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Zimbabweans in the UK living with the aftermath of Covid-19
Many Zimbabweans in the UK who contracted COVID 19 have recovered. This brought joy and hope not only for the recovered but for the world at large. While the vast majority of those who contract Covid-...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 08:13hrs | 1812 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Leonard Dembo's music will live on - Tendai Dembo
Born Tendai Dembo on 8 August 1987 in Harare Zimbabwe, Tendai is the second born in a family of three siblings of the late sungura musical icon Kwangwari Gwaendepi popularly known as Leonard Dembo or ...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 15:30hrs | 1380 | by Leonard Koni
Civil servants forex payment extended
GOVERNMENT has pledged to extend the foreign currency non-taxable Covid-19 allowance for civil servants and pensioners to December as it maintains its position of providing a living wage for its emplo...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2656 | by Staff reporter
ICAC demands lifting of Ecowas embargo against Mali
The International Coalition Against Coronavirus and Other Pandemics (ICAC) has demanded the lifting of the ECOWAS embargo against Mali and the immediate release of its Vice President Pulcherie Edith G...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 08:49hrs | 267 | by Stephen Jakes
President Mnangagwa boasts about his achievements
Two years ago today, I was inaugurated as your President. I vowed to serve Zimbabwe and its people so that we could move towards a more prosperous future. Here's what we have achieved in this time....Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 2780 | by President Emmerson Mnangagwa
Indian Premier League set to take place in UAE between September and November.
Indian Premier League 2020 to take place in UAEThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have worked in tandem with the tournament organisers and Ind...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 20:34hrs | 138 | by Staff writer
Govt concerned over COVID-19 violations
GOVERNMENT has raised concern over unnecessary movement of people in violation of COVID-19 protocols in urban areas and encouraged people to travel only when absolutely necessary.Information, ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:36hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt intransigence self-destructive
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa administration's intransigence towards overtures by the African Union (AU) and various civic organisations to urgently address Zimbabwe's drawn out political and economic ...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 632 | by Golden Maunganidze
Zanu-PF politburo tells off bishops
ZANU-PF's politburo yesterday dismissed as malicious claims by Catholic bishops in the country that the government was carrying out human rights abuses and instilling fear among the populace, the Dail...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec's apartheid examinations must fail!
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council, ZIMSEC once again announced an exclusionary examinations' calendar. Grade 7, Ordinary level and Advanced level examinations are to be conducted this November ...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 1040 | by Artuz
Kidnapping of Ivorian Civil Society Coalition President, Edith Gbal condemned
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus and other Pandemics for African Development, CICC-DA, has condemned the kidnapping of the President of the Ivorian Civil Society Coalition, Pulchér...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 1122 | by Stephen Jakes
FULL TEXT: Adventist Lawyers' damning statement on Mnangagwa
On the 13 of February 2020, we issued a statement condemning corruption in our society and calling on Government to the following values,I. That though justice must be deliberate yet it cannot...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 19:44hrs | 6179 | by Adventist Lawyers Association
Mthuli Ncube's permanent secretary, 8 family members test Covid-19 positive
FINANCE Ministry secretary George Guvamatanga and his entire family of nine members had to be quarantined after they tested positive for Covid-19.Although details of how they got infected rema...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the Founders Sydrome (Foundiritis)
Let me introduce this article as an opinion piece by a pedestrian activist. I write from personal experience not other peoples lenses.l have been in the political field for a while now and with Covid1...Published: 13 Aug 2020 at 23:46hrs | 798 | by Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
D-day for Hopewell Chin'ono
Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is having his fresh bid for freedom heard at the Magistrate on Wednesday.He is appearing at Rottenrow Magistrates Court represented by senior journalist Beatrice M...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 10:24hrs | 5087 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC rolls out e-learning facilities at schools
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started rolling out e-learning facilities at its schools as learning institutions remain closed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.E-learning is seen as the o...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:08hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 has deepened inequalities, says Minister Nyoni
THE impact of COVID-19 has deepened existing inequalities and vulnerabilities particularly for women and girls, with more cases of gender-based violence (GBV) being reported, the Women's Affairs minis...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Cancel African public debts, ethics committees of African scientists must be formed
The International Coalition Against the Coronavirus (ICAC) Africa has demanded the cancellation of African public debts and establishment of the ethics committees of African scientists before an...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 142 | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU PF and Wrong Priorities
United Nations is begging the world for US$250million to urgently feed starving Zimbabweans whilst the Zimbabwean government is looking for US$3.5billion to pay 4000 colonial white farmers. There has ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 2336 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
ZANU PF shows ANC the middle finger
ZANU PF takes exception to the utterances that have been attributed to Cde Ace Magashule, the Secretary-General of the ANC where he appears hoodwinked by those seeking to destabilize Zimbabwe through ...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 19:50hrs | 10860 | by Tafadzwa Mugwadi
'Zimbabwe human rights abuse videos and pics are old and fake' Governmnet says
The Government of Zimbabwe has refuted allegations of human rights abuses which it says has been peddled by known political activists and misinformed individuals and global actors.In a stateme...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:00hrs | 2537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1187 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Silly protest threats must stop! Covid-19 is Real
Covid19 is real and we have real challenges that require all Zimbabweans regardless of political affiliations to put heads together on how we can survive this. Opposition supporters are crowded in the...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:51hrs | 465 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 385 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Reprieve for dead Zimbabweans in South Africa
Zimbabwe Embassy in SA has been a granted a special waiver to facilitate the the repatriation of bodies of deceased Zimbabweans during Covid19 pandemic period, Secretary for Information Nick Mangwana ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 11:20hrs | 4067 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Detractors, rogues will not stop us,' says Mnangagwa
