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Zanu-PF arsonists pose as firefighters
On June 11, 2025, my friend sent me a message I'll never forget: his wife had delivered a stillborn baby. The young couple was shattered. He said delays at the Harare hospital had cost them their chil...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:07hrs | 183 | by Reward Magadhi
Zimbabwe rolls out advanced TB detection technology in high-risk areas
Zimbabwe has launched a groundbreaking health initiative aimed at strengthening the fight against tuberculosis (TB) and related lung conditions through early detection in high-burden communities. The ...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:40hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's attempts at portraying Zimbabwe and Cuba as 'sanctions victims' is absurd as Havana succeeds where Harare fails
The Zimbabwe regime appears unable to stop ridiculing itself on the global stage.The recent visit to Zimbabwe by the President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of Sta...Published: 05 Mar 2025 at 16:29hrs | 903 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mpilo junior doctors move into new quarters
JUNIOR doctors in Bulawayo have moved into reconstructed Mpilo Central Hospital residence quarters which were destroyed by fire, a development that is expected to improve the delivery of health servic...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Counselling for SA returnees
GOVERNMENT has started equipping frontline workers, who will assist an estimated 170 000 holders of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP), with counselling and psychosocial skills which will assist in ...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans leaving SA for UK caregiver jobs
Some Zimbabweans in South Africa say they are looking to settle in the United Kingdom (UK) when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits expire in December, and they are forced to leave the country.Perc...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Biti blasts Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti has told the government to stop promising houses and cars to teachers and pay them decent United States dollar-based salaries.Teachers have been on a strike...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 2022 a year of growth
ZIMBABWE's economic trajectory will this year transition from recovery to growth on the back of a hugely prosperous 2021 in which the Government funded a number of national development projects despit...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa praises frontline workers
AS another Covid-19 plagued year comes to an end, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has paid special homage to Zimbabwe's health workers for their sterling efforts to minimise pandemic-related damage....Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 09:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants hopeful their salaries will be paid in forex
CIVIL servants are hoping that Government will accede to their request for salaries to be paid in foreign currency as the country starts a New Year saying this will improve their standards of living....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt gives guidelines on booster shots
GOVERNMENT has authorised administering of COVID-19 booster shots beginning with frontline workers, Health and Child Care ministry secretary Jasper Chimedza has said.Chimedza said frontline wo...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Enough vaccines for everyone'
President Mnangagwa yesterday said the country has enough Covid-19 jabs for everyone who wants to be vaccinated, including those who want a third dose in the wake of the new Omicron variant.Mo...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Omicron variant cases spike
THERE is panic in the country after several institutions including Parliament, courts, schools and non-governmental organisations were forced to close after an outbreak of COVID-19 cases.Zimba...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Omicron Schools to remain open
SCHOOLS will remain open until the end of the term on 17 December despite a resurgence of Covid-19 that has seen numbers of new cases rising.Some universities have, however, reportedly stopped...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Vigilance paramount as 4th wave sweeps
ALL indications are that we are faced with a fourth and possibly deadly wave of the Covid-19 with disastrous consequences for both the national economy and human life. Official statistics point to a s...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Booster jabs for elderly, front liners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday announced that Covid-19 booster shots can be given to those fully vaccinated as there are enough stocks already in the country for everyone with more coming, as a way of ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 guidelines for returning residents and visitors coming into Zimbabwe from abroad
Following the enactment of Statutory Instrument 267 of 2021: Public Health (COVID-19 Prevention Containment and Treatment) (National Lockdown) (N0.2) (Amendment) Order. the Ministry of Health and Chil...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 20:45hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
78 health workers succumb to COVID-19
AT least 23 doctors, 30 nurses and 25 other professionals in the health sector have succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic since its outbreak in the country last year, Vice-President and Health minister C...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's State of the Nation address
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa delivered a State of the Nation Address and officially opened the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday. He tackled a wide r...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Security guards get raw deal
THE Private Security Guards Union (PSWU) has bemoaned low salaries and poor conditions, and has urged Government to set up a regulatory authority for the industry. PSWU president Mr Gilbert Zh...Published: 11 Sep 2021 at 12:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Old colonial houses, flats face demolition
AS the Second Republic moves to clear a 1,2 million housing waiting list backlog, colonial structures in the country's old suburbs will be pulled down to build back better facilities that are in tande...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid-19 burials?
