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MARRIAGE is not a walk in the park. It's a triathlon. Running through the park, followed by biking up Mount Everest, then swimming across the Atlantic Ocean. But you agreed, "till death do us part." D...Published: 3 mins ago | 4 | by Nhlalwenhle Ncube Sithole
'Only vote for rich political candidates'
MUTARE: Businessman and aspiring Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Dangamvura/Chikanga constituency, Esau Mupfumi has urged the electorate to only vote for candidates with strong financial muscles t...Published: 8 mins ago | 16 | by Staff reporter
Council takes over private cemetery
BULAWAYO City Council is set to take over the privately-owned Umvutcha Cemetery with an estimated 45 000-grave capacity to ease a shortage of burial space.The city has been battling burial spa...Published: 5 hrs ago | 875 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces shortage of midwives
ZIMBABWE is still facing an acute shortage of midwives and the situation has escalated due to the COVID-19-induced demand for nurses globally.As the world celebrated International Day of the M...Published: 5 hrs ago | 452 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo's bail conditions relaxed
Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has relaxed bail conditions for former Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges. The magistrate agreed...Published: 5 hrs ago | 100 | by Staff reporter
17 Zimbabwean officers off to South Sudan for peacekeeping
THE Commissioner General of Police, Godwin Matanga, has called upon officers who are leaving for a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan to prioritise their duty of fostering and sustaini...Published: 5 hrs ago | 189 | by Staff reporter
Form 5 classes start on Monday
THE 2021 Form Five classes will begin on Monday next week, with learners required to pay fees proportional to the remainder of the First Term school days.A circular from the Ministry of Primar...Published: 16 hrs ago | 643 | by Staff reporter
MPs unite is ruckus call for better wages for teachers - yet none of MPs want free elections, that's a bridge too far
"Zanu-PF and MDC MPs showed rare unity on Tuesday as they combined to demand better salaries for public sector workers who have declared "incapacitation", reported Zimlive."Civil servants are ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 324 | by Nomusa Garikai
We are in far greater danger from the Zimbabwean regime than from COVID-19
I am sure most of those in my age group can still remember those weirdly strange questions we would ask each other whilst we were still primary school children - "Who would hurt you the most were they...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1126 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Today Mwonzora joined Zanu PF to destroy Constitution' - stillborn 'MDC child' we should have rejected back in 2013
"Mwonzora and his lot joined hands with Zanu-PF today to destroy the Constitution. The MDC-T has officially enabled Zanu-PF to mutilate the Constitution of Zimbabwe," said a statement from the Chamisa...Published: 06 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1170 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
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 | 1240 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Polytechnic without running water
A health time bomb is looming at the Bulawayo Polytechnic as the institution has gone for a month without running water, forcing students and staff to resort to contaminated borehole water. Th...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:23hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance official in UK poll race
AN MDC-Alliance official Mr Elliot Pfebve will today be slugging it out with six other candidates in Walsall North in Britain. Writing on his Facebook page, Mr Pfebve, who was the MDC-A repres...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:17hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe continues to endure crises of unimaginable proportions
Statement by Mr. Michael Sibangilizwe Nkomo, a Zimbabwean citizen and aspiring president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) on the transport crisis in Zimba...Published: 05 May 2021 at 18:22hrs | 445 | by Mr. Michael Sibangilizwe Nkomo
Zimbabwean gay denied asylum in SA
A REPORT released recently by several civil society organisations has found evidence that LGBT refugees are being denied asylum in South Africa despite being "eligible for protection under internation...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:04hrs | 1623 | by Staff reporter
Malian woman gives birth to 9 babies
A MALIAN woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday – two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb - joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets.The pregnancy of Halima Ci...Published: 05 May 2021 at 15:02hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
UK sanctions scuttle ambulances export to Zimbabwe
CONTRARY to Western propaganda that sanctions do not affect ordinary Zimbabweans, a United Kingdom-based businessman was barred from purchasing medical equipment at an auction because of the punitive ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | 3069 | by Staff reporter
D-Day for MDC Alliance duo
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance legislator Joanah Mamombe (Harare West) and party activist Cecilia Chimbiri will know their fate today after Harare High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi failed to make a ru...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:27hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni COVID-19 centre still closed a year on
BULAWAYO's Ekusileni Medical Centre is yet to admit COVID-19 patients a year after it was declared a coronavirus treatment centre, amid calls for strengthening of the health sector to effectively deal...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:23hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Kazungula Bridge opening to boost Sadc trade
THE official opening of the Kazungula Bridge and One-Stop Border Post facilities next week Monday is expected to enhance Southern Africa's access to international markets through connectivity with maj...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:15hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Medical practitioners trained outside Zimbabwe told to register
Medical and dental practitioners training outside the country have been encouraged to register for training in Zimbabwe for them to familiarise with the local system before they can practise. ...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:13hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Health facilities upgrade accelerated
Upgrading health and sanitation in Zimbabwe is being accelerated with the latest three developments being an agreement to install solar energy systems at 640 health facilities, create public-private p...Published: 05 May 2021 at 07:10hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Bill Gates divorces Melinda
Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.In i...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 4238 | by AP
Minister flouts COVID-19 safety regulations
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza has come under fire for allegedly flouting COVID-19 safety regulations following a meeting she held last week with an Indian delegation.Pictures of ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Commuters bear brunt of Zupco's shambolic transport system
IT'S 5:10pm and Harare's Market Square bus terminus is teeming with commuters desperate to get home before dark, but there are no Zupco buses.Two young men exchange blows as they both wrestle ...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Government starts issuing birth certificates for children born during lockdown
GOVERNMENT has started issuing birth certificates to children who were born during the Covid-19-induced lockdown and had not been captured in the national registry following the suspension of the serv...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:21hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Cold spell expected to continue in some areas
