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Every Zimbabwean must support lockdown - Malunga
Son of the Zimbabwe's late national hero Sydney Malunga has urged all Zimbabweans to support the national lockdown announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa which will be with effect from Monday....Published: 3 hrs ago | 449 | by Stephen Jakes
20 years in jail for spreading fake coronavirus news in Zimbabwe
The government has gazetted tough new laws that could see people spending up to 20 years in prison for spreading fake news on the novel coronavirus.According to Statutory Instrument 83 of 2020...Published: 3 hrs ago | 886 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over Mnangagwa's lockdown
The government yesterday moved to exempt certain sectors from the lockdown that begins tomorrow after industry warned that forcing all companies to shut down will ground the fragile economy.Pr...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers take Mnangagwa govt to task over coronavirus
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track dow...Published: 5 hrs ago | 626 | by Staff reporter
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 5 hrs ago | 423 | by Edzai Zvobwo
How COVID-19 is changing the lives of Tanzanians
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) swept through Asia, Europe and North America early this year, medical experts warned that it was just a matter of time before other continents, including Africa, would st...Published: 7 hrs ago | 696 | by Stella Vuzo
With simple, fact-informed hygiene measures, Africa can slow COVID-19 spread
UN in Kenya in lockstep with the government to fight the novel coronavirus on all fronts.The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to at least...Published: 7 hrs ago | 173 | by Siddharth Chatterjee
Majority Of Residents Ignorant on Covid 19 - HRT
Covid 19 is undoubtedly a global pandemic but residents in Zimbabwe's capital confess ignorance on preventing it's spread.Owing to lack of information, they are starved in that regard....Published: 7 hrs ago | 187 | by Takudzwa Mutonho
Let us lead from the from front
Now that the British Prime Minister has been confirmed to have tested positive for covid-19. It is time for the President of Zimbabwe to now stop having press conferences as a means of preventing the ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 210 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Telecoms players call on Fourth Industrial Revolution
PLAYERS in the telecommunications sector have appealed to the Government to prioritise and channel more resources towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) so as to accelerate the growt...Published: 8 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 Taskforce targets rural folk
THE Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on the Covid-19 outbreak is set to engage village heads in the country through mobile phones to spread educational messages about the disease, a member of the ta...Published: 8 hrs ago | 132 | by Staff reporter
21-day lockdown: Mnangagwa urges discipline
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to exercise discipline during the 21-day lockdown that starts tomorrow, saying staying indoors is the panacea to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic....Published: 8 hrs ago | 222 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in panic buying mode
THE total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 will start at midnight with the Government passionately calling on citizens to comply with the directive and instructions from security personnel d...Published: 9 hrs ago | 282 | by Staff reporter
Fear as HIV, coronavirus collide
AS the world scales up public health and all other kinds of responses to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the fear is palpable.Stores have sold out obvious items like hand sanitisers and f...Published: 9 hrs ago | 199 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Old Mutual faces money laundering charges
THE Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has launched an investigation into suspected illicit activities surrounding trading in fungible stocks linked to three listed companies — Ol...Published: 9 hrs ago | 180 | by Staff reporter
When democrats discover despotism as a cure
MOST often, in times of crisis, it seems no one remembers to secure the asylum, from which looneys - fools, nutters, ignoramuses and the downright stupid - always escape.If only they spent the...Published: 9 hrs ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problems keep piling - from starvation to coronavirus
THE COVID-19 outbreak is expected to worsen Zimbabwe's problems as the southern African country grapples with a tanking economy, the worst food shortages in decades and a collapsing health system, obs...Published: 9 hrs ago | 85 | by Staff reporter
Govt lockdown impractical without economic cushioning measures
The nationwide lockdown, which is due to come into effect Monday, March 30, is a necessary step in containing the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. However, ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1636 | by Lloyd Msipa, People’s Party
Health workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. Let's protect them
The COVID-19 or the new Corona Virus is different. In this virus we have an enemy which is invisible and sometimes deadly, and the task is harder.About a century ago the Spanish flu pandemic k...Published: 20 hrs ago | 641 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
Mnangagwa ally cracks whip on business over COVID-19
As the country recorded its third case of Covid-19 and one death, the Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has ordered all big businesses to avail hand sanitizers and temp...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:02hrs | 1899 | by Staf reporter
People who die of Coronavirus in Zimbabwe will be buried the unusual way says Mangwana
Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said people who die of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Zimbabwe will not be buried the usual way.In Zimbabwe people that die from...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 14:40hrs | 2909 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe lockdown to start tomorrow midnight
Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana has said Zimbabwean total lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 starts tomorrow at m...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1319 | by Simbarashe Sithole
COVID-19 hit UK, US evacuate citizens to virus epicentres
THE United Kingdom and the United States have stepped in to help their citizens who may be stranded in Zimbabwe after international airlines grounded their planes as COVID-19 rattles the globe....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Govt managing COVID-19 information: CSOs
GOVERNMENT has been challenged to come clean on COVID-19 by disseminating correct information on the pandemic in Zimbabwe amid concerns that testing centres were only in Harare and Bulawayo, leaving t...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 confirmed cases spikes to 7 in Zimbabwe
THE number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Zimbabwe has risen to seven, with one of them having succumbed to the disease. In a statement yesterday, the Permanent Secretary i...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:40hrs | 736 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19: ZIMBABWE LOCKDOWN!
