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Covid-19 patient sues government over burial restrictions
A COVID-19 patient has taken the government to court contesting recent burial restrictions as he claims they would violate his cultural beliefs in the event that he dies and is not buried at his rural...Published: 39 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must resign,' says Chitando
FORMER Masvingo Central legislator Jeffreyson Chitando has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resign, saying that he has failed to diligently execute his duties as Head of State.Chitand...Published: 6 hrs ago | 6895 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccine only for the chefs
GOVERNMENT yesterday revealed that it was failing to import enough vaccines for citizens, and would prioritise Cabinet ministers and senior government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), the secur...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2360 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm embroiled in COVID-19 testing storm
A CHINESE mining company, Afrochine Smelting has been embroiled in a COVID-19 testing scandal after it allegedly assigned unqualified personnel to carry out tests for the respiratory virus on its 600 ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1638 | by Staff reporter
Young agri-entrepreneur shines in rural Zimbabwe
While agriculture forms an integral part of Zimbabwe's economy, many young people still think of it as back-breaking labour that offers little economic benefit.However, things are slowly chang...Published: 7 hrs ago | 823 | by Staff reporter
Ndavaningi Mangwana must just resign
IT is sad that Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana has decided to hide from the truth that our health sector is in the intensive care unit, therefore, it can no longer assist people.Zanu...Published: 7 hrs ago | 838 | by Ranga Chitore
Mangwana's brain fade cannot go unchallenged
UTTERANCES by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana accusing doctors of deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and blaming their deaths on the coronavirus cannot go unchallenged.We are u...Published: 7 hrs ago | 547 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig attacks govt's poor strategies in COVID-19 fight
FORMER Health and Child Care minister Henry Madzorera has rapped government and questioned its commitment to addressing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic after the number of deaths breached the 1 000 mark ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 337 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over COVID-19 health insurance fund
THERE appears to be confusion over when frontline medical personnel will start receiving the liability insurance package, as they claim they are yet to receive anything, neither have they received com...Published: 7 hrs ago | 154 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 induced triple heroes burial set for tomorrow
Zimbabwe will tomorrow witness the interment of three national heroes on the same day, the first time this is happening, in what will also highlight the grim times the country is enduring because of t...Published: 7 hrs ago | 436 | by Staff reporter
Government warns against fake Covid-19 death news
GOVERNMENT has issued a stern warning against spreading fake news and false information pertaining to the health condition of the country's leaders, including their purported deaths by members of the ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 177 | by Staff reporter
Amini dejected by bizzare substitution
WARRIORS defender Qadr Amini was left a dejected lot after his substitution with less than three minutes into the CHAN Group A dead rubber against Mali on Sunday night for health reasons. ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 391 | by Staff reporter
Nurse aides barred from boarding public transport
Health care givers are the heroes of our time and everyone must play their part in helping them do their jobs in the difficult time of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Cabinet Minister has said. Gover...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1140 | by Staff reporter
New rules for lawyers, litigants
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba has announced that lawyers and litigants filing urgent chamber and bail applications at superior courts are no longer allowed to attend hearings to make oral representations ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mugwadi accuses Biti of colluding with doctors to target Zanu-PF politicians
Zanu-PF information director Tafadzwa Mugwadi has backed a now withdrawn claim by government spokesman Nick Mangwana that doctors were responsible for purposely killing several ruling party bigwigs wh...Published: 16 hrs ago | 4082 | by Staff reporter
Mahere recovering from Covid-19
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere who tested positive to COVID-19, two days after she was released from remand prison on bail on allegations of publishing falsehoods has said she is recovering ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets new Covid-19 mortality daily record with 70 deaths
Zimbabwe has set a new Covid-19 mortality daily record with 70 deaths reported on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 1,075. Caseload now at 31,646.Zimbabwe breached wha...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2236 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana issues apology after calling doctors 'assassins'
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Ndavaningi Mangwana has apologised after suggesting "medical assassins" were deliberately killing Zanu-PF members in hospitals following the death of several past an...Published: 22 hrs ago | 2525 | by Staff reporter
Fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic irks Mnangagwa's govt
The secretary for Home Affairs, Aaron Nhepera, has issued a stern warning to those who are "spreading falsehoods" about the health and death of national leaders. Nhepera, a former deputy ...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1108 | by A.D.T Nhepera
Zimbabwe gets vaccine offers from Russia, China
Russia and China have approached Zimbabwe about supplying vaccines to tackle its escalating Covid-19 outbreak amid concern about Harare's ability to afford the shots, with plans for meetings with busi...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Masarira: I don't trust this COVID-19 vaccine
Linda Masarira, leader of the LEAD political party, has become the latest politician to query the notion behind the current COVID-19 vaccines.According to Masarira, some of the COVID-19 vaccin...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2480 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean seeks refuge back home - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
A young Zimbabwean woman who says her family 'fled' to the UK in 1996 as gone back to Zimbabwe, where she says she will be better off. In a scathing attack on the British government, publ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 13:43hrs | 1480 | by mVigil
'We must stand together, a united people' - this is insane, phoney 1987 unity is still excuse for bad governance
It was Albert Einstein, one of the world's greatest intellectuals and physicist, who said "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!"Cursed is the ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 13:20hrs | 626 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Chiwenga has not been flown to China,' says Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cut short his annual leave after ordering his deputy and Acting President Constantino Chiwenga to take a rest, an official said.Chiwenga, who has undergone ext...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 5087 | by Staff reporter
Govt raps anti-vaccine church leaders
Government has rapped some church and community leaders trying to stop their followers from accepting Covid-19 vaccines and said only professional health personnel should comment on the jab. M...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Furore over govt claims of killer doctors
DOCTORS yesterday reacted with alarm and anger over allegations by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana that some medical practitioners were deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and hiding be...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:38hrs | 3945 | by Staff reporter
