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Iran seizes US tanker with $50 million of oil onboard
An Iranian court has issued an order confiscating a crude oil cargo from the Advantage Sweet tanker a year after the country's navy forcibly stopped the ship. It is the latest example of "tit for tat"...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 14:47hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Equipment crisis hits Bulawayo hospitals
MPILO and United Bulawayo (UBH) hospitals are failing to replenish wheelchairs and cancer radiation machines due to poor government funding.The government-owned hospitals are currently having ...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ambulance shortage hits Bulawayo council
BULAWAYO has been hit by an ambulance shortage, a move that could impact negatively on the city's health delivery services.This came out of a Bulawayo City Council (BCC) internal audit which r...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never accounted billions to build Blue Roof, talents he received and wasted; instead blamed British for everything
Let me say from the on-set that white colonial exploitation of Africa has a lot to answer for why the continent is in the economic and political mess it is today. But this is not say the whites are so...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
UBH cancels 21 inflated tenders
THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has cancelled 21 out of 34 tenders flighted this year to ensure that the Government is not fleeced, but gets value for money after some of the suppliers had highly ...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned over ailing health sector
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday demanded that Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga be summoned to the august House to issue a statement on the state of the country's health sector.Th...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa Hospital runs out of painkillers, bandages
OPPOSITION Harare East legislator Tendai Biti said Thursday that the country's largest referral public hospital, Parirenyatwa, has run out essentials including painkillers with patients forced to buy ...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers union says joining doctors and nurses on strike
Doctors, nurses and teachers across Zimbabwe went on strike Monday, as the country's latest financial crisis has left their salaries almost worthless.Nurses earn 18,000 Zimbabwe dollars per mo...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Hospitals turn away pregnant women
PUBLIC hospitals are reportedly turning away pregnant women due to lack of sundries needed for childbirth.The dire state of the country's health delivery system has prompted nurses to call for...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife's doctors fail to submit medical records again
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa's doctors yesterday failed again to present her medical report before the courts despite a court order to that effect.Mubaiwa...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Medical exam for Chiwenga'sestranged wife
MARRY Mubaiwa, who is appearing in court on allegations of attempting to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga while he was in hospital in South Africa, is today expected to undergo a medical exami...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga blocks release of Marry's medical affidavit
A Harare court Monday heard that Marry Mubaiwa, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife is failing to get medical affidavits to show the court as doctors fear the former army General....Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:27hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga threatens Marry's doctors'
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga is reportedly threatening medical doctors against releasing an affidavit for his estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa, who is seeking postponement of he...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
The brutality of March 11, 2007 and its impact
Back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues.The Save Zimbabwe campaign (SZc) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA).Its members include ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Arthur G.O. Mutambara
The ultimate checklist for the winter adventure of your dreams
Bears sure have it easy. At the very least, they get to hibernate all winter without a worry in the world. After all, sleeping in and doing nothing during cold winter days is a dream for a lot of peop...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 11:34hrs | 4 | by Staff writer
Paying for access in Zimbabwe
As Zimbabwe's economy craters and salaries lose their value, everything - including free basic services - has a price.Many residents have a story of a back-door, or "grease," payment they made...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:26hrs | 4 | by Linda Mujuru
Thank God for ingenious coronavirus vaccine - we must now deal with political challenge
It was just over a year ago, November 2019, that the world learned of the coronavirus outbreak in China. By March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak a world pandemic. ...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?
WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and fini...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa what is our problem?
We are the second largest platinum producer in the world, we have gold reserves around the country, we have chrome, we have alluvial diamonds, we have best human resources skills, we have land and nat...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
No one is going to save Zimbabweans but themselves, says Makoni
Simba Makoni (Sm) is regarded as one of the best ministers to preside over Zimbabwe's Treasury. He then formed his party, mMvambo/Kusile/Dawn (mKD) which had a good showing in the 2008 presidential el...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby for not picking her from church
A BULAWAYO woman allegedly severely scalded her husband with boiling water, peeling most of the skin from his body, in a fit of rage after he forgot to pick her from church.Mr Davies Chitagu h...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
The situation in Zimbabwe has moved to another level
"FELLOW Zimbabweans … the situation in our country has moved to another level. Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe and sound an...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Cliff Chiduku
Talking Nkayi Education: Slicing the education cake with high-flying Zwelabo Secondary School
Zwelabo Secondary School, founded in 1984 and located about fifty kilometres west of Nkayi Centre in Matabeleland North Province, is arguably the jewel and golden place to be, for many progressive stu...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 16:46hrs | 2 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mary Chiwenga missing?
