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Zimbabwe coronavirus victim died 'alone and scared'
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was "alone and scared", according t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:21hrs | 2358 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
2 killers jailed 70 years for slitting motorist's throat, burning body
TWO stranded deportees from Botswana who stabbed a motorist who had offered them a lift in Plumtree before they slit his throat and used tyres and diesel to burn his body beyond recognition, have been...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:41hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei upgrades 2 COVID-19 treatment centres
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has embarked on a project to upgrade St Anne's Hospital and jailed rapist and businessman Munyaradzi Kereke's state-of-the-art Rock Foundation Medical Hospital in Harare...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda Holdings responds to COVID-19 fight assistance call
Sakunda Holdings has come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and re-equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital in an effort to assist government in the fight agai...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2964 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Council ropes in army on COVID-19
GWERU City Council's health department has trained medical staff from the Zimbabwe Military Academy and other arms of the State security agents such as the police and air force to be better equipped t...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:09hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
'Mass quarantine for COVID-19 necessary'
MPILO Central Hospital clinical director Solwayo Ngwenya has said mass quarantine is necessary to save lives in the face of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19), which has claimed thousands of lives acro...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:09hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Soldier's killer jailed 30 years
A MAN from Epworth has been jailed 30 years for robbing and killing a soldier. Besta Masaya, who was charged along with Tonderai Rupiya, denied killing Innocent Majuta who was in army uniform ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:44hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to feels impact of SA lockdown
With over half a thousand confirmed cases of Covid-19, South Africa has moved its response a notch up. The country has effected a 21-day lockdown starting from March 26. This is aimed at reducing case...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Lets fight Corona virus, but lets not forget the agenda of Removing Zanu-PF
As the World is fight against Corona virus, I urge Zimbabweans to also keep on fighting for the betterment of their country.Zimbabwe has been in the hands of corrupt and ruthless leaders who a...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 18:32hrs | 1009 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Chiefs bemoan lack of info on COVID-19
TRADITIONAL leaders in Matabeleland region have challenged officials in the health sector to create awareness about the deadly coronavirus in rural areas, where they say many were still ignorant about...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
Artistes defy Mnangagwa's decree on gatherings
SOME stakeholders in the creative sector have called for a revision of the suspension of gatherings of more than 100 people as announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to curb the spread of the COVID...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 308 | 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 | 6438 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Businessman killers in accident
SIX armed robbers who allegedly shot and killed a popular local businessman - Kumbirai Kumbula - were early on Sunday morning involved in an accident along the Mutare-Masvingo highway as they fled in ...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1557 | by Staff reporter
378 people on coronavirus surveillance in Zimbabwe
Health Minister Obadiah Moyo says 378 people have been placed on coronavirus surveillance after entering Zimbabwe through the country's various points of entry. In a ministerial statement in P...Published: 19 Mar 2020 at 16:54hrs | 1849 | by Staff Reporter
Obert Mpofu a huge elephant with brains of a rat
Obert Mpofu statement that the late founder of ZAPU, Dr Joshua Nkomo will be happy about Mnangagwa holding the 40th independence anniversary in Matabeleland confirms what Prof Jonathan Moyo once said ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2710 | by Israel Dube
Molested, caressed and disembowelled by the 5th Brigade!
It all went wrong at the birthing of Zimbabwe, or just before. It is exactly what happens when a cow encounters dystocia during parturition. The calf refuses to come out properly by arrogantly facing ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 09:19hrs | 2017 | by Nhlanhla Moses
'ZRP shields killer cops'
FORMER police Assistant Commissioner Gideon Baloyi has exposed the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)'s alleged underhand dealings, including cover-ups for officers who committed murder and other various ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 20:09hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not contemplating closing Zimbabwe's borders for now
THE government is not contemplating closing Zimbabwe's borders for now, as the lethal coronavirus continues to spread and to create havoc around the world, the Daily News reports.This comes as...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 17:31hrs | 1593 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri's corona virus comment touches raw nerve
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri torched a fierce diplomatic storm at the weekend when she claimed that the deadly novel coronavirus that has wreaked havoc worldwide, killing over 6 000 people, was p...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:08hrs | 2846 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's borders will stay open
The government is not contemplating closing Zimbabwe's borders for now, as the lethal coronavirus to spread and to create havoc around the world. This comes as many countries are taking d...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:51hrs | 2253 | by Staff reporter
Almost everyone is carrying a prescription to buy medicine
Most of the diseases tormenting humanity are spawned by what we eat and poor hygiene. In short, we are what we eat. The unfortunate scenario is that the discouraged foods happen to be the tastiest whi...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:49hrs | 484 | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Holding Zimbabwe Independence celebrations in Matabeleland in the face of coronavirus smells of evil
Zimbabwe government decision to hold its 40th Independence Anniversary in Bulawayo, Matabeleland, in the face of an infectious disease such as coronavirus smells of evil intentions.Besides spr...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 10:31hrs | 1368 | by Israel Dube
BCC fears coronavirus ahead of ZITF
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has said the city's disease surveillance team has no capacity to host national and international events such as the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) showcas...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:11hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Murders around Zimbabwe scary
THE case in which a 20-year-old Binga man recently axed five people to death, most of them his neighbours, is horrifying.The recent killings add to several other such sad instances as frequent...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 13:05hrs | 1263 | by Staff reporter
Axe rampage killer goes to victims' funeral
A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Gokwe who cold bloodedly axed five people to death in Binga last Friday was arrested the following day when he attended a funeral wake for his victims and tried to light a fire ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 05:57hrs | 1394 | by Staff reporter
'Suspect (4th) coronavirus tested negative' official twitter - wilfully inadequate and cause to fear the worst
