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Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland
While I was going through my archives I came across the Election Manifesto below. Quite interesting.PATRIOTIC UNION OF MANDEBELELAND (PUMA)ELECTION MANIFES...Published: 21 May 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3507 | by PUMA
'Expired' ARVs fear allayed
Government has assured People Living with HIV and Aids (PLWHA) of the safety and effectiveness of all antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) being dispensed in public health institutions. This followed f...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:32hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
'HIV+ patients can take expired medication'
This picture has gone viral and some people are shocked and are calling the government all sorts of names. Unknown to some people is that this has been ongoing for the last 12 months or so. In short t...Published: 18 May 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1299 | by Brighton Chireka
Domestic helpers should be vetted, say police
HOUSEMAIDS and other domestic helpers should be vetted by law enforcement agents before they are employed to reduce cases of child abuse, an official has said.Speaking at a crime watch outreac...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:21hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
Cimas opens impressive clinic in Manresa for Lafarge Cement
Cimas Medical Aid Society on Friday (10 May) officially opened Manresa Clinic at Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe to cater for factory employees, their families and the surrounding community.The clinic...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Clinic to give HIV patients expired pills
An advert at an unnamed health institution which has gone viral online advises patients that expired pills for treating HIV have been given another shelf life and will be the given to patients. ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 21:31hrs | 2631 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's Cabinet approval of HIV/Aids transmission law repeal is irrational
The decriminalisation of HIV aids transmission is surely a violation of the rights of the victims and would be victims of that felonious behaviour. That is now going to give a green light to many who ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:26hrs | 1623 | by Njabulo
New HIV drug unveiled
Newly diagnosed HIV patients are now being initiated onto a new regimen of antiretroviral medication containing Dolutegravir (DTG), a drug which has significantly less side effects and is more afforda...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2269 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa showers Trent with praises
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday congratulated Zimbabwe-born academic Dr Tererai Trent for being named among the World's Top 10 Most Inspiring Women "Sculpted for Equal Rights". Dr Trent, who is ...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:47hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
HIV/Aids transmission law repeal approved by Cabinet
The Marriages Amendment Bill which will repeal a legal provision that criminalises "wilful" transmission of HIV to a partner has been approved by Cabinet.Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affai...Published: 11 May 2019 at 08:59hrs | 1511 | by Staff Reporter
UZ exam derails Mohadi's protection order trial
Vice-President Kembo Mohadi's application for a protection order which was set to be heard at the Civil Courts in Harare yesterday was once again postponed for the second time after his estranged ex-w...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1589 | by Staff reporter
Extract for the Book: The Next Zimbabwe
CHAPTER FOUR (ZIMBABWE) BEING EDUCATED VS BEING LEARNED There is no doubt that the education quality and...Published: 09 May 2019 at 13:06hrs | 1084 | by Terence Simbi
Lawyer pledges fuel for ZRP to arrest teenagers
Top Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has pledged to donate fuel to the Zimbabwe Republic Police to assist them in arresting more teenagers who are involved in beer binge parties known as Vuzu parties....Published: 07 May 2019 at 13:28hrs | 5690 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dembare scraps a win
Dynamos 1 - 0 ZPC KaribaThe Glamour Boys had gone for five games across all competitions without a win. A first-half goal by Munyaradzi Mawadza was all that the Harare giants needed to collect max...Published: 05 May 2019 at 17:01hrs | 1445 | by Staff reporter
Beer prices have reduced cases of domestic violence
'Wine that gladdens the heart of man'. Beer prices are ever climbing up far away from the hands of many would be imbibers let alone mouths of merry-makers and pub crawlers. Paying tribute to Bacchus t...Published: 05 May 2019 at 11:55hrs | 442 | by Thomas Murisa
Police to raid vuzu youths
POLICE in Bulawayo will today arrest any rowdy youths found in the central business district and have increased deployment of officers to deal with the scourge of vuzu parties. Teenagers take ...Published: 04 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Africa has no divine duty to heed the West
IT'S quite refreshing that many Africans - both black and white - have refused to submit to Eurocentrism, where all things from the West are viewed in utopian terms in which everything is projected as...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 188 | by Conway Tutani
UZ students grill Prophet Magaya
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe students had an opportunity to grill Prophetic Healing and Deliverance founder, Prophet Walter Magaya in a question and answer session at the campus' Great Hall on Tuesday....Published: 02 May 2019 at 19:08hrs | 7107 | by Staff reporter
HIV vaccine trial gathers momentum
AN African-led first HIV vaccine trial has given hope to millions of people who will only need a few shots to be immunised against the virus.The clinical trial, running from 2018 to 2022 and d...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele community in Buhera assert rights
A NDEBELE chief in the heart of Buhera is pleading with government to provide a local primary school with a Ndebele teacher to preserve their language.The community, populated by Ndebeles in t...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 16:45hrs | 3333 | by Staff reporter
Inside the MDC VPs race
The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa will hold its elective congress in May, and four of the candidates for the vice presidency are females, Tracy Mutinhiri, Paurina Mpariwa, Lynette Karenyi Kore, and Lillia...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | 2308 | by Staff reporter
Maids 'steal' from employer, arrested
TWO maids have been arrested for allegedly stealing about 15 000 rand, US$300 and RTGS$150 from their employer at her home in Bulawayo. Loveness Moyo (33) and Rosemary Marumbwa (38) were emplo...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1561 | by Staff reporter
Major shake-up in govt hospitals
A MAJOR shake-up is underway in the country's biggest referral hospitals as Health and Child Care minister Obadiah Moyo begins to flex his muscles following his appointment in September last year....Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 3987 | by Staff reporter
780 000 Zimbabwean young women HIV+
A UNAIDS report has ranked Zimbabwe third in the Sadc region in the numbers of HIV positive young women and girls.The report blames the high statistics on legal and policy barriers that hinder...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 11:25hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes major appointment
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Dr Agnes Mahova as a permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Dr Mahomva is a public health specialist and c...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 19:13hrs | 14126 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Military rifle recovered from poachers
