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'Coronavirus vaccines should be tested on poor Africans'
A discussion between two top French doctors on live TV left viewers horrified when they proposed that Africa should become a giant laboratory for coronavirus vaccines testing because the continent lac...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2227 | by Staff reporter
Wenera strikes UK TV deal
THE executive director of local popular soap opera Wenera Eddie Ndhlovu has struck a screening deal with VoxAfrica Television UK, a United Kingdom Pan-African bilingual television channel for the scre...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 214 | by Financial Mail
SA bank repossesses Grace Mugabe son's R1.2-million Range Rover
South African bank repossesses Grace Mugabe son's R1.2-million Range Rover.A top of the range luxury vehicle belonging to Grace Mugabe's son from her first marriage, Russell Goreraza, has been...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 10:31hrs | 8683 | by Staff reporter
Students stand in for striking nurses
STUDENT nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have been commandeered to replace nurses who went on strike last week demanding COVID-19 risk allowances and personal protective equipment."Ou...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:52hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Sibanda pleads with doctors and nurses not to abandon patients
A journalists and former Radio Zimbabwe Presenter Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has made a passionate plea with nurses and doctors not to abandon patients just because of Covid 19 saying not all pat...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 13:43hrs | 470 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo Mayor urges residents to stay at home during lockdown
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni has urged residents to stay at home during the 21 day national lock down to save their lives and prevent the spread of Covid 19."Exodus 12:13, The blood will be a ...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 09:17hrs | 2024 | by Stephen Jakes
Peter Ndlovu wants a Sunday Marimo statue at Rufaro Stadium
FORMER Warriors star striker and captain Peter Ndlovu has implored local football authorities to build a statue at Rufaro Stadium in honour of Sunday Chidzambwa, who recently announced retirement from...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1876 | by Staff reporter
What 21 days of Lockdown will likely Mean for the Zimbabwean Populace
To curb the spread of the coronavirus President Emmerson Mnangagwa imposed a 21 days lockdown of Zimbabwe which is to come into effect on Monday 30, March.The measure has been applauded by man...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 23:21hrs | 3621 | by Prince Njagu
Kutyauripo writes-off Dembare
DAVID "Diva" Kutyauripo, no stranger to controversy during his playing career, will again raise a few eyebrows in the corridors of power at Dynamos after writing off his old club' s Castle Lager Premi...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:36hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa preaches Covid-19 unity
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa believes the outbreak of the coronavirus gives Zimbabweans an opportunity to bury their differences as they fight the pandemic.The coronavirus disease, which is also ...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:21hrs | 1058 | 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: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-based Warriors raise US$5k for Jaure's medical costs
FOREIGN-based Zimbabwean footballers have come together to raise funds towards Dynamos captain Partson Jaure's medical expenses, with the defender to undergo an operation in Harare this morning for he...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 669 | 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: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
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: 28 Mar 2020 at 19:29hrs | 676 | by Siddharth Chatterjee and Mutahi Kagwe
More Zimbabwe health workers go on strike
MEDICAL personnel at the privately run Avenues Clinic in Harare downed tools yesterday in protest over lack of personal protective equipment in the wake of the deadly coronavirus.There are sus...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
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 | 489 | 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 | 9115 | 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 | 5655 | by Webster Zambara
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 | 2171 | 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 | 1166 | by Agencies
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 | 4248 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses go on strike
Zimbabwe nurses have reported that they are going on an indefinitely demanding water and coronavirus allowances. The statement comes after the doctors announced that they are downing tools....Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:03hrs | 786 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Zimbabwe doctors go on strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have gone on strike due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic which is spreading in the country. A letter written by the doctors to government said the h...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 09:58hrs | 10835 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panic at Harare airport...ZIMRA workers strike over Zororo Makamba death
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) at the Robert Mugabe International airport have downed tools after the death of broadcaster Zororo Makamba who was diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus. ...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 09:03hrs | 10867 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Security guard jailed for stealing crates
A 37-YEAR-OLD Mvurwi security guard was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment yesterday by Guruve resident magistrate Shingirai Mutiro for stealing 25 empty crates used for packing fruits at Forester Es...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 07:23hrs | 972 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe doctors issue corona threat
DOCTORS have warned that they will not attend to coronavirus patients unless authorities supply them with protective clothing and the necessary equipment, the Daily News reports.This comes as ...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 16:57hrs | 2452 | by Staff reporter
Sibanda yet to get reverse clearance
HIGHLANDERS new signing Rodi Sibanda, who came in from Orlando Pirates is yet to get his international transfer certificate (ITC) from the South Africa Football Association (Safa).Sibanda (20)...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:36hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors issue strike threat
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has proposed that hospitals scale down to emergency mode and the cessation of all routine outpatient departments operations, as they decried the lack o...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 12:54hrs | 1905 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors on lockdown ordeal
UNDER normal circumstances, Turkey-based Warriors defender Teenage Hadebe would have been allowed time off by his club to fly back home to be with his newly-born twins, Alwande and Lwandile, who were ...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:27hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Despite stadium ban Zimbabwe have plenty of reasons to be cheerful ahead of AFCON 2021
Playing all of your Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches on international soil is an annoyance, rather than a hurdle that cannot be overcome. That is the message that Zimbabwe head coach Zdravk...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 13:41hrs | 2177 | by Staff Writer
Don't come to Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told travellers from coronavirus hotspots to stay away from Zimbabwe for a month and cancelled independence celebrations and the Zimbabwe International Trade Fai...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:43hrs | 5498 | by Staff reporter
Bosso midfielder 'dodges' medical tests
HIGHLANDERS defensive midfielder Adrian Silla reportedly missed the Castle Challenge Cup game against FC Platinum last weekend after dodging a number of mandatory medical assessments needed for him to...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa distances self from Muchinguri comments
President Mnangagwa today said pandemics like coronavirus (Covid-19) cannot be blamed on anyone since they have a scientific explanation, and called on Zimbabweans to empathise with those affected....Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 17:25hrs | 2927 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri tested positive to coronavirus?
