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Counterfeit drugs poses threat to Covid -19 cure
The rise of novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 pandemic cases could lead to a spike in counterfeit pharmaceutical deals in Africa and the world over following suggestions that hydroxychloroquine could...Published: 7 hrs ago | 512 | by Liberty Pazvakawambwa
ZLHR concerned about treatment of Chin'ono and Ngarivhume in prison
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is concerned about the treatment of freelance journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of Transform Zimbabwe political party, who are curr...Published: 7 hrs ago | 981 | by Stephen Jakes
UNcle Tom queries South Africa 'sham' envoys
Prominent South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane believes President Cyril ramamphosa's special envoys appointed to find ways of solving political problems in Zimbabwe are too compromised to lea...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1940 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 326 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Prince Dube France-bound
WARRIORS and Highlanders striker Prince Dube could become the latest Zimbabwe football international to make a breakthrough move to France after attracting the attention of two unnamed clubs in the We...Published: 11 hrs ago | 611 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean actress fulfilling Hollywood dream
Sibongile Mlambo, a Zimbabwean actress based in Hollywood, says she enjoys authentically portraying different characters, lives, and perspectives, especially those of fierce, strong, multi-faceted wom...Published: 11 hrs ago | 140 | by Staff reporter
Beyonce won't vote in Zimbabwe
The Bishop laughed his lungs out last week when he saw the desperate efforts of some activists who were trying to foist their latest hashtag movement on US singer Beyonce.There was a lot of eu...Published: 11 hrs ago | 285 | by Bishop Lazarus
Schools to reopen when safe minister
THE reopening of schools this year hangs in the balance as officials continue to monitor the rising Covid-19 caseload.Last month, the Government deferred reopening schools to a later date from...Published: 11 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 5 new COVID-19 deaths including 3 weeks old baby
ZIMBABWE recorded 5 new deaths this Friday, as confirmed cases rose to 4 451.This follows the reporting of 56 new cases, 54 of them being local transmissions.In a Covid-19 daily update...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1764 | by Staff reporter
Disaster looms as Harare runs out of water chemicals
Harare is in a serious water crisis further exposing the vulnerable residents to the lethal COVID 19 virus. The City has attributed poor water supply to shortage of water treatment chemicals."...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1514 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Covid-19 death toll breaches 100 mark
Zimbabwe's coronavirus deaths breached the 100 mark on Friday as the health ministry reported five new deaths.The latest data came as the number of Covid-19 cases in Africa rose to over one mi...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Leadership crisis puts Zimbabwe on international radar, again
ZIMBABWE finds herself the subject of international focus again, and not because of how the novel coronavirus is devastating its fragile economy, overwhelming its creaking health system and demoralise...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:34hrs | 858 | by Staff reporter
Bosso release Prince Dube
HIGHLANDERS yesterday agreed to release hitman Prince Dube to free-spending Tanzanian side Azam following three-hour negotiations between the club and Dube's manager Gibson Mahachi in Bulawayo yesterd...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:32hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Bosso fans clear club's legacy debt
A GROUP of Highlanders fans, who launched a crowd-funding initiative to clear the club's legacy debt, say they have now completed their mission. The ambitious project was launched two yers ago and is ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
My true prophets stand up against Covid-19
We watched crutches being thrown away, demons being driven out of tormented souls, was this real or stage managed and choreographed acts of deception? Later day flamboyant 'prophets' mad...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 628 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Masarira pens open letter to Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition LEAD party, has penned an open letter to the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, over the country's status quo.Masarira who some believe is linked...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:00hrs | 9496 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Do not be a statistic, stay safe
The figures on Covid-19 infections continue to rise and as if not to be out done, so are the fatalities. The lackadaisical approach by some rural folk on precautions against the disease may see the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:55hrs | 1046 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3746 | by Staff reporter
Duduzile Shinya new ICAZ President
Medical Investments Limited's chief financial officer, Duduzile Shinya has been elected the new president of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) for the term 2020/21.She w...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:51hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus may not go away soon
Shouting, even repeatedly, breaks no bones. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in numbers especially among returnees. People of my colour express affection through handshakes and hugs, can we please shel...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:36hrs | 628 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
All we can do for now is take precautions
The Coronavirus continues to wreck havoc across world populations with no signs of slowing down. Scientists the world over are busy in their labs trying to cross the T's and dot the I's ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 489 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 316 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Escapees from quarantine centres are a danger to communities
People attending funerals should remain 50 - there goes the SI on efforts to contain Covid-19, being Africans, without enforcers, will this work? Despite knowing the dangers of unchecked proximity, ho...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 139 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sex for sanitiser proposal backfires
FOR a Zvishavane man, Again Madzivire, it was supposedly not a bad move to secretly admire his female neighbour's "voluptuous" behind but there seems to be just one big flaw which he made and it all e...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:53hrs | 2427 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's curfew times challenged in court
