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Zimbabwe's central bank will start selling gold coins later this month to try and tame inflation by providing a store of value to the country's plunging currency and giving the population an alternative to the U.S. dollar. The one troy ounce 22-carat gold coin will be called 'Mosi-Oa-Tunya' and will be available starting July 25. The name means "Smoke that Thunders," referencing Victoria falls. "Each coin will have a serial number," Zimbabwe's central bank said in a press release. "Upon purchase, the buyer shall take physical possession of the coin and be issued with a Bearer Ownership Certificate. The buyer...

Hungary, along with other Eastern European countries including Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, have all but banned Muslim immigration, despite being harassed by EU leaders because of it. Hungary refuses to abide by the quotas given to them by the EU for accepting Muslim invaders posing as asylum seekers, and as a result the EU is threatening them with sanctions and fines. PART 1 Video In this video, you can see the brutal and grotesque, far-left media bias against what they call “racist” Western Europeans who abandon their native land because of how mass Muslim immigration has changed it…for...

[In] “Ariel Phenomenon,” director Randall Nickerson looks at one of the most famous cases of the second type involving both craft and occupants: the 1994 mass sighting at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe, Africa. It is a portrayal of a potentially “alien” event, told from a decidedly human angle, including the powerful feelings such an event often leaves behind in those touched by the experience. *snip* Nickerson spends a significant amount of the film’s 100+ minute run time exploring the negative side of the Ariel School experience for many of the witnesses, particularly feelings of trauma. This includes students who...

POACHERS have killed a black rhino in Matobo district in Matabeleland South, police said. A carcass of a black rhino with its horns missing was found in the Makhothama Resettlement area which borders the Matopo National Park on February 7. “The carcass was scanned with a metal detector leading to the recovery of two wildlife sensors and a bullet in the animal’s forehead,” national police spokesman assistant commissioner Paul Nyathi said. The rhino horn is one of the most expensive commodities in the world by weight, fetching tens of thousands of dollars per kilogramme. Demand is mainly from Asia where...

Dear Ambassador Mr Chris Cooter I hereby write this letter to protest the abuse of Canadian truckers and the freedom convoy by the Canadian Police. As a freedom loving Zimbabwean I have an obligation to challenge you and your government to stop violating the human rights enshrined in Canadian constitution. The Freedom Convoy is not violating the Canadian constitution or laws but it’s Canadians expressing their rights and opposition to Covid-19 mandates.

PART 2 OF 3. The Hunter Biden Files Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map below highlights...

The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other nearby countries from next week as fears grow over the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, the White House said Friday. The travel ban, which doesn’t apply to American citizens or permanent residents, will come into effect from Monday. The new restrictions apply to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

Slovenia's regulation forbidding people without 'COVID certificates' from pumping fuel shows governments are getting increasingly creative in their coercion. It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a Twitter post that claimed automobile drivers in Slovenia were forbidden from pumping gas without a COVID certificate, I was skeptical. All the tweets I found were screenshots of a single story published by TV N1 Zagreb, a news partner of CNN. Attempts to find information of this alleged regulation on the Slovenian government’s website didn’t go well (I don’t read Slovenian!),...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned. “COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.

There’s something strange happening in Africa which, according to the Associated Press, has scientists “mystified.” The curious situation is particularly prevalent in Zimbabwe. It’s a nation with a population of 14.8 million people and a vaccination rate of less than 6%, a fact that the World Health Organization lectures us about endlessly. And yet in the past week, they recorded a total of 33 COVID deaths. How is this possible? The AP interviewed a number of people who were shopping in a township outside Harare, almost none of whom were wearing masks.

A headline on Newsweek’s web site grabbed my attention in early May: “Wokeness Has Come for Adoption. It’s the Children Who Will Suffer.” This is a subject I know well: My wife and I have fostered three child refugees—from Zimbabwe, Guatemala, and Honduras respectively. These foster children are functionally adopted, and have become full-fledged members of our family. The article noted that a vice-president at Bethany Christian Services, the largest Christian adoption agency in the country, had told a reporter that allowing white families to adopt black children from the foster care system “can cause a lot of harm to...

