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Kasukuwere blasts MDC for running down cities under their control
Former Local Government Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has refuted claims that local government authorities in Zimbabwe are failing to deliver expected goods and services because they are being sabotage...Published: 50 mins ago | 220 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo liquor traders raise US$1 050, ZW$6 930 for Thorngrove Hospital
BULAWAYO bars, leisure spots and bottle stores have so far raised ZW$6 930 and US$1 050 as their contribution to improve facilities at Thorngrove Infectious Diseases Hospital. The hospital urg...Published: 2 hrs ago | 75 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court decision on Chamisa a great blow to MDC Alliance
THE recent Supreme Court decision upholding Dr Thokozani Khupe as legal successor to the late co-founder of the Movement for Democratic Change (Tsvangirai) is a serious blow to Nelson Chamisa's appoin...Published: 2 hrs ago | 387 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mnangagwa tours suburbs, assesses lockdown
Government will continue to review its actions to contain Covid-19 after the lockdown and adjust on time where necessary, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. He acknowledged that there was an economic...Published: 2 hrs ago | 217 | by Staff reporter
Price for NOT testing, 10%+ (1.5 m), instead <1%, Zimbabweans will die from covid-19
"Test! Test! Test"! The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised all nations ever since it became clear that the corona virus was very contagious and was spreading. WHO declared covid-19 a pandemic...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1543 | by Wilbert Mukori
Cops descend on lock-down violators
POLICE have, as per their recent warning, increased the number of roadblocks in the country - stopping and sending back both motorists and passengers in Zupco buses without a good reason to be on the ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 22 hrs ago | 5075 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mnangagwa moves to diffuse tension
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa had to step in yesterday to ease rising tensions in the country over the ongoing national coronavirus lockdown - moving to allow vegetable traders to continue selling thei...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 7577 | by Staff reporter
So the capital will be in Mt Hampden after all
THE decision to locate Zimbabwe's new capital at Mount Hampden will indeed go down in history as the only decision that deserved poetic justice in memory of an episode whereby African nationalism and ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1315 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Buyanga demands 'remote' meetings with ex-lover
FLAMBOYANT businessman Frank Buyanga has demanded "remote" meetings with his former girlfriend to discuss their child's welfare, saying he fears meeting her in person will expose him to the coronaviru...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:54hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube urged to craft coronavirus stimuli
The government has been urged to roll out fiscal incentives to cushion companies reeling from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak that might cripple an already bleeding economy.Local compan...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Victims count the cost of fake hand sanitisers
CROOKED traders are bilking consumers by selling fake hand sanitisers, raising fears cheated members of the public might be exposed to the coronavirus.The global outbreak of Covid-19 has led t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Supermarkets turn away customers with high body temperature
SOME supermarkets in Bulawayo have started screening their customers for possible coronavirus infection with those whose temperatures are higher than 37 degrees celsius being denied entry.Reta...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 659 | by newzimbabwe
Coal concessions: Zesa fights back
ZESA Holdings is seeking legal recourse after Government withdrew its coal concessions in the Western Areas of Hwange District.The power utility intended to venture into mining to guarantee co...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:26hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Govt shores up mealie-meal supplies
Government has shored up mealie-meal deliveries to ensure that households have adequate supplies of the staple.Also, some hospitals, including council and privately owned clinics, will tempora...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:24hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages world leaders on coronavirus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday night held a "very important" teleconference with several African Heads of State, French President Emmanuel Macron and World Health Organisation (WHO) director-g...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:24hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Army deployed to drive delinquents off Zimbabwe streets
GOVERNMENT Saturday deployed the army to help police enforce its 21-day national lockdown which was being violated by sections of the population in parts of Harare's high-density suburbs.The l...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 486 | by newzimbabwe
No isolation, testing centre in Bulawayo
THE Beautiful Bulawayo Trust, a committee formed to spearhead the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) in the city has been given one week to set up a testing and isolation centre after it emerged yes...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:13hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's police lock down Chamisa's HQ
POLICE yesterday besieged the opposition MDC headquarters in Harare, the Morgan Tsvangirai House, and blocked officials from both the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC and those from the Nelson Chamisa-led part...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:30hrs | 4427 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police officers risk spreading COVID-19'
POLICE have been accused of aiding the spread of the deadly COVID-19 by patrolling streets without protective clothing and bundling those defaulting on the 21-day lockdown in crammed trucks where soci...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 14:28hrs | 1053 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mum over 'Italian national' turned back from OR Tambo
Zimbabwean officials were tight-lipped on Thursday after a charter aircraft originating from Harare was turned away by authorities at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa – exposing lapses...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 12:18hrs | 4321 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white farmers reject Mnangagwa's offer
A FORTNIGHT ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government a said it was offering about 800 commercial farms as compensation to farmers who had lost their land during the violent land seizures that be...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:38hrs | 3755 | by newzimbabwe
Bosso coach having sleepless nights
HIGHLANDERS coach Mark Harrison is having sleepless nights with his heart split between the safety of his family members, dotted across the coronavirus hotspots, and his players. Already, his ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:23hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Zimbabweans for lockdown determination
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday hailed Zimbabweans for complying with the regulations of the 21-day national lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, with the number of infections around the world sh...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:21hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields Stadium and National Sports Stadium ban stands
BARBOURFIELDS Stadium in Bulawayo and the National Sports Stadium in Harare remain banned from playing host to Caf-sanctioned international senior men's matches for failing to meet required minimum st...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
The year Spanish Influenza attacked Rhodesia
The Spanish Flu epidemic struck Rhodesia in early October, 1918, being introduced into the country by passengers arriving from South Africa by train. It spread quickly in all the urban centres before ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17hrs | 787 | by Jonathan Waters
CAAZ probes charter plane incident
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is investigating reports that a private charter plane from Zimbabwe was on Wednesday turned away at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Unfolding challenges of Muteswa's domestic abuse: Trials & tribulations of single women in Zimbabwe and the law of Karma!
