ZIMBABWE has 28 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and not 29 as previously reported, the Health ministry has said. In an update released on Thursday, the ministry said it erroneously recorded a result in Bulawayo as a new case when in actual fact it was a retest on a patient that had previously tested positive for…
POLICE have arrested an MDC Alliance councillor for calling President Emmerson Mnangagwa a “fool” in a WhatsApp message. Chrispen Rambu, 39, the MDC Alliance councillor for Ward 8 in Chipinge, was arrested on Friday and has been charged with insulting the Head of State. In the WhatsApp message, Rambu compared Mnangagwa with South African President…
“WE WILL open when real life is no longer a movie,” reads a poster outside a movie house, forced to shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed over 150 000 lives globally. Like an apocalyptic horror movie, the virus has devoured people across the world at an alarming rate. Across…
By Guo Shaochun ON April 18 2020, China and Zimbabwe celebrated 40 years of diplomatic ties. This is a momentous occasion to take stock and plan for the future. As I look back on all the historic things we have been able to do together, one question keeps popping up. What is the essence of…
THE local television reality show version of Big Brother Africa, One House Reality Show Zimbabwe has created a buzz with its website recording 39 000 hits in the first 10 minutes it was launched resulting in its server crashing. Following the call for applicants, many people interested in participating in the reality show rushed to…
ALTHOUGH they are going to face a financial hit, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) have become the first local big sporting organisation to pledge to support health officials’ fight against the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19). ZC will be providing face masks and sanitisers to some of the country’s Covid-19 quarantine and isolation centres. Globally, the novel virus which…
THE government said yesterday it is further tightening its national coronavirus lockdown measures, by clamping down on unnecessary travel between the country’s urban and rural areas. The move — which is part of the fight by authorities against the global pandemic — comes as the government is frantically trying to trace people who made contact…
©️ FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa’s security aides were involved in a fatal accident in Mashonaland Central yesterday, the Daily News reports. The first lady — who was travelling to Muzarabani where she intended to donate foodstuffs and other goods to starving families — was not in the car which rolled and claimed one life, leaving…
HIGH Court judge Joseph Mafusire has ordered the ZBC and three government ministries to provide information on coronavirus (Covid-19) in braille, sign language and use subtitles to cater for the blind, deaf and visually-impaired. This comes after an application filed by the Centre for Disability and Development Trust, Deaf Zimbabwe Trust and the Zimbabwe National…
RESIDENTS here will be receiving running water for only two days per week with effect from Monday, a clear disaster in the midst of the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) which requires regular washing of hands. The increase in the water shedding hours comes two weeks after the local authority increased water cuts to 108 hours…
