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PSMAS ranked Zimbabwe's worst medical aid provider

The Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) has been ranked the worst-performing medical aid provider in Zimbabwe in a new nationwide survey of doctors conducted by the Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZiMA).The online poll, carried out f…

Published: 14 Aug 2025 at 10:48hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter

Food aid demand to rise until December in Zimbabwe

The demand for food assistance in Zimbabwe is expected to rise steadily until at least December, with households in the country's typical deficit-producing areas projected to exhaust their own-produced food stocks by then, according to the…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 08:44hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's medical aid coverage crashes to just 4%

Zimbabwe's healthcare system faces a deepening crisis as health insurance coverage has plummeted to an all-time low, with just 4% of the population currently enrolled in any form of medical aid. The startling figures, drawn from the newly …

Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe excluded from â‚¬500 million EU aid package

Zimbabwe has been excluded from a new â‚¬500 million aid package from the European Union (EU) to Africa, following the recent enactment of the controversial Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Act by President Emmerson Mnangagwa…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:28hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter

More funding woes for Zimbabwe NGOs

Zimbabwe and other African nations are set to face increased pressure on their health, education, and development sectors following major international aid cuts by the United Kingdom (UK) and Netherlands.The UK government has decided to sl…

Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 16:20hrs | 8897 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe NGOs beware - UK set to cut international aid

The cut is part of a plan to make Britain spend 2.6% of its GDP on defense starting 2027, the prime minister has saidBritain is to cut its foreign development assistance funding from 0.5% of its Gross National Income (GNI) down to 0.3%, Pr…

Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 20:05hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's lucrative NGO space dealt another blow as Netherlands cuts support

Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that rely on Dutch funding are facing a major setback following the Netherlands government's decision to cut â‚¬2.4 billion in international development aid. The budget reductions, set to ta…

Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 13:15hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter

Tagwirei expands humanitarian work

Zimbabwean business mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei's Bridging Gaps Foundation (BGF) has intensified its humanitarian initiatives in Mutoko district, Mashonaland East Province, by drilling boreholes and installing solar-powered water systems at …

Published: 16 Feb 2025 at 16:45hrs | 1698 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF 'highjacks' Zhombe aid transportation, distribution

The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has raised serious allegations that the transportation and distribution of food aid in Zhombe have been hijacked by Zanu-PF members, calling for urgent government intervention to addres…

Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 17:00hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter

Chinese food aid allegedly politicised amid Zimbabwe's hunger crisis

A recent donation of four metric tonnes of rice by China to feed hungry Zimbabweans has been criticized for allegedly being politicised, exacerbating the desperate hunger situation faced by villagers.According to the Zimbabwe Peace Project…

Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:11hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter

2 in court for stealing relief food

A human resources and administration officer from the Department of Social Development, a depot clerk at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) in Bindura, and a truck driver have been charged with the theft of 30 tonnes of wheat meant for Zimbab…

Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:22hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa top aide warns aid looters

ZANU-PF legislators this Wednesday fumed over unfair distribution of food aid in several constituencies countrywide as authorities admitted something went wrong during the processes.Zimbabwe suffered its worst drought in over 40 years in t…

Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:23hrs | 2319 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF members use dead people's IDs to steal food aid

Some Zanu-PF supporters in Ward 19 of Zaka Central are up for stealing social welfare food aid by misrepresenting that they have more kids than they actually have, with them even using deceased people's identity cards to get aid.Sources wi…

Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 12:48hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt officials loot food aid

Two officers from the Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare in Guruve, Mashonaland West Province, have been arrested for allegedly stealing food aid meant to support villagers affected by drought. The officers, Mutsa …

Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 14:49hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora demands equitable food aid distribution from govt

The president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Douglas Mwonzora, has urged the government to ensure an equitable distribution of food aid and take measures to address the impacts of the El Nino-induced drought.El Nin…

Published: 26 Dec 2023 at 09:09hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe medical aid societies defend service charges

MEDICAL aid service providers yesterday said they were forced to make monthly adjustments to the cost of their services as a survival strategy owing to exchange rate disparities.Association of Health Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) chief execu…

Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga threatens to deregister medical aid societies

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday threatened to deregister errant medical aid societies, accusing them of gross malpractices, failure to abide by the rule book, including abuse of funds and breach of corporate governance guidel…

Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Patients suffer as doctors, medical aid societies clash

A TUSSLE has erupted between medical practitioners in the private sector and medical aid societies, as doctors are accused of turning down policy holders without cash co-payments due to health funders' failure to settle claims.Medical prac…

Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

AID to Africa is dead aid: It must be stopped

We need to ask ourselves critical questions; is foreign aid good for Africa? What purpose is it intended for? Is aid helping the people it is intended to assist in alleviating hunger and poverty in African communities? When did foreign aid…

Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 06:56hrs | 13 | by Nomazulu Thata

Only 10% of Zimbabweans on medical aid

INSURANCE and Pensions Commission (Ipec) commissioner Grace Muradzikwa says medical cover in the country is not working for the majority of Zimbabweans.Only one in 10 Zimbabweans have medical cover in a country of over 14 million people.Th…

Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Foreign aid dreadful, unnecessary!

ZIMBABWE does not need foreign aid to escape this economic malaise. Our leaders have been saying it so many times that the country's hope lies on a bailout package; the quicker we get it, the better, but this is a misplaced sentiment. The …

Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Blessing Machiva

Aid or foreign invasion?

The US government and MIT are now admitting to what most were suspecting all along...as they openly announced (28/03/2019) plan to ChemTrail, that is, spray our skies! That leaves one to wonder whether the cyclones that we are now experien…

Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:46hrs | 1 | by Robson Melasi

Cyclone aid must not be abused

Rumours and gossip wafting from the cyclone hit areas of Zimbabwe are not pleasing since a few 'baboon-handed' individuals are said to be helping themselves from the donations meant for those in dire straits. Most Zimbabweans are very good…

Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Tondo Murisa

1.1 million Zimbabweans will need food aid, warns WFP

The World Food Programme warned on Friday that 1.1 million Zimbabweans could need food aid before the next harvest in 2019, with rural smallholders most at risk of food shortages.Growing food prices and the country's dire economic state co…

Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 10:24hrs | | by AFP

The curse of foreign aid

Foreign aid, by design or accident, has unfortunately become the most powerful tool which certain western governments continue to use to keep Africa a begging continent.In his book titled The Great Escape, Angus Deaton, an expert on global…

Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | 12 | by Vince Musewe

One million people in need of food aid in Zimbabwe

The number of people in need of food aid in the country has dropped to one million from four million last year, thanks to the success of Command Agriculture and the Presidential Input Scheme, an official has said. Public Service, Labour an…

Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu PF hijacks medical outreach programme

Beitbridge residents are up in arms against officials from Zanu-PF who are allegedly trying to hijack and politicise a humanitarian gesture by 100 doctors coming to the district to offer free medical services.The Zimbabwe National Developm…

Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by staff reporter

'Zimbabwe won't accept aid tied to gay rights'

GOVERNMENT will not accept aid from countries or organisations pushing for the acceptance of gays and lesbian marriages in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has said. Speaking at the 30th 21st February Movement celebrations in Masvingo on …

Published: 29 Feb 2016 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Lovemore Mataire

USAid programme to Zimbabwe apolitical, says envoy

The United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton says his country's aid to Zimbabwe is apolitical amid accusations that its funding the National Vendors Union of Zimbabwe led by Stan Zvorwadza to stir political turmoil in Zimbabwe.Wh…

Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 09:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

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