HOW ZIMBABWEAN WHO MURDERED his parents, enjoyed narrating it to cops, chanting ‘They must die at 10PM’…Mangwe ‘killer’ chanted mantra “THEY must die at 10PM!” the man kept chanting to himself as he waited in the darkness outside his parents’ bedroom. Lisani Nleya (45) repeated the mantra as he led police on indications on Tuesday, explaining how he killed his elderly parents on September 1 last year.The self-confessed killer appeared remorseless as he said his…

BELGIAN MINISTER TWEETS EU’s Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturersThis is the list of what the EU is paying:Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78 (£1.61).Johnson & Johnson: $8.50 (£6.30).Sanofi/GSK: €7.56.Pfizer/BioNTech: €12.CureVac: €10.Moderna: $18.A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium’s budget state secretary, Eva De Bleeker, posted the price list on Twitter, with the amounts of each…

Veteran modelling instructor Mrs Sipho Mazibuko has posted on her Facebook page claiming that self-exiled G40 kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo raped her 11 years ago while she was pregnant.Prof Moyo, believed to be in Kenya, fled the country in November 2017 during Operation Restore Legacy. He is wanted by the police after absconding court where he is facing charges of allegedly diverting of US$244 575 from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef).Posting on her Facebook…

UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS ARRIVING IN ZIMBABWE FROM SOUTH AFRICA either through the border , using other illegal entry points and some paying bribes to enter the the country without producing the Covid-19 free certificates are a major concern as Zimbabwe authorities fear the new Covid-19 variant recently detected in neighbouring South Africa might have crossed over into the country.Government has already initiated scientific researches to determine its presence or lack thereof.In an interview, the Covid-19 National…

ON 27TH JULY 2017 , THE LATE MDC T PRESIDENT Morgan Tsvangirai convened an Extra-Ordinary National Council Meeting at his Highlands home.On the Agenda was the ratification of the Coalition Agreement that the party had been negotiating with other political parties namely; NDP led by Joice Mujuru, People’s Democratic Party led by Tendai Biti, MDC led by Welshman Ncube, ZimPF led by Agrippa Mtambara, TZ led by Ngarivhume Jacob, MCD led by Guchutu and Zanu…

Zimbabwe hospitals run out of oxygen MEDICAL practitioners have called on government to urgently intervene and put measures in place to ensure adequate supply of oxygen as most health institutions in the country are constantly running out of the precious life-saving gas.Doctors who spoke to The Standard yesterday said the demand for oxygen had skyrocketed while supplies had become intermittent owing to increasing pressure for the commodity. Critical Covid-19 patients need oxygen to resuscitate and…

THE wife of ex government minister Sylvester Nguni died from Covid-19-related complications yesterday.Nguni confirmed the death of his wife, but was quick to say that he be left alone as he was still in a “big shock”. This is the second Covid-19 death in the family following that of his mother in April last year.Nguni’s mother, Gogo Nguni, nee Chitemere, was one of the first people in Zimbabwe to succumb to Covid-19 last year.Gogo Nguni,…

ZIMBABWE barred from voting at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly as it is in US$81 770 arrears in the payment of financial contributions According to a letter from the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to UN President Volkan Bozkir, dated 13 January 2021, Zimbabwe is one of the 10 countries that have also lost their voting rights due to the arrears.“At present, 10 Member States are in arrears under the terms of Article 19 of…

ZIMBABWE last week recorded 200 Covid-19 deaths as the country continues to suffer the consequences of the second wave of the global pandemic.With health officials saying scientists are still to ascertain whether the new infections are a result of the new strain of the virus or not, figures in the country continue to balloon with the recovery rate tumbling to below 60 percent.According to statistics from the Ministry of Health and Child Care the country…