President Mnangagwa has with effect from Monday declared a total lockdown on the country to contain the spread of Covid-19 which has infected more than 500 000 people worldwide. The pandemic, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cocaine pusher jailed
A drug dealer from Slough has been jailed for four years after he took over the Canterbury home of an elderly vulnerable man to peddle crack cocaine and heroin. Nyasha Mushayandebvu (25), of B...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:38hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 testing to decentralise
Government is decentralising laboratory testing for coronavirus specimens with the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Bulawayo joining the National Reference Laboratory in Harare ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ramps up response to Covid-19
STATE OF THE NATION UPDATE ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA, ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Fellow Zimbabweans, ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 149 | by ED Mnangagwa
'Terrence Mukupe mentally challenged,' says Prophet Bushiri
CONTROVERSIAL South Africa-based church leader, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has sensationally claimed that former deputy finance minister, Terrence Mukupe has a mental problem and should urgently seek he...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
ZMC accreditation fees gazetted
Government has gazetted registration fees for accreditation of journalists by the Zimbabwe Media Commission with locals required to pay $120 for a new applicant, $80 renewal and $50 for card replaceme...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:26hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirms fifth COVID-19 case
Zimbabwe now has five coronavirus cases (COVID-19), with only one fatality still recorded, the Health ministry has announced.But the staggering statistic is that the country has only carried o...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:03hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Travelling Zimbabweans in Corona horror
As the country struggles to deal with the deadly coronavirus at home, the government has now also been forced to rescue 107 Zimbabweans who are being detained by Tanzanian authorities in Dar es S...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 08:21hrs | 4077 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Treasury in coronavirus scare
Top directors in the Ministry of Finance have gone into self-isolation after getting into contact with the late Zororo Makamba who passed on this week due to coronavirus.Makamba succumbed to t...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 fears hit Kwekwe General Hospital
UNCERTAINTY has gripped Kwekwe General Hospital after a nurse at the institution reportedly visited her COVID-19-positive husband in Portugal last month, returned home and assumed her duties at the he...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy social distancing advice
Informal traders in Bulawayo are defying the health workers and government advice for citizens to maintain social distancing and stay at home to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease, whic...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
2 notorious immigrants deported
TWO illegal immigrants who have been evading deportation for years through threats of violence and supplying authorities with false identity information, have been deported. The Immigration De...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 death scare in Makokoba
THERE was panic in Bulawayo's Makokoba suburb yesterday after funeral parlours allegedly refused to collect the body of a man suspected to have died of Covid-19 at his home. False claims that ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:30hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will not assist, repatriate Zimbabwe Covid-19 victims based abroad
AS the coronavirus takes its toll across the globe, the Zimbabwe government has no plans to advance any form of assistance to Zimbabweans based abroad who fall sick or die from the pandemic.Th...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 384 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe to shutdown for 14 days...army to be deployed
Information coming from Harare indicate that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa led government in contemplating imposing a 14 day lockdown in the country due to the deadly coronavirus epidemic. ...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 18:22hrs | 25766 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Energy Mutodi pushes for Domboshava to be an urban zone
The Deputy Minister of Information, Media, Publicity and Broadcast services Dr Energy Mutodi has called on Local Government authorities to turn Domboshava into an urban zone.Domboshava i...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 15:48hrs | 1260 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mythbusting Gamstop - The cans and cants
Chances are if you utilize online casinos in the UK, you've been exposed to Gamstop. The initiative is aimed at helping those who may have a gambling addiction, the self-inclusion program is open to a...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 10:49hrs | 775 | by Staff Writer
Chamisa told to stop playing games on Corona Virus
The MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has once again set tongues wagging following his recent pronouncement that Harare had recorded two more cases of corona virus contrary to pronouncements by th...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:47hrs | 5145 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC accused of trying to gain political mileage during a crisis
GOVERNMENT has gagged the opposition MDC from commenting and speaking authoritatively on COVID-19, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday accusing the opposition of trying to gain political milea...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 4626 | by Staff reporter
Power abusing CID boss put to defence
THE officer-in-charge of CID Gweru, Detective Inspector Leonard Gwandu, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges for allegedly releasing a stolen vehicle has said he had no obligation to consult...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:24hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
Judge's son up for murder
THE son of a High Court judge and his two friends allegedly robbed a Harare cellphone dealer of his four handsets and fatally stabbed him before dumping the corpse in a bush in Ruwa. Munyaradz...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1852 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA takes measures to curb the spread of COVID-19
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is aware that due to the nature of the daily work and the positioning of our offices, stations and ports of entry, our staff are at high risk in terms of exposur...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:26hrs | 2288 | by Faith Mazani ZIMRA Commissioner General
Zanu-PF bigwig points gun at daughter's 'boyfriend'
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial political commissar Jevas Masosote was recently in the eye of a storm after he allegedly pointed a firearm at a man he accused of impregnating his teenage daughter who is s...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 19:02hrs | 8960 | by Staff reporter
UK orders its citizens to leave Zimbabwe
THE United Kingdom (UK) has ordered its citizens to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.Posting on its Twitter account, the UK embassy said citizens who are on te...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:20hrs | 5728 | by Staff reporter
National Coronavirus statistics not representing real infection rate
The World Health Organization (WHO), in its bid to quell fake news and the associated pandemonium, has instituted measures to make sure that correct information around Covid19 is distributed from cred...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 14:02hrs | 1426 | by Edzai Zvobwo
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