WHO warns of severe COVID-19 related mental problems
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted a surge in severe mental health cases as COVID-19 cases continue to rise worldwide, including in Zimbabwe.WHO director of the department of Me...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 1529 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo's firm digs in
LABORATORY reportedly linked to former Health minister Obadiah Moyo, Klosad Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory, yesterday hit back at orders by the Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) to clos...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:36hrs | 2268 | by Staff reporter
'Stop using veterinary drug for COVID-19 treatment'
THE Zimbabwe College of Public Health Physicians (ZCPHP) yesterday added its voice in calling for the total ban of controversial prescriptions and use of the veterinary drug, Ivermectin, which is repo...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:33hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
Moral ambivalence in the midst of darkness
OH, what a sad, heavy and dark week! The COVID-19 pandemic has eventually stamped its indelible wound on our nation. It has been with us since the first quarter of last year, though. But it was hittin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | 125 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Rapper pokes Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF
SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean rapper and producer Titus "McTytoh" Marume through his song titled Mbuya Nehanda has warned youths that they will likely inherit ruins as the leadership was not acting to...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:30hrs | 971 | by Staff reporter
Mutara appointed Mutare acting town clerk
THE Mutare City Council has appointed Antony Mutara its acting town clerk following the death of Joshua Maligwa.Maligwa succumbed to COVID-19 a fortnight ago.Mutara, who is the city he...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:29hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Nightclub owner fined
A BINDURA businessman was fined $100 000 for illegally operating a nightclub during the Covid-19 lockdown. Nyasha Muwomba (39), who runs Club 1160 at Piki shops in Bindura, was convicted for c...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:27hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Chikurubi Maximum Prison inmates receive PPE
INMATES at Chikurubi Maximum Prison last week received an assortment of personal protective equipment worth $400 000 from TelOne, a donation meant to contain the spread of Covid-19 in correctional fac...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:26hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 deaths breach 1,000
Zimbabwe has breached what President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday described as the "grim mark" of a thousand coronavirus deaths. The ministry of health says 31 people died from the resp...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 21:17hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
Matiza, Zimondi declared national heroes
The late Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons& Correctional Services Commissioner General, Major General (Rtd) Paradzai Zimondi have b...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 20:18hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister says, 'this is war' as coronavirus runs amok
ACTING Information minister, Jenfan Muswere, yesterday likened Zimbabwe's raging and deadlier second wave coronavirus storm as a war — amid the country's soaring deaths and infections.Speaki...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:09hrs | 1900 | by Staff reporter
More trouble in Warriors camp
WARRIORS manager Wellington Mpandare has rubbished social media reports that star midfielder Denver Mukamba was being overlooked after clashing with head coach Zdravko Logarusic over team selection an...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 18:07hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 won't be defeated by empty political rhetoric, says Biti
Zimbabwean former Finance minister Tendai Biti, also main opposition MDC Alliance deputy president, says the virulent Covid-19 pandemic, surging and killing more people, won't be defeated by empty pol...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1265 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana stirs hornet's nest by labelling some doctors as 'medical assassins'
Zimbabwean govt spokesman Nick Mangwana has stirred a hornet's nest by insinuating that there are doctors who are now killing "certain political players" in hospitals.This was in the context o...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 15:53hrs | 1888 | by Staff reporter
Mr President, We Deserve Better
On 24 August 2018, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe ruled that Zanu PF leader Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa had been legitimately elected as President of Zimbabwe, effectively ending the challenge by the t...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:52hrs | 1978 | by Fungai Chiposi
Ziyambi Ziyambi hospitalised, battling for his life in the ICU
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 9696 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctors deliberately killing politicians in hospitals?
THE Permanent Secretary of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Nick Mangwana, has said there are theories suggesting that some professional doctors are deliberately killing political pla...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 10:31hrs | 5422 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's letter to World Bank on Zimbabwe COVID-19 aid
In May 2020, the World Bank dipped into a special health fund to provide US$7 million to Zimbabwe to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus.The US$7...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:09hrs | 3990 | by Staff reporter
Vaccine at Zimbabwe State House?
Once again in a desperate move to cause anarchy and pandemonium in Zimbabwe an audio which featured Mr Simba Chikanza and an i identified male made rounds. The audio was celebrating the deaths of Zimb...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:02hrs | 7169 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mwonzora calls for 'dialogue fo build synergies' - had cure since 2008, reforms, lacked competent leader to implement
When some people have nothing better to say, the repeat themselves. Mwonzora is back at calling for national dialogue as the solution to Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and political paralysis."H...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 08:21hrs | 866 | by Nomusa Garikai
Larry Mavima recovers from Covid-19
A dark cloud has been hovering over the country and Government as freedom fighters, ministers, captains of industry, revered academics and top Government officials have been losing the battle to Covid...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 1965 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 patients told to buy their own ventilators
Zimbabwe shows what happens when the coronavirus collides with one of the world's most run-down health systems.Nurses at a major public hospital in the capital are on strike after colleagues d...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
'Expect more Covid-19 cases and deaths'
THE public has been warned that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic being experienced in Zimbabwe is far from reaching its peak, hence there are high chances that more positive cases and deaths w...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:29hrs | 3101 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo linked Klosad shuts down over Covid-19 scam
KLOSAD Clinical Diagnostics Lab, whose staff members were last week exposed by this publication for issuing fake Covid-19 certificates, has been shut down to pave way for full investigations.T...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 23:27hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
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