POACHERS cornered in a section of the vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge recently abandoned an AK-47 assault rifle traced back to the Zimbabwe National Army, police sources said at the weeken...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Valerio Sibanda's war time exploits
LET me congratulate General Philip Valerio Sibanda for his new post as the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander.I met Comrade Ananias Gwenzi (General PV Sibanda), in Zambia in March 1974 at...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 09:01hrs | 13690 | by Dr Milton, Chemhuru
RTGS$ plunges
Zimbabwe is nearing the much dreaded economic horrors of 2008 punctuated by hyperinflation, widespread shortages of foreign currency and fuel coupled with a spike in prices of everything, including st...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | 9444 | by Staff reporter
HIV used to cure babies in America
Reports from the United States of America indicate that its scientists have used the deadly HIV to make a gene therapy that has cured about eight infants of severe combined immunodeficiency known as t...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 14:00hrs | 2019 | by Mandla Ndlovu
I'm HIV+ at 85 but
EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Sekuru Samba has revealed his HIV positive status and described it as a blessing in disguise.The Maruta Kraal Headman heir apparent, real name Robert Ticharwa Maruta, said...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:54hrs | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resorts to Abacus bean Counting in the Digital age,
By offering bread crumbs to former commercial farmers, in a potentially ill fated bid to appease the international financial markets over the ZANU-PF sanctioned illegal farm invasions of 2000 to 2005....Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 19:34hrs | 892 | by Thabo Makuyana
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1257 | by Sifelani Tsiko
HIV scare hits MDC
The Opposition MDC Bulawayo Province has been rocked by infighting as it gets near to its Provincial Congress which has seen a camp aligned to National Chairperson Tabitha Khumalo hatching a plot to b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 06:16hrs | 7423 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Diamonds panner assaults, disarms ZCDC guard
A CHIMANIMANI illegal diamond panner on Saturday appeared in court for allegedly teaming up with 15 others, still at large, to assault and disarm a Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) securit...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
Zimra targets tax dodgers
WHEN the taxman pays an impromptu visit, they all shut their doors; and when he calls-in everyone stampedes for the exits just to get a good reason to say "no one heard the call".Very few peop...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:18hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Let's Preach Abstinence to the Nation!
The Editor, May you please allow me space to tell the nation the truth, nothing else but the living reality through this educative and informative newspaper that Abstinence and monogamy is the...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:29hrs | 756 | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Switzerland allocates US$1.1 million to Cyclone Idai appeal
Switzerland has allocated an additional CHF1 million (US$1.1 million) in humanitarian assistance following the UN and the Government of Zimbabwe's Flash Appeal that was launched at the end of February...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:28hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style diamond mine robbery in Zimbabwe
AN armed gang of robbers, suspected to comprise members of Zimbabwe security forces and some artisanal miners, raided the Chiadzwa diamond fields on Sunday night and got away with tonnes of precious o...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 2318 | by Staff reporter
Why your managers should be like coaches (Not Bosses)
Every business aims to constructively engage, develop and retain the most talented employees. This specific strategy is not merely about developing the person's specific skills but more so about impro...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 22:11hrs | 1577 | by Staff Writer
Coltart speaks on racism against blacks in private schools
Human Rights lawyer Doug Coltart has condemned what he termed ‘institutional racism' which he said is being practised in some private schools. Recently Peterhouse Boys School conducted an Ex...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2213 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube quizzed over high cost of sanitary wear
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube was last Thursday quizzed in the Senate over the issue of the removal of duty on sanitary wear for women and girls.A packet of panty liners now costs between $3 a...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Dumiso Dabengwa defended
There is debate raging here on social media about what former Zipra commander and intelligence chief Dumiso Dabengwa has said. In short, Dabengwa said Mugabe and Zanu did not help the ANC and MK much ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 13:04hrs | 7890 | by Dimisani Muleya
Health ministry to float RTGS$ tender for drugs
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Thursday assured Senate that his ministry was prepared to avert any health calamities that may face Cyclone Idai victims, adding that his ministry will soon float a rea...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Bosso in it to win, declares Madinda
Black Rhinos 1 - 1 Highlanders HIGHLANDERS coach Madinda Ndlovu says the days of rebuilding are over, and now is the time to start competing.Ndlovu uttered these words soon after wat...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:44hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
Deliberate transmission of HIV: The pros & cons
THE most topical issue this past week was the announcement by Justice minister of government's plans to revoke section 79(1) of the Criminal (Codification and Reform) Act, which makes the deliberate t...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:39hrs | 179 | by Miriam Tose Majome
'Children should get sex education regardless of age'
Social workers and legislators have said the age of consent to sex should remain at 16 years to protect children from abuse, while at the same time children should have access to sexual reproductive h...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:16hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs conducts door to door search for foreigners
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs is reportedly engaging in a surprise door to door search for undocumented immigrants who are residing in the country illegally. A notice at Ponte City...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | 57854 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZCLDN applauds Government decision to decriminalise HIV transmission
THE Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network (ZCLDN) welcomes the recent announcement made by the Government that it wants to repeal a legal provision that criminalises willful transmission of HIV/AI...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 227 | by ZCLDN Communications Department
Bulawayo, Harare named as HIV hotspots
BULAWAYO, Harare, Ruwa and Chitungwiza have been identified as HIV hotspots with the highest number of infected people not on treatment amid reports that risky sexual behaviour continues to drive the ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
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