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We are killing humanity with imported vaccine: Moussa Zeguen
The International Coalition Against Corona Virus for Africa (ICAC) Togo based ICAC President Toure Moussa Zeguen has warned that the actions taken by African governments in trying to mitigate th...Published: 2 mins ago | | by Stephen Jakes
Mthwakazi Nation's Address - MLF
Revolutionary greetings to you all, in all corners of earth. I hope you are doing well and are safe from the coronavirus.Fellow Mthwakazi citizens, this has been one challenging quarter of the...Published: 4 mins ago | 3 | by MLF
Millers mull roller meal price hike
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has announced plans to increase the price of subsidised roller-meal to between US$2,50 and US$3 to cushion millers from infla...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1615 | by Staff reporter
July 31 anti-Mnangagwa protests: Churches step in
LEADERS of Christian denominations under the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) have said they will today meet the country's main political leaders to enable them to find common ground in a move meant...Published: 7 hrs ago | 7760 | by Staff reporter
Don't trust Zanu-PF, says Madhuku
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has warned fellow opposition leaders against entrusting the ruling Zanu-PF with the role of promoting constitutionalism.Madhuku, ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 5934 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa in control over financial sector'
The Government will win the economic war with President Mnangagwa determined to overcome economic challenges arising in the nation, Zanu-PF secretary for science and technology Ambassador Christopher ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 4031 | by Staff reporter
Gold stamp mill invades school grounds
VILLAGERS in PFungwe are up in arms with a gold mine that set up its milling plant at Dindi Mission School grounds.More than 300 villagers have since petitioned the relevant authorities, sayin...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Teachers to resume work on July 28
All teachers should report for duty on July 28, the date set for the return of examination classes in the phased reopening of schools, and should make arrangements to be at their stations to either te...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1292 | by Staff reporter
Hospital chief executives fired
Chief executives of five major Government hospitals have been "relieved of their duties" by the Health Services Board as part of what is described as a "restructuring exercise" within the Ministry of ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1315 | by Staff reporter
BCC hands over donated COVID-19 materials to traders
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has handed over materials to fight COVID-19 on behalf of Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA).Th...Published: 7 hrs ago | 202 | by Stephen Jakes
Knives out for Murwira
DOCTORS have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace acting Health minister Amon Murwira whom they accuse of being arrogant.Murwira was appointed to stand in for the then Health minis...Published: 19 hrs ago | 6173 | by Staff reporter
South Africa bans alcohol 'immediately'
South Africa will not be moving back to Alert Level 4 or 5, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday night - but a curfew will be imposed, alcohol sales will be banned, and new mask rules will be...Published: 19 hrs ago | 8966 | by Business Insider SA
Zanu-PF SA dismisses July 31 planned demo
ZANU-PF South Africa has dismissed the planned July 31 demonstrations by the opposition as mere attention-seeking manoeuvres meant to cause alarm and despondency.The ruling party's SA district...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3981 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2800 | by City Press
Thousands return to Zimbabwe as COVID-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the COVID-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3020 | by Staff reporter
Killer Zivhu under fire for denouncing July 31 protest
Expelled Zanu Pf Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu has become under fire from Twitter users after he denounced the looming July 31 demonstration against...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4846 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'We will deal with you,' Mnangagwa threatens
IN AN ominous warning, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government will deal ruthlessly with opposition parties, civil society organisations and foreign missions that are allegedly bent on destab...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 10314 | by Staff reporter
Khupe distances her party from 31 July protests
ACTING MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has distanced her party from the July 31 anti-corruption protests being mooted by other opposition parties which she has described as untimely given the ongoing Cov...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:18hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Biti roasts 'cruel' Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance vice president and ex-finance minister Tendai Biti says government's controversial closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has vindicated critics' claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 4339 | by newzimbabwe
Panicky Mnangagwa spoils security forces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pampering security forces to forestall an uprising amid growing discontent over the deteriorating economic situation in the country, analysts have said.Mnangagw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:12hrs | 8378 | by Staff reporter
Khupe gets Chamisa's millions from govt purse
The government on Friday gave MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe $7,4 million, insisting that she is the legitimate leader of the main opposition in Parliament despite ongoing court disputes about her statu...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 5345 | by Staff reporter
Harare's major hospitals record Covid-19 cases
TWO of Harare's major hospitals have recorded Covid-19 cases among their staff as the country's caseload rises sharply amid an increase in the number of deaths.As of Friday, Zimbabwe had recor...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses cry foul over allowances
Health workers, that include nurses, who have been on strike for the past three weeks were not paid allowances given to all civil servants amid allegationsgovernment is trying to arm-twist them to...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri must explain wealth, PG insists
Former police boss Augustine Chihuri must not be allowed to use his feud with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to evade justice, prosecutor-general (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has argued.Hodzi was respond...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 902 | by Staff reporter
