MUTARE – Highly placed sources within the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Mining Company (ZCDC) and Ministry of Mines last week spoke of how 12 diamond mining companies are clandestinely extracting diamonds worth billions of dollars in Chiadzwa. ZCDC is a government owned entity which replaced previous diamond miners accused of looting and externalising diamond revenue.Zim Morning Post on Saturday heard that the 12 companies in question were awarded mining concessions after entering into a non-disclosure agreement with ZCDC. “Actually, ZCDC was instructed to enter into this agreement with these mining companies,” said our source. According to sources close to this publication, top serving and retired military officers, including some influential government and Zanu PF o
A whole village in Mhondoro, Mashonaland West, is being tested for coronavirus following the death of an 82-year-old grandmother on April 21. Health officials are still mystified how the elderly woman, the mother of former minister Sylvester Nguni, contracted the virus while living in a remote village with a maid and herdboy. Nguni on Sunday rejected news reports suggesting that his mother had recently travelled to the United Kingdom, or that she was in contact with a nephew who returned from the UK. While he has an uncle named Christopher Chitemere who lived in the same village as his mother, Nguni said this was not the same man reported to have recently returned from the UK before refusing to go for a mandatory 21-day quarantine. Health minister Obadiah Moyo said as part of the
Apostle Chiwenga on his sunday service was talking about how the Roman Cathelic ,Zaoga & Prophet Makandiwa are big and considered great and d said its because they are all beasts who pretend to be service God. Apostle Chiwenga said that Makandiwa is a fake Prophet so is Guti. Watch the video below.
Pokello’s Nare ex husband Elikem Kumordzie revealed that his relationship with the socialite was a good one. He said the only thing that contributed to their separation was distance. Elikem said the fact that Pokello will be mostly in Zimbabwe and he will be in Ghana, became a challenge in their relatioship although Pokello used to visit him in Ghana. Elikem also mentioned that they still have a good relationship with Pokello despite their divorce and they communicate regularly together with their child. He further explained that although Pokello was 3 years older than him, she respected him so much and he never felt that he was young throughout their relationship. Elikem said he has moved on with life and is now in a relationship with someone whom he described as a s
Zimbabwe reported three new coronavirus cases on Saturday, two of them local transmissions. The ministry of health said all three positive tests were registered at the laboratory in Harare, taking the national total to 31 cases. “Two of the three cases confirmed today were local transmissions. All three cases are stable and not in hospital. More details on those cases to follow,” the ministry said in a statement. Most of the 31 cases have been recorded from individuals with a recent travel history to high risk countries, but authorities have always feared local transmissions which influenced a government decision in late March to impose a national lockdown and restrict the movement of people inside the country. Only two people have recovered from the respiratory ill
Zimbabwe’s government agreed with bakers, millers and other businesses on Wednesday to cut the prices of basic goods, including bread and sugar, to levels before the country entered a coronavirus lockdown last month amid soaring inflation. Annual inflation in the southern African nation has hit 676.39%, one of the highest rates in the world, as a currency that was re-introduced last year weakens amid acute shortages of foreign currency, food and medicines. Vice President Kembo Mohadi said the government had agreed with bakers, grain millers and edible oil and sugar producers, among others, that price increases seen in the last month were speculative and unjustified. “The multi-sectoral stakeholders committed to a price moratorium to operate based on the prices which we
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe helicopter was dispatched to Muzarabani, over 250km away, late Friday to ferry the injured aides to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa who were victims of an accident in which one of the top aides died. One of the aides is in ICU at a local private hospital, while a female is awaiting CT scan to the head at the same hospital, and the third aide, a male, is awaiting x-ray. The fourth one was discharged, according to sources. First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was travelling to the remote parts of Mashonaland Central province to hand out food parcels and other goods to vulnerable members of society when a Toyota Hilux driving with her close security aides behind her vehicle went off the road at the Mavhuradonha Mountain Range on the Centenary-Muzarabani Road, security
At least 29 Zimbabweans living in Britain have died of Covid-19, mostly nurses and other medical staff, according to the Zimbabwean Embassy in London. The pandemic has so far killed at least 18 738 in Britain, while in Zimbabwe four have died. Britain is one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement, the Embassy said while it had no official figures it “has been able to gather information from the Diaspora community and religious leaders, cluster leaders, affected individuals and the media, on Zimbabweans who have passed on due to Covid-19”. Sources in the UK said most of the deceased were nurses and other frontline health workers. Zimbabweans with nursing and medical qualifications have found it relatively easy to legally work in Brita
Panic spread among 25 Zimbabweans in mandatory quarantine at Belvedere Teachers’ College after the health ministry announced on Wednesday night that two members of the group had tested positive for the coronavirus – before the results were communicated to the detainees. By 9AM on Thursday, health officials had still not given the group their results from samples collected on Monday shortly after their arrival onboard a special Ethiopian Airlines flight. “We are just reading on Twitter and online that our results are out and two of us have tested positive. As I speak right now, we still have not been told what our individual results are. The government is causing unnecessary anxiety on so simple a matter like this,” a member of the group told Zim
ANOTHER Zimbabwean born but United Kingdom-based nurse has died from coronavirus. Sources in the UK identified the deceased as Irene Mandaza. "We lost another Zimbabwean nurse Irene Mandaza today. She was also from Mufakose," a source said. A number of medical professionals from Zimbabwe have sadly succumbed to the coronavirus in the United Kingdom. Her unfortunate death is another sad statistic to the growing number of Zimbabwean health professionals dying of the disease in the line of duty in the UK. The NHS employs a lot of Zimbabwean health professionals who escaped the country's economic hardship after the turn of the century and have been fending for their loved ones back home. However, Covid-19 bugged UK has exposed them to the hazards of catching the d
