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'ZANU PF is a party of vagabonds,' says party councillor
Mazowe ward 6 councillor, Shamie Sande (51) has lambasted and labelled ZANU-PF party members as vagabonds following his arrest for allegedly stealing 100 bags of fertilizer reserved under the Presiden...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 20:04hrs | 1234 | by Paul Ndou
Girls as young as 10-years-old are having babies in SA
Shocking statistics revealed recently that over 4,000 girls in the Eastern Cape have given birth in the past four months.The Eastern Department of Health (DOH) said 97 of these girls were aged...Published: 18 Aug 2024 at 21:06hrs | 711 | by Staff reporter
Murder suspect smears himself with faeces to avoid court
Tsepo Dlamini, a 24-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his father, attempted to avoid appearing in court by smearing himself with feces. Dlamini was scheduled to appear before the Nkomazi magist...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:05hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Next Generation of Energy Leaders to Drive Transformation at the African Energy Week (AEW) 2024
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - With Africa serving as a dynamic hub for oil and gas, renewable energy and cutting-edge technologies, the participation of youth in the sector is crucial to bringing in new p...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 17:52hrs | 166 | by APO
Overcoming stereotypes about sports and achieving success
Sports are always a looking glass that reflects society. Like all mirrors, however, it is flawed. Preconceived notions about sports tend to become the lenses through which we see things, sometimes unf...Published: 12 Jul 2024 at 10:26hrs | 55 | by Staff Reporter
Human faeces found in 24 Harare boreholes
Tests conducted between January and June 2024 revealed traces of faecal matter in 24 out of 259 boreholes across several Harare suburbs, including Mbare, Highfield, Glen View, and Budiriro. These bore...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 10:20hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Rapex to trap rapists, protect women
SONETTE Ehlers, a blood technician from South Africa envisioned a world free from rape and invented the rape axe in 2005, which has received mixed reactions from the public.Ehlers invented the...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 09:59hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash launches new mobile App
EcoCash, Zimbabwe's leading mobile money platform, has unveiled a brand-new mobile app in Harare today, June 13, 2024, featuring enhanced security and a more user-friendly interface packed with additi...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 11:04hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Free emergency health services for one month
PRIVATE healthcare institution, Corporate 24, has pledged to provide free emergency health services this month targeting members of the public in Bulawayo and Harare in a bid to reduce costs and compl...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Belarus strongman dispatches 'smallhouse' to Mnangagwa's wife
PROFESSOR Irina Abelskaya, the Belarusian envoy recently dispatched to Harare to deliver a donation to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, is a mistress of the Eastern European country's leader Alexander L...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 06:21hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
50% Harare boreholes unsafe
Half of the boreholes in Harare's western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste and could be potentially unsafe sources of drinking water.Water samples from boreholes in the...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vendors relieve themselves in the open in Bulawayo CBD
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has expressed concern over the increasing practice of open defecation by vendors in the central business district (CBD) particularly in the streets and sanitary lanes....Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 09:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Harare water bombshell
Health authorities have identified at least four bacteria that cause water borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery in some of Harare's water sources as the cholera outbreak that has grip...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:40hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Man grows floppy breasts
IN an eerier than fiction story, a man from Cross Dete in Hwange District, Matabeleland North province developed huge lady-like breasts amid chilling revelations that at night they are being suc...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 06:03hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Foreign' vendors turn Bulawayo streets into toilets
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has accused vendors of practising open defecation on central business district (CBD) streets and sanitary lanes.According to the latest full council minutes release...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:59hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
SA ramps up screening at its borders over outbreak of cholera
The National Department of Health said the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring countries has led to the government intensifying screening efforts at South Africa's borders.One of the countries...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's facial image belongs to CCC founded by MDC Alliance
RIGHTS TO NELSON CHAMISA'S FACE IMAGE AS AN ELECTION SYMBOL BELONGS TO CCC FOUNDED BY MDC-A ON 22 JAN 2022, NOT TO CHAMISATHROUGH ONE OF THE LEGION OF THE LAWYERS acting for him and his beleag...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:37hrs | 9 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe's urban majority have no access to basic water
Most households in urban centres have no access to basic water and only 48,4% having that access amid fears this will result in outbreak of diseases.Latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Co...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 11:03hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe - Dubbed 'the World's Next Lithium Valley' - to Speak at Critical Minerals Africa 2023
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - As Zimbabwe sets its sights on achieving a $12-billion mining industry by year-end, Pfungwa Kunaka, Permanent Secretary for Mines and Mining Development of Zimbabwe, will spe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 12:54hrs | | by APO
Jury finds 34-year-old Zimbabwe mother died by medical misadventure at Ireland hospital
A woman who had just given birth at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) died by medical misadventure and her death was probably preventable, an inquest has found.34-year-old Tatenda Faith Mukwata ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cholera breaches 3000 cases mark
ZIMBABWE has surpassed the 3 000 mark for new suspected and confirmed Cholera cases since an outbreak was reported in February this year with reports that a total of 57 people are hospitalised due to ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's recorded cholera cases surpass 2 000 mark
RECORDED cholera cases have surpassed the 2 000 mark in Zimbabwe with reports that the water-borne disease has killed 42 people so far. Of the 42 deaths recorded, 10 have been confirmed and 32...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
African infertility is due to infectious causes(STIs, etc)
Sad reality. The success of marriage, in many African societies, overlies on the ability of a woman to bear children.According to a study, majority of African women infertility is due to infec...Published: 23 May 2023 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Erick Matotoba
Mugabe's son in-law lists 21 farms in divorce case
The legal proceedings over the divorce of Bona Nyepudzai Ouma Mugabe, daughter of former President Robert Mugabe, and Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore are likely to involve complex disputes over how asset...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health experts fret over cholera resurgence
HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the resurgence in cholera cases, which they blame on poor sanitation and a lack of long-term planning for water supplies in urban areas.Community Wor...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Lovendale: A forgotten township
Have you ever heard of Lovendale Township? It's a small community located just 17 kilometres from the Bulawayo CBD, under Umguza RDC. Built in 2014, Lovendale Township is a relatively new development ...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 11:01hrs | 29 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Typhoid wreaking havoc in Harare
TYPHOID is wreaking havoc in the capital, Harare, with 19 new suspected cases having been recorded this week.This comes after 63 suspected cases were recently recorded in Glen Norah high-densi...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tribalistic govt overlooks Prof Solwayo Ngwenya for Mpilo Hospital's top job
Professor Solwayo Ngwenya has reportedly been overlooked for the Mpilo Central Hospital substantive chief executive officer job with the former United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) acting chief executive of...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: 2 Zimbabweans; 1 SA police officer arrested for robbery
Reports coming from the neighbouring South Africa indicate that two Zimbabwean nationals team other with six South Africans with one of them being a police officer to plot committing a robbery in that...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 16:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Almost 200 babies born through IVF Zimbabwe programme
The in vitro (IVF) fertilisation programme which was reintroduced in Zimbabwe in 2016 by a team led by Dr Tinovimba Mhlanga has proved a great success with 197 live births recorded so far and more exp...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:06hrs | 8 | by Agencies
NUST cleared to start medical school
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) Faculty of Medicine has been granted Medical School status after meeting international standards, a development that will see it increasing enr...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo medical lab gets US$1,5m injection
The equivalent of US$1,5 million has been injected by the Government into the major medical laboratory under construction at United Bulawayo Hospitals.The laboratory is expected to be one of t...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Iranian medical specialists arrive in Zimbabwe
A delegation of 11 Iranian medical specialists and a journalist arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday evening for mutual collaboration, knowledge exchange and to treat locals.The team, led by dermatol...Published: 18 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gynaecology Professor opens up on polygamy
HE traces his roots back to the time of King Mzilikazi's long journey to Bulawayo from neighbouring South Africa during the 1830s with his great grandfather, Phambilikwempondo, as one of the king's tr...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:17hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
It's A War: UK group attacks African oil and gas
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, June 22, 2022/ – UK-based events company, Hyve Group, has filed a lawsuit to blackout the African Energy Chamber (AEC).According to AEC, the lawsuit ...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:24hrs | 4 | by Thandisizwe Mgudlwa
Zimbabwean man nabbed for calling Mnangagwa weakling
AN Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe man has been arrested for purportedly undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he said he was a weakling lacking stamina to address the country's economic challenges....Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Open defecation at Harare's new passport offices
IT is a few minutes before midday and the new Makombe complex, which is now handling passport applications, is a hive of activity.Hordes of e-passport seekers patiently queue outside awaiting ...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa aide convicted over fake number plates
CCC leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa's security aide was recently convicted and fined for driving a Toyota Fortuner that was displaying a Mercedes Benz registration plate as well as a third number plate belo...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA-registered vehicle used in Harare shoot-out recovered
The South African registered VW Polo vehicle used as a first getaway car by two suspected armed robbers who sped off during a shootout at a service station near the Exhibition Park (formerly Harare Ag...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health workers threaten mass resignation over proposed law
HEALTH practitioners have rejected the Health Services Amendment Bill which they say seeks to punish them for exercising their labour rights and have threatened mass resignations if it is passed into ...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 5 000 new cancer cases each year
CHINA Africa Economic and Culture Exchange Research Centre (CAECERC) last week conducted an intensive cancer awareness campaign as nations across the globe marked World Cancer Day, which is celebrated...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Traditional healers lure women with promises of easy births
TWO daughters. Long, painful labours. Several miscarriages.For Soko, a hairdresser in her late 30s, the quest for a son and a safe, easy birth led her to seek professional help - from a herbal...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:45hrs | 8 | by Vimbai Chinembiri
4 specialist hospitals boost
GOVERNMENT is in the process of establishing specialist medical schools at four State universities, with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) already recruiting critical staff to t...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia calls for end to infertility stigmatisation
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called for a culture shift to curb stigma around infertility, which affects women more than their male counterparts.Speaking during the first annual summit wi...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
13 unsafe food outlets detected in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council has listed 13 food outlets and butcheries as unsafe due to low hygiene levels.The latest council report shows that Fish and Chip King Takeaways on 9th Avenue, Mr Chips Ta...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele Mayor is dismally failing Bulawayo: Why is the Bulawayo Residence Association mum about BCC discrepancies?
Without the former deputy mayor of Bulawayo Tinashe Karambani, the senior executives in the City Council are failing to eradicate corruption in the city. The BCC is once again in the headlines today f...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:35hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
China unveils scholarship programme for Zimbabwean students
CHINA has unveiled a scholarship programme that will benefit 33 scholars drawn from three of the country's public universities to study in the Asian country.This comes after Zimbabwe and China...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 9 | by Staff writer
'War veterans must show their unflinching war time vibrancy' - fighting whom and for what
When Robert Mugabe got into power in 1980, he was cocksure his scientific socialism would bring economic prosperity to the masses, "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as he never tired of saying. Instead of build on t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe has great economic potential
RUSSIAN business executives and academics Sunday said there are enormous benefits in investing in Zimbabwe especially in the mining and agriculture sectors noting the country's promising economic pote...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
AECAS Webinar on Russian Business in Zimbabwe
The Association of Economic Cooperation with African States (AECAS) together with the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia–Zimbabwe Business Council, Vi Holding wi...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 16:05hrs | 3 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
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