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PWDs demand inclusion of disability bodies in the Covid-19 taskforce.
PERSONS With Disability (PWDs) have demanded inclusion of disabilities bodies in the COVID -19 taskforce sighting that there is need of someone who understands their needs better.Association o...Published: 42 mins ago | 19 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa attacks Mwonzora for abusing powers he does not have
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described his erstwhile colleague, Douglas Mwonzora as a loose cannon misinterpreting a recent Supreme Court ruling through abuse of authority he did not have....Published: 2 hrs ago | 845 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP demands to be sent us to foreign hospitals
A Zanu-PF MP has demanded a special dispensation for legislators to be treated outside the country saying some of them are sick and failing to get adequate treatment in Zimbabwe. Murewa West M...Published: 2 hrs ago | 310 | by Staff reporter
The mafia was at work in the Nuanetsi Ranch
THE acquisition of Nuanetsi Ranch and its subsequent use as a base for the founding of the Development trust of Zimbabwe (DtZ) has an interesting historical link with the nationalist struggle for inde...Published: 2 hrs ago | 101 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Councillor urges fine for pregnant women over delays
A BULAWAYO city councillor wants pregnant women, who delay booking for delivering at the local authority's maternity clinics to be fined.According to the latest council minutes, director of he...Published: 2 hrs ago | 76 | by Staff reporter
Universities reopen under strict guidelines
SOME of the country's institutions of higher learning will start opening doors for students in their final semesters tomorrow, while the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulaway...Published: 2 hrs ago | 240 | by Staff reporter
War vets urged to focus on unity
LIBERATION war hero, Boniface Mlungisi Mabhena (63), who died on Thursday last week due to ill health was yesterday buried at the Bulawayo Provincial Heroes' Acre in Nkulumane, amid calls for war vete...Published: 2 hrs ago | 70 | by Staff reporter
Salary hike for civil servants
GOVERNMENT and civil servants' representatives are scheduled to meet this week to negotiate fresh salary adjustments and improved working conditions, amid eroding disposable income.The new fig...Published: 2 hrs ago | 290 | by Staff reporter
Strengthening transparency, during Covid-19 response
JUST like all countries across the globe, Zimbabwe was caught off-guard by the coronavirus pandemic.The country has had to divert huge amounts of scarce public resources originally meant for o...Published: 2 hrs ago | 37 | by Comm John Makamure
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases shoot to 279
CONFIRMED cases of Covid-19 Saturday rose to 279 after 14 more Zimbabweans returning from South Africa tested positive.The Ministry of Health said the 14 patients were all in isolation....Published: 2 hrs ago | 153 | by Staff reporter
Uncle rapes minor (14) with mental health problems
A 28 year old Mutoko uncle who raped a 14 year old mentally ill niece was dragged to court last month.Accused Pension Usayi appeared before Mutoko magistrate Jairosi Mutseyegwa who remanded hi...Published: 4 hrs ago | 541 | by Naume MuzaI
The dangers of face masks
The Zimbabwean government and indeed many governments have made it mandatory to wear a face mask in public as a health intervention to control the spread of coronavirus. It has not been explained full...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1727 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Do Black lives really matter or we are just opportunists?
Racism has been a hotly debated subject of late, particularly in the light of the profoundly unsettling brutalization and ensuing death of George Floyd, an African American, at the hands of a law serv...Published: 5 hrs ago | 332 | by Gift Tawanda, M
Zanu-PF politicizing security forces to attack the opposition party
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has stooped to a new low, as security forces were sent descending on the MDC-A headquarters on Thursday night to help Thokozani Khupe's, M...Published: 16 hrs ago | 630 | by Prince Njagu
Chiwenga hints on displacement of 2 500 Chilonga villagers
Vice-President Constantine Chiwenga on Wednesday told Chiredzi villagers that changes on their current settlement would be made after the COVID-19 crisis in a clear sign that government was determined...Published: 16 hrs ago | 2559 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi still to receive suspension letter
EMBATTLED former Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi is yet to receive his suspension papers, thereby slowing his disciplinary hearing.The outspoken Goromonzi West lawmaker was fired las...Published: 16 hrs ago | 839 | by Staff reporter
Military coup at MDC Alliance HQ
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance vice-presidents, Tendai Biti and Lynnette Karenyi-Kore were arrested yesterday after trying to gain access to the party headquarters wrested by the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T in...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:29hrs | 4952 | by Staff reporter
Zec suspends elections 'as a way of aiding Thokozani Khupe'?
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has suspended all electoral activities in a move analysts described as a way of aiding Thokozani Khupe's MDC-T to appoint its legislators without going through ...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 4839 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers, police set camp at restive quarantine centre
Soldiers and riot police are now a constant sight at Masvingo Teachers' College quarantine centre as a response to the increasing restlessness among people who are being kept there.On May 29, ...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to name COVID-19 infected patients?
