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Social distancing fails as queues grow
MEMBERS of the public are abusing the eased lockdown regulations as they are not taking heed of calls for social distancing, putting themselves and other people at risk of Covid-19 infections. It was ...Published: 23 May 2020 at 08:33hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Cimas announces cover for COVID-19 positive members
Cimas Medical Aid Society has announced that it will provide any of its members who test positive for COVID-19 with medical aid cover for subsequent treatment and clearance tests at the end of their t...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:45hrs | 655 | by Agencies
Ziyambi taunts MDC 'abductees'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has taunted the three MDC Alliance abductees of being "very happy to be at the hospital" where they are recuperating at a private hospital in Harare after being tortur...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill awaits Parly debate
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill was gazetted last week and now proceeds to Parliament for debate and possible amendment before being passed into law. The Bill seeks to set out the ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 07:11hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Corruption-accused NetOne CEO Muchenje, 7 other managers freed on bail
Corruption-accused NetOne CEO Lazarus Muchenje and seven other senior managers were released on bail Monday following their arrest by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission last Friday.Harare...Published: 18 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 799 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Komichi seek VIP protection
MDC senior leaders Douglas Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi have also asked for police protection amid rising threats from rivals in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling which ordered for an extraordinary ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 12:16hrs | 5254 | by Staff reporter
Why NRZ electric trains disappeared
WHEN the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) launched the electric train more than two decades ago, the long dreary journey between Harare and Dabuka, south of Gweru, became an enjoyable one.A...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Police probe MDC activists' case
Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe and two other MDC-Alliance activists, who reportedly went missing on Wednesday after a flash demonstration in Warren Park, Harare were on Thursday night found in B...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: Government speaks on 3 abduted MDC officials
Government has noted with concern reports of the alleged abductions of three citizens namely the legislator for Harare West (MDC-T) Joana Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova on 13 May 2020....Published: 15 May 2020 at 16:13hrs | 6185 | by Nick Mangwana
South Africa arrests foreign security guards
The Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority of South Africa recently reported that it made a surprise arrest of about 13 people at Randburg after a surprise visit at Spar, a car dealership and ...Published: 14 May 2020 at 11:54hrs | 7773 | by Mandla Ndlovu
High Court stops repossession of Kasukuwere farm
THE High Court last week quashed government's decision to seize former Local Government minister and Zanu-PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere's Mazowe Farm.But despite the court order, ...Published: 12 May 2020 at 07:57hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid Zimra deport
DARING armed robbers raided a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) container depot in Bulawayo and went away with a consignment of 148 boxes of Broncleer, a cough mixture which was banned over abuse as ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 4026 | by Staff reporter
'Workers in Zimbabwe are mourning'
"My prospects are useless, the leadership of the country should change because they have failed us as a country, in terms of employment it's their duty to create employment but they have failed. ...Published: 02 May 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1751 | by Daniel Itai
Johanne Masowe leader pleads with Mnangagwa
LEADER of Johanne Masowe eChishanu, Andby Makururu, yesterday pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow church leaders to meet and pray in their respective churches in a bid to find spiritual...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 5120 | by Staff reporter
A fading hope for Zimbabweans living in South Africa
South Africa went into a lockdown four weeks ago in order to flatten the global pandemic Covid19 -Coronavirus curve and the lockdown has positively exposed some of the hardships faced by foreigners wh...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 10:46hrs | 2474 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwean UK nurses top the covid-19 death statistics
Zimbabwe counts for over 30% of the total number of health workers who have died in the U.K. The minister of Health in the U.K. has said over a hundred health workers have died in the fron...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 09:22hrs | 6652 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Fading hose for Zimbabweans living in South Africa
SOUTH Africa went into a lockdown four weeks ago in order to flatten the global COVID-19 curve and the lockdown has positively exposed some of the hardships faced by foreigners who are employed in the...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1292 | by Leonard Koni
Constitutional ramifications of Khupe-Chamisa judgement
What implications arise from the Supreme Court judgment on Thokozani Khupe's or Nelson Chamisa's presidential legitimacy in the MDC-T? Essentially, we must maintain and strengthen the concept of socia...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:31hrs | 2761 | by Sharon Hofisi
Outcry as Covid-19 critical protective suits are given to security guards
TESTING of Covid-19 at the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo might grind to a halt as it has emerged that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that worker...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:08hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
7 detectives put on self-isolation
SEVEN police detectives have been put on self-isolation after they came into contact with an accused person believed to be infected with the deadly coronavirus. Court officials, prison guards ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2399 | by Staff reporter
Critical service firms resume operations
CRITICAL manufacturing companies in Bulawayo have resumed operations following the announcement that they are exempt from the extended national lockdown. In his national address on Sunday, Pre...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa partially lifts lid on informal sector, SMEs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday extended the national lockdown by two more weeks to fight the raging coronavirus, saying it was "a very hard but unavoidable decision in circumstances which we f...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1427 | by Staff reporter
Dying alone with no family around the evils of corona virus
Narrated to Dr Masimba Mavaza My wife spent 10 days dying.She was 44 and she had worked for NHS here in England for over ten years. She adored, h...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 18:10hrs | 3942 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bulawayo under siege
STATE security agents yesterday laid siege on Bulawayo central business district (CBD), turning away thousands of commuters and motorists with "no clear-cut business in town" as authorities battled to...Published: 17 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 2278 | by Staff reporter
The illegality of the illegal Chamisa
The words of Hopwel Chingono in 2018 are true today as they were then. Hopwell wrote with all his brains in one place, when he was guarded by reason and common sense unfortunately Chingono now has pac...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 11:57hrs | 3329 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa ally's aide faces contempt of court charges
