Search / Oxford
Mnangagwa's associates under fire from the public over Chilonga land seizure
OUTRAGE is growing over government's plan to displace over 12 500 villagers in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi to accommodate President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cronies at Dendairy.Darren Coetzee, D...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:04hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get 984 000 Covax vaccines
ZIMBABWE will soon receive 984 000 doses of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines through the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led Covax initiative.The country will receive the vaccines ...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:55hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe vaccination programme shifts a gear up
MORE than 12 000 frontline workers were inoculated against Covid-19 during the first five days of the national vaccination programme, with authorities now preparing to intensify the immunisation blitz...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:42hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 vaccination programme shifts a gear up
MORE than 12 000 frontline workers were inoculated against Covid-19 during the first five days of the national vaccination programme, with authorities now preparing to intensify the immunisation blitz...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 327 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Masimba Mavaza is a tribalist: Inherent hatred for non-Shona people
I want to excuse myself right from the beginning of this article: It is not about protecting VP Mohadi and his scandals of his previous marriage with Senator Tambudzani Mohadi that left us cold about ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 18:02hrs | 2013 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | 1510 | by Oliver Dube and Dr Stanley Maphosa
When opposing becomes nonsense
The times we live in have been blessed with a tremendous tool called social media; it is one marvel that if used properly can bring about remarkable social, economic and political positive change. Unf...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:39hrs | 971 | by Charles Motsi
China must help Africa to fight COVID-19 SA variant
WHAT should have been done differently with respect to the Chinese vaccines shipped to Zimbabwe?A few things could have been done differently:- Yes the South African variant is new (De...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 232 | by Arthur GO Mutambara
Mutambara speaks about Chinese vacine trials
Former Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara says if the Chinese were in a proactive and empowering partnership with Harare, clinical trials should have been done on the Sinopharm vaccine ...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 20:07hrs | 6114 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccine deals must be transparent
Zimbabwe is expecting its first delivery of Covid-19 vaccines this week with the government indicating inoculations will start immediately for vulnerable groups.China donated 200 000 doses of ...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:32hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
State capture: Time to declare party financiers
SINCE time immemorial, the political class has been defined across the world by class, capital and raw power.In many instances, these groups of people have formed elite pacts to foster their h...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 10:15hrs | 169 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Africa CDC backs 'useless' AstraZeneca vaccine
African countries that have not reported the circulation of the 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa should proceed with the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the Af...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:41hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
British government tried to coerce Chiwenga to signing up for Covax
Zimbabwe, which has extended a begging bowl to locals to finance the acquisition of Covid-19 vaccines, is dragging its feet in signing for a United Nations (UN) facility for poor countries to access d...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:08hrs | 6902 | by Staff reporter
Colonialist UK pushes to further isolate the Mnangagwa government
THE United Kingdom's unexpected move this week to impose sanctions on four Zimbabwean security chiefs for human rights violations - following a series of critical pronouncements in recent months - sig...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:22hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Enter the Covid passport: A new apartheid system
I stumble off the plane. It's seven in the morning and it's freezing cold. Half an hour ago I was downing a bottle of miniature red at 20 000 feet. I live wild! What can I say? I've been up for the be...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2246 | by Mufaro Makubika
Zimbabwe to receive 1 million COVID-19 doses
ZIMBABWE will likely receive just over one million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter under the Covax Facility, a document released by the organisers yesterday has s...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:57hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter
Russia's Sputnik V around 92% protection against Covid-19
Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine gives around 92% protection against Covid-19, late stage trial results published in The Lancet reveal.It has also been deemed to be safe - and offer comp...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:27hrs | 1344 | by BBC
South Africa shuts illegal immigrants from Covid-19 vaccination roll out
South Africa, which will take delivery of its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines from India on Monday, has sparked controversy after declaring it will exclude millions of undocumented immigrants from it...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3915 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition finding it hard to fight elections effectively
British Professor at the University of Birmingham Nic Cheeseman says opposition parties in countries like Uganda and Zimbabwe are finding it hard to fight elections effectively as they are criminalise...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 21:32hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:05hrs | 1667 | by Staff reporter
Man drinks beer to death
An imbiber died on Wednesday after consuming too much illicit spirits at Doxford farm,Mazowe.Oneman Rupenda (38) consumed a lot of illicit beer at the farm and lost his life on his way home....Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 18:18hrs | 854 | by Simbarashe Sithole
COVID herd immunity will not happen in 2021, says WHO
World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said Monday that herd immunity to the coronavirus would not be achieved in 2021, despite the growing availability of vaccines. ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 09:07hrs | 1429 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed first International Bar Association President of African descent
Sternford Moyo, Chairman and Senior Partner of law firm Scanlen and Holderness, is the new President of the International Bar Association (IBA). Hailing from Zimbabwe, Mr Moyo is the first IBA Preside...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 20:09hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 347 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Will Zimbabwe get COVID-19 vaccine?
Pictures of the first people being vaccinated against Covid-19 haven't filled everyone around the world with joy. In some places - in countries such as Zimbabwe, Mexico and Pakistan - the battle to ge...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:56hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Why is govt silent about the COVID-19 vaccine?