THE cold spell that was experienced during the past few days was caused by rainfall patterns in Botswana which came through Matabeleland and spread to different parts of the country. Temperatu...Published: 04 May 2021 at 06:18hrs | 561 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa deserves 2023 re-election'
INFORMATION minister, Monica Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa deserved to be reelected the country's leader in the 2023 for what she said was the incumbent's wise leadership in taming what...Published: 03 May 2021 at 17:19hrs | 1928 | by Staff reporter
Gugulethu Moyo is accuses Jewish museum of racism and sexism
Zimbabwean lawyer Gugulethu Moyo has abruptly resigned from her job as executive director of the Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States, citing racism ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 07:33hrs | 2214 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC wants medical professionals to take lead in vaccination programmes
THE MDC Alliance has called on government to ensure that medical professionals take the lead in making decisions during the COVID-19 vaccination programme.In a statement yesterday, Simbiso Ran...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:20hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Cult family shuns hospitals
DEATH in a family is heart-numbing and if there is anything that can be done to prevent it the majority will choose to do that. However, this is not the case for an Apostolic sect family in Gwambe in ...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reports five more Covid deaths
THE country has reported five more Covid-19 related deaths and 62 new cases on Tuesday bringing the total number of cases to 38 164. The vaccination programme is continuing countrywide with 43...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:12hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Chebundo in the eye of a storm as Corruption and Abuse of power exposed
The 2023 campaign begins for Blessing Chebundo with his campaign manager Trythings Mutyandasvika who is a manager at Rainbow Towers. Using his influence at work Trythings Mutyandasvika who bribe...Published: 02 May 2021 at 15:18hrs | 3510 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Why MDC-A must not change its name for by-elections
As embattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa dithers on whether or when to cause the compromised Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to discharge its constitutional obligation to call for the holding of ...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1463 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Scramble for Hwange
COAL dust fouls the air in Hwange, a mining town in the Matabeleland North region of Zimbabwe, about an hour's drive southeast of Victoria Falls.Black smoke and a throat-closing odour saturate...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:26hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
UBH Covid-19 admissions up
THE United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) has in the last six weeks recorded an increase in Covid-19 admissions, an official has said.Patients with Covid-19 who go to UBH are treated at the renovated...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:21hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Workers must be treated fairly, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, under siege from a restive government workforce constantly demanding increased and US dollar wages, has made a surprise appeal to Zimbabwean employers to treat their work...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:20hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede the man
THE setting is Highlanders Sports Club, popularly known as Clubhouse, a perfect venue for the interview with Ndumiso Gumede since it is one of the properties acquired by Bosso under his chairmanship i...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:17hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Mobile network operators to set up more tower sites
THE Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has said mobile network operators are engaging local authorities to acquire land in order to set up 13 telecommunication towe...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:16hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Private sector raises over $230 million to procure Covid-19 vaccines
THE private sector has raised over $230 million to procure Covid-19 vaccines to complement and expedite Government's national vaccination programme, which has an ambitious target of achieving herd imm...Published: 02 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 209 | by Staff Reporter
Workers have kept us going, says Mnangagwa
THE nascent economic rebound being witnessed in Zimbabwe, characterised by increasing industrial capacity utilisation and a stable macro-economic environment, is a product of the country's dedicated a...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:55hrs | 288 | by Staff Reporter
Why Lobola Should not be Refundable - Love must never be refunded nor measured in monetary terms
The case of Lobola has generated a lot of interest amongst many Zimbabweans and many traditional leaders. The people of Zimbabwe put the proceedings in the public domain which they review the lawfulne...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 488 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza and Denford Madekufamba
'No reason to celebrate Workers Day'
WORKER representative body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) yesterday said workers have no reason to commemorate this year's Workers Day because of the deteriorating economic situation in ...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:46hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
3 Thornhill High pupils test positive for Covid
THREE pupils at Thornhill High School in Gweru have tested Covid-19 positive.The outbreak follows another one at Anderson High School early this year.The latest three cases are asympto...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 18:43hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Mangwiro defends Zimbabwe vaccines choice
ZIMBABWE'S choice of COVID-19 vaccines was guided by several factors, with storage conditions being the most critical, a government official has said.Speaking at the launch of the private sect...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:39hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo's trial date set
Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has set May 26 as the trial date for former Health and Child Care Minister Obadiah Moyo. Through his lawyer, the ex-Cabinet minister had applied fo...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:34hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe private sector vaccination takes off
While Zimbabwe has so far avoided a third wave of high levels of Covid-19 infection, public health experts stress that everyone has to stick to all the prevention measures since complacency can allow ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:32hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Council chairperson grilled over poor market place
Mvurwi Town Council chairperson Shereni Mazhambe was this afternoon grilled by residents over a temporal market place allocated to vendors which does not have a toilet.Speaking at a meeting ch...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 17:25hrs | 633 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Mvurwi
'You (VP) work at the mercy of the President' MDC reminded Mnangagwa - that's hen shtick to the eagle
MDC leaders are corrupt, incompetent and sell-outs and, like all cowards, they love being portrayed as courageous fighters. They loved the News Day headline "Mwonzora's senators reject Mnangagwa Bill"...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:20hrs | 2102 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chiwenga says prevention is better than cure
HEALTH minister Constantino Chiwenga yesterday urged citizens to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, warning that people could only ignore the programme at their own peril.Addressing guest...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1037 | by Staff writer
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