By Star Matsongoni PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa gathered thousands of party supporters during anti-sanctions day in Rutenga Mwenezi Monday against the stipulated 100 people per gathering rule. Zanu PF is holding events with more than 100 people while preventing its nemesis, the MDC Alliance from staging the same events. Mnangagwa himself announced recently that gatherings on
By Bulawayo Correspondent WOMEN in mining suffered large and disproportionate consequence because of Covid-19 lockdowns. The women miners have also been slower in recovering from the effects of the pandemic. Some women miners in Shurugwi area in the Midlands province have incurred losses after they fail to service loans which they took from banks to
By Thandiwe Garusa THE ministry of Health and Child Care has dismissed claims that there is a Covid-19 outbreak at Nashville High School in Gweru saying all pupils returned negative test results. This comes after an audio started circulating on social media platforms saying teachers were ignoring learners who were not well. Joram Chimedza, Gweru
Global Press Journal BEFORE the coronavirus pandemic, Mai Tafara Children’s Center was a bustling refuge for the 50 children it serves. The kids, many of whom are orphans, would come to the center in Tafara, a high-density suburb in Zimbabwe’s capital city of Harare, and enjoy a heavy lunch consisting of sadza — a dense
BBC TRIBUTES are being paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84. The former top military officer died on Monday morning, his family said. He rose to become the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush. Powell, who was fully
AFP AS A Covid-19 surge overwhelmed Uganda earlier this year, Livingstone Musaala, who had to quit his teaching job after schools closed, turned to coffin-making to pay the bills and help others. But few welcomed his initiative at first. Family members criticised him for capitalising on a pandemic-fuelled boom in his densely-populated hometown of Bugobi, 140km
VOA THE Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) says unvaccinated teachers should report to work Monday as it is unprocedural for them to heed “unsubstantiated utterances” by some government officials that those who have not received Covid-19 vaccines will be barred from work. In a statement, PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said: “We have read in the press
Reuters ZIMBABWE will bar unvaccinated government workers from reporting for duty from next Monday as part of efforts to fight Covid-19, an official circular showed. The southern African country has, as of October 14, recorded 4 655 Covid-19-related deaths from 132 251 infections since March 2020. Although the country was one of the first on the continent to
China Morning Post THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has unveiled the team of scientists that will take on the gnarly task of investigating how the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 emerged. The 26-person group, announced on Wednesday, is stacked with experts in virology, epidemiology, animal health and biosecurity, among other fields. Selected by the WHO from
AP Yvonne Banda stands in front of a church congregation, all in pristine white robes, and tells them not to believe what they’ve heard about Covid-19 vaccines. “The vaccine is not linked to Satanism,” she says. The congregants, members of a Christian Apostolic church in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, are unmoved. But when
TimesLIVE THE police in Zimbabwe are rounding up nightclub and pub patrons, owners and employees who fail to provide proof of their Covid-19 vaccination. The prescribed fine for “consuming beer at a licensed premises without proof of vaccination” carries a ZW$2 000 (about R150) fine. According to Statutory Instrument (SI) number 36 of Zimbabwe’s national lockdown
By NewsDay THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) yesterday said the COVID-19 situation remained bad in schools and accused government of failing to deal with the situation. Two weeks ago, several boarding schools in Mberengwa district in the Midlands province were hit by COVID-19 infections, sending students and parents into panic. PTUZ president Takavafira
Felix Matasva THE budget needed to undertake 2022 Population and Housing Census was reviewed upwards by a US$13 million under the pretext of catering for Covid-19 precautionary measures during the enumeration process, NewZimbabwe.com can report. Zimbabwe conducts its census after every decade. A census is critical as it allows government and other stakeholders to plan,
By Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT has applauded the support it is getting from mining companies in the Midlands province to help fight Covid-1900 Midlands Provincial Affairs minister Larry Mavhima, speaking at the commissioning of the Kwekwe Infectious Diseases Hospital, said the partnership with local companies has paid of dividends. “Midlands province has taken huge strides towards
IPS MORE than a month ago, she lost her parents, brother, and wife, to the coronavirus. Then her fiancé battled COVID-19, but 27-year-old Melinda Gavi said she had not contracted the disease. Gavi joined crowds scrambling to get vaccinated at Parirenyatwa hospital in the Zimbabwean capital Harare even though she was previously skeptical about getting
By Thandiwe Garusa ZIMBABWE is among 47 countries that will be removed from the United Kingdom’s travel red list next Monday, British authorities have said. This was announced by the UK’s transport secretary, Grant Shapps. The red list requires travellers to quarantine in an approved hotel at their cost for 10 full days. Only seven
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent RAMPANT vaccination cards thefts at health facilities for sale to people not vaccinated hampering the collation of accurate Covid-19 data and information. This is resulting in the country chasing a mirage target herd immunity against the pandemic, the latest Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) report says. In its September 2021 access
The Guardian THE last message Mary Namitala received from the private school in which she taught was in March last year, the day all schools in Uganda were ordered close due to Covid-19. The message read: “No more payments until when schools open.” “My husband and I decided to leave our rented house in town and shifted
By Anna Chibamu CABINET Tuesday allowed bars and nightclubs to reopen their doors to only patrons fully vaccinated against Covid-19. In her weekly post-Cabinet press briefing, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the government had noted with concern the loss of income and employment for people in that sector. “Cabinet notes, with concern that the continued
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWEANS’ Covid-19 vaccine uptake has sharply declined over the past week, according to official weekly figures. This has prompted fears of yet another devastating fourth wave. A fortnight ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa reopened the economy and eased the national lockdown from level four to level two, extending business hours and allowing intercity