North Korean 'forced labour' in Zimbabwe, claims US
THE United States says some North Koreans may have been forced to work in Zimbabwe by their government amid concerns of human trafficking in the country.According to the 2020 Trafficking in Pe...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:04hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 3842 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Demystifying Zimbabwe's Cyber Bill
This past week I was among those that were observing the Zimbabwean parliamentary publichearings on the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, gazetted on May 15 2020. These public hearings ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:54hrs | 161 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Zimbabwe's new cyber law to target online government and military critics
ZIMBABWE could sanction the search for government critics online, thanks to a planned cyber-security law earmarked to make it an offence to spread falsehoods and deal with leakage of official informat...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:53hrs | 248 | by Dumisani Ndlela
Zimbabwe's reserve money falls to $11,26 billion
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says introduction of the foreign currency market auction system saw reserve money falling by 11% to $11,26 billion as at July 3.Zimbabwe conducted its first ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:50hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold mines lure investor despite economic ruin
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold mines are being snapped up by Mauritius-based Sotic International Ltd as the price of bullion soars to the highest in more than eight years.Landela Mining Ventures Ltd,...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:42hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Only 8 metres of Gwayi-Shangani dam wall has been constructed so far
TREASURY has released a further $200 million for the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North with eight metres of the dam wall having been constructed so far.Located in Hw...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa against 'catch and release syndrome'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the justice system to step up the fight against corruption and put an end to the "catch and release syndrome", while the arrest of "small and big fish" shou...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 878 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister stranded in Australia
THE Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi, who has been stuck in Australia due to the Covid-19-induced international travel restriction, is eager to return home to resume his duties as a ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Transport situation to normalise
THE transport situation in Bulawayo is set to normalise from today after Zupco received 120 000 litres of fuel yesterday.Thousands of commuters had to walk to and from work on Friday and yeste...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Millers table US$ price for subsidised mealie-meal
GRAIN millers have tabled a proposal to increase the price of subsidised roller meal from $70 to between US$2,50 and US$3,50 per 10 kilogramme to cushion themselves from operational challenges....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not brook anarchy'
The ruling party will not stand idle as opposition activists promote anarchy but will respond appropriately to any threats to the country's peace, ZANU-PF acting spokesman Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 470 | by Bishop Lazarus
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 410 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1061 | by Staff Reporter
The Chinamasa versus Matematanda race of ZanuPF Political Violence and Intolerance: Deplorable.
Zimbabweans are stunned by the venomous threats of violence vomited through the press by the two high ranking ZanuPF leaders Chinamasa and Matematanda against organisers of a yet to happen demonstrati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1182 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
'Protests are to overthrow constitutionally elected government' - rubbish, didn't even have verified voters' roll
"We have noted social media platforms to plan and organise violent protests and overthrow a constitutionally elected government," said Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa following the Zanu ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:48hrs | 593 | by Nomusa Garikai
Vendors face challenges in accessing cushion funds
Bulawayo Vendors say they are facing challenges in accessing Covid-19 bailout funds promised by the government.Some of the vendors received NetOne sim cards meant for them to receive cushionin...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 196 | by Stephen Jakes
ZiNA seeks army, police, judiciary protection during July 31 protests
The new pressure group called Zimbabwe National Anthem has petitioned the state institutions which include the army, the police and the judiciary to protect citizens from the power-hungry political le...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1189 | by Stephen Jakes
NO to screening and testing of foreign initiated vaccines in Africa: ICAC
African countries have been challenged to reject any foreign initiated Coronavirus vaccines which the first world are deploying to the poor nations for te...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 20:28hrs | 1846 | by Stephen Jakes
Kariba tension-gripped as government departments dither tactlessly
Kariba is a tense town this week for both tourists and local stakeholders, with emotions boiling over in some instances. Government departments' inept handling of important issues is at the core of th...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 4725 | by Laiton Kandawire Patsaka-Nyaminyami Community Radio Environment and Tourism Correspondent
Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10404 | by Bloomberg
BCC insists on sewage contaminated Khami water
THE city council here has remained defiant on its push to have Khami Dam as one of its suppliers of water.This comes as the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has for some time now been entangled in ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 759 | by Staff reporter
Protest at your own risk, says Zanu-PF
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday said it would deal harshly with the planned protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on July 31, evoking memories of killings by the army of civili...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:14hrs | 9186 | by Staff reporter
Justice Mangota in maintenance row
THE estranged wife of High Court judge David Mangota has approached the courts seeking a variation of her $500 monthly maintenance fees which she is receiving from the judge, saying it was not suffici...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2763 | by Staff reporter
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