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Chiwenga to preside over triple burial tomorrow
Acting President Dr Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga will tomorrow preside over the burials of three departed National Heroes.Chiwenga, 64, was last week reported...Published: 6 hrs ago | 2154 | 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: 16 hrs ago | 3479 | by Staff reporter
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: 17 hrs ago | 800 | 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: 17 hrs ago | 545 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 deaths will not destroy Zanu-PF, says Matemadanda
Zanu-PF political commissar Victor Matemadanda says the Covid-19 pandemic would not destroy the ruling party as yearned for by its detractors but will emerge stronger. This comes after the vir...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 4853 | by Staff reporter
My hands are tied, says Judge
The High Court has dismissed an abduction case of a Mabvuku woman who went missing on January 6 after she was allegedly arrested by unidentified uniformed soldiers for breaking lockdown laws. ...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:51hrs | 5330 | by Staff reporter
Soldier, police officer rob man of 30 boxes of cigarettes
Police have arrested a soldier from the One Commando regiment and a police officer from the support unit for allegedly robbing a Beitbridge man of 30 boxes of export quality cigarettes worth R95 000. ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:28hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
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 | 9730 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora mourns Ministers S.B Moyo and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba
On behalf of the MDC T Party, my family and my own behalf, I wish to express my sincere and deep heartfelt condolences to the Moyo and Gwaradzimba families and the government of Zimbabwe at the passin...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 06:59hrs | 744 | by Douglas Mwonzora
Mnangagwa, Chamisa call for unity
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called for unity in the fight against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the country hard with deaths fast approach...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:59hrs | 2377 | by Staff reporter
Police holding cells 'super-spreaders'
POLICE holding cells in Zimbabwe could be Covid-19 super-spreaders owing to the conditions at most of the country's police cells.Standardpeople yesterday witnessed Covid-19 violators, most of ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:51hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Rogue soldiers on the prowl
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has warned the public to be on the lookout for rogue soldiers that are deployed across the country and are going out of their line of duty and robbing people at gunpoi...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:49hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus and the mystery of infection
He waited by the bus-stop, all day, shaking his car keys rather impatiently, pacing up and down as each bus arrived, as each bus left. Only a dishevelled tramp sat by the benches, mumbling incoherentl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:45hrs | 511 | by Zifiso Masiye
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
Illegal immigrants struggle in the UK
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the UK jobs market has changed substantially, take a look at what this means for recruitment and occupational shortages, as well as serious implications for people's...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1020 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 559 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week. Dr Moyo succumbed to Covid-19-re...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:19hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Army clears air on Guinea Fowl shooting
The Guinea Fowl shooting incident which occurred on January 16, resulting in the death of Tatenda Munetsiwa after being shot by 52 Infantry Battalion soldiers who were reacting to a report of theft of...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | 2190 | by Staff reporter
Minister Chiduwa's relative among 6 arrested 'robbers'
Elias Chiduwa (49), a close relative of the Deputy Minister of Finance Clemence Chiduwa is among the six suspected notorious robbers who were nabbed by the Police in Harare yesterday.Elias was...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 08:45hrs | 4018 | by Staff reporter
Chief pleads for soldiers to enforce lockdown
A TRADITIONAL leader in Insiza, Matabeleland South, Chief Sibasa born Bekezela Sibanda yesterday implored the government to deploy soldiers to his area to enforce the lockdown and curfew.The c...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:35hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Sibusiso Busi Moyo, the coup announcer, declared national hero
The late Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo, has been declared a national hero.The message was delivered by Defence and War Veteran Affairs Minister Oppah ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 18:14hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Dr Shingi Munyeza showed the Character of a leader
Sometime at the end of the year 2020, my Senior Founding Apostle at Victory Fellowship Church in Bulawayo, gathered his Senior Assembly Pastors and reminded them that in 2019, he had prepared the lead...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 16:51hrs | 3408 | by Tomson Dube
SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy
"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then M...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra cadres eulogise SB Moyo
FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Major-General (Rtd) Dr Sibusiso Moyo (SB), was yesterday described as a brave and intelligent soldier whose military prowess both during and after the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2316 | by Staff reporter
Polad salutes SB Moyo
POLITICAL parties yesterday expressed shock at the death of Dr Sibusiso Moyo, saying the nation had been robbed of a dedicated veteran of the liberation struggle, a decorated soldier and an accomplish...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mourn SB Moyo
The death of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Rtd), yesterday morning from Covid-19 complications came as a great shock, President Mnangagwa said...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
South Africa, China mourn SB Moyo
CHINA and South Africa have sent messages of condolences following the death on Wednesday, of Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo through Covid-19.In a statement, the Chinese emb...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 17:51hrs | 2125 | by Staff reporter
At exactly 12.01 EST 20/01/21 America will heave sigh of relief - government of the people was tested and survived
Today, 20 January 2020, at exactly one minute past high noon Eastern Standard Time the whole of America will heave a huge sigh of relief. The four years of chaos, arrogance and down right lawlessness ...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 09:14hrs | 1879 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa confirms the death of Sibusiso Moyo
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo (SB) has died.President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed the passing of Gen (Rtrd) SB Moyo. Mnangagwa said he regrets to announce the...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 09:06hrs | 8384 | by Staff reporter
Ibhetshu likaZulu commemorates Gukurahundi genocide
MATABELELAND pressure group, Ibhetshu likaZulu will today commemorate Gukurahundi in honour of the estimated 20 000 people massacred by the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade in Matabeleland and Midlan...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | 568 | by Staff reporter
UK, US, EU wants Mnangagwa to probe 2019 killings
THE United States (US) yesterday said Harare should investigate and bring to book the perpetrators of the January 2019 killings, where soldiers and the police allegedly shot and killed at least 23 peo...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cops in fresh virus crusade
AS THE country remains in the vice grip of the deadly coronavirus, amid soaring deaths and infections, police have made a fresh appeal to Zimbabweans to improve their discipline and heed all current l...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 11:15hrs | 2081 | by Staff reporter
Inauguration exclusion for Mnangagwa! so what?