ZIMPARKS spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said Michael Bernard Walsh (71) was killed while taking an unguided tour with his son in Mana Pools National park in the north of the country. The two had walked about 40 meters from where they had parked their car when they encountered the elephants, with one of them charging at them, Farawo said. The son managed to escape and reach the car while Walsh could not outrun the elephant which trampled him to death.

An ICU specialist at a South African teaching hospital has hit back strongly at claims made by a respected pulmonologist that ivermectin is of no use in treating Covid-19. Prof Nathi Mdladla, head of the ICU at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital and Sefako Makgatho University, said the claims made by Dr Emmanuel Taban that the drug offered little benefit and had contributed to liver failure in a number of patients were “scaremongering at its worst”. “I have treated more than 200 Covid-19 outpatients including relatives and friends and their contacts,” Mdladla said in a rebuttal sent to TimesLIVE. “Between...

South Africa — The First Country Built on “Critical Race Theory” — Officially Implodes South Africa is disintegrating. After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. ... Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it’s too heavy to carry by hand, they bring a forklift.... The meltdown in South Africa isn’t a natural disaster or a random fluke. It’s a choice. South Africa was the first modern nation to be...

Zimbabwe is officially allowing the use of Ivermectin to treat Covid-19, as the third wave of infections sets in. Preliminary research findings in the UK from a small pilot study on the drug, used to treat parasite infections, show that giving it early to Covid-19 patients could reduce viral load levels. Through a government notice, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said: “The secretary for health and child care has authorised the MCAZ to authorise the importation and use of ivermectin for Covid-19. MCAZ will issue bulk section 75 approval for importation of human formulations of ivermectin manufactured by...

Surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of Nine-year-old Rodwell Khomazana who was mauled by a hyena during a night time church service in Zimbabwe. Doctors in one of the city's main public hospitals stabilised his condition, but lacked the resources to fully repair the boy's ravaged face. His desperate mother reached out to medics in neighbouring South Africa, who agreed to operate Khomazana for free in a private Johannesburg clinic. Nine-year-old Rodwell Khomazana lost his nose, left eye, most of his upper lip, parts of his forehead and other parts of his face when the animal...

In Israel today a new government voted in by the Knesset the country's parliament. The vote ends 12 years of leadership by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The vote 60-59 with one abstention.... Naftali Bennett has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister... Congratulations for the new government fro other nations including US President Joe Biden. Mr. Bennett spoke with Biden by phone... A large protest drew tens of thousands onto the streets of Madrid today. Many Spaniards opposed to pardons for Catalan political leaders... The Mayor of Moscow declaring non-working days from June 15th to 19th due to increased...

A 49-YEAR-OLD Odzi man was on Monday fatally assaulted for allegedly dating a married woman. Taurai Charumbika died upon admission at the Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital after he was savagely assaulted all over the body by Nerere Hamabungu (37). Charumbika was being accused of dating Hamabungu’s wife. Manicaland provincial police spokesperson, Inspector Luxson Chananda confirmed the incident which happened at Chikonga Mine in Odzi. Hamabungu was arrested soon after committing the heinous crime. “The two were co-workers at Chikonga Mine. Hamabungu went to Charumbika’s cabin at night and confronted him over his alleged illicit affair with his wife. He was...

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned members of the public against trusting strangers. This follows a case of theft of a motor vehicle, which occurred on 27 May 2021 in Mbare, Harare, where a man (49) lost his Nissan Caravan vehicle after he left it for cleaning, to three men at a car wash. Meanwhile, Police have arrested the three suspects and investigations are underway. On another note, the ZRP has expressed gratitude and appreciation to members of the public who have supplied credible information leading to the arrest of drug peddlers in the country. The police say some...