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba's aide is in soup after he forcibly harvested eight tonnes of macadamia nuts at a Chipinge farm, despite a court order interdicting him from in...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 11:14hrs | 2131 | by Staff reporter
Britain accused of adopting Mugabe economics
It is a little-known fact that even the UK government has an overdraft facility.It's called the Ways and Means Facility and it resides at the Bank of England.Ordinarily, the government...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 09:02hrs | 18999 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe prison still free from Covid-19'
ONE of the released inmates who benefited from the Presidential Amnesty has declared that prisons are still safe from coronavirus although it is not a place to stay.Tatenda Govere, 31, was sho...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 16:24hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
The plot to keep Douglas Mwonzora out of power
MDC has an engine running twenty four hours. This is the engine of scheming and plotting The party is now not stable and fear exists,power struggle manifests itself As the establishment's need t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 20:07hrs | 5682 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Thieving manager crashes after high speed 100km chase
THERE was drama in Masvingo recently when an N Richards Retail and Operations Manager was allegedly involved in a high speed chase with Fawcett security guards for more than 100 km before being involv...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:28hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
For autocratic regimes, COVID-19 is a window to consolidate power
Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?Last Friday, the Zimbabwe government published ...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 172 | by New York Times
High lockdown compliance on Day-One
THE majority of Zimbabweans yesterday complied with the Government's lockdown directive as most of them stayed at home while a few visited shopping centres to buy essential goods.President Mna...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo turns away patients
MPILO Central hospital was yesterday turning away patients as the out patients department is closed and the casualty unit is only attending to emergency cases. When a news crew arrived at the ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:54hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
ZimFirst taking Zimbabwe to the future
Zimbabwe has been groaning under the pains of corruption cronyism and relentless looting by the ZANU PF and its vampires. As Zimbabweans we hoped for a land of milk and honey managed by ourselves for ...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:47hrs | 290 | by Dr Maxwell Shumba ZimFirst President
LOCKDOWN: Zimbabwe heeds call to stay at home
Zimbabweans have largely observed Government's call to stay at home and limit movement as a measure to contain the spread of Covid-19.The usually busy and noisy Bulawayo-Harare Road section th...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 18:47hrs | 1644 | by Staff reporter
Gono pleads for arrested thieves
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono was at the Murambinda Magistrates' Courts on Thursday where he pleaded for the release of four of his workers who face prison terms for stealing pr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:28hrs | 10089 | by Staff reporter
Fleeing illegal miner jumps to his death
An illegal miner based in Mazowe drowned on Sunday after he jumped into a pit full of water while running away from security guards after tresspassing in a private gold mine.Vengai Mutanhaunga...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 21:35hrs | 1471 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Covid-19 chokes Bulawayo businesses
BULAWAYO businesses that were pinning their fortunes on the Independence Day celebrations and the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) next month are counting their losses after the major e...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:31hrs | 1763 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa divides MDC as a plot against Mwonzora thickens
MDC has generated into a monstrous party led by vampires who are killers and ruthless in their ways. Biti is flashing his python colours towards the presidency. Biti Sikhala are both ambitious and ver...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 09:45hrs | 7134 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean boy (14) swept away at sea
A 14-year-old Zimbabwean boy was swept away at sea in South Africa after he was reportedly overwhelmed by the tides while swimming on the beach.Tawana Musimurimwa, 14, reportedly failed to con...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 06:15hrs | 884 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala trailed by security agents?
MDC vice chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, has written to the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) to register his fears about suspected security agents he says are trailing him.This comes as Sikhala ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 20:51hrs | 1344 | by Staff reporter
Blue Ribbon Foods worker up for mealie-meal theft
A BLUE RIBBON FOODS employee in Bulawayo has been fined $500 for stealing 40kg of mealie-meal from his workplace.Elvis Maroro (23) of Njube, who was employed as a packer, pleaded guilty to the...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 06:24hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
MDC splits again as Chamisa loses grip
MDC A is set to break into further fragments as the infighting becomes intense. Having enjoyed the urban support since its formation MDC is showing signs ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 13582 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'NetOne boss Muchenje allocated himself and his wife $895 000 as a holiday allowance' - report
STATE-OWNED telecommunications firm NetOne chief executive Lazarus Muchenje, whose suspension was lifted yesterday by the High Court on a technicality, is facing numerous charges, in which he is accus...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:11hrs | 4774 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Job Sikhala masters of violence
Political violence is violence perpetrated by people to achieve political goals. Non-action on the part of a government can also be characterized as a form of political violence, such as refusing to a...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 14:41hrs | 1236 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe military's cyber intrusion uncivilised
THE Zimbabwe National Army commander Edzai Chimonyo was quoted this week as saying the military would soon start snooping into private communications between citizens to guard against what he termed "...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 853 | by Faith Zaba
Armed robbers kill security guard, injure another
Three armed robbers shot and killed a security guard in Harare while his colleague was shot on the stomach during a robbery in a business premise in the Zimbabwean capital.Police said one of t...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 18:47hrs | 3207 | by Staff Reporter
Fake soldier arrested
A 44-year-old Harare man was arrested after he went to State House wearing a Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) uniform.He pretended to be a member of the defence forces saying he wanted to have a s...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 09:29hrs | 5980 | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda blasts Mukupe as ungrateful spoiled child
Some youths have become the prisoners of erratic selfish morons known for demanding loyalty and recognition but not famous for repaying it. ZANU PF through comrade Emerson Mnangagwa has empowe...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4996 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's govt zooms in for critics with Chinese help
Zimbabwe is laying the ground for a modern state underpinned by use of artificial intelligence (AI) to boost security in the cities, but critics fear President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government wants to...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:54hrs | 186 | by Dumisani Ndlela
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