A RUWA man Ronald Magweta and Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (Walpe) have approached the High Court seeking an extension of the starting time of the curfew to 8pm.This...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA doesn't require proof of recent negative COVID-19 tests
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wishes to correct misleading information that was contained in an internally generated notice that was issued to clearing agents on the 6th of August, 2020. ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:38hrs | 990 | by Staff reporter
SADC called to intervene in Zimbabwe's crisis
South African opposition leader General Bantu Holomisa has called upon SADC to intervene and assist Zimbabweans to find a solution to the crisis that is intensifying in their country.In a pres...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 12:05hrs | 3011 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:14hrs | 6882 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2610 | by Staff reporter
Residents stampede for subsidised roller meal
GwERu and Bulawayo residents yesterday risked contracting the deadly coronavirus as they jostled to buy subsidised roller meal at DCK supermarkets.Police in riot gear and soldiers had a torrid...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister tests positive for Covid-19
DEPUTY Minister for Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Tino Machakaire has tested positive for Covid-19 and is now in self-isolation. He also appealed to those that were in contact with him to immediat...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:51hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
G40 fugitives in anti-Zimbabwe crusade
FUGITIVE G40 members, who are hiding in South Africa, are behind the recent anti-Zimbabwe campaign responsible for inventing a non-existent crisis and have been engaging various regional players in a ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3624 | by Nomusa Garikai
There is no crisis in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is yet again the target of a relentless attack from its detractors who want to create a non-existent crisis in the country when there is none as the nation is only observing stringent measure...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:33hrs | 5542 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Another top CIO Boss dies
Information coming from Harare indicate that dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation Assistant Director of Operations Rushmore Mukwamba has died. The cause of hi9s said death remains murky w...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:49hrs | 18133 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa launches tourism strategy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially launched the National Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy which is expected to guide the resurgence of the sector which was hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandem...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa tests positive for Covid-19
Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa missed Tuesday's weekly cabinet meeting after her husband caught the coronavirus, ZimLive has learnt.The minister is not believed to have the virus herse...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:05hrs | 3831 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chris Mutsvangwa tests Coronavirus positive
Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has tested positive of the deadly Coronavirus online publication ZimLive has reported. According to the publication Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa mis...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:02hrs | 3432 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo records second highest Covid-19 deaths
BULAWAYO province now has the second highest number of Covid-19 deaths which are more than a quarter of the national average. On Tuesday, the city recorded its 21st death after a 22-year-old m...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:04hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1176 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
ICAC calls for Youth, Liberation fighters,Women assemblies inclusion in AU
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus in Africa (ICAC) has called on the African Union to include the youth, liberation fighters, and women assemblies in the bloc so as to have it pushing th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 17:56hrs | 142 | by Stephen Jakes
High inflation sees Zimra exceed targets in Q2
Increased loss of value in the ZWL saw tax revenue in the second quarter exceed target by 42.75% to $20.11 billion. The tax collector had a target of $14.09 billion after collections amounted to $13.8...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 720 | by Staff reporter
20 Maphisa Hospital nurses test positive to COVID-19
TWENTY nurses at Maphisa District Hospital in Matabeleland South province tested positive for coronavirus this week, sending the settlement, predominantly occupied by civil servants, gold miners and p...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Curfew betrays govt anger towards citizens
HIS Excellency, the imposition of the sunset to sunrise curfew prompts me to write to you, yet again. Notwithstanding the spike inconfirmedCOVID-19cases, the country has long been languishing at a rec...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 999 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 436 | by ED Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's Covid-19+ cases surpass 4 000
THE number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Zimbabwe has surpassed 4 000, taking 12 days to double since July 22. According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care, by Monday, 4 075 people had ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo attacks VP Chiwenga for being appointed minister of health.
Jonathan Moyo mocks the Vice President Chiwenga. In a Twitter trail Jonathan Moyo was asked to give his wisdom and comment on the appointment of Chiwenga as the minister of Health. Moyo responded and ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5783 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's MDC Alliance criticise appointment of unqualified Chiwenga
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed his deputy Constantino Chiwenga as the new health minister, tasking him with reforming a decaying health sector amid a rise in Covid-19 infections and...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 22:23hrs | 3963 | by Reuters
Dangarembga decries state 'chokehold'
A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they end...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:08hrs | 1455 | by Reuter
Obert Mpofu clocks 19th day in quarantine, joins Twitter
ZANU-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, who is in self-isolation, says he will use his new twitter handle to engage on the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the country and has since claimed more t...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
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