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Zimbabwean white man raises US$100 000 for Bulawayo and Harare pensioners
Hotelier, farmer, writer, adoptive father of three, and amateur cyclist Eric de Jong is a man with stories to tell. And don't be fooled by his self-deprecation – he might not be a youth but is certa...Published: 16 hrs ago | 3991 | by Dutch Embassy
NGO director imprisoned over anti Mnangagwa slur as Haruzivishe, Masaraure are freed on bail
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Tuesday condemned Epraim Mutombeni, the Director of Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Community Development (MACRD), a local non-governmental organisation, to prison afte...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1809 | by Stephen Jakes
Zesa switches off 100 households over illegal connections
POWER utility Zesa yesterday conducted a blitz and disconnected over 100 illegally connected households in Stoneridge, Harare. Zesa has been losing electricity worth thousands of dollars to unscrupulo...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1101 | by Staff reporter
It's too risky for Mnangagwa to let soldiers go hungry
REPORTS that morale has hit rock bottom in the army make for sad and terrifying reading. Zimbabwe's worsening economic situation, coupled with a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and cash shortages p...Published: 23 hrs ago | 4415 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Matulana drops collabo album
BULAWAYO-BASED kanindo musician Obadiah Matulana, who is known as Dr Jah Kanindo, collaborated with a South Africa-based rhumba group from Matabeleland South, Mlambo Express, and released an album tit...Published: 23 hrs ago | 273 | by Staff reporter
R4 million cigarette smuggling racket busted
Smuggling of cigarettes from Zimbabwe into South Africa through illegal crossing points along the Limpopo River, always a problem because of the tax differences, increased dramatically from the beginn...Published: 23 hrs ago | 536 | by Staff reporter
Toe to Toe with Zanu PF?
I am writing this article in response to Wilbert Mukori's article to Bulawayo24 entitled 'Baffling, MDC leaders endorsed ED's coup and now in bed with G40'. Yes I know that every responsible Zim...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1810 | by Clement Moyo
Zimbabwe army's morale at rock bottom
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri sensationally told Parliament yesterday that morale among members of the Zimbabwe National Army had hit rock bot-tom as a result of the failing economy and that many ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:23hrs | 11866 | by Staff reporter
Journalist arrested over expired Press card
Freelance journalist and Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) vice-president Godfrey Mtimba was arrested yesterday for allegedly taking pictures of stranded commuters who were demonstrating at a Zupco ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:21hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Online, radio lessons challenged
GOVERNMENT'S efforts to offer on-line and radio lessons to schoolchildren stranded at home due to the COVID-19 lockdown, which forced schools to re-main closed, has been challenged by non-governmental...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Malaria death toll rises to 279
THE malaria death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to 279 since January amid reports that 306 365 have been infected with the disease. In April the deaths stood at 201 with 185 585 cases countrywide...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases show signs of stability'
Chief Coordinator National Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr Agnes Mahomva, has said although it is too early to claim victory, Zimbabwe's Covid-19 cases seem to be stabilising, with very low leve...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Drones to patrol Zimbabwe borders
DRONES will soon be patrolling the country's borders as Government moves to address security challenges posed by border jumpers who could be spreading infections by avoiding compulsory quarantine and ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1715 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans can't breath under Zanu-PF
WHEN I look at what is happening in my beloved country, my heart bleeds. I feel like tearing myself apart with anger. I feel like I don't belong to this nation and yet Zimbabwe is my only country whic...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:45hrs | 707 | by Leonard Koni
Zimra adapts to the new ICT-driven business model
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has started adapting to the information communication technology (ICT) mode of doing business to prevent the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). ...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
ZNA dismisses social media assault claims
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has dismissed social media allegations that soldiers deployed in Kadoma and Kwekwe to assist the police in ensuring compliance to lockdown regulations are assaulting c...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in congress U-Turn
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date.This comes ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 6749 | by Staff reporter
Police in corruption storm
SOME members of the police in Mvuma are in the eye of a storm following reports that they are demanding protection fees from illegal vendors, pirate taxis and foreign currency dealers operating in the...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:14hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts unrest
Zimbabweans celebrated in their tens of thousands when the military ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president. Two-and-a-half years later, the party is over.Mnanga...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 773 | by Bloomberg
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5165 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Machete gangs resurface
ARMED robbery cases involving machete-wielding gangs have resurfaced in Matabeleland South province, invoking memories of terror-filled moments linked to the thugs that traumatised communities....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19: 'The worst still to come'
DR Solwayo Ngwenya, a veteran medical practitioner is a worried man. He believes there seems to be lack of seriousness in flattening the coronavirus curve by the ordinary citizens and officials to an ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo burial regulations to continue beyond lockdown
BURIAL regulations introduced by the Bulawayo City Council as part of the Covid-19 pandemic preventive measures are set to continue beyond the national lockdown.At the onset of the pandemic in...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:26hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Pensioners send SOS to Govt
THE National Railways Pensioners Association has appealed to the Government to extend the US$30 allowances to retired workers that were not in civil service, saying pensioners were struggling to make ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Boarding schools open today
BOARDING schools will open today to receive pupils who will be writing June/ July examinations that start on Tuesday.As part of ensuring the smooth running of examinations, the Government has ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to receive one million masks
Zimbabwe is set to receive one million face masks from Mask UP Africa, a recently-launched coalition of African creative industry professionals, to help curb the spread of Covid-19.The initiat...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:17hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission recommendations met?
