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Bulawayo Bomber's plans ruined
FORMER World Boxing Federation (WBF) Africa heavyweight champion Elvis Moyo has set-up a makeshift gym in his backyard where he is training with his 16-year-old son Craig, in South Africa during the c...Published: 57 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
Health experts explain 21-day lockdown
HEALTH experts yesterday said the 21-day national lockdown that starts today is vital in curbing the spread of coronavirus as it allows infected people to show symptoms, get treatment and heal within ...Published: 1 min ago | | by Staff reporter
Lockdown is in national interest, uphold it
From a partial shutdown that was in force over the past few days, Government escalated its response to Covid-19 from midnight to a total national lockdown until April 19. On Friday, President Mnangagw...Published: 2 mins ago | | by Staff reporter
Shebeens boom after bars closure
People huddled in groups, chatting and drinking without loud music are scenes that characterised shebeens in the high-density areas of Bulawayo last weekend. Following the ban on public gather...Published: 2 mins ago | | by Staff reporter
What 21 days of Lockdown will likely Mean for the Zimbabwean Populace
To curb the spread of the coronavirus President Emmerson Mnangagwa imposed a 21 days lockdown of Zimbabwe which is to come into effect on Monday 30, March.The measure has been applauded by man...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1363 | by Prince Njagu
Khupe backs Mnangagwa's lockdown
THE MDC-T has welcomed President Mnangagwa' s decision to put the country on total lockdown beginning tomorrow. In a statement, the Dr Thokozani Khupe-led party said the number of Covid-19 cas...Published: 13 hrs ago | 326 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt seeks US$100m corona war chest
THE government is scrounging around for at least US$100 million to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country.The minister of Health and Child Care, Obadiah Moyo, told a local d...Published: 15 hrs ago | 1096 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 16 hrs ago | 391 | by Staff reporter
Re-equipping hospitals a top priority, says Nigel Chanakira
Prominent banker Nigel Chanakira recently featured on the growing platform In Conversation with Trevor to share the story about his rise in the banking sector from working for the Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Denial, stigma threaten fight against Covid-19
Stigma, peddling of fake news and myths threaten to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the effective handling of the coronavirus pandemic with many people in Zimbabwe still to take the outbreak...Published: 16 hrs ago | 255 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coronavirus victim died 'alone and scared'
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was "alone and scared", according t...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1697 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
BCC water cuts puts people's lives in danger
Bulawayo Vendors Trust has said the Bulawayo Water cuts puts people's lives at greater risks of corona virus.The trust said Bulawayo vendors and informal traders have shown deep concern of con...Published: 19 hrs ago | 446 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga will not go into self-isolation after spending a fortnight in China and will instead lead the country's battle to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a top governme...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2846 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 22 hrs ago | 603 | by Edzai Zvobwo
How COVID-19 is changing the lives of Tanzanians
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) swept through Asia, Europe and North America early this year, medical experts warned that it was just a matter of time before other continents, including Africa, would st...Published: 23 hrs ago | 905 | by Stella Vuzo
With simple, fact-informed hygiene measures, Africa can slow COVID-19 spread
UN in Kenya in lockstep with the government to fight the novel coronavirus on all fronts.The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least...Published: 23 hrs ago | 224 | by Siddharth Chatterjee
Bulawayo braces for Covid 19
I love walking the streets of my hometown, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Every street, edifice and alley way holds many memories for me. Memories of happier times, when our now old and frail parents...Published: 23 hrs ago | 411 | by Terence Msuku
Matemadanda rallies the country against corona virus
Honourable Victor Matemadanda the deputy minister of Defence and the National Political Commissair of ZANU PF has called upon ZIMBABWE to put aside any political differences and rally behind the presi...Published: 24 hrs ago | 673 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Municipal police get arresting powers
HARARE municipal police were given temporary arresting powers through the SI 77 of 2020 as the fight against Covid-19 intensifies in the country with local authorities shutting down vending markets as...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:59hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Telecoms players call on Fourth Industrial Revolution
PLAYERS in the telecommunications sector have appealed to the Government to prioritise and channel more resources towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) so as to accelerate the growt...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 Taskforce targets rural folk
THE Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on the Covid-19 outbreak is set to engage village heads in the country through mobile phones to spread educational messages about the disease, a member of the ta...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Water shedding to get worse
BULAWAYO residents will soon have to endure more than four days a week without water supplies after council announced on Friday that it was considering reviewing upwards the water shedding schedule....Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Zifa transfer window closes
WORLD football governing body, Fifa is mulling extending the player-transfer window period in consideration of the disruption caused by the coronavirus epidemic.The window for leagues using th...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:29hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Fear as HIV, coronavirus collide
AS the world scales up public health and all other kinds of responses to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the fear is palpable.Stores have sold out obvious items like hand sanitisers and f...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:28hrs | 369 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
