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Africans are not human guinea pigs
While the whole world really confronts the Codiv-19 virus and having lost already thousands of people in Asia, in Europe and in America, preci...Published: 1 hr ago | 308 | by Iphithule Thembani Maphosa
Liverpool a step closer to title after behind-closed-doors games cleared for broadcast
Broadcasters will be able to screen Premier League games kicking off at 15:00 live for the remainder of the season after UEFA lifted restrictions.The English and Scottish Football Associations...Published: 3 hrs ago | 907 | by Staff reporter
Letters of hope, Covid-19!
"Hope is a mystery that forsees the beauty and the victory of the future. It is hope that testifies in our hearts that our nation will overcome this deadly virus. Our blessed and beautiful nation has ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 430 | by Eric Shikobela
Family feuds over tombstones
A family feud has spilled into the courts following the alleged mistreatment of tenants, The Weekender reports.House Number 39 Tenderere is at the centre of the dispute between Patience Jimu and her e...Published: 4 hrs ago | 532 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe white farmers reject Mnangagwa's offer
A FORTNIGHT ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government a said it was offering about 800 commercial farms as compensation to farmers who had lost their land during the violent land seizures that be...Published: 4 hrs ago | 860 | by newzimbabwe
'Mwonzora, Komichi expelled from MDC-T'
I Elias Mashavire the principal actor in the matter on which the Supreme Court sat on 31 March 2020 do hereby make the following issues known to the public: 1) I am happy that the matt...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2366 | by Elias Mashavire
Bosso coach having sleepless nights
HIGHLANDERS coach Mark Harrison is having sleepless nights with his heart split between the safety of his family members, dotted across the coronavirus hotspots, and his players. Already, his ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 199 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Zimbabweans for lockdown determination
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday hailed Zimbabweans for complying with the regulations of the 21-day national lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19, with the number of infections around the world sh...Published: 4 hrs ago | 67 | by Staff reporter
Barbourfields Stadium and National Sports Stadium ban stands
BARBOURFIELDS Stadium in Bulawayo and the National Sports Stadium in Harare remain banned from playing host to Caf-sanctioned international senior men's matches for failing to meet required minimum st...Published: 4 hrs ago | 99 | by Staff reporter
The year Spanish Influenza attacked Rhodesia
The Spanish Flu epidemic struck Rhodesia in early October, 1918, being introduced into the country by passengers arriving from South Africa by train. It spread quickly in all the urban centres before ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 264 | by Jonathan Waters
The only strategy against Covid-19 is testing, 1 000 plus daily - only 316 done in 3 months
One more person has tested positive of corona virus bringing the total in Zimbabwe to 9. Here is the summary:30 March Cumulative number of test - 316Negative - 307Positive - 9D...Published: 13 hrs ago | 795 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa registers National Democratic Movement party - Fake news
There is a letter circulating on social media purporting that the embattled MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, has written to the Zimbabwe Elections Commission notifying them that he has registered ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 4847 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa turns instruments of repression into weapons against coronavirus
Zimbabwe's police began using water cannon on Friday to disinfect markets and bus ranks, turning instruments associated with repression into weapons against the new coronavirus.Zimbabwean poli...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1353 | by Reuters
South Africa could be downgraded further, economists warn
The decision by ratings agency Moody's to downgrade South Africa's sovereign's credit rating to 'junk' may be the start of further downgrades in the coming months, say Nedbank economists."In o...Published: 20 hrs ago | 790 | by Staff reporter
'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: 21 hrs ago | 2280 | by Staff reporter
South Africa police kill more people compared to COVID-19
Eight deaths have allegedly occurred at the hands of police since the start of the nationwide lockdown on 26 March, according to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).The num...Published: 22 hrs ago | 895 | by Staff reporter
Khupe can recall MDC MPs
Leading academic and University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, says that the MDC is facing significant turmoil.All this comes after the Supreme Court upheld last y...Published: 22 hrs ago | 3078 | by Staff reporter
MDC judgment sets tongues waging
Zimbabweans woke up from their coronavirus slumber to read an ambiguous judgment designed to discredit Nelson Chamisa's MDC-A presidency. The judgment, which was passed a few hours before April Fool's...Published: 22 hrs ago | 836 | by Sibanengi Dube
SA based Zimbabwean singer tests positive
SOUTH Africa-based Afro-Fusion musician William Magwiroto, popularly known as Willionair, has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19).In an interview with a local daily, Willionair said his...Published: 22 hrs ago | 911 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's movement offers solution to fighting Coronavirus
Tyson Wabantu Movement has issued a statement urging the government of the day to implement tough measures in fighting the dreaded Wuhan virus that seen positive cases rise to nine in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:28hrs | 2210 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Coronavirus cases rise to 9
The Ministry of Health has reported that Coronavirus cases have risen to nine after a Harare man tested positive. According to the Ministry, the 50-year-old man had travelled to the United Kin...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:04hrs | 2052 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo city fathers have headache over water crisis
Bulawayo City Councillors have headaches on how they should resolve the water problems bedeviling the city amid concerns supply dams levels of water were fast deteriorating at the same time the rainy ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:44hrs | 749 | by Stephen Jakes
Indian twins named 'Corona' and 'Covid'
The pandemic caused by a new virus may have brought the world to its knees, but that has not deterred a couple in Chhattisgarh to name their newborn twins as ‘Corona' and ‘Covid', ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:36hrs | 1523 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces disciplinary action, Mwonzora threatens
REINSTATED MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has delivered stinging criticism of his long-time nemesis Nelson Chamisa and his allies, saying they faced disciplinary action for failing to comply w...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:06hrs | 4375 | by Staff reporter
Hospital stuck with COVID-19 suspect body
HEALTH officials in Mashonaland East province were yesterday reportedly stuck with the corpse of a man suspected to have succumbed to COVID-19 man.The man, who had shown symptoms related to th...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Wilkins reopens after refurbishment
Zimbabwe's main COVID-19 isolation and treatment centre, Wilkins Hospital, will reopen its doors to the public at the weekend following a US$500 000 upgrade initiated by the Chinese business community...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:58hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has lost 40 years, says Catholic bishops
THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) says Zimbabwe has lost an opportunity in the past 40 years to redefine its history, foster national healing and to end corruption, international isolati...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:57hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors raise alarm over COVID-19 tests
LOCAL medical doctors have expressed concern over the low numbers of people being tested for the deadly coronavirus in the country as the United Nations (UN) yesterday warned that Africa could lose mi...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Nurses desert Wilkins
NURSES at the country's main Covid-19 isolation centre, Wilkins Infectious Diseases Hospital, are resigning as morale hits rock bottom in the crucial health sector, which is in the frontline of Zimbab...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 868 | by Staff reporter
Beware the Ides of March coronavirus is here
MANY pandemics and epidemics have occurred throughout the history of mankind, from biblical times to date. We have lived to tell the tale in the Aids pandemic and our cousins in the Congo and in West ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 248 | by Godfrey Mungwadzi Specialist physician
Lockdown laws draconian, excessive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's announcement of a 21-day national lockdown across Zimbabwe to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus was accompanied by a raft of laws, which are draconian, excessive a...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:49hrs | 182 | by Dewa Mavhinga
BCC moves to repair swimming pools
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will engage private contractors to work on "major" repairs at the City and North End swimming pools. According to the latest council minutes, the local authority wh...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:30hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
BCC clinics overwhelmed as hospitals' OPDs close
BULAWAYO City Council clinics are overwhelmed with patients after the city's central hospitals closed their Out Patients Departments (OPDs) and started attending to emergency cases only. ...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:25hrs | 162 | 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 | 215 | by Financial Mail
Zimbabwe confirms 9th Covid-19 case
One more person has tested positive to Covid-19, bringing to nine the total number of confirmed cases in the country, with one death. Of these nine, five are imported while four are local transmission...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:15hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Global COVID-19 cases top 1 million
The coronavirus pandemic has passed its landmark moment, as over one million people worldwide have tested positive for the disease, according to figures from multiple sources.The total number ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 21:03hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter
UN launches Zimbabwe famine and virus aid plan
Authorities in Zimbabwe and the United Nations on Thursday launched an emergency humanitarian plan worth $715 million to help a third of the country's population, threatened by famine and at high risk...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 20:44hrs | 2027 | by Agency staff
A fool and his pen, what a bad combo!
April Fools' Day has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures. The media embraced the tradition and have been participating in the Apri...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:50hrs | 1969 | by Tafara Shumba
Mwonzora's hands are clean
Embattled MDC deputy secretary for International Relations Douglas Mwonzora has said his hands are clean and he is not leading any faction plotting to depose the party's leader Nelson Chamisa....Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:25hrs | 3004 | by Staff reporter
Zambia records first coronavirus death
Washing hands is the key advice given to stop the spread of coronavirusImage caption: Washing hands is the key advice given to stop the spread of coronavirusZambia has recorded its first death...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 19:11hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
10 Zimbabwean nationals arrested while travelling to PE farm for work
The fate of 10 undocumented Zimbabwean migrants, who were locked up in Graaff-Reinet, is in the hands of the department of home affairs.The Zimbabweans were en-route to Port Elizabeth when the...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 17:18hrs | 20922 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Catholic bishops bemoan wasted years
THE Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) says in the last four decades, Zimbabwe lost an opportunity to redefine its history, foster national healing and to end corruption, international isolat...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 17:15hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 discovered in Durban's biggest townships
Cases of Covid-19 have now been discovered in Durban's biggest townships with health officials deploying tracer teams to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus, with cases reported in KwaMashu, Inand...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:39hrs | 2546 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Zwelinzima Vavi tests positive for Coronavirus
South African media have reported General Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Zwelinzima Vavi has revealed that he tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus.Vavi...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1574 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: BUSE discovers cure for Newcastle virus
Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) this afternoon claimed they have found a cure for the Newcastle virus which has caused major losses in the poultry industry worldwide.The discove...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:14hrs | 2079 | by Staff reporter
#Covid-19, residents demand water in battle to combat deadly epidemic and avert crisis
A RESIDENTS’ representative group has hauled Chitungwiza Municipality and central government to court seeking an order compelling them to urgently act and ensure provision of water to residents at a...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 13:05hrs | 214 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC court ruling adds to confusion
A decision by the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe to strip main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of his title as the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has fragmented the party instead of se...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:36hrs | 2601 | by Shingai Nyoka, BBC News
Botswana's leader quits quarantine after negative test
Mokgweetsi Masisi was self-isolating at home on his return from NamibiaImage caption: Mokgweetsi Masisi was self-isolating at home on his return from NamibiaBotswana President Mokgweetsi Masis...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:34hrs | 3313 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance died in 2018' Mwonzora explains
Former MDC Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora says the political entity called MDC Alliance fell away immediately after the 2018 elections when none of the alliance partners managed to get enough poli...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 5264 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MDC criticises top court's ruling on Nelson Chamisa
Zimbabwe's top court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the country's largest opposition party.Chamisa's leadership was contes...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:53hrs | 719 | by Agency Staff
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