MEDICAL experts and human rights activists are up in arms over the government's controversial plans to make public the names of all the people infected with the lethal coronavirus, the Daily News repo...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi villagers demonstrate at VP Chiwenga over ancestral land
Chiredzi South villagers on Wednesday raised placards in the presence of vice president Constantino Chiwenga to protest a lucerne grass farming project which is bound to displace over 1 000 families f...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 4385 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa stresses need for quarantine
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called upon communities in border areas to be vigilant by ensuring that all returning residents from neighbouring countries and abroad go through the mandatory quarantine centr...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Army, police deny Chamisa HQ siege
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have both denied claims they have seized control of MDC's Harvest House headquarters, now rechristened Morgan Richard (MRT) Hou...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2015 | by newzimbabwe
Patriots MUST always defend our Fort
When reports reached this country about thousands of Zimbabweans in cruise ships and heading back to their country from overseas, President Mnangagwa said the diasporans were welcome back home as they...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:41hrs | 204 | by Stephen Mpofu
Chamisa, Khupe factions fight over Harvest House
THE MDC-T leadership, under interim president Dr Thokozani Khupe, took possession of Harvest House in Harare on Thursday night, evicting MDC-Alliance which has been using the building. Police ...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 cases jump to 265
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has confirmed that 28 more cases tested positive for Covid-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 265 with 31 recoveries, 202 active and four deaths s...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 20:42hrs | 3943 | by Ndou Paul
Prison officers skip border
TWO Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officers who tested positive for Covid-19 positive are alleged to have illegally crossed the border to neighbouring countries.ZPCS Commissioner Ge...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 19:07hrs | 4159 | by Staff reporter
97 border jumpers arrested
NINETY-SEVEN people have been arrested for skipping borders and smuggling goods from neighbouring countries.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 19:06hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 cases rise to 237
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has confirmed that 15 more cases tested positive for Covid-19 bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 237 with 31 recoveries, 202 active and four deaths s...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 17:34hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Corruption scandals engulf Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, which promised to fight corruption after assuming power through a military coup in November 2017, is under scrutiny over murky deals involving his associ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:23hrs | 4481 | by Staff reporter
Who is responsible? Ministers evasive on procurement
THE Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) yesterday distanced itself from the murky Covid-19 medical equipment procurement scandal, which is now at the centre of a wide-ranging investiga...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
Troops deployed to guard Covid-19 centres after 148 returnees escape
SOLDIERS have been deployed to man Covid-19 quarantine centres around the country and also track down people who have escaped from the facilities, a senior government official confirmed.As of ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:22hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter
Horror at quarantine centres
RETURNEES who have exceeded the 21-day mandatory quarantine period at various centres in Harare have recounted horrific experiences at the hands of government officials and security agents.The...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:09hrs | 1683 | by Staff reporter
BCC engages Mohadi over seized cremator
BULAWAYO City Council has engaged Vice-President Kembo Mohadi to facilitate the release of its cremator held in Durban, South Africa, after the contractor failed to pay R120 000 duty to the South Afri...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:01hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Doctors poke holes in govt COVID-19 response
HUMAN rights doctors have laid into government over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying they had noted a "sad scenario" where the fight against the dreaded pandemic was being hampered by the...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:58hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Khupe to meet MDC 2014 structures
MDC acting president Thokozani Khupe has agreed to hold a meeting of the party's 2014 structures to consider the March Supreme Court ruling directing it to call for an extraordinary congress to choose...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:57hrs | 2083 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in shock corona stance
Health Minister Obaddiah Moyo has said coronavirus patients would be named because the pandemic is a contagious and notifiable disease. This also comes as the number of coronavirus patients co...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:57hrs | 1374 | by Staff reporter
16 more Covid-19 cases recorded
SIXTEEN more people have tested positive to Covid-19 bringing the to 222 the number of cases in Zimbabwe. The latest cases were all recorded among people who returned from South Africa. ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South Province starts PCR testing
MATEBELELAND South Province has started polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for Covid-19 in Beitbridge, Plumtree and Gwanda using GeneXpert machines as part of Government's efforts to decentralise t...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:28hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa updates Polad on measures taken to curb Covid-19 spread
President Mnangagwa and other political leaders in the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) met in an extraordinary executive plenary session yesterday where the President gave details of the measures th...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Heavily polluted Khami sewage water coming soon to a tap near you
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved a plan that will result in the city drawing water from Khami Dam by December saying the water will be safe for drinking once purified. Water from the d...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa trial adjourned
THE trial of former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa, on charges of criminal abuse of office, had to be postponed yesterday due to the absence of presiding magistrate Mr Elijah Makomo...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zupco back to full sitting capacity
Public transport dramatically improved from Wednesday as Zupco-operated buses and kombis were allowed to increase sitting passengers to fill all seats, but standing passengers are still not allowed. W...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Preparation for schools opening commences in Matobo
Preparations for the reopening of schools are underway in some rural communities amid fears of an increase in COVID-19 infections. ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 07:44hrs | 316 | by Stephen Jakes
Mpilo Central installs lights in the maternity theatre
Mpilo Central Hospital is embarked on the installation of lights at the maternity theatre in an effort to capacitate the wards.This is revealed by the hospital's acting Chief Executive Solwayo...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 22:58hrs | 819 | by Stephen Jakes
Nestlé announces donations towards COVID-19 relief efforts across East and Southern Africa
"People are at the heart of our Nestlé business. We are working hard to keep our employees, customers and the communities where we operate safe," stated Bruno Olierhoek, Chairman and Managing D...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 18:36hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
MDC's tedious, shabby politics
ZIMBABWE has never needed a stronger political opposition than now, a time of worsening economic challenges that portend an imminent regression to the calamitous crisis of a decade ago.Dishear...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:54hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
MSU makes it mandatory for students to stay in campus
THE Midlands State University (MSU) has announced that all final-year undergraduate students would be required to stay in campus when they resume learning this month as part of measures to curb the sp...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:34hrs | 1690 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt neglects liberation war pioneer
GOVERNMENT is yet to honour a promise to assist ailing Zipra combatant Moffat Hadebe, an 83-year-old veteran and pioneer of the liberation struggle.Hadebe, who is reported to have fired the fi...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:33hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown provides Mamgagwa a perfect cover for sinister motives
MORE than two weeks ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced an indefinite extension to the lockdown period, which I found quite incredible and to this day I do not get the justification for it....Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:32hrs | 399 | by Nqaba Matshazi
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