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Zimbabwe needs a homegrown Covid-19 response
The eruption of the coronavirus (Covid-19) is a timely reminder of the structural faultiness and fragility of health care and social services delivery systems across the world.While Europe rem...Published: 41 mins ago | 43 | 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: 6 hrs ago | 2223 | by Staff reporter
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: 8 hrs ago | 218 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Councillors accused of usurping executive functions
MDC-Alliance councillors in Gweru have been accused of allegedly usurping executive functions disrupting the smooth flow of business at the Town House thereby affecting service delivery.This w...Published: 10 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
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: 10 hrs ago | 148 | by Staff reporter
BCC bars public, media from full council meeting
MEMBERS of the public and the media will be barred from this week's full council meeting as the Bulawayo City Council works towards implementing policies against the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 10 hrs ago | 110 | 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: 10 hrs ago | 225 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa offers fresh support to health-care workers
ZIMBABWE tycoon Strive Masiyiwa is offering renewed support for the country's health-care workers days after services were cut back because of a lack of protective equipment to deal with the coronavir...Published: 10 hrs ago | 630 | by Staff reporter
Water shedding to get worse
BULAWAYO residents will soon have to endure more than four days a week without water supplies after council announced on Friday that it was considering reviewing upwards the water shedding schedule....Published: 10 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Pastors cancel services, call for Ecocash tithes
TITHES, the lifeblood of most churches, will be paid through mobile money while services will be livestreamed as churches prepare for life during the nationwide lockdown, with most congregations movin...Published: 10 hrs ago | 312 | by Staff reporter
'Health workers turn away patients'
FEAR and ignorance have led healthcare workers at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo to neglect patients that suffer from other ailments, as they now believe that every ill person who walks through th...Published: 10 hrs ago | 215 | 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: 10 hrs ago | 294 | 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: 10 hrs ago | 205 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
21-day 'quarantine': The nuts & bolts
Ministerial Taskforce to start visits to provinces today.All inter–city public transportation to cease.ZUPCO to provide inner-city buses only.Private vehicles not to carry mo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 149 | by Staff reporter
United we can fight coronavirus in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care on Friday announced that the National Microbiology Reference Laboratory had successfully tested 188 people since the outbreak of the disease in the country and ha...Published: 10 hrs ago | 57 | 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: 19 hrs ago | 1655 | 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: 21 hrs ago | 647 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
Mnangagwa's lockdown does not mean shutdown, says Charamba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson, George Charamba has said the 21-day national lockdown which comes into effect on Monday, does not mean a complete shutdown of the country as some key econo...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 15:32hrs | 7720 | by Staf reporter
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 | 1908 | by Staf reporter
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2131 | by Staff reporter
Scores throng Beitbridge border ahead of lockdown
SOUTH AFRICA failed to close its border at midnight on Thursday as droves of Zimbabweans resident in that country thronged the Beitbridge border post to return home involuntarily.Thousands of ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:44hrs | 2100 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa frees 5 000 criminals
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned 5 000 prisoners serving for non-violent crimes as part of measures to decongest the country's prisons whose population had ballooned to over 20 000. A...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:39hrs | 300 | 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 | 296 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses welcome US$ relaxation
The black market exchange rate for the United States dollar is likely to fall following the relaxation of the usage of free funds by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Thursday. Business le...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:35hrs | 412 | 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
Mutevedzi appointed chief magistrate
Mr Munamato Mutevedzi has been appointed the substantive chief magistrate by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The post had been vacant since the resignation of Mr Mishrod Guvamombe in De...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Oxygen suppliers to prioritise patients
Boc Gases Zimbabwe has said it will prioritise medical oxygen supply for the treatment of Covid-19 patients and patients on existing, medically-prescribed oxygen therapies, in line with medical prescr...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:33hrs | 78 | 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
Zimbabwe health workers demand $10 000 a month
Frontline health workers are appealing for a $10 000 risk allowance per month, as they battle Covid-19, which has affected five people in Zimbabwe so far. The proposal is for the allowance to ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa announces support for Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has announced that he is fully behind the decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to declare a 21-day lockdown due to the coronavirus. In a statement on Friday eveni...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 18:42hrs | 8943 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa to announce shutdown...citizens to stop paying rent
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to address the nation on Friday night to announce a nationwide lockdown to deal with the deadly coronavirus.A GMAZ leaked internal document circulatin...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 17:25hrs | 11559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
South Africa's lockdown may push Zimbabwe to the edge
As South Africa's 21-day national lockdown comes into effect, the ramifications of this decision will be felt strongly across the Southern African region, most acutely by its northern neighbour, Zimba...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 16:09hrs | 5027 | by Webster Zambara
Man jumps 10 floors to his death
A 29-YEAR-OLD man allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor building in Harare's Central Business District (CBD), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed yesterday.Police...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:41hrs | 3621 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for pimping woman on Facebook
A BULAWAYO man allegedly posted pictures of a Mpopoma woman who he advertised as a commercial sex worker on his dating website after stealing them from her Facebook page.Tinotenda Munyaradzi C...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 15:27hrs | 1820 | 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
Zimbabweans living in South Africa urged to cooperate with authorities during lockdown
Zimbabweans living in South Africa have been urged to cooperate with the neighbouring country's authorities during the 21-day lockdown, which began on Friday.As part of measures to contain the...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 14:44hrs | 2149 | by Staff reporter
EcoSure moves to help capacitate doctors and nurses amid COVID-19 pandemic
As Zimbabwe - along with the rest of the world - battles the COVID-19 Corona virus global pandemic, EcoSure has announced plans to immediately support the country's national health delivery system by ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 1157 | by Agencies
RBZ takes MDC advice on redollarization but....
At long last it has happened. The RBZ has finally announced in its 26th March Monetary Policy an...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3957 | by Dr Tapiwa Maji-Marefu Mashakada Economist and MDC Secretary for Policy and Research
Wilkins hospital shuts down
ZIMBABWE's largest referral centre for COVID-19 cases, Wilkins Hospital in Harare, was shut down yesterday to "allow for further renovations", but medical staff at the health institution said the clos...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:46hrs | 3226 | by Staff reporter
US dollar unbanned in Zimbabwe
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday suspended its ban on use of foreign currency in carrying out internal transactions and abandoned the managed floating exchange rate as a measure to facilit...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:45hrs | 2813 | 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 | 1585 | by Staff reporter
Telcoms revenue jumps 181%
The telecommunications industry's annual revenue for year 2019 surged 181 percent to $4,5 billion compared to $1,6 billion recorded in the prior driven by inflation induced price hikes. Last y...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Trade freely in forex, says RBZ
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has given consumers and businesses greenlight to trade in foreign currency and suspended, until further notice, any increase in charges related to the provision of e...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1312 | 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
Law firms shut down, JSC streamlines
SEVERAL Bulawayo laws firms have shut down their offices while the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has also streamlined operations at the courts as part of measures taken to mitigate against the spr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:29hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus crashes 80 weddings
A bride-to-be who showed up at the Bulawayo Civil Court housed at Tredgold Building on Tuesday morning in formal wedding clothes and was turned away at the door, shared her heartbreak and anger after ...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:26hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: RBZ re-introduces the United States Dollar
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Panonetsa Mangudya has announce that the United States Dollar can now be used as legal tender until further notice. In a statement issue...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 18:05hrs | 7536 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Coronavirus causes Grain Millers a headache
Zimbabwe's maize stocks which had received a shot in the arm through a multi million dollar grain deal between Shepherd Bushiri Investments and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe have suffere...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 16:51hrs | 1277 | 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
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