My Fellow Zimbabweans, The world is in crisis. Borders have been closed, trade has ceased and businesses negatively impacted by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. The virus breaches borders, and kn...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:10hrs | 477 | by ED Mnangagwa
Bulawayo residents eager to see Ekusileni Medical Centre open
Bulawayo East MDC Alliance legislator Ilos Nyoni said residents of Bulawayo have been waiting anxiously for the opening of Ekusileni Medical centre as a Covid19 admission hospital since the onset of t...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:06hrs | 170 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1563 | by Leonard Koni
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1686 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Zimbabwe tragedy is the psychological warfare and propaganda machinery: Manyika
Build Zimbabwe leader Noah Manyika has said the tragedy in Zimbabwe is the psychological warfare and the propaganda machinery."The tragedy of this moment in the life of our nation is not just ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 486 | by Stephen Jakes
3 'abducted' MDC ladies and their lawyer arrested
Police in Harare have arrested opposition activists MP Joana Mamombe and activists Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova on their way to report at Central police station as part of their bail conditions....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:30hrs | 3770 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Armed ZANU PF Youths threaten Donald Trump and Chamisa
ZANU PF Youths have threatened unspecified to United States of America President Donald Trump, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, Transform Zimbabwe President Jacob Ngarivhume, and former cabinet Min...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 16:55hrs | 3588 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Air Zimbabwe plans to buy smaller aircraft
National airline Air Zimbabwe is working on acquiring smaller aircraft to service local routes as part of efforts to enhance connectivity within the country and boost domestic tourism. At an o...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
NGO plans Africa's self-determination, sovereign development programmes to fight Covid-19
A non-governmental organisation - International Coalition Against Coronavirus (ICAC) is planning to conduct programmes that are meant to enable Africa to have self-determination, sovereign devel...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 135 | by Stephen Jakes
Police announce documents needed for citizens to pass through roadblocks
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has specified the documents required for members of the public to pass through roadblocks and checkpoints in line with the COVID19 national measures announced by President...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 12:58hrs | 10352 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Concern raised over corpses smuggling
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern over reports that bodies of Zimbabweans who could have died from Covid-19 in neighbouring countries are being smuggled into the country, saying that could be a source ...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa roped into Hopewell Chin'ono's court case
Nine top media organisations across the world have written to the as Chair of the African Union, and as the President of the Republic of South Africa Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the crimi...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:31hrs | 4712 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shakespeare Mukoyi's father died of Coronavirus?
MDC National Youth Assembly leader Shakespeare Mukoyi's father succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, a screenshot from an MDC-T Whatsapp chat group has alleged. According to a screenshot seen b...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 12:49hrs | 3878 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Patriotic Front white President Darryl Collet's message to Zimbabweans
My fellow Zimbabweans;This is the first time I address you as President of The Patriotic Front. And I do it with great honor and humility. TPF is a multiracial movement born out of a collectiv...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5719 | by Darryl Collet
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3008 | by Staff reporter
OK Zimbabwe closes branch over Coronavirus
OK Zimbabwe Chief Executive Officer Alex Edgar Siyavora has issued circular to all branches informing them of the temporary closure of Bon Marche Mt. Pleasant after one of the guards tested posi...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 11:48hrs | 5772 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BREAKING: Zimbabweans banned from entering CBD
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana has announced that ordinary Zimbabweans will not be allowed to enter the Central business District with immediate effect. Mangwana said in an...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 10:21hrs | 26399 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu PF's mask is shifting at the everest of the Covid19 Pandemic
For donkey years, the Zanu PF's tin-pot trimvirate has been playing a game of musical choirs to keep itself in power amidst the deepening and excruciating economic and constitutional free-fall. Zimbab...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:20hrs | 723 | by Matthew Dube Esquire
PHOTOS: Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation director donates #ZANUPFMustGO masks
Human Rights Activist and Director of Dumiso Dabengwa Foundation Mthulisi Hanana distributed masks written #ZANUPFMustGo to residents of Bulawayo of Saturday. ...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 17:17hrs | 3480 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: 2 men escape Beitbridge quarantine centre...infect 7 family members
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana says two male returnees who were locked inside a quarantine centre escaped and went to their homesteads and infected their family members with th...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 7495 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 hidden truths that reveal lockdown is a big mistake
It seems that despite the World Health Organization releases news that should be worldwide valid, each country's government takes decisions independently on how to manage the COVID19 situation....Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 22:24hrs | 5187 | by Staff writer
Donor comes to the aid of Zimbabweans struggling in SA
A donor who has chosen not to be identified has come to the aid of thousands of Zimbabweans struggling to survive in South Africa due to Covid-19 lockdown after the veteran broadcaster Ezra Tshisa Sib...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 14:59hrs | 2641 | by Stephen Jakes
'July 31 demo is not about graft'
THE government has said it is convinced that far from being an anti-corruption demonstration, the planned July 31 protests are meant to remove the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:25hrs | 3575 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus hits Kuda Tagwirei's hospital
Professor Jonathan Moyo has reported that 5 people tested positive at Rock Foundation Medical Centre which is owned by Sakunda Holdings. Moyo said the infection came from a salon at Westgate. ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 10:52hrs | 10640 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa's govt will not allow anarchy'
Government has said it will not allow anarchy in the country and those found on the wrong side of the law will face their day in court, amid revelations that opposition parties want to use their July ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2375 | by Staff reporter
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