Zimbabwe Lockdown: Day 310 – WCoZ Situation Report
310 days of the COVID-19 lockdown, and as of 1 February 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 33 548 after 160 new cases were...
View ArticleMamombe and Chimbiri Targeted Again
HARARE West constituency legislator Hon. Joana Mamombe and opposition MDC Alliance party youth leader Cecelia Chimbiri were on Tuesday 2 February 2021 detained at Chikurubi Maximum Prison after they...
View Article“Burst Certificate” #TsimbaDzeUtano / #InyatheloLokuhlanzeka Campaign
Community Water Alliance (CWA) has launched a campaign whose overall objective is to ensure burst water and sewer pipes are addressed as a way to prevent water borne diseases and increase quantity of...
View ArticleZimstat embarks on data collection ahead of census
The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) has started a field mapping and household listing exercise across the country in preparation for the 2021 population and housing census which is set...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 321 – WCoZ Situation Report
321 days of the COVID-19 lockdown and as of 12 February 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 35 045 with a reported...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 322 – WCoZ Situation Report
322 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown and as of 13 February 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 35 104 with a reported...
View ArticleDoctors allay fears on Covid-19 vaccines efficacy
Doctors have allayed fears that the Covid-19 vaccines will be ineffective in neutralising the pandemic in the country. Some citizens had pressed the panic button following reports that the AstraZeneca...
View Article‘Covid-19 wiped 40 percent of jobs in Africa’
The business closure rate in Africa was high due to Covid-19 while businesses owned by women suffered the most and those working in the non-formal sector reduced effectiveness, as there was not much...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 323 – WCoZ Situation Report
323 days of the COVID-19 lockdown and as of 14 February 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 35 172 with a reported...
View ArticleInclude journalists in the COVID-19 priority vaccination rollout
MISA Zimbabwe calls upon the government to prioritise and also include journalists among the first priority groups listed for the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme. Our request is informed by the...
View ArticleZimbabwe extends lockdown by two more weeks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has further extended the country’s Covid-19 induced lockdown by two more weeks to the end of February saying the number of active cases and deaths was still high. The...
View ArticleByo residents lobby EMA on abandoned pits
Bulawayo residents have lobbied the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to compel the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to cover up abandoned pits in residential suburbs following the death of three...
View ArticleCovid-19: Teachers call for mandatory testing of all learners
Teachers’ unions have called for the mandatory Covid-19 testing of all learners before they return to school instead of limiting intakes at boarding schools. This comes at a time when the government...
View ArticleParliament Resumes Sitting Tuesday 16th February – Bill Watch 8 / 2021
Both Houses of Parliament Resume Sitting Tuesday 16th February Both the Senate and the National Assembly will sit this afternoon, Tuesday 16th February, for their first working sittings of 2021 after...
View ArticleCovid-19 Vaccine Deployment and Roll Out Plan
Objectives of the National Roll out and Deployment Vaccination Plan The National Roll out and Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP)is a guiding document that provides a framework for: Designing...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 324 – WCoZ Situation Report
324 days of the COVID-19 lockdown and as of 15 February 2020 the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 35 222 with a reported...
View Article“Provide Social Safety Nets for Vulnerable Groups During Lockdown Period”
Government must be considerate and provide social safety nets for vulnerable groups during the extended lockdown period. This was highlighted during a Manicaland Virtual dialogue organised by...
View ArticleWCoZ Situation Report: Zimbabwe Lockdown: Day 325
325 days of the COVID-19 Lockdown, and as of 16 February 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 35 315 with a reported...
View ArticleTeachers’ Unions Joint Statement on the Opening of Schools
Teachers Unions under the Federation of Zimbabwe Educators Union (FOZEU) call upon the government to urgently engage them in order to collectively map an acceptable road map for the successful opening...
View Article2021 – A False Start: Monthly Monitoring Report – January 2021
On the last day of January, journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who has exposed government corruption and has been arrested three times in the last six months, tweeted a freestyle version of a song that he...
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