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Woman dies after swallowing drugs during police arrest in Harare
A 55-year-old woman, Josephine Tinarwo, died on Thursday after swallowing a large quantity of drugs she was attempting to deliver to another peddler, only to fall into a police trap, authorities have ...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:51hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's health system profits from the dead
Blessing Mucharambei's uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. "[He] started bleeding from the nose," she says, "and died on the spot."As far as his family knew, he had no he...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 08:03hrs | 352 | by Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe
Student nurses use fake O-Level certificates to enrol at Chitungwiza Hospital
Two student nurses enrolled at Chitungwiza Central Hospital have been exposed for using fake Ordinary Level certificates to gain admission into a nursing course. Paidamoyo Samantha Muchira and Makanak...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:54hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo hospital records highest patient mortality rate in Zimbabwe
Mpilo Central Hospital has emerged as the referral hospital with the highest patient mortality rate in Zimbabwe, recording an 8.4% death rate between January and August 2024.Data obtained by C...Published: 21 Dec 2024 at 15:33hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police urges motorists to stop, render aid, and report accidents
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has reiterated the importance of motorists stopping, rendering first aid, and promptly reporting any road traffic accidents to the police. The reminder follows a tra...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 04:58hrs | 252 | by Staff reporter
Murder charge for Zimbabwean man after he allegedly kills 4AM intruder
A 22-year-old man, Benson Macharangwanda, from Chitungwiza, has been charged with murder following the death of an alleged intruder during a confrontation at his home on December 2.Macharangwa...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 07:15hrs | 2359 | by Staff reporter
Paid an arm and leg for Hwange Unit 7 & 8 and yet they not generating - Chinese demanding head in a silver platter!
ZESA's explanation of reduced generation from Hwange Thermal Power Station especially due to repeated Units 7 and 8 did not make any sense at all. The two units costing US$ 1.4 billion were commission...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 21:17hrs | 2649 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa expected to descend on Harare Province
AS Zanu-PF continues to display massive mobilisation capacity, steely political willpower, and a magnificent show of charisma, President Mnangagwa and his team are expected to descend on Harare Provin...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga visits accident scene
Acting President Dr Constantino Chiwenga this morning visited the accident scene where four children died in a road traffic accident which occurred along the Harare-Masvingo Road on Wednesday....Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman kills hubby in fight over relish
A 53-YEAR-OLD woman from Chitungwiza has appeared in court on allegations of killing her husband following a fight over relish.The court heard that the now deceased was irked when he arrived h...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills hubby in dinner fight
A 53-year-old Chitungwiza woman has appeared in court on allegations of killing her husband following a fight over relish.The court heard that Wilson Muchimwe (53) was irked when she arrived h...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Man killed for dating woman and her juvenile daughter
A Seke man was Friday arraigned before the courts to answer to murder charges after he allegedly killed a fellow villager for dating a woman from their area and her minor daughter at once.Obvi...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tribalistic govt overlooks Prof Solwayo Ngwenya for Mpilo Hospital's top job
Professor Solwayo Ngwenya has reportedly been overlooked for the Mpilo Central Hospital substantive chief executive officer job with the former United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) acting chief executive of...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 19:47hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Names of accident victims released
POLICE today released the names of three of the four victims that died in a fatal traffic accident which occurred along Lion's Den –Mhangura Road last week.The accident claimed four lives an...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Armed police miss the target, shoot innocent people
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has admitted to shooting of two innocent people in a shootout out with armed robbers yest...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 22:18hrs | 11 | by Shelton Muchena
CCC activist's 'body mutilated, intestines packed in plastic'
Slain Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activist Moreblessing Ali's mutilated body was packed into a body bag in two parts, with police stuffing her intestines in a plastic, party legislator and fam...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
No US$ bonus for nurses
HEALTH professionals have expressed disgruntlement after some of them allegedly received their bonuses in local currency while other civil servants were struggling to access their 13th cheques at loca...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Harare workers throng Chitungwiza Hospital for COVID-19 vaccines
OVER 30 companies from Harare have referred their employees to Chitungwiza Central Hospital for vaccination since June, NewsDay Weekender reported.Chitungwiza Central Hospital spokesperson Aud...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo gets state-of-the-art gadgets
MPILO Central Hospital yesterday received state-of-the-art machines from the Higher Life Foundation to help the hospital improve maternal and neo-natal health services. The equipment includes ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
National Ballistics Arms and Security MD on the run
THE managing director at National Ballistics Arms and Security is on the run after she attempted to conceal evidence of a pistol that was used by a bottlestore owner in Chitungwiza to shoot and kill a...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes Covid-19 tests scam
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has opened investigations into laboratories and individuals accused of issuing certificates declaring a person free of Covid-19 without carrying out any ...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corruption rife at hospital mortuaries
CORRUPTION syndicates involving medical doctors, police officers, mortuary staff and agents of some little known funeral service companies are charging between US$40 and US$100 to speed up the post-mo...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
55 babies born on Christmas Day
FIFTY-FIVE babies were born on Christmas Day at Harare's three main hospitals.Sally Mugabe Central Hospital recorded the highest number births, with 22 deliveries, followed by Parirenyatwa Gro...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Higherlife Foundation hands over maternal health medical equipment