Mary Chiwenga the wife of the ailing Vice President General Constantino Nyikadzino Dominic Chiwenga has not appeared in public for a few months now since it was revealed that she is suffering from the...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 18:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Funding for Zimbabwe's healthcare now dire
The country's healthcare system has become unsustainable in the face of serious funding challenges and for the umpteenth time, Zimbabweans have to brace for yet another gruelling round of increases in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Bomber 'robbed'
SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean heavyweight boxer, Elvis Moyo's six-bout winning streak was halted by a judges' unanimous points decision against Arnold Gjergjaj in Sporthalle, Switzerland, on Saturday....Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launch POLAD, arch - "African solution" to bad governance - bury our heads in the sand, insane
"We are grateful that the leadership of Zimbabwe has established the dialogue voluntarily," commented Mphakama Mbete, SA Ambassador to Zimbabwe, at the official launch of Political Actors Dialogue (PO...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:48hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
We've failed to guard our independence
ZIMBABWE's independence in 1980 did not come on a silver platter but it came at a huge cost and most of the people who made sure this day became a reality are long gone.But for those who were ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Harry Peter Wilson
Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to take over in 2020 - he too will fail, guaranteed
Zanu-PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country's de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing mor...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:04hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean seeks twinning of Mutare, Toronto
RENOWNED Zimbabwean paediatric cardiologist Norman Nhamohainavazhinji Musewe, who is based in Toronto, Canada, is pushing for the twinning of Mutare city with a satellite city of Greater Toronto....Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should cut down on foreign trips
EDITOR,I am certain that by now President Emmerson Mnangagwa has lost count of the foreign trips he has embarked on since he came into power in 2017.It is an open secret that Zimbabwe ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:03hrs | | by Peter K
'Wages up $570 from $441' government announced - liar, liar down $228 from $441
"Government and civil servants yesterday sealed a salary accord after the employer improved its offer to the workers from $350 million to $400 million," reported Zimeye."This will translate to...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 14:42hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients'
NURSES at Zimbabwe"s foremost medical institution, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, have resorted to washing bandages to dress burns on patients as health crisis at the institution deepens, plastic su...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Doctors give government two-week ultimatum on supplies - decisive action at last, after 38 years of dithering
"DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last wee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:12hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
We were misled - Doctors
DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last week...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When will Mnangagwa act on Zimbabwe's death trap hospitals?
She's being called the doctor who moved a nation. This week Azza Mashumba, the head of paediatrics at Harare's main-and-in-desperate-straits Parirenyatwa Hospital, made a tearful plea to the health mi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:14hrs | | by Oliver Matthews
Mnangagwa must urgently solve doctor's grievances
Government should seriously look at concerns raised by senior doctors over the dire situation at the country's public hospitals.Yesterday, the senior doctors took their grievances to the street as...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:29hrs | | by Editorial - Daily News
Doctor weeps in front of Zimbabwe Health minister
Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday narrated to the minister of Health Obadiah Moyo, of the horrors and deaths occurring everyday at major hospitals because of acute shortages ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of betadine and painkillers
Zimbabwe's top hospital Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like betadine and painkillers it has been revealed. The issue came out during a meeting between Minister of Health Obadiah...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Good and sound advice for the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC)
To be quite honest and frank the Presidential advisory council which President Mnangagwa appointed have a tough assignment to accomplish though I still have some disputation over some names which were...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 14:14hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabwe police bosses dressed down over dirty cells
A GROUP of MPs from Zimbabwe's parliament on Monday took time to dress down police bosses at Harare Central police for allegedly beating up and keeping suspects inside dirty cells.This is afte...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Quick remedy to solve Zimbabwe crisis
Time has come when we all have to put politics aside and adopt progressive imagination to deal with our current scenario. It is not proper for country which was a bread basket nation before would adop...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 15:34hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chiwenga flown by private jet to India
Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga was flown by private jet to India on Thursday, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Health John Mangwiro.Chiwenga was forced to prematurely abandon his tr...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:09hrs | | by ZimLive
Chiwenga, Mohadi flown out for treatment
Vice Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi have been flown to India and South Africa respectively as they battle failing health, ZimLive reported.Chiwenga was forced to prematurely ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrong body buried, family forced to exhume
A NKAYI family in Matabeleland North has been forced to exhume a body of a Mosotho man it buried in December after it emerged that they collected a wrong body from a South African funeral parlour. ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife pours heart out
The ex-model wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has spoken out about her bandaged hands and a harrowing story of an explosion that rocked a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo tha...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Couples urged on condom use
BED-RIDDEN on a single bed at United Bulawayo Hospitals with blood-stained bandages on her legs and arms, 25-year-old Moleen Mpala (not her real name) could not fathom events leading to her being stru...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diasporan donates soccer kit, health equipment to Nkayi residents
A CANADA-BASED philanthropist has donated medical equipment and soccer kits to several clinics and schools in one of the country's most impoverished districts, Nkayi.Born and raised in Lutsha ...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
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