) has embarked on a COVID-19 outreach programme to assist with civic education and health measures prescribed by government and the World Health Organis...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
23 arrested for grocery smuggling through Limpopo river
TWENTY-THREE people have been arrested and $1,5 million worth of groceries seized from smugglers who bring in the contraband through the Limpopo River while 21 vehicles were impounded by the authoriti...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:04hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
RBZ governor needs prayers, not Zimbabweans
IT was difficult listening to central bank governor, John Mangudya speaking in Parliament without feeling patronised."I pray for Zimbabwe each morning, saying, ‘Oh God, help Zimbabweans unde...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
700 bodies repatriated from SA
Almost 700 Zimbabweans have died in South Africa from natural causes during the lockdown and the Government has arranged the repatriation of the remains through Beitbridge. Zimbabwe's Consul-G...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1449 | by Staff reporter
'Don't harbour returnees'
It's illegal for anyone to harbour returnees who have not gone through proper repatriation procedures and screening for Covid-19, a Cabinet Minister has said. Information, Publicity and Broadc...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:34hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
No opening dates for schools yet
GOVERNMENT has dismissed as false, messages circulating on social media claiming that schools will reopen for exam classes in three weeks. A schedule purportedly from the Ministry of Primary a...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Mpilo's Solwayo Ngwenya over Coronavirus tweet
Mpilo Clinical Director Dr. Solwayo Ngwenya has invited widespread condemnation after he posted a vague message on social media insinuating that he had contracted the deadly coronavirus. Dr Ng...Published: 27 May 2020 at 22:25hrs | 1379 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mpilo Clinical Director Solwayo Ngwenya clarifies his Coronavirus statement
Mpilo Hospital Clinical Director Dr Solwayo Ngwenya has issued a statement disputing reports that he had acquired the deadly Coronavirus. In a Twitter statement posted on Wednesday evening, Ng...Published: 27 May 2020 at 21:34hrs | 3524 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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