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UK Care Visa Scheme hurting Zimbabweans

UK-based Zimbabwean nurse, author, and mental health advocate Angeline Moyo has warned that Britain's health and care worker visa scheme is doing more harm than good for many Zimbabweans, exposing them to exploitation, trauma, and mental h…

Published: 18 hrs ago | 168 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean care worker killed in Birmingham UK

Tragedy struck late Tuesday evening when two Zimbabwean care workers, Charity Kaseke and Lucia Kwenya, were brutally attacked while walking home from work. The assault, believed to have been an ambush by two unknown assailants, involved de…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 14:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Villagers get free medical care

Hundreds of villagers in Chikomba West constituency received free medical treatment over the weekend as part of the Presidential Medical Care initiative, aimed at improving healthcare access for underserved communities in Zimbabwe.The two-…

Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans escaping economic hardship trapped in the UK care visa crackdown

Zimbabwean professionals seeking a way out of their country's prolonged economic crisis are facing fresh hurdles as the UK government moves to permanently scrap care worker visas, a route many had used to migrate."We're permanently shuttin…

Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:42hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter

UK closure of care work visa to hit Zimbabweans hard

The United Kingdom's decision to permanently shut down its care worker visa route has sent shockwaves across Zimbabwe, where the scheme had offered thousands a much-needed escape from economic hardship and a pathway to financial stability.…

Published: 13 May 2025 at 16:33hrs | 9548 | by Staff reporter

UK will no longer be recruiting care workers from Zimbabwe

THE United Kingdom (UK) will no longer be recruiting care workers from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the Home Secretary has told the BBC.Yvette Cooper said it is "time to end that care worker recruitme…

Published: 12 May 2025 at 17:52hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter

Municipal officers acquitted

Harare Provincial Magistrate Hararel Mutendereki yesterday acquitted four local municipal officers who were facing 18 counts of stealing various items confiscated from vendors.The accused - Langton Kanyama (43), Daniel Shokora (56), Edward…

Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter

Health ministry introduces E-health patient care

The Ministry of Health and Child Care has officially introduced the Impilo Electronic Health Records (EHR) system, a transformative initiative aimed at improving patient care, particularly in Zimbabwe's rural areas.Simukai Zizhowa, the Dir…

Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:44hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean-owned care agency is stripped of ability to endorse visas in UK

More than a hundred migrants and their families are at risk of being in the UK illegally after Renaissance Personnel, a care agency based in Brighton, had its sponsor licence revoked by the Home Office. This revocation came due to concerns…

Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:23hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter

Plumtree caregivers receive bicycles

SAVE the Children has donated 207 bicycles to community child care workers (CCCWs) in Plumtree, Matebeleland South province.Officiating at the handover ceremony, Save the Children Country director in Zimbabwe, Bhekimpilo Khanye said: "This…

Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa

A CARE company serving NHS patients has been charging migrant workers from Africa thousands of pounds to work in the United Kingdom when the cost of a visa is only a few hundred pounds, The Guardian has learned.Care workers from Zimbabwe w…

Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Deportation risk for Zimbabweans as UK care sector sponsors lose licenses

Several Zimbabwean nationals who went to the United Kingdom (UK) to work in the care sector are facing the risk of deportation because their sponsors have lost their licenses. Since November 2023, about 100 private social care providers ha…

Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:50hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe care workers abused in UK

A recent survey has highlighted that Zimbabweans, among other foreigners, are being subjected to exploitation in the United Kingdom's care work sector. The report from the United Kingdom's national helpline for victims of modern slavery re…

Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo gets skin care clinic

A 27-YEAR-OLD business executive Mercy Mabiza has set up a lifestyle intravenous drip clinic in Bulawayo for people who want to make their skin glow.The IV drip therapy treatments are becoming increasingly popular among health conscious pe…

Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Govt must take care of youths

ECONOMIC Justice for Women Project (EJWP) joins Zimbabwe in commemorating the National Youth Day, a day meant to celebrate the efforts made by young people in building the country.The theme for this year is.The youth in Zimbabwe constitute…

Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:53hrs | 12 | by EJWP

With science, aging is dead

Imagine what the world would be if Robert Mugabe, Josh uMdalawethu Nkomo, Adolf Hitler, Iddi Amin, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi hanged around for more than two centuries.Or, to make it sound better and more personal, …

Published: 06 Mar 2011 at 22:26hrs | 4 | by Byo24News

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