What Chantelle Muteswa is currently going through and the amount of emotional challenges and humiliations she must cope with is just unimaginable by common sense. In her case, common sense is no longe...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 20:50hrs | 1623 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa turns instruments of repression into weapons against coronavirus
Zimbabwe's police began using water cannon on Friday to disinfect markets and bus ranks, turning instruments associated with repression into weapons against the new coronavirus.Zimbabwean poli...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 18:55hrs | 1434 | by Reuters
PHOTOS: ZRP uses Public Order Vehicles to sanitise COVID-19 hotspots
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has partnered Harare City Council in disinfecting suspected Covid-19 hotspots using Public Order Vehicles (POVs).The POVs are being used to disinfect suspect...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 18:37hrs | 2677 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys Army?
Highly placed sources in the Military Intelligence have reported that army Commanders have been given a directive to deploy its units in various provinces to assist the police in maintaining law and o...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 15:18hrs | 6690 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Buyanga seeks arrest warrant against his baby mama
Prominent businessman Mr Frank Buyanga Sadiqi has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking the court to order the Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner General Mr Godwin Matanga a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 14:25hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's movement offers solution to fighting Coronavirus
Tyson Wabantu Movement has issued a statement urging the government of the day to implement tough measures in fighting the dreaded Wuhan virus that seen positive cases rise to nine in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:28hrs | 2438 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Coronavirus cases rise to 9
The Ministry of Health has reported that Coronavirus cases have risen to nine after a Harare man tested positive. According to the Ministry, the 50-year-old man had travelled to the United Kin...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:04hrs | 2204 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wilkins reopens after refurbishment
Zimbabwe's main COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre, Wilkins Hospital, will reopen its doors to the public at the weekend following a US$500 000 upgrade initiated by the Chinese business community...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 586 | by Staff reporter
Nurses desert Wilkins
NURSES at the country's main Covid-19 isolation centre, Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital, are resigning as morale hits rock bottom in the crucial health sector, which is in the frontline of Zimbab...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Beware the Ides of March coronavirus is here
MANY pandemics and epidemics have occurred throughout the history of mankind, from biblical times to date. We have lived to tell the tale in the Aids pandemic and our cousins in the Congo and in West ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 256 | by Godfrey Mungwadzi Specialist physician
Lockdown laws draconian, excessive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's announcement of a 21-day national lockdown across Zimbabwe to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus was accompanied by a raft of laws, which are draconian, excessive a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 185 | by Dewa Mavhinga
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 237 | by Financial Mail
Zimbabwe's COVID-19 Taskforce satisfied with public compliance
The Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on Covid-19 has applauded the public's high level compliance with Government's directive to stay at home and observe social distancing as the country entered day four o...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa briefs traditional, religious leaders on Covid-19
President Mnangagwa yesterday met national executive members of the Zimbabwe Chiefs Council and representatives of religious groups to update them on Covid-19 and Government's efforts to curb the spre...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirms 9th Covid-19 case
One more person has tested positive to Covid-19, bringing to nine the total number of confirmed cases in the country, with one death. Of these nine, five are imported while four are local transmission...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police lay siege on Chamisa's HQ, as fight for assets brews
POLICE officers are laying siege at the opposition MDC's headquarters in Harare, the Morgan Tsvangirai House, blocking officials from both the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC and those from the Nelson Chamisa...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 18:45hrs | 2946 | by Staff reporter
#Covid-19, residents demand water in battle to combat deadly epidemic and avert crisis
A RESIDENTS’ representative group has hauled Chitungwiza Municipality and central government to court seeking an order compelling them to urgently act and ensure provision of water to residents at a...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:05hrs | 216 | by Stephen Jakes
Flight from Zimbabwe turned back at OR Tambo airport
An Italian national carrying a South African passport was barred from entering South Africa on Wednesday afternoon when he arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on an unauthorised private chartere...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:14hrs | 5585 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 998 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Mbira musician Nandi dies at 38
Maejury Tairima ( Nandi ) mbira musician passed on yersterday, she was succumbed to a heart problem.She was 38.She will be buried tomorrow at Westband cemetery in Norton, Harare....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1066 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Harare maid abducts 5 year old boy
Details of Zimbabwe Republic Police stationed in Marondera have reported that they have rescued a 5-year-old boy who is believed to have been kidnapped by a housemaid in Kuwadzana, Harare. Acc...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 08:54hrs | 1928 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tagwirei's Sakunda in COVID-19 clinic storm
The Seventh Day Adventist Church has denied working with Sakunda Holdings in the refurbishment of Rock Foundation Medical Centre in Mt Pleasant, Harare, which the diversified firm wants to turn into a...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1840 | by Staff reporter
Access Forex launches US$200k COVID-19 relief initiative
Access Forex, a unit of Access Finance Zimbabwe has committed an initial US$200 000 to assist the most vulnerable segments society and communities across the country who are now reeling from the negat...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
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