TELECOMMUNICATIONS firm TelOne has partnered the Harare City Council in installing a traffic enforcement system (street cameras) on the capital’s streets, in a move meant to bring back sanity into the city centre. A pilot traffic enforcement system has been installed at the intersection of Simon Muzenda Street and Jason Moyo Avenue. “The cameras will…
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has set up reaction teams in various provinces and districts that will help in enforcing the ban on public gatherings of over 50 people, following revelations that a number of bars in high density suburbs had largely ignored the directive. The ban came through Statutory Instrument 77/20 (SI 77) gazetted…
Tendai Kamhungira and Fungi Kwaramba STAFF WRITERS AS THE country reels from the effects of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, including misinformation on social media — Health minister Obadiah Moyo, pictured, is mulling passing a raft of regulations that will see peddlers of falsehoods being caged. This comes as government gazetted sweeping regulations to empower…
THE burial of Agnes Masuku, mother to dethroned outspoken Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, is set for Ntabazinduna today amid reports that there won’t be any mass gathering due to the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19). The widow to the late Matabeleland paramount chief Khayisa Ndiweni died at the age of 96 in the early hours of…
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals, which has been grappling with water challenges for some time, is working with the District Development Fund to drill more boreholes to ensure a continued supply of potable water at the national referral health centre. This comes at a time when the entire world is fighting coronavirus (Covid-19), a disease which…
AIR Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Air Zimbabwe) has suspended flights to South Africa, due to that country’s 21-day lockdown as a preventative measure to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. This comes after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced a three-week long lockdown, which will see people staying at home in that country. South…
THE circumstances leading to the death of media personality Zororo Makamba of coronavirus on Monday at Wilkins Hospital in the capital were tragic. The level of the hospital’s ill-preparedness and negligence of health personnel, as exposed by the Makamba family, were legendary. Tawanda Makamba, the family spokesperson, gave a heart-breaking narration of how his brother…
EDITOR — As the world fights coronavirus, I urge Zimbabweans to also keep on fighting for the betterment of their country. Zimbabwe has been in the hands of corrupt and ruthless leaders who are focusing more on feeding their bellies off the national purse and forgetting the citizens. Coronavirus has already killed thousands in Italy…
ZIMBABWE’S economic crisis has hit hard mobile operators who are facing acute power cuts and critical shortages of foreign currency, the telecommunications industry regulator has said. In a trade update yesterday, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said the operating costs of mobile operators were on the increase, hindering networks expansion projects. …
MINING houses operating in Zimbabwe are enhancing their existing emergency preparedness measures in the wake of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) disease. Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe president, Elizabeth Nerwande, revealed that miners were further strengthening their emergency preparedness measures to deal with the occupational health and safety risks that may arise as…
