adminUPDATED: Minister JB Matiza dies
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister and Zanu-PF Mashonaland East chairperson Dr Joel Biggie Matiza has died.
National hero SB Moyo burial set for Wednesday
Late national hero, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Retired), will be buried on Wednesday next week.
Acting President Chiwenga mourns heroes
Acting President Dr Constatino Chiwenga has sent condolence messages to the families of three national heroes who died in the past week.
UPDATED: Maj-Gen Zimondi succumbs to Covid-19
Former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General, Major-General Paradzai Zimondi (Retired) has died.
Covid-19 spike blamed on movement
THE surge in Covid-19 infections was caused by the movement of people who travelled into and throughout the country during the festive season, a senior Government official has said.
Govt probes $25bn mobile money scam
Prosecutions on a wide range of financial crimes are likely as investigations continue inside and outside Zimbabwe into the huge pool of unregulated liquidity estimated at $25 billion created within the mobile money system, and which was destroyed mid-last year in a series of decisive moves by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Government.
Eloise strengthens to severe tropical storm, brings heavy rains
The tropical system Eloise, which strengthened to a severe tropical storm yesterday, is expected to make landfall in Beira today and while it weakens, moves west into Zimbabwe at the southern end of the Eastern Highlands, bringing heavy rains above 50mm to southern Manicaland, Masvingo and parts of Matabeleland South, the Meteorological Services Department has said.
Missing boy: Captors demand R50 000
NEARLY two months after a 16-year-old boy went missing from Crowborough, the mother is now receiving text messages demanding a ransom of R50 000 from the boy’s cellphone number, confirming the senders have his phone.
Covid-19: A personal experience
SOME weeks back just before Christmas, I was diagnosed with Covid-19 after developing what I thought was a very bad flu. I had just returned from a workshop in Gweru, where I had interacted with many colleagues. One of them being Foster Dongozi, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ). Dongozi passed away a few days after we returned from the workshop. May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Dead bats, harmless Warriors . . . A tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing
IN the end, the doomed mission turned out exactly the way many had feared – a farce disguised as an adventure to represent this country at a major football tournament.