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Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | 5156 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi successor, phone tapping, 2 VPs dominate talk in Matebeleland
THE resignation of Vice President Kembo Mohadi has triggered frenzied talk in Matebeleland with political activists and parties expressing different views about who and how the former VP could best be...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:15hrs | 5117 | by Staff reporter
Sexgate claims VP Mohadi
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi (71), who has been battling a series of sex scandals allegedly involving married women, his aides and students, yesterday resigned to "save government's image".In a...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 7073 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi resigns to save image of the country
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday resigned to save the image of the Government and allow him space to pursue legal remedies in the wake of allegations on social media that suggested immoral behavi...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:25hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
No COVID-19 jab, no jobs, says Mnangagwa
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a coterie of punitive measures designed to coerce citizens to undergo COVID-19 vaccination following a low uptake of the jab since the launch of the programme...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:39hrs | 1482 | by Staff reporter
'Mohadi sexgate damaging Zimbabwe reputation'
POLITICAL analysts say government has a big task to mend the country's damaged reputation internationally following the sex allegations levelled against VicePresident Kembo Mohadi.Mohadi on We...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1012 | by Staff reporter
4 suspected rustlers arrested for possessing stolen cattle
POLICE in Matabeleland South Province have arrested four suspected rustlers who were found in possession of three cattle stolen from a farm in Gwanda.Provincial police spokesperson Inspector L...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 16:01hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi under pressure to step down over sex romps
THE Women's Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) has demanded the stepping down of Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is mired in embarrassing sex scandals with married women and subor...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:52hrs | 6330 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi invites another lover to hotel
YET another audio conversation between Vice President Kembo Mohadi and a Bulawayo lover has gone viral on social media.In the latest audio, Mohadi is heard trying to put up a romantic tone and...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 5080 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying COVID-19 Vaccines: The Truth
We are consumed by the desire to herald the truth in the age of increased information and knowledge. For this reason, we would like to demystify some dangerous misinformation that is being peddled by ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1508 | by Oliver Dube and Dr Stanley Maphosa
Soul Jah Love's dodgy hero status divides opinion
THE ruling Zanu-PF party's decision to declare the late Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love - born Soul Musaka - a liberation war hero has inadvertently raised political dust and left internet users di...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Checkpoints and supermarkets severely exposed to Covid-19
POLICE roadblocks and supermarkets are potential Covid-19 super spreaders as they are failing to adhere to basic safety precautions to contain the deadly novel virus that has ravaged the globe....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mliswa ex image sets social media on fire
A SEEMINGLY decent image of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa with Temba Mliswa's estranged lover Susan Mutami has set social media buzzing with many suggesting the controversial figure could be spec...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 16:35hrs | 7155 | by Staff reporter
Social media users lash Prophet Java
Self-styled Prophet Passion Java touched off a storm and attracted immediate backlash on social media Saturday after falsely claiming that comedian Madam Boss had succumbed to Covid-19.Java po...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 07:46hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota revisits Willowgate scandal
I WAS at the time two months short of 38 years of age and a little-known editor of The Chronicle, the Bulawayo-based daily newspaper.In a building in our neighbourhood in central Bulawayo was ...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:49hrs | 1283 | by Geoff Nyarota
2 Mutare men in court for assaulting cops
TWO Mutare men have appeared in court for assaulting two members of the police neighbourhood watch committee, who wanted to arrest them for not wearing face masks.Stanley Chifamata and Aaron S...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:55hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3270 | by Staff reporter
Cops under probe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has launched investigations into a case in which a picture circulating on social media of a woman and two toddlers, believed to be twins are detained at Rhodesville Police...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:34hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 965 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe continues to shame doomsayers, as opposition pins its hopes in PATHOGENS
During my schooling days when I chewed works of Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, one term one repeatedly met in one's study of the three sources and three origins of Marxist thought was...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 08:17hrs | 1165 | by Jamwanda
Police bashers arrested after attack goes viral on social media
Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the assault of neighborhood watch committee officers in Chikanga, Mutare, after the attack went viral on social media last week.Stanely Chi...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 2774 | by Staff reporter
Police, Zanu-PF pull blank faces over Bindura rally by Musanhi
POLICE and Zanu-PF both say they were not aware Bindura North MP Kenneth Musanhi held a rally last week in defiance of government's lockdown measures against gatherings.Police, instead, pleade...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Musanhi speaks on 'defying lockdown' video
Under fire ZANU PF politburo member and Bindura North legislator Kenneth Musanhi has spoken on defying Covid-19 regulations after his video went viral on social media.Through an email, Musanhi...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 14:36hrs | 1153 | by Staff Reporter
Prominent HIV researcher succumbs to Covid-19
Dr David Katzenstein, a leading Zimbabwe-based US researcher specialising in HIV research through collaborative efforts with local universities and medical research institutions has died.He su...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 19:12hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