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will not attend this week's inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, the invitation list did not include the president of Zimbabwe. It must be clear to an...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 09:05hrs | 4293 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Six soldiers arrested for murder
SIX soldiers from 5:2 Infantry Battalion at Battelfields were arrested on Sunday after they besieged a village, assaulted villagers and shot at individuals who intervened in Guinea Fowl, Gweru....Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | 2798 | by Staff reporter
Six soldiers in gruesome murder case
Six members of Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) deployed at Guinea Fowl base claimed a life during their target on copper cable thieves in Gweru on January 16.Fortune Mambure (30), Shaibhu Ndara(2...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 14:15hrs | 3997 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Indiscipline driving up COVID-19 infections in Zimbabwe
THE government has raised a red flag over failure by Zimbabweans to respect the hard lockdown regulations as the country continues to battle rising Covid-19 infections and deaths.This comes as...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 13:32hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime brutal repression of dissent creating more liberation heroes than Smith's Rhodesia
As the nation mourns the sad passing away, yesterday 15 January 2020, of one of the pioneer founding nationalist leaders of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against colonial rule and oppression, Morton ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:33hrs | 608 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga urges Zimbabweans not to panic
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has urged Zimbabweans not to panic, but to be even more vigilant in their daily lives as the country reels from the second wave of the lethal coronavirus.Th...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:20hrs | 2558 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers bash lockdown enforcing cop
TWO soldiers reportedly went berserk on Monday and assaulted a police officer who was leading a team that was enforcing lockdown restriction measures in Chipinge.Milicent Ndebvu (30) and Mike ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 15:09hrs | 1931 | by Staff reporter
Museveni takes commanding lead in polls
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has taken a commanding lead in the country's presidential election, according to provisional results released yesterday, with 34 percent of the ballots counted....Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:12hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns social media users
Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga has denied claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed amid a surge in Covid-19 cases and face a critical shortage of beds and equipment....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 19:20hrs | 1645 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown closures clear border mess
SANITY has returned to Beitbridge Border Post following the closure of the busy facility under fresh Covid-19 control measures by both South Africa and Zimbabwe.The high mobility across the bo...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth'
South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, "Covid fatigue" and a seriesof "super-spreader" events.On ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:43hrs | 1834 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2555 | by Samantha Power
8 more arrested in US$2.5 million heist
EIGHT more suspected armed robbers have been arrested in connection with the US $2,5 million heist which occurred along the Harare-Chinhoyi Road Wednesday last week.This brings to 11, the numb...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 09:10hrs | 6138 | by Staff reporter
400 cops, soldiers descend on Beitbridge
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Zimbabwe National Army have deployed more than 400 officers from outside Beitbridge in a major clampdown that has seen hundreds of people arrested and fined in the...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:06hrs | 3859 | by Staff reporter
An independent state is the only viable option for the people of Mthwakazi from the MLF president
Greetings to all! It is important to underline in addition to the emphasis on the importance of skills development for Mthwakazi which was published last week, that we look forward to fruitful...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 15:04hrs | 735 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Mnangagwa's security personnel test positive of COVID-19
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, currently on annual leave at a time Zimbabwe is battling the intensifying Covid-19 pandemic, including attendant deaths, was last week forced to abandon a trip to his She...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:41hrs | 4464 | by Staff reporter
ANC's long fight for SA democracy inspiration for Zimbabweans never to give up on struggle for freedom
The African National Congress (ANC) yesterday celebrated its 109th anniversary - being the oldest political party on the continent - yet, the fact that South Africa was the last country to attain its ...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 10:30hrs | 673 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Police, army restore sanity in Beitbridge
THE Beitbridge Border Post chaos that dominated news headlines worldwide in the last week ended yesterday as the last in the long queue of south-bound vehicles were cleared into South Africa.T...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:37hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
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