A lightning bolt struck and killed three men and seriously injured one at Mhembwechena business centre in Makonde district last week. Tongai Gandiwa (32), Stewart Phiri (23) and Shadreck Bvudzijena (age unknown) struck while sitting under a tree and where pronounced dead on arrival at Kenzamba clinic. Tongai’s brother, Shine (30) who sustained serious burns […]
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Vice President Constantino Chiwenga this morning received his second shot of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine. The VP received his vaccine at Wilkins Hospital in Harare where he urged Zimbabweans to embrace the programme. He commended the speed with which the process is now being handled. VP Chiwenga said the expansion of the staff carrying out […]
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Zimbabwe: President Mourns Magufuli
President Mnangagwa has expressed his condolences on the passing on of Tanzanian President John Magufuli. In a statement on Twitter, the President said “My deepest condolences to the family of His Excellency President John Magufuli and the people of Tanzania. Africa mourns with you. May his soul rest in peace”. The death of Cde Magufuli […]
Beitbridge Bureau The story of Beitbridge is an exponential growth that does not correspond to demand for service. It is mainly an expansion in terms of population numbers but highly unmatched by the availability of public amenities. Over the years, the border town has tremendously developed in terms of population and infrastructure growth especially in […]
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said on Wednesday US$639.5 million has been allocated to over 100 companies at the foreign currency auction since its inception at the end of June last year. Introduction of the auction system saw the country dumping its then fixed exchange rate of $25 to US$1. Since then, the rate […]
Senior Reporter The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) will identify inmates that qualify for the general amnesty that was approved by Cabinet, with President Mnangagwa gazetting the Clemency Order for their release once the processes are completed. Cabinet approved the general amnesty on Tuesday. The move is expected to decongest the prison population which […]
Botswana has started repatriating about 300 Zimbabwean refugees who fled the country during the reign of late former president Robert Mugabe. A group of 48 refugees arrived in Zimbabwe’s border town of Plumtree from Dukwi Refugee Camp in Botswana on Tuesday, despite concerns that they may face renewed persecution from the current administration. Another batch […]
Medical aid societies will soon be regulated by Government following a resolve by Cabinet to establish a medical aid societies’ regulatory authority. The new regulatory body will fall under the purview of the Ministry of Health and Child Care. The move is expected to exclude medical aid societies from the Insurance and Pensions Commission Bill. […]
Youth, Sport, Arts, and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has clarified how sport will resume and insisted medium and high-risk sport still have to follow the Sports Commission standard operating procedures. Cabinet announced yesterday that all sport has resumed following further relaxation of Covid-19 measures. Minister Coventry today unpacked the roadmap for sport resumption during a […]
MDC Alliance MPs Tendai Biti, Willias Madzimure and Settlement Chikwinya and three other party legislators have all been recalled from parliament by their former party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The shock announcement was made Wednesday by National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda. The other lawmakers who have been expelled are Mutasa South MP, Regai Tsunga, […]
Former Labour and Social Welfare minister Tracy Mutinhiri, who recently rejoined Zanu PF, says she quit MDC Alliance after noticing the main opposition was “a white man’s party”. “When I was an MDC official, I discovered that it is a white man’s party which will destroy the gains of the liberation struggle, if given a […]
Government says the number of Zimbabwean households facing displacement stands at a national total of 21 852 with Harare Metropolitan Province topping the list. Presenting a post-cabinet media briefing Tuesday, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the provision of relief to distressed households, and identification of relocation areas, will continue across all the provinces in order […]
ZIMBABWE State university staff has written to its employer informing the latter of its intention to go on strike in the next two weeks. The workers, coalescing under the umbrella Zimbabwe State Universities Joint Council (ZSUJC), said in their letter that they were earning poor wages and were incapacitated. ZSUJC is made up of the […]
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Zimbabwe: ‘Chinese Vaccines Way to Go’
The inactivated Covid-19 Sinopharm vaccine coming into the country is the best vaccine for Zimbabwe as it will be able to react to the strains circulating in the country, a Government official has said. The country yesterday took delivery of the second batch of 400 000 Sinopharm vaccines, 200 000 of which were gifted by […]
Senior Arts Reporter Actress Anne Nhira, who was granted a State-assisted funeral, died a painful death after she was attacked by robbers in South Africa last week while coming from morning prayers in a mountain where she had gone with her brother Juan. Family spokesperson and Anne’s cousin, Mrs Florence Ziyambi, yesterday said a day […]
Leaders of the MDC Alliance are “puppets” of the West who are being used to reverse the gains of the country’s liberation struggle, something that all Zimbabweans should jealously guard against, a former top official has said. This comes as MDC-A officials, including the party’s troubled leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and his deputy Mr Tendai […]
The COVID-19 induced lockdown measures have wreaked havoc in Chipinge with young people reportedly engaging in drug abuse due to idleness. Since the pronouncement of a COVID-19 lockdown in March last year, schools have opened for less than three months, a situation that kept children out of school and idle in the process breeding wayward […]
Government has allowed restaurants to open for sit-in service but under strict adherence to Covid-19 guidelines. Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa made the announcement at a post-cabinet media brief in Harare Tuesday. “Restaurants are now allowed to open for sit-ins at 50% sitting capacity, under strict adherence to Covid-19 guidelines,” said Mutsvangwa. “Those found breaking the […]