By saying positive things about Coronavirus means one has tested mentally positive to the virus. Our minister Muchinguri Kashiri has mentally tested positive to Coronavirus as we are what we say....Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 06:33hrs | 8262 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa backs 'imminent' ZCTU protests
THE opposition MDC has joined forces the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner to push for salaries in United States dollars, with the labour body saying workers are itching for mass action ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:11hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Caf suspends 2021 Afcon qualifiers
THE Confederation of African Football (Caf) has postponed this month's 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying matches indefinitely because of the fast-spreading coronavirus.The continen...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 00:00hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF is worse than coronavirus
"Gukurahundi" loosely translates from the Shona language (one of the main languages spoken in Zimbabwe, alongside English and Ndebele) to mean "the early rain that washes away the chaff." The killings...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 10:06hrs | 2344 | by Knowledge Hakata
MDC splits again as Chamisa loses grip
MDC A is set to break into further fragments as the infighting becomes intense. Having enjoyed the urban support since its formation MDC is showing signs ...Published: 14 Mar 2020 at 07:20hrs | 13546 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Warriors' Squad for Algeria named
Warriors coach Zdravko Logarusic has made a few changes to the Warriors squad to face Algeria in the back-to-back 2021 AFCON qualifiers against Algeria later this month.The technical team reta...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 15:49hrs | 3369 | by Staff reporter
Bosso to release Ariel Sibanda, Peter Muduhwa and Prince Dube
HIGHLANDERS players were the notable absentees from the Warriors' African Nations Championship (Chan) squad that trooped into camp yesterday to start preparations for the tournament scheduled for Came...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:55hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Chan squad starts preparations
ZIMBABWE'S locally-based players will bid to impress coach Zdravko Logarusic (Loga) when he gets down to work today to assess a large pool of 28 players to assemble a squad that will repre...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:37hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Bosso to finalise 2020 squad
HIGHLANDERS are set to announce their final 2020 squad before the end of the week after wrapping up negotiations with all players. Bosso look set to keep most players from last season after ta...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:24hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo nurses stage demo against hospital CEO
MPILO Central Hospital nurses yesterday demonstrated against the chief executive officer Mr Leonard Mabandi's directive for them to start working four-day shifts instead of the two days they agreed on...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 05:22hrs | 972 | by Staff reporter
Agent Sawu divides Zifa
IT'S now virtually certain that there will be no immediate Warriors team manager appointment as there seems to be some haggling over the right candidate for the important job within the Zimbabwe Footb...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 13:15hrs | 1863 | by Staff reporter
Mushekwi's 'great escape'
CHINA-BASED former Warriors striker Nyasha Mushekwi has revealed how his team's pre-season camp in Turkey helped him escape being caught up in the lockdown in China due to the deadly coronavirus....Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:37hrs | 2150 | by Staff reporter
Bosso sign 5 players
HIGHLANDERS paid-up members are expected to meet at the Clubhouse this morning for the sole purpose of receiving audited financial statements as a continuation of the club's Annual General Meeting (AG...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:23hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Inviting hyenas to a sheep's party
Someone somewhere in Zimbabwe is currently praying incessantly that the plague that is coronavirus somehow finds its way into the country in order for the envisaged resultant fatalities to eloquently ...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:17hrs | 234 | by Bishop Lazarus
Zimbabwe needs to adopt a rights-based approach in regulation of internet
Zimbabwe has been in the process of aligning its laws with the 2013 constitution, resulting in the unbundling in 2019 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa) through the gaz...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:50hrs | 233 | by Misa Zimbabwe.
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