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RBZ governor to unpack MPS in Bulawayo
The Zimbabwe Independent, in partnership with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), will tomorrow host an event in Bulawayo to unpack the 2024 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS).Other partners incl...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:58hrs | 792 | by Staff reporter
Benylin paediatric syrup banned
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has banned the sale of Benylin Paediatric Syrup, which is manufactured by Johnson and Johnson in South Africa, after authorities in Nigeria found tox...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:48hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces injectable HIV drug
ZIMBABWE has introduced Cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA), an injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis drug, to add to the HIV prevention regime in the country.The drug, an ARV designed to suppress...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:35hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Blitz exposes unregistered medicines
A JOINT operation between the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) and the police this week uncovered an illegal distribution network of unregistered and expired medicines including illicit ...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs
PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate under pressures from a relentless economic ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15hrs | 670 | by Staff reporter
Top firm caught smuggling drugs into Zimbabwe
Authorities have seized drugs that were allegedly smuggled through the country's porous borders by one of the country's major medical service providers Baines Radiology Group (BIG).Highly plac...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 14:36hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Indian soldiers in murky deals
SUSPECTED former Indian army officers, who have been operating in Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado region, have reportedly settled in Zimbabwe, where they are allegedly operatin...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1543 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank donates US$20 000 for chemotherapy drugs to CAZ
Harare, 19 December 2023 - Stanbic Bank has donated US$20 000 to the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) towards the purchasing of chemotherapy drugs for its members. This year is the 10...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:26hrs | 184 | by Agencies
Stanbic named 2023 bank of the year by the banker
Harare, 12 December 2023 - Stanbic Bank has been selected 2023 Bank of the Year in Zimbabwe by world renown London-based magazine, The Banker, cementing its place as one of the country's leading finan...Published: 13 Dec 2023 at 09:24hrs | 640 | by Stephen Jakes
Stanbic scoops three prestigious awards
Harare, 24 October 2023 - Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe scooped three prestigious awards - two at the Banks and Banking Survey sponsored by financial services institution, FCB and publishing company, Alpha Me...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:39hrs | 336 | by Agencies
Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwean's economy is booming
Finance and Investment Promotion Minister, Mthuli Ncube, has stated that Zimbabweans should embrace the current favorable economic conditions, emphasizing that the country's economy is thriving....Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga threatens 'rogue' pharmacists
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has called upon the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) to take decisive action against health professionals who violate pharmaceutical laws by revoking ...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:37hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Kadewere linked with move to French side Montpellier
ZIMBABWE international striker Tino Kadewere has been linked with a move to French topflight league side Montpellier after the completion of his loan spell at Spanish outfit Real Mallorca.Kade...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 09:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga set for Egypt
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, is expected to lead the Zimbabwe delegation at this year's Africa Health ExCon, which starts here in Egypt on...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes Egyptian medicine
Zimbabwe has taken steps to formalise acquisition of cheaper medicines from Egypt after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in Harare Friday between the two African countries' medicines regulat...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC CEO suspension opens can of worms
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Mabhudhu was suspended on Monday for reportedly stalling the corrupt purchase of Kuvimba Mining House (KMH)'s 33% sh...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 19:34hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by paternity fraud
THE case of a prominent Bulawayo pathologist Dr Roger Kruger Hendrick Chigangacha who sued his ex-girlfriend, Natasha Popova Sibanda, a former actress in the TV drama Amakorokoza for US$163 000 ...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:41hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
MCAZ issues warning to people advertising illegal medicines
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has issued a warning to people that are illegally advertising illegal medicines on social media, saying they risk being jailed. In a statemen...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Town Clerks, Mayors face Zimbabwe government wrath
THE Government says it is disappointed with poor service delivery obtaining in the country's towns and cities that does not signal a collective agenda steeped towards achieving an upper-middle income ...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Israeli HIV 'cure' Gammora drug not approved in Zimbabwe
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has warned against the use of Gammora as treatment for HIV.Gammora is a drug developed by Zion Medical, an Israeli-based biotech company whic...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 16:05hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hair-straightening creams face ban
SOME hair-straightening creams and skin-lightening cosmetics that have been linked to cancer could soon be banned from the local market under new regulations spearheaded by the Medicines Control Autho...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 09:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
$3 billion for RG Mugabe Airport upgrade, amid faulty radar system
THE upgrading of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare has been allocated ZW$3.1 billion by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as fears mount that the port of entry has become a major c...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:59hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urges pharmaceuticals to promote production of herbal and generic medicines
Health and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged pharmaceutical companies to promote production of herbal and generic medicines to reduce the country's medical import bill.Address...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe first African country to approve use of HIV/AIDS prevention medicine
Zimbabwe has become the first African country to approve the once-every-two-months injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis drug.Monday, medicines regulatory board Medicines Control Authority o...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ZIDA executive team