When democrats discover despotism as a cure
MOST often, in times of crisis, it seems no one remembers to secure the asylum, from which looneys - fools, nutters, ignoramuses and the downright stupid - always escape.If only they spent the...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:27hrs | 80 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:25hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Of life in the COVID-19 era
A little over a week ago England wicketkeeper Jos Butler nearly broke the internet when a video of the 29-year-old and wife Louise doing pilates, surfaced.The Englishman was in full Test gear ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:24hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
United we can fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and ha...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:22hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Govt lockdown impractical without economic cushioning measures
The nationwide lockdown, which is due to come into effect Monday, March 30, is a necessary step in containing the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. However, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 21:18hrs | 1775 | by Lloyd Msipa, People’s Party
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 663 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
Ramaphosa's lockdown regulations likened to apartheid era
The government has slammed critics who have likened the national lockdown to measures under apartheid rule.Addressing the media on Saturday, ministers who are part of the national command coun...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1626 | by Staf reporter
+800 new coronavirus deaths in Spain, pushing toll to 5 690
The death toll from coronavirus in Spain surged over 5 600 on Saturday after a record 832 people died in 24 hours, and the number of infections soared over 72 000, the government said.Spain ha...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:37hrs | 606 | by AFP
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2166 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2020 calls for papers
The dates for the Zimbabwe International Book Fair have been set for 27 July to 1 August 2020. The Indaba Conference will therefore take place on 27 and 28 July 2020. The ZIBF 2020 Theme is - "B...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:12hrs | 329 | by Memory Chirere
Impact of COVID 19 on Zimbabwean Economy
The outbreak of the novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to the world economy and to Zimbabwe's fragile economy too. So far the virus has infected close to 470 000 people from 200 ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 10:08hrs | 818 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe lockdown to start tomorrow midnight
Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said Zimbabwean total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 starts tomorrow at m...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1366 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5273 | by Staff reporter
Vendors vow to defy Mnangagwa's 21-day lockdown decree
SOME Zimbabweans have vowed to defy a government order for them to stay at home for a continuous 21 days insisting they depended on self-help projects which demanded their continued operating in order...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1478 | by newzimbabwe
US donates US$470,000 to combat COVID-19
THE United States yesterday pledged US$470 000 to combat COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and to complement World Health Organisation (WHO) efforts to prepare large-scale testing for coronavirus in the country....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:43hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Zifa in shut down
THE Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has asked its staff to work from home and will only be called in for emergencies as the association attempt to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:43hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's second chance to unite Zimbabwe
FOR the first time in a very long while the world has experienced no violence of war and gangsterism that had become the order of day on Mother Earth. The rattling automatic weaponry and booming of le...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:42hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah album launch postponed again!
Jah Prayzah's Hokoyo album launch has been postponed for the third time due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic that is killing thousands of people worldwide. Following the ban on public gath...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:40hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frees 5 000 criminals
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned 5 000 prisoners serving for non-violent crimes as part of measures to decongest the country's prisons whose population had ballooned to over 20 000. A...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: ZIMBABWE LOCKDOWN!
President Mnangagwa has with effect from Monday declared a total lockdown on the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 which has infected more than 500 000 people worldwide. The pandemic, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa backs Mnangagwa
MDC-ALLIANCE leader Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday praised the decision by President Mnangagwa to lockdown the country for 21 days from Monday as a measure to contain Covid-19. President Mnangagw...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:38hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF urges Zimbabweans to follow coronavirus advice
ZIMBABWEANS must take heed of all health regulations put in place by Government to contain and manage the spread of Covid-19, Zanu-PF has urged. The ruling party's National Political Commissar...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:36hrs | 94 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 testing to decentralise
Government is decentralising laboratory testing for coronavirus specimens with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo joining the National Reference Laboratory in Harare ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 161 | by ED Mnangagwa
South Africa now sub-investment grade
Rating agency Moody's has cut South Africa's sovereign credit rating to sub-investment grade, meaning the country now has a junk rating from all three major international rating agencies. The ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
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