Harare, Zimbabwe. December 10, 2020 - Through a generous investment from ELMA Philanthropies, Higherlife Foundation yesterday (Dec 10) commenced the handover of maternal health medical equipment to se...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 15:54hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Teacher steals exam students' laptops
A Mt Darwin primary school teacher has been slapped with a two-year jail term for stealing laptops and cell phones valued at $30 401 from candidates who were sitting for their examinations at a Great ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors eat patients' food
Chitungwiza Central Hospital Director of Operations Washington Machiridza has reportedly written a letter warning hospital staff from eating food that belong to patients. In an unverified lett...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chitungwiza Hospital 'privatisation' blocked
The government was forced to abandon private partnerships at Chitungwiza Central Hospital after it emerged that the public health institution was being used by private players to make money, it has be...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
11 dead in kombi, Honda fit head-on accident
Eleven (11) people are feared dead following an accident involving a commuter omnibus and a Honda fit near Headlands this morning.The tragedy once again hit the Apostolic Christian community a...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Slain MDC activist’s family living in fear
Family members of the late MDC activist, Blessing Toronga who was killed by suspected Zanu-PF militias during the January clampdown on protests against fuel price hikes, said they were being "terroris...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira confronts Mnangagwa
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has called for President Mnangagwa to come out clean on the credentials of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo. "With all due respect Mr. President Emmer...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike: A balancing act of ethics and rights
ON March 1 this year, junior doctors downed their tools in protest over deteriorating working conditions, on-call allowances, a facility to import vehicles duty-free and poor remuneration. Senior doct...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala quizzes Minister Moyo
MDC Alliance legislator Job Sikhala has quizzed Health Minister Obadiah Moyo over the erratic water supplies which have characterized the Chitungwiza Hospital even during the time when he was in...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 08:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's new cabinet an average team
THE cabinet appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dubbed the "dream team" by government publicists, though a marked improvement from previous ones, has shortcomings as it features minist...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Health Minister labelled academic fraud
Zimbabwe's new Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, is an academic fraud who does not have the qualification he claims to possess, according to the United States embassy.Moyo, who lost to the MDC Al...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has potential to turn around the economy
Our people rarely agree politically but they appear to have over the figures that President Mnangagwa appointed into his Cabinet yesterday. He brought in new faces and a few surprises, youths, added m...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:21hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dumps Obert Mpofu
Former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has been left out of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new lean cabinet, which does not include long serving members such as Simon Khaya Moyo, Patrick Chinamasa, ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 16:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
USAid funds abusers push for Zimbabwe GNU
A GROUP of NGOs is contriving reports of State-sanctioned post-election human rights abuses in an effort to get Western countries to pressure President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa into forming a "Governm...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:33hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Shady NGO caught offside on violence
A group of NGOs is contriving reports of State-sanctioned post-election human rights abuses in an effort to get Western countries to pressure President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa into forming a "Governm...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political temperatures continue to rise
Dark clouds are hanging over Zimbabwe as the impasse over the hotly-contested July 30 presidential election continues — with political analysts warning yesterday that the country is entering "danger...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 19:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reports of military beatings, abductions false: SB Moyo
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) is a well-trained and disciplined force, and reports on social media linking it to assaults and abductions of innocent civilians in high-density suburbs are false and...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lawrence 'Bhonzo' Simbarashe dies
Comedian and actor, Lawrence Simbarashe has died.Simbarashe, who was popularly known as 'Bhonzo' in the comedy 'Timy na Bhonzo' died this evening at Chitungwiza Hospital where he was admitted....Published: 05 May 2018 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Massive vote-rigging rocks Zanu PF
ZANU PF primary elections ended farcically yesterday amid reports of massive vote-rigging, bloody clashes and the defeat of party bigwigs, while some losing candidates seized and burnt the ballot pape...Published: 01 May 2018 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa cancels hospital tour, scores stranded
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was Thursday forced to cancel a scheduled visit to Chitungwiza hospital due to the on-going strike by junior government medical doctors, NewZimbabwe.com reported....Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
25 babies born on Christmas in Harare
Twenty-five babies have been born as at 12 midnight to 2pm today (Christians day) at major referral hospitals in Harare.Christmas day is a day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ an...Published: 25 Dec 2017 at 23:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chaos in the health sector - PDP
Yesterday an old look cabinet was restored into office by President Mnangagwa who blew an opportunity to restart, bring in new ideas and buy confidence from the Zimbabwean people.The citizen h...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by PDP
PDP condemns violence against MDC-T cadres
The People's Democratic Party PDP led by Hon Tendai Biti strongly condemn yesterday's violence that reportedly injured Delmar, the MDC T Chitungwiza South District Organising Secretary and other...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Tendai Mazenge
Zimbabwe has recorded greatest achievements in health sector
Since attainment of independence in 1980, Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that have tremendously made great strides in reforming its healthy sector.During the colonial era, there was ...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 15:33hrs | 3 | by Chido Chikuni
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