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a new Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) top management executive team charged with the responsibility to attract meaningful investments into the ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo mayor and deputy boycott CCC's Harare meeting for councillors
BULAWAYO Mayor, Solomon Mguni and former deputy mayor, Mlandu Ncube, Thursday boycotted a Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) meeting organised for councillors in Harare.The councillors were ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mayor, councillors fume over US$20 monthly allowance
HARARE councillors are seething with anger, describing Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) as inconsiderate and heartless in failing to review the paltry monthly allowances given to city fa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa petitioned over July Moyo
A LOCAL firm, Zimbabwe Innovative Technologies (ZIMIT), has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for intervention after Local Government and Public Works minister July Moyo overturned a US$17,4 mi...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Jesus signs
Arsenal have signed Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City for £45m on a long-term deal.The 25-year-old is manager Mikel Arteta's fourth signing of the summer, following the arriva...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:31hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda demands water system management from Zinwa
THE Municipality of Gwanda has expressed concern over failure by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to hand over the mining town's water management systems to the local authority as per Gov...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sex 'booster' takes Harare by storm
THIRTY-TWO-year-old Takunda Dube says he has been battling erectile dysfunction and decreased libido since he was 21.The condition is common, but can be a frustrating and embarrassing experien...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Time to protect people from their churches
VERY little is known about one of the worst religion-related mass murders and tragedies that occurred in Uganda in 2000 in which 700 Ugandans died. More is known about the 1978 Jonestown massacre in G...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 12 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe in race against time to exhaust stockpiles of Covid-19 vaccines
Zimbabwe is battling against time to administer over 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that are already in its stocks amid concerns of public complacency and hesitancy, it has been established....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga to benefit from US$100,000 irrigation project
COMMUNITIES in Binga are set to benefit from a US$100 000 irrigation project funded by the Campfire Association of Zimbabwe (Caz) in partnership with the Kavango Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Ar...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Icaz appoints new CEO
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (Icaz) has appointed William Mandisodza as its chief executive officer (CEO), according to a statement released on Wednesday.Icaz said Mandis...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
52 families face eviction to allow coal mining
A TOTAL of 52 families in Lubimbi, Binga, Matabeleland North are facing eviction after Hwange Colliery Company got a grant to extract coal from the area.The community was already facing evicti...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Icaz appoints Mandisodza as new chief executive
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (Icaz) has appointed William Mandisodza as its chief executive, according to a statement released on Wednesday.Icaz said Mandisodza assumed h...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hyperinflation headache for accountants
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) last week cast doubts over the validity of financial statements, citing hyperinflation and exchange rate volatilities.It has been a re...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies shut over expired drugs
At least three pharmacies have been shut while four managers lost licences for selling expired and unregistered medicines to unsuspecting patients, as the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Medicines Board Shuts Down Pharmacies Over Unauthorised Drugs
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has suspended four pharmacy supervisors and shut down three over suspected cases of illegal dealings.The MCAZ did not give any explanation an...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors fret over Ucaz subs
THE Urban Council Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) has asked Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to pay $2,9 million as membership fee, but some councillors said the association was not adding value to the city...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 3 more Zinara board members
President Mnangagwa has appointed three more people to the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board to improve efficiency and services to the people under the Second Republic.The t...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Public warned against street drugs
Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union (ZPNU) has warned the public against buying pharmaceutical products from unregistered institutions and dealers as they will be risking their lives .The stree...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nakamba voted November player of the Month
ZIMBABWEAN midfielder, Marvelous Nakamba has been rewarded for his brilliant exploits for his English club Aston Villa after he won the November Player of the Month.Aston Villa announced on Fr...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe goes to court over TV paternity show
A TV host whose DNA paternity show was shut down by the Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe (HPAZ) has gone to the High Court to challenge the decision.Tinashe Mugabe's hit show, The Closure...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Councils forced to pay $32m for Auxillia Mnangagwa's orphanage
URBAN local authorities across the country were recently forced to contribute $32 million towards the construction of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's orphanage in Chiredzi, investigations by NewZimbab...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZBC hikes licence fees
Cabinet received an update in respect of Zimbabwe's Covid-19 response as presented by the Honourable Vice President Dr. CGDN Chiwenga as chairperson of the Ministers' National Committee.The na...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Icaz CEO quits
INSTITUTE of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (Icaz) chief executive officer (CEO), Gloria Zvaravanhu will leave her role at the end of this year, NewsDay Business reported.In a circular sent...Published: 03 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination extended to 16-year olds
All teenagers aged 16 and over should now be vaccinated against Covid-19.Schools, colleges, vaccination centres and others are now required to start vaccinating teenagers aged 16 and 17 with t...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
DCC Chair brutally assaults minor over a school girl
A 17-year old Madziwa boy was allegedly brutally assaulted by ZANU PF Shamva Distirict Coodinating Chairman over a school girl (form 3) last Wednesday....Published: 22 Oct 2021 at 17:08hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Rabaya/Simbarashe Sithole
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