A suspected coronavirus case (fourth one in Zimbabwe) was reported at Masvingo Provincial Hospital on Sunday morning.The individual had travelled from Dubai and test result was negative."In Ma...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 18:51hrs | 351 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt accused of hiding info on coronavirus
ZIMBABWE's human rights lawyers and doctors have threatened to take legal action to force government to expeditiously disseminate information relating to suspected cases of coronavirus in the country ...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 08:03hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Siphatheleni ambushed and shot dead
AN illegal money changer was ambushed and shot dead outside a lodge in Bulawayo's Kumalo suburb, police have confirmed. The assailants, according to family members, got away with at least US$20 000 in...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Donel Mangena gets boost from Mr Eazi
UNITED Kingdom-based pop star Donel Mangena who wowed many with his performance on the Voice UK in 2018, has been signed by Nigeria's Mr Eazi through his emPawa Africa talent initiative. ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 07:55hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first coronavirus suspect back in hospital
A 27-YEAR-OLD Harare woman suspected to have contracted coronavirus after she visited Wuhan, China, has been readmitted at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital, raising fears authorities could hav...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:41hrs | 3783 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo 'cop killers' off the hook
TWO Bulawayo activists, who were facing charges of fatally stoning a police officer during the January 2019 protests against fuel price hikes, were yesterday placed off remand after the State indicate...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:36hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
'Lift sanctions to end mass poverty' insist AU - povo poor but not stupid, know Blue Roof opulence is mother of poverty
There are many reasons why Africa has remained the dark continent, forever doomed to blunder from one crisis to the next. Africa was at business-end of the slave trade, millions of Africans we...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 09:28hrs | 728 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa a prime candidate for the ICC
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a prime candidate for the International Criminal Court because of heinous crimes against humanity by rogue elements of the army who twice callously murdered innocent Zimbabweans ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 08:22hrs | 3598 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Dad killer in court
A MAN from Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly fatally stoning his father last week. Thabani Ncube (47) of Entumbane suburb allegedly murdered his father Mitsho Ncube (83) last Friday...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:42hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Man kills father over witchcraft claims
In a bizare incident that has left residents of Ntumbane shell-shocked this morning a Bulawayo man gruesomely murdered his father with a brickWitnesses said Thabani Ncube fatally pelted his fa...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 13:34hrs | 2369 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prisons run out of basics
THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services is overwhelmed by increasing numbers of children of inmates residing at correctional facilities.Speaking at the Chikurubi Female Prison in Harare...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:40hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Brace for Mnangagwa, Chamisa's Kenyan handshake
Infighting in Zanu-PF has been the talk of the town for the past couple of years and it took a turn in the last few weeks. All hell broke loose when two Zanu-PF young musketeers - Lewis Matutu and God...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 20:16hrs | 4688 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zambian President deploys soldiers
Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu has deployed Zambia's military to deal with the ritual killings that have rampantly increased in the neighboring country. Suspected ritual killers are rep...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 12:55hrs | 3794 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MLO applauds Sudanese government for handing over genocidist Omar al Bashir to ICC
MLO would like to commend the brave decision taken by the government of Sudan to handover genocidist former President, Omar al Bashir and others to the International Criminals Court to face the charge...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1219 | by Israel Dube
Muchinguri, Chimonyo deny shooting victims compensation
DEFENCE Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo have refused to pay two shooting victims over ZW$800 000 in damages for injuries ...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:51hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Polad foreign jaunts a waste of scarce foreign currency
AS Zimbabwe's economy sinks to plumbing depths, with the country's hospitals and clinics without basics such as gloves, bandages and painkillers, fringe political leaders under the Political Actors Di...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:47hrs | 228 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'Killer' cops abscond trial
TWO detectives, who are part of a group of eight police officers accused of fatally assaulting two armed robbery suspects before shooting their bodies and claiming that they were shot while flee...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri's bloody history detailed
Perence Shiri is a man who operated in the Gaza front line during the liberation war, this area was largely Mashonaland central, he became some sort of legend and hero in the Mashonaland Central provi...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 15:40hrs | 6085 | by Dr S Utete
Killer Zivhu doles out cheaper pads
CHIVI South legislator Killer Zivhu has launched an ambitious project to provide affordable sanitary pads to the less-privileged women and girls under his Killer Zivhu Foundation.CHIVI South l...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 07:11hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo goes for broke to force his way into MDC
ZIMBABWE's political chameleon in-chief Professor Jonathan Moyo has gone for broke in his bid to be admitted into the MDC Alliance leadership echelons.Moyo on Monday made wild revelation...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 21:17hrs | 5909 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo drove Tsvangirai to meet Gono in 2008
Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed that he personally drove the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai after the March 2008 elections where the late Trade Union leader had come ahead of the then ZA...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 13:03hrs | 7402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Statistics show that cancer is the major killer - BCC
Bulawayo City Council has revealed that statistics show that cancer is the major killer disease in the city and across the country.This is revealed in the council's latest minutes."The...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 10:13hrs | 324 | by Stephen Jakes
Prison boss bans praying in tongues
THE case of a prison guard's spirit allegedly haunting Khami Prison Complex by manifesting through one of his alleged killers, the wife of a prison officer, has taken a nasty twist following reports t...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 09:59hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
POLAD comedians splurge scarce forex on foreign trips
As Zimbabwe's economy sinks to plumbing depths, with the country's hospitals and clinics without basics such as gloves, bandages and painkillers, fringe political leaders under the POLAD banner will s...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:23hrs | 574 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Prophet Freddy courts controversy with 'drag queen' role
CAN someone please present gospel musician, Prophet Freddy, with his award for Most controversial gospel musician as he has already hogged the limelight again after appearing as a drag queen on his Zv...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:43hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
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