GOVERNMENT has fully complied with recommendations of the Motlanthe Commission of Inquiry into the August 1, 2018 post-election violence, a senior official has said.The Commission of Inquiry â...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food aid comes with condoms'
Faced with a decreasing condom uptake in the country because of the tight Covid-19 lockdown, the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations Fund for Population Agency (UNFPA) have come up with a prog...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 3636 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 981 | by Staff reporter
Brutality and Aggression against journalists by security forces must stop
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists, ZUJ, has called on the Zimbabwean government to ensure the safety of journalists following the latest incident in which two journalists were tortured by soldiers and...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:44hrs | 444 | by Stephen Jakes
Disability community bears the brunt in Zimbabwe
The COVID-19 regulations that have been put by the government have apparently taken a huge toll on People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) in the southern African country. Many PLWDs are now bearing t...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:29hrs | 156 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Football restart gathers pace across Africa
Some football Leagues in Africa have been declared over, but Tanzania have forged ahead, returning to competitive football last weekend while clubs in Morocco and Egypt resumed training on Thursday ah...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:22hrs | 334 | by Busisani Ncube
Mobile money brewing storm
Suspension of mobile money transfer platforms is one of the latest unorthodox means of chocking the people of Zimbabwe. The clueless government is running away from the actual problem and culprits deg...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2408 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Chiwenga to serve Transitional Zimbabwe Presidential term
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now reportedly being prepared to takeover the presidency from President Emmerson Mnangagwa, by the country's military on a transitional term, to fi...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:42hrs | 13996 | by Itai Mushekwe
'COVID-19 delays Zimbabwe wagons delivery from Russia'
TRANSPORT minister Joel Biggie Matiza has claimed that the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was supposed to take delivery of 100 wagons from Russia in January, but the consignment has been delayed ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:38hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Police urged to be ruthless with rapists
A TOP government official has urged police to be ruthless when dealing with perpetrators of gender based violence, mainly rapists.Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba made ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
From boy to man the growth of Melusi from Isibaya
He was just 16 when he made his Isibaya debut as the mischievous 14 year old, Melusi Zungu. Nkanyiso Mzimela's character has literally grown up right before our eyes....Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:30hrs | 14259 | by Jera
Government threatens shops over bond notes
THE government has threatened to withdraw licences of shops rejecting $1 and $2 coins as well as $2 and $5 bond notes.Businesses started rejecting the lower denominations as soon as the Reserv...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:13hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Border authorities intercept 21 smuggling commercial trucks
AUTHORITIES at Beitbridge Border Post have increased surveillance and anti-smuggling activities during the ongoing lockdown and 21 trucks and 22 other vehicles smuggling an assortment of goods worth m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:09hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
Morocco's Botola League returns on July 24 after lengthy Covid-19 break
The Botola League of Morocco is set to return on July 24, which will be exactly 133 days since football activities were postponed in the north African country due to the Covid-19 outbreak.Gove...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 268 | by Busisani Ncube
Mounting challenges for Chamisa
THE MDC-Alliance, and the entire legacy of the opposition movement, faces the gravest political challenges it has had to confront since its formation in 1999.This is the result of a combinatio...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 9924 | by Brian Raftopoulos
'Zimbabwe slowly but surely re-dollarising'
GOVERNMENT last week announced a 50% increment and a Covid-19 allowance of US$75 for civil servants and US$30 for pensioners. This is despite government earlier banning the multi-currency regime and m...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1468 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe cornered over MDC 'abductees' case
HUMAN rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegat...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2298 | by Staff reporter
Teachers, parents resist schools reopening
TEACHERS and parents in Marondera have said there was no need for the reopening of schools in the wake of COVID-19 infections.Speaking during a Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)-or...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:25hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Tinashe stages spellbinding show
UNITED STATES-BORN R&B star, Tinashe Kachingwe, on Wednesday night staged a scintillating live show during the Coke Studio Sessions on #BeApp. Her performance lived up to the promise she made earl...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:23hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
NRZ to reintroduce passenger train
GOVERNMENT has said the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train is coming back soon to relieve commuters who have been facing transport challenges since the lockdown came into effect in Ma...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
Second regimen ARV shortage hits Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEANS living with HIV and on the Second regimen of the antiretroviral may be forced to default or change one of their drugs following an announcement that there is a nationwide shortage of secon...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
'Kombi' operators turn vehicles to mobile stores
Known as kombis in Zimbabwe, commuter omnibuses are no more, but in residential areas they have resurfaced, with conductors this time not shouting out for passengers, but for customers to rush for buy...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1093 | by Jeffrey Moyo, Anadolu News
Robbery syndicate hit Bulawayo
Parking in Bulawayo's city centre has turned into a nightmare for motorists who risk having their cars broken into or being robbed at gunpoint. A robbery syndicate is targeting unattended cars parked ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
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