A group of women sing hymns at the cemetery in Harare as undertakers, dressed in Covid-19 protective gear, gently lower a white casket into the grave."This world is not our home," they sing, a...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant nurses succumb to COVID-19
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) president Enoch Dongo has appealed for pregnant nurses to be exempted from working as COVID-19 frontline workers following increased deaths of expecting nurses a...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Covid-19 a security threat'
The Covid-19 pandemic raging across the world is a security threat so all men and women in uniform must take scientific advice and get vaccinated, Commander Air Force of Zimbabwe Air Marshall Elson Mo...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt bars unvaccinated officials from events
GOVERNMENT has barred unvaccinated officials from attending next week's key national events, including Heroes and Defence Forces Day celebrations, to curb the spread of COVID-19 virus.Cabinet ...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends Covid-19 vaccination to private sector
Health experts have welcomed the move by the government to extend the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the private sector saying it would speed up the uptake of the vaccine.As part of the cond...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Govt introduces forced vaccination for civil servants
IN ORDER to curtail new Covid19 infections and deaths, Government has, with immediate effect, ordered all civil servants to be vaccinated, while unvaccinated workers have been banned from boarding bus...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PSL launches vaccination drive
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) will make an aggressive push for player vaccinations in order to entice the government to lift the ban on the game.On Friday, the Chibuku Super Cup was thrown i...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers clash over Covid-19 jabs
DEFENCE Minister Oppah Muchinguri has rubbished statements by Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa that government had introduced mandatory vaccination for all civil servants in the health sector, h...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaking own rules, protocols
ALTHOUGH President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week announced Level 4 lockdown restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19, but glaring violations of regulations by top government officials, including him...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors demand to be prioritised during vaccination
INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be a...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 could hit 50% of population'
THE COVID-19 situation in the country could worsen, with about half of the country's population of 15 million at risk of contracting the virus if there is no strict enforcement of lockdown measures, m...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors demand to be prioritised during COVID-19 vaccination exercise
INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the on-going COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be ...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 14:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Withholding COVID-19 allowances to unvaccinated workers illegal'
CIVIC society groups yesterday blasted threats by government to scrap insurance pay-outs for unvaccinated frontline workers saying these were tactics to enforce mandatory vaccination of civil servants...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No jab, no COVID-19 allowance, govt tells frontline workers
GOVERNMENT has threatened to withhold CoVID-19 insurance payouts to its frontline workers who are not vaccinated before July 14.Last year, government said it would take care of civil servants ...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: No compensation for unvaccinated health workers
Unvaccinated health workers who contract Covid-19 in the line of duty after July 14 will no longer receive special compensation which the Government has been paying those affected, while the 80 percen...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Govt sets Covid-19 vaccination deadline for frontline workers
GOVERNMENT has set July 14 as the deadline for the vaccination of frontline workers with those who would have shunned the exercise losing out on Covid-19 insurance payouts.Vaccinated frontline...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
CIO big shot behind Malunga farm grab
A TOP Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director and senior ruling Zanu-PF officials in Matabeleland North province are behind the illegal seizure of a farm belonging to a local inter...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases surge
GOVERNMENT yesterday called for more vigilance amid rising cases of COVID-19, with health experts expressing concern over government priorities after it spurned a single dose vaccine manufactured by U...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 outbreak at Bondolfi Teachers' College
THE Government has called for calm across Masvingo following a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 at Bondolfi Teachers' College where 18 students tested positive for the novel virus early this week.Th...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nust director applies genetics to farming
MOST people know him as the director of the National University of Science and Technology's (Nust) Applied Genetics Testing Centre involved in DNA testing.Mr Zephaniah Dhlamini was among the f...Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Put Zimbabwe first to help re-engagement efforts
IT is the role of the media to put Zimbabwe first when reporting to complement Government's re-engagement efforts meant to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The media when disseminating...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets top ranking for managing COVID-19 vaccination
ZIMBABWE has been ranked the 7th best African country in managing COVID-19 vaccination, beating its neighbour South Africa which came a distant 31 on the rankings ladder.According to the World...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'let's get the jab to return to normalcy'
ZIMBABWEANS should receive the Covid-19 vaccines as that is one of the best and safest measures to protect the nation from the deadly pandemic and enable return to normalcy, President Mnangagwa said a...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'3rd wave already in Zimbabwe'
HEALTH experts yesterday warned that the third wave of COVID-19 had already hit the country as evidenced by the surge in new infections in the past few weeks, a situation which poses a huge challenge ...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rolls out COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) in collaboration with the Health and Child Care ministry has launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign in an effort to increase uptake of the inoculation programme.T...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NUST launches Covid-19 vaccination program
THE National university of Science and Technology launched its Covid-19 vaccination program for staff members and students today with the University`s vice Chancellor Professor Mqhele Dlodlo being the...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt increases Covid-19 vaccination sites
THE Government has introduced more Covid-19 vaccination sites across the country as part of efforts to decentralise the process and decongest existing service points. Wilkins Hospital, which h...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:49hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Low turnout for vaccination in Matebeleland South
FRONTLINE workers in Matabeleland South province are reluctant to take the Covid-19 vaccine as the first phase saw less than half of the targeted workers taking their first jab.The province ma...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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