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Gono says Zimbabwe is in a crisis
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says there is no need to deny that the country is in a crisis as the problems were self-evident.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1493 | by Staff reporter
Teachers declare incapacitation ahead of schools reopening
THE opening of schools for examination classes after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been dealt a blow after teachers declared incapacitation.Government announced Grade Seven, Ord...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2138 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'crisis only exists in minds of opposition'
President Mnangagwa has shot down claims of a crisis in the country, thanking Zimbabweans for remaining resolute in defiance of machinations by opposition elements bent on fomenting political instabil...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Family spends 5 days with corpse
A Mwenezi family spent five days with a decomposing corpse of their daughter-in-law, who died last Friday in their home after her family demanded payment of lobola before burial.Tendai Gwehama...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | 2568 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bodies repatriation crisis
Zimbabweans dying in South Africa have been caught up in an industrial dispute that has already stopped the repatriation of Zimbabwean bodies.An average of 70 bodies are sent home by road each...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 22:08hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora equates Chamisa to Mugabe
MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says the level of intolerance being displayed by Nelson Chamisa was not only shocking but totally repugnant of modern dictates of common decency in leadership....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 5382 | by Staff reporter
The mystic African kitchen hut
If it's not a grass thatched brick and mortar hut, it's not the traditional African kitchen. The African woman is incomplete without a round kitchen hut. Times gone, the floors would have a co...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1484 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
MDC councillor manhandled at funeral wake
KWEKWE's Ward 2 Councillor Future Titora was on Tuesday manhandled by rowdy youths belonging to the MDC-Alliance for allegedly dumping the party to join the Dr Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T. Clr T...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
War veterans demand honorary degrees and tax exemptions
Veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war have made fresh demands including honorary degrees, diplomatic passports and automatic promotions in state institutions.Douglas Mahiya, the secret...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 11:16hrs | 2518 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post, the epicentre of graft
Beitbridge border post ranks first as the busiest inland port of entry in the rest of Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Second busiest inland post of entry after Egypt's Taba. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1313 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe scores successes with high Covid-19 recovery rate
Zimbabwe is among African countries that have managed to minimise the impact of Covid-19 and should continue to come up with strategies to ensure that the rate of infection declines, while enforcing t...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, a year on
Angry and defeated! This is exactly how I feel one year since Robert Mugabe passed on. Angry because the country he left in a mess has gone completely bad and inhabitable in many respe...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 20:04hrs | 892 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Villagers receive free tests at a funeral
Chiweshe villagers today received free High Blood pressure, Sugar diabetes tests and personal protective equipment from Natbake during the funeral of Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 12:18hrs | 2184 | by Simbarashe Sithole/Tarisai Mudahondo
Mzembi confirms Chamisa poison fears
EXILED former cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has confirmed MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa had strong fears of being poisoned at the time the opposition leader served as minister during the now-...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:35hrs | 4734 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn political parties
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned individuals, including politicians, who are claiming that MDC councillor for Hurungwe Ward 4 Lavender Chiwaya was abducted and killed by State agents sayi...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:44hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
When death visited the village
We were there, they were there, a very sad occurance in the village. One of our own, Agrippa Chinehasha had passed on and it was time for last rites and bidding him farewell. Who is safe, it's the ord...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 18:11hrs | 904 | by Tondo
Wellington Toni to be laid to rest tomorrow
FORMER Sunday News sports editor, Wellington Toni, who died in Harare at the age of 44 will be laid to rest tomorrow at his rural home at Embakwe in Mangwe District, Matabeleland South Province....Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 16:01hrs | 1880 | by Staff reporter
Sports journo Wellington Toni dies
THE local media fraternity woke up to some depressing news following the death of former Chronicle Deputy Sports Editor, Wellington Toni.Toni died in Harare on Thursday night at the age of 44....Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 19:31hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa must find each other
THAT Zimbabwe's socio-economic and political environment continues to worsen is undeniable. The question is how can Zimbabwe salvage herself from the abyss and forestall her implosion?The stan...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1399 | by Tawanda Zinyama
7 Zanu-PF bigwigs fall sick
SEVEN Zanu-PF politburo members yesterday failed to attend its meeting at the ruling party headquarters in Harare as they are not feeling well.In his opening remarks at the meeting, President ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:17hrs | 17324 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat enters South African funeral insurance market
The Zimnat Group has extended its insurance arm into South Africa to enable Zimbabweans living there to take out insurance cover for funeral expenses, including the cost of bringing their bodies back ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 14:07hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Prof Zvobgo dies
ACADEMIC, author and former associate professor of history at the University of Zimbabwe, Professor Chengetai Jonas Mudadirwa Zvobgo, has died. Prof Zvobgo died at St Giles Medical Rehabilitat...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1940 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: South Africa's new lockdown regulations
Curfew and mask mandateMovement of persons – Every person is confined to his or her place of residence from 22:00 until 04:00 daily, except where a person has been granted a permit, which co...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 12:48hrs | 4405 | by Presidency
Open letter to Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Senator Monica Mutsvangwa The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Archbishop Robert C Ndlovu Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Commission ...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 3684 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda - ADGN President
Thokozani Khuphe - kambe uthembeni mtaka mama?
