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Zimbabwe mulls mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Zimbabwe could consider mandatory inoculation against COVID-19 following resistance from some sections of the population. Zimbabwe rolled out the...Published: 7 hrs ago | 865 | by Staff reporter
Japan gives Zimbabwe US$8,6 million
JAPAN has given Zimbabwe US$8,6 million in emergency funding to support vulnerable people who have been most affected by the humanitarian crisis in the country.In a statement yesterday, the As...Published: 7 hrs ago | 512 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to buy 1.2m more Covid vaccine doses from China
Zimbabwe will buy an additional 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China at a preferential price, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson said on Wednesday, after Beijing agreed to give more ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 42 | by Staff reporter
Graft-accused top health official denied bail
A HARARE magistrate yesterday denied bail to Health and Child Care ministry director of epidemiology and disease control, Portia Manangazira, who allegedly abused her powers and employed 28 close rela...Published: 23 hrs ago | 502 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe might not meet vaccine demand'
PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee on Health chairperson Ruth Labode yesterday expressed concern over government's capacity to meet demand for COVID-19 vaccines, given that the country currently only h...Published: 23 hrs ago | 511 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now a failed State
OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.Mr President, l address you on behalf of workers of Zimbabwe who are suffering and disillusioned.I also address you in my own capacity as a citiz...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1147 | by Peter Mutasa
22 COVID-19 vaccination centres set up in Bulawayo
THE Health and Child Care ministry has set up 22 COVID-19 vaccination centres in Bulawayo to inoculate 6 000 frontline workers and other vulnerable groups in the city.Bulawayo's vaccination ex...Published: 23 hrs ago | 271 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vaccinates 400 frontliners
OVER 400 frontline workers have taken the Covid-19 vaccine in Bulawayo within two days of the rolling out of the programme in the city. Bulawayo has four teams vaccinating frontline workers wh...Published: 23 hrs ago | 150 | by Staff reporter
Schools reopening preps underway
Preparations continue for the "inevitable re-opening" of schools with Covid-19 control measures informed by World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines being put in place to avoid a spike in infections...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1503 | by Staff reporter
MPs want to jump the Covid-19 vaccine queue
ZIMBABWE'S lawmakers have demanded that they be vaccinated immediately against Covid-19 as they are a top priority and frontline personnel at risk of contracting the deadly virus.The MPs have ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 387 | by Staff reporter
Commuters stranded as Zupco demands tap cards
Commuters from Chitungwiza were stranded earlier today after the only public transport operator Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) rejected fare payments in cash.Workers, particularly f...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:21hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Chombo spends second night in police cells
THE director of Epidemiology and Diseases Control in the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira will remain behind bars after she was Tuesday denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande.Mana...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
Govt official recruits 28 family members
A TOP official in the Health and Child Care ministry, Portia Manangazira appeared in court yesterday charged with criminal abuse of office after she illegally facilitated the recruitment and training ...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:52hrs | 3048 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination drive moves a gear up
THE Covid-19 vaccination drive will move a gear up today following the delivery of doses to all the provinces and districts at the weekend. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sat...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:33hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown reprieve for customs clearing agents
Government has revised lockdown regulations and classified customs clearing agents and freight forwarders operating inland and at the country's ports of entry/exit as essential service providers in a ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:32hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Cowardice is when you pounce on the weak and shout Courage!
For abusing his office Mohadi must be condemned for his deeds. I refuse to hear tribalists talking about Mohadi resigning from office because of the last week's scandals that were caught on media. Why...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 12:44hrs | 2487 | by Nomazulu Thata
PHOTOS: National Covid-19 vaccination programme across Zimbabwe
The national Covid-19 vaccination programme is underway across the country, as provinces take delivery of their allocation of the jab....Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 11:16hrs | 2087 | by Staff Reporter
Kagonye fingered in farm invasion
Ex-cabinet minister Petronella Kagonye has been fingered in a Bromley farm invasion where she is reportedly barring an indigenous farmer from utilising it and influencing invaders to resist eviction....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 23:36hrs | 1792 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
A product of Rhodesia's cattle improvement scheme
In the early 1940's in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) the Government was promoting a cattle improvement scheme whereby bulls from imported European breeds were made available to the indigeno...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 22:42hrs | 1890 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Covid-19 vaccines are completely safe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has urged Zimbabweans to embrace the ongoing Covid-19 national inoculation programme, saying the vaccines are completely safe.This comes after the country c...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 13:14hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
MDC Youth Assembly calls for dialogue and immediate release of all political prisoners
The MDC-T Youth Assembly joins the rest of the country in commemorating National Youth Day, which is celebrated on 21 February every year. This year's commemorations are taking place against the backd...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 09:40hrs | 1077 | by Yvonne Musarurwa
Demystifying COVID-19 Vaccines: The Truth
We are consumed by the desire to herald the truth in the age of increased information and knowledge. For this reason, we would like to demystify some dangerous misinformation that is being peddled by ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1474 | by Oliver Dube and Dr Stanley Maphosa
Salary deductions irk teachers
THE government has raised the ire of teachers after taking 2.5% of their salaries as contributions to its newly set-up mutual fund for civil servants amid claims the workers were not properly consulte...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1145 | by Staff reporter
Registration for civil servants' loan fund starts
CIVIL servants have been given until end of this month to register for the $75 million Government Employees Mutual Savings (GEMS) loan fund, which aims to improve public workers' livelihoods through f...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
More Chinese vaccines arrive next week
