The Government has reacted angrily to recent media reports that suggested the country’s leadership had been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social and mainstream media platforms was last week awash with reports that government operations had been paralyzed due to ill health of the two
Medical aid societies under the auspices of the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) recently donated goods worth more than ZWL $100 000 to Tose Respite Care Home in Harare. AHFoZ donated groceries and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the home that cares for children
Information Secretary Ndabaningi Mangwana has withdrawn reckless remarks he made on Twitter yesterday where he insinuated that 'medical assassins' hiding behind medical qualifications were working to eliminate Zanu PF aligned politicians. Posting on Twitter, Mangwana said “This is what’s leading to the unfortunate conspiracy theory that
Outspoken Independent legislator for Norton constituency Temba Mliswa has questioned the conferment of national hero status to the late Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister, Joel Biggie Matiza. Matiza (60) was declared a national hero together with the late former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General,
In a world turned upside down by a global pandemic, a sense of purpose -in all parts of life- is now more important than ever. At a time when many are dealing with angst, fear, chaos, and uncertainty, most young people are questioning the meaning
By Victor Bhoroma Zimbabwe has been a net importer of food for the past 2 decades and the country’s import bill has increasingly featured grain imports with maize imports averaging 1.1 million Metric Tonnes (MT) per year in the last 10 years, while wheat and soya
Zimbabwe’s largest alcoholic beverage maker, Delta Corporation Limited (Delta) anticipates a subdued business outturn from its regional markets during the fourth quarter (Q4) due to tighter lockdown restrictions imposed by the government at the beginning of the year amid worsening COVID-19 infection figures. The Group, which
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has expressed concern over 'government’s weaponization' of Covid-19 against citizens following massive arrests of people violating curfew regulations. According to national police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi more than 3000 people were arrested countrywide last week and detained for various
Willem Hanekom, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Tulio de Oliveira, University of KwaZulu-Natal Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) identified a rapidly spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
The government has warned citizens against sending false and misleading information on the COVID-19 vaccines saying only technically sound people should make comments to avoid causing anxiety and misconceptions around the yet to be rolled out drug. While the government and health authorities have been working
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