China introduces anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections
BEIJING - Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the anus to detect potential COVID-19 infections as China steps up screening to make sure no potential carrier of the new coronavirus is miss...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | 4021 | by Reuters
'Build your own heroes' acre and bury your heroes there'
Zimbabweans were recently back to that time again when they lose sleep debating who is and who is not a national hero. This debate has been going on for as long as we have been a nation; that is, sinc...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:05hrs | 2451 | by Muckracker
Alarming numbers of false COVID-19 tests
THERE are alarming numbers of false COVID-19 test results due to the fact that the new strain of the virus is difficult to pick during routine testing, an expert has said.This was disclosed ye...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 06:00hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
Harare free COVID-19 testing initiative hits snag
THE Harare City Council (HCC)'s free COVID-19 testing initiative has hit a snag amid concerns from patients that the process is fraught with inconsistencies and false starts.While the city fat...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:59hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 754 | 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 | 7906 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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 | 522 | by Zifiso Masiye
Chin'ono bail hearing set for today
INCARCERATED journalist Hopewell Chin'ono's bail hearing over charges of communicating falsehoods will be heard today at the High Court after the State yesterday requested more time to file submission...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:40hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Confronting the scourge of persecution by prosecution
One of the most topical debates in national discourses in Zimbabwe over the last week has been around mechanisms to address and regulate the dissemination of false information and disinformation, in l...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30hrs | 140 | by Nigel Nyamutumbu
Zimbabwe now almost overrun by Covid-19 second wave
When the coronavirus pandemic began early in 2020, most Zimbabweans never took it seriously. Many were misled by social media where it was peddled that Corona is only for whites and only comes in wint...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 09:24hrs | 2759 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZPCS warns journalists against blocking prisons vehicles
Journalists covering court cases have been advised against blocking vans carrying suspects to court, and disobeying orders from Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials as that may ...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 07:13hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC confirmed its violent streak
263Chat reports that Member of Parliament for Makoni central, David Tekeshe who was attacked by a group of hoodlums at the funeral wake of a deceased member, says the MDC Alliance is confirming its vi...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 10:12hrs | 1864 | by Staff reporter
Drop charges against Chin'ono, Mahere and Sikhala, demands Amnesty International
Amnesty International has called on the Zimbabwean government to drop "malicious" charges against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and opposition MDC Alliance officials Fadzayi Mahere and Job Sikhala....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe question Sikhala, Mahere, Chin'ono arrests
Western diplomats in Zimbabwe have expressed concern over the continued detention of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and MDC Alliance officials Job Sikhala and Fadzayi Mahere.The three are charge...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 09:05hrs | 2630 | by Staff reporter
'Chin'ono faces 20-year jail term'
JOURNALIST Hopewell Chin'ono is likely to be jailed for 20 years if convicted for communicating falsehoods, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. This was revealed by an investigating officer from the ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:05hrs | 2730 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza council, residents clash over demolitions
CHITUNGWIZA residents were up in arms with their local authority yesterday after council revealed plans to demolish over 11 000 illegal structures, subject to a court order.The uproar came aft...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:02hrs | 538 | 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 | 2574 | by Samantha Power
Mahere's lawyers demand identity of 'dead' child's mother
LAWYERS representing MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere on charges of communicating falsehoods through social media yesterday told the court that they would want to know the identity of the woma...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:04hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 1806 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Mahere protests jail conditions
MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere will remain behind bars until Friday after a Harare magistrate deferred his ruling on the politician's application against placement on remand.The outs...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:53hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a dictator, fascist, says Sikhala
OUTSPOKEN opposition MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala says his latest arrest and those of journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere were testimony of President Emme...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:54hrs | 2185 | by Staff reporter
'Sikhala, Chin'ono charged under non-existent falsehoods law'
MDC Alliance vice-chairperson Job Sikhala was arrested Saturday and charged with publishing falsehoods and promoting public violence the same charges laid against journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after th...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:47hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Dumb advisors, deaf Executive
"JANUARY 2021 has been cancelled," is a joke that went viral in Zimbabwe last weekend.It is a joke premised on Zimbabwe's return to COVID-19 lockdown measures. These are the strictest conditio...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:29hrs | 554 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chin'ono arrested again
FIREBRAND journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been picked up by the police again, this time for allegedly falsely claiming police in Harare had struck and killed an infant with a baton stick.Chin...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 16:53hrs | 1512 | by Staff reporter
'SA infectious COVID-19 variant likely in Zimbabwe'
THERE is a "pretty high likelihood" that the new coronavirus variant 501. V2 identified in South Africa could be circulating in Zimbabwe — but no investigation has been done to ascertain its presenc...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:42hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
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