For a country in the throes of a coronavirus crisis, it is surprising how little Zimbabwe has not talked about procuring the COVID-19 vaccine which has dominated conversations as the world seeks a way...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:13hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loyalist Gutu confusing COVID-19 correlation with causality
"Correlation is not causality", this one of the basic principles of logical thinking. This concept is introduced in any philosophy, statistics or law program that is worth its salt. Obert Gutu, an acc...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 08:31hrs | 1470 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Zimbabwe to roll out Covid-19 vaccine soon, says Mahomva
GOVERNMENT is finalising a nationwide rollout plan for Covid-19 vaccines, amid indications that Zimbabwe could take delivery of a substantial amount of doses next year.Authorities have been de...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 555 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
2 Zimbabwe students awarded Rhodes scholarships
THE list of Zimbabwe Rhodes 2021 scholarship beneficiaries has been unveiled with the scholarship targeting to promote outstanding postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford in the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 1374 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's daily life at Chikurubi
TODAY as you read this article, Job Sikhala would have woken up at 5:30am from the cold concrete floor that he has been sleeping on since his persecution and incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Securit...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | 3117 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Zimbabwe in top 10 best wildlife conservation destinations
ZIMBABWE is one of the 10 countries in the world with the best wildlife conservation methods, according to a research by Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in partnership with Pan...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:54hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
First Coronavirus vaccine arrives in Africa
The Associated Press has reported that South Africa has become the first African country to administer the trial version of the Coronavirus vaccine. According to the paper, South African volun...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 15:05hrs | 2431 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man gets 3 life sentences for murder
A 70-YEAR-OLD Buhera man was on Friday handed three life sentences for fatally shooting his domestic employee's three family members.Mutare High Court judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera handed down...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
Oxford college wants to remove Cecil John Rhodes statue
Oriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes to be taken down.The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the st...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 21:34hrs | 1833 | by Staff reporter
Jubilation as Britain unveils Coronavirus cure
The University of Oxford has reported that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland scientists have made a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Coronavirus by discovering that ...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 18:30hrs | 11774 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The US on the verge of momentous changes
In order to understand the present political turmoil in the American social fabric, one must keep as a background the fact that the US elites were shocked at the electoral victory of a street billiona...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:13hrs | 958 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwean-born Irish rugby star turned wine expert
Dave Curtis took the road less travelled on his journey from Zimbabwe to an Ireland jersey in the early 1990s and the return trip has been just as interesting and rewarding.The sun is shining ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Arrest Collins Mnangagwa and Mthuli Ncube: send them to rot in remand prison!
Finance Minister must answer charges of attempting to defraud international finance houses arguing that the funding is meant to alleviate coronavirus challenges and imminent coup. From the press confe...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 23:32hrs | 7081 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa: On a wing and a prayer
THIS has been a terrible week for President Emmerson Mnangagwa. It has been more than terrible – a week in which government was always on the backfoot. A week during which the regime's sterility has...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:34hrs | 351 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe punishes EU, America, and the World Bank!
Refusing Zimbabwe a corona bailout, World Bank and western countries must be severely punished. The punishment America and the western world received is greater than thunder itself. Three weeks ago, t...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 18:34hrs | 8051 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa reiterates stance on death penalty
President Mnangagwa has reiterated his call for the abolition of capital punishment in Zimbabwe and has noted that a moratorium on executions has been in place since 2005. He repeated his call...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:39hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
90% Zimbabweans want death penalty abolished
A REPORT released yesterday by the Death Penalty Project in conjunction with legal think-tank Veritas has revealed that 90% of Zimbabweans were against the death penalty and wanted it abolished....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Inspired by Nazis
on "Africa Day," as reports surface that they lack Ubuntu and are STARVING even the INNOCENT CHILDREN of Zimbabwe.Some of the great work being done by the ladies from the humble kitchen called...Published: 26 May 2020 at 18:13hrs | 1310 | by Thabo Makuyana
Mugabe guard jailed for theft
A security guard at the late former president Robert Mugabe's Gushungo Dairy in Mazowe has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stealing a laptop and a solar battery from his employer....Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 08:37hrs | 3684 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's under paid guard jailed
Under paid former president Robert Mugabe's Gushungo Dairy security guard was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by Concession resident magis...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 23:05hrs | 3828 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Knife wielding teenagers up for robbery
Two knife weilding teenagers were arraigned before a Concession magistrate Ruth Moyo yesterday after robbing a pedestrian.Terence Mango...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 15:11hrs | 1110 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
The danger of conspiracy theories
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a conspiracy theory as "the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties. It is motivated by the belief that s...Published: 11 Apr 2020 at 11:10hrs | 641 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Government-led lockdown not enough for Zimbabwe’s fight against Coronavirus
It took a while for the Zimbabwean government to meaningfully respond to the Covid19 pandemic, better late than never.Now that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decreed that there shall be a 21...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 10:36hrs | 974 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Mthuli Ncube is going nowhere
Every Saturday morning, especially when the weather is beneficent, I take a copy of the Big Saturday Read by the supreme brother Alex Magaisa to my garden chair and settle myself with some expectation...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1399 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Load More Stories