I am breaching my own covenant I made never to critique Thokozani Khuphe in the public taking into consideration the trauma she had to endure at the funeral of Richard Morgen Tsvangirai funeral in Bhu...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:28hrs | 5538 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF declares 'Green Bomber' a liberation hero
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has made surprise conferment of liberation hero status on a perennial rabble-rouser within its ranks in Mashonaland West province.On Friday, Zanu-PF declared the late ...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 17:03hrs | 3229 | by newzimbabwe
MDC official succumbs to injuries
MDC-T Gutu Central District Assembly Chairperson, Crispa Musoni died last week following an assault by MDC-Alliance President, Nelson Chamisa's aides.Musona (78), who succumbed to the 2018 inj...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 3943 | by Tafanana Kwedu
Dead bodies pile up at parlors
FUNERAL service providers and hospital mortuaries are struggling to clear bodies for burial owing to challenges in handling those that would have succumbed to Covid-19, coupled with a surge in deaths ...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:04hrs | 4413 | by Staff reporter
Man found dead along highway
A MAN from Nkayi in Matabeleland North was on Monday found lying dead along the Victoria Falls-Bulawayo road in Nyamandlovu, shortly after he was discharged from Mpilo Central Hospital where he was ad...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 2328 | by Staff reporter
'Unboiled borehole water not suitable for drinking'
Bulawayo residents should not drink borehole water without boiling it as it is susceptible to contamination from burst sewers and soil bacteria. Most Bulawayo residents now depend on borehole ...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:45hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Magufuli bans Tanzania's media outlets from broadcasting foreign content
Tanzanian government has officially banned all local media outlets from broadcasting foreign content without government permission.As crackdown on free press and dissident voices intensifies i...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 20:46hrs | 7445 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat launches SMEs LifeAID group life cover
Zimnat Life Assurance has launched a new group life insurance cover for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to enable them to provide life insurance for their employees. The new product, which ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:20hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 264 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Govt 'stuck' with council graft report
GOVERNMENT is yet to release findings of a commission appointed to probe Marondera Municipality following allegations of massive corruption and abuse of office by councillors and management.Ea...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:53hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa calls for local community leadership in stemming the spread of COVID-19
African Union (AU) Special Envoy for COVID-19 and businessman Strive Masiyiwa has called on community leaders - including chiefs, religious leaders, councillors and members of Parliament - to lead in ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 16:23hrs | 702 | 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: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 760 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Those He wants to destroy, God first makes them mad
Some of our people what has gotten into them, playing hide and seek with self then crying 'wolf'? Galivanting the world over groveling for the tightening of the noose on the neck of the motherland the...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 1022 | by Tondo
Since when did funerals become hard hat areas?
People may have their differences, beliefs and preferences but chasing someone from a funeral is against African tenets, traditions and the much cherished Ubuntu. The good book teaches us to mourn wit...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:06hrs | 964 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Border-lying communities get tough on returnees
RURAL communities in Matabeleland provinces have taken it upon themselves to curb the increase in imported COVID-19 cases by apprehending returnees from South Africa and Botswana sneaking into the cou...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 804 | 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 | 650 | 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 | 145 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Repatriated body triggers COVID-19 scare in Chivhu
HEALTH workers in Chivhu have called on government to prioritise community education on COVID-19 after a family held a normal two-day funeral wake for a dead relative whose remains were repatriated fr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 2027 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 804 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Elderly barred from funerals
COMMUNITY leaders in Matobo have banned pregnant women and the elderly from attending funerals while consumption of food at such events is also no longer permitted as part of strategies adopted to pre...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reveals what killed Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Mnangagwa told mourners who were gathered at Shiri's house that, "Now that...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:38hrs | 9522 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shiri was poisoned, says his family
THE family of the late Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri said it suspected that he could have succumbed to food poisoning, not COVID-19.Shiri died yesterday morning while being taken to a Ch...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:08hrs | 8198 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 disaster looming in Zimbabwe
The opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said the regime had failed to manage the pandemic, warning of more COVID-19 deaths that a disaster was looming if the situation did not improve."We are co...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 1238 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi in Tanzania for Mkapa funeral
VICE President Kembo Mohadi left the country this morning to attend the funeral of former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa who died on Thursday at Dar es Salaam Hospital where he had been admitted f...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 2135 | by Staff reporter
Man uses hearse to smuggle explosives
A 30-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man has been arrested by South African police at Beitbridge Border Post while trying to smuggle explosives worth more than R700 000 into the neighbouring country in a hearse. ...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
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