AN ADDITIONAL 600 000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines procured by Government from Chinese pharmaceutical giant, Sinopharm, will land in the country next week as authorities continue intensifying the countr...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:57hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says youths will be prioritised in new land offers
Youths will be prioritised when the Government begins redistributing vacant and underutilised land that has been identified through the recent land audit, President Mnangagwa has said.In his e...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
City of Harare workers give notice to strike
CITY of Harare workers have given their employer a seven-day notice to strike over poor salaries and non-availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), among other grievances.The move co...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:10hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures more Covid-19 vaccines
IN a major boost to the country's efforts to acquire enough Covid-19 vaccines, India has pledged to donate 75 000 doses with an option for Zimbabwe to buy more, President Mnangagwa said.This c...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 19:00hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ready for COVID-19 vaccine roll-out
BULAWAYO yesterday received its first COVID-19 vaccines in preparation for an inoculation programme which starts on Monday amid revelations that six high-density areas top in confirmed cases and fatal...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:56hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MDC-T workers demand US$150 000
FORMER MDC-T employees have approached the High Court seeking a garnishee order against the party's accounts so that they can recover over US$150 000 owed to them. The workers won a High Court...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1710 | by Staff reporter
Trials before vaccination, demands Rights lawyers
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) wants government to conduct clinical trials of the Sinopharm vaccine and other Covid-19 drugs before administering the jabs on the population.Howev...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Zacc gets new secretary
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has finally recruited a secretary to fill up the top post, which has gone for over a year without a substantive accounting officer following the departur...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:08hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Zinatha endorses COVID-19 vaccination programme
TRADITIONAL healers have endorsed the government's COVID-19 vaccination programme which began yesterday, with health workers being the first to be inoculated.Zimbabwe received a donation of 20...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:01hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains causing power blackouts: Minister
GOVERNMENT has said the power problems the country has been facing in the past months have been a result of heavy rains that are damaging electrical systems and cables, leading to power blackouts....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:59hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa praises Chiwenga
President Mnangagwa has praised his deputy, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino Chiwenga, for volunteering to take the first jab when Zimbabwe launched the Covid-19 vacci...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans eager to get Covid-19 jab
I now want to get vaccinated because I have seen government's seriousness "I kept doing my own research from reputable sources and also listening to government statements on the vaccines and a...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to take Chinese COVID-19 vacinne in public
Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga has volunteered to become the first person to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at a ceremony that is set signal the commencem...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 15:05hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
MPs grill Chiwenga
MEMBERS of Parliament on Tuesday grilled Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga on the efficacy and possible side-effects of the Chinese-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.Chiwenga was questioned...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:51hrs | 3334 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination starts with health staff
The country's Covid-19 vaccination programme begins today in Harare with frontline health workers expected to be among the first to be inoculated. This follows the arrival on Monday of 200 000 vaccine...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:44hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Masarira, Winky pay tribute to Soul Jah Love
Political leader of the LEAD party, Linda Masarira and Zimdancehall chanter, Winky D have become the latest prominent figures to pay tribute to Soul Musaka (Soul Jah Love) who passed on yesterday foll...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:36hrs | 1189 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe needs US$7m for corona vaccines
THE government is mobilising about US$7 million to acquire enoug hvaccines to inoculate 60 percent of the population with the first phase of the programme commencing on Thursday with frontline workers...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:18hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccine given green light
AUTHORITIES have cleared the Chinese coronavirus jabs - which arrived in the country on Monday - paving the way for the government's national vaccination programme that is initially targeting frontlin...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 19:52hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
A 'Tsvangirai' needed in the opposition
ON SUNDAY, Zimbabwe marked the third anniversary since MDC founding president and former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai died from colon cancer at a private hospital in South Africa.Tsvangira...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 15:05hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
US linked Biti queries acquisition of Chinese vaccine
HARARE East MP and MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the Sinopharm vaccine donated to the country by the Chinese government on Monday....Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 3049 | by Staff reporter
Mpofu defends Zanu-PF COVID-19-era meetings
ZANU-PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu yesterday quashed criticism by the main opposition party, MDC Alliance that the ruling party was holding meetings and internal elections in total defi...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:34hrs | 2289 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt threatens more restrictions
GOVERNMENT yesterday warned citizens to brace for more movement restrictions in light of the highly fatal and fast-spreading South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, which now constitutes 61% of n...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
Journalists must be on vaccination priority list, says Misa Zimbabwe
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has urged government to include journalists among the first priority groups listed for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme.The med...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Vaccination to cost US$6,7m
The national vaccination programme against Covid-19 will cost US$6,7 million, with Government targeting to vaccinate 10 million people, representing about 60 percent of the population. The Cov...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:54hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
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