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Chiwenga pledges to improve the working conditions of health workers
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who is also the country's Health Minister has pledged to improve the working conditions of public sector health workers.This comes as the Health Apex Counci...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
Mr. President, Hard Talk builds nations and dreams !!!
In 1994, I was doing my primary education at Nyazura Primary school, a boarding primary school in Manicaland Province. It was the norm back then that you would buy an envelope and get a postage ...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:35hrs | 3591 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Chiwenga claims 'development for all'
THE Government will ensure no community in Zimbabwe is left behind in development in line with the devolution thrust enunciated by President Mnangagwa. Under the Second Republic, theGovernment...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga assesses main airports
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Care Minister, has declared the country's three main airports ready to start operating, marking a significant step in reopening the ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
What's Mnangagwa and Auxillia up to?
QUITE a morsel of things doesn't add about the trip that Sheik Fayez Muhamad Salem Sultan Al Qassimi has just made to Zimbabwe, outside the winding name. The sheik arrived in Zimbabwe last Sun...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1374 | by Tawanda Majoni
Chiwenga assesses main airports
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Care Minister, has declared the country's three main airports ready to start operating, marking a significant step in reopening the ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | 330 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zanu-PF that 'soldier needed to silence nurses'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare that he appointed Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to head the Health portfolio to sort out striking doctor...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 6661 | by Staff reporter
'I deployed Chiwenga to deal with striking doctors and nurses' Mnangagwa says
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told the ZANU PF Central Committee that repeated strikes and general instability in the sector led him to the conclusion that a firm, soldiery hand was needed and appr...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:21hrs | 9396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight turns nasty
A POWER struggle that has been simmering for months between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ambitious deputy, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, has intensified over the past two weeks, with f...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:16hrs | 24104 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF district elections escalate Mnangagwa, Chiwenga fight
THE impending Zanu-PF District Coordinating Committee (DCC) elections have presented a new battlefield for party bigwigs, who are scheming to consolidate their political power in various provinces ahe...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife sued over US$6,000 water debt
WOES continue to mount for Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry, after she was hit with a US$6 000 lawsuit for failing to pay for water supplied to her. Hesno Holdings, ...Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 15:03hrs | 2769 | by Staff reporter
World Bank showers praises on General Chiwenga
World Bank Country Manager for Zimbabwe Mukami Kariuki has praised Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's vision on the health sector saying it was very unique. Reporting on the matter th...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 9023 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1193 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in flames over DCC polls
DIVISIONS have rocked the ruling Zanu-PF party over its impending district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections amid reports of plots by party bigwigs to impose candidates as internal succession wa...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:25hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'No one can dethrone me'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has confirmed that there is a plot from within the ruling Zanu-PF party to unseat him, but dared his detractors to dream on. Addressing a Midlands provincial co-or...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:42hrs | 12184 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will be exporting power by 2023, says Zhemu Soda
Muzarabani North Member of Parliament, Honourable Zhemu Soda, was last month appointed Energy and Power Development Minister. Before his appointment, he was relatively unknown to many Zimbabweans desp...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa a rumbling tinpot
Temba Mliswa is a political turncoat and ruble rousing attention seeker. September 2014 Temba Mliswa supported Joyce Mujuru and labelled Jonathan Moyo and others as gay gangsters who worked for the CI...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 06:05hrs | 3274 | by Richard Mthwakazi
Mnangagwa's family friend in extortion storm
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) and the President's family friend, Delish Nguwaya have been accused of visiting a Harare businessman in remand prison to try to extor...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:30hrs | 9868 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over appointments
Zimbabwe women Lawyers association (ZWLA) and women's academy of Leadership and Political excellency (walpe) have taken President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court for failing to observe gender balance in h...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2976 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga outlines health policy to partners
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Wednesday briefed foreign and local development partners and suppliers on the new structures in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and other moves taken to bo...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
Women sue Mnangagwa
WOMEN's representative groups have approached the High Court seeking leave to sue President Emmerson Mnangagwa for making Cabinet appointments that are not gender sensitive. Zimbabwe Women Law...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 4350 | by Staff reporter
General Chiwenga charms Temba Mliswa
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has applauded statements by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga that the Health and Child Care Ministry is being restructured with a new sustainable funding mo...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 10:16hrs | 9396 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'As we move forward, let's transform our work ethics' argue Chiwenga - until end vote rigging culture, going nowhere
"As we move forward and face the future with courage, the expectation of government is that the work ethics and work culture within the Ministry of Health and Child Care undergo deep transformation," ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2072 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nurses hit back at Chiwenga
STRIKING nurses yesterday reacted angrily to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's claim that they were using patients as pawns to fight for higher salaries.The nurses, who have paralysed the ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 6215 | by Staff reporter
Nurses call off strike
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has told its members employed by the Government to end their industrial action and immediately start reporting for work. ZINA yesterday also endorsed pla...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister Matemadanda visits the Injured Soldiers in Hospital
The deputy minister of defence who is the ZANU PF Political Commisair cde Victor Matemadanda last night visited two members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are admitted at West End Hospital in Harar...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 20:17hrs | 1716 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Joshua Nkomo is remembered in diverse forms fairly and unfairly
In year 1980, Joshua Nkomo was the most hated persona in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland and some parts of Midlands. The first elections were so toxic, a tribal card was key to get most of the people vote for ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 19:54hrs | 989 | by Nomazulu Thata
Chiwenga reviewing health sector salaries
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Health minister, yesterday warned health workers against using patients' lives as pawns. In a media briefing in Harare yesterday where he a...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:59hrs | 3629 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fissures widening
AMID the widening fissures in Zanu-PF, the party's legislator for Gokwe Nembudziya - Justice Mayor Wadyajena - has warned supporters against engaging in divisive politics that can destroy the former l...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:59hrs | 2116 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to ban medical trips abroad for 'everybody'
Vice president and health minister Constantino Chiwenga has announced the government will ban overseas medical flights for all Zimbabweans, saying the trips are bleeding the country of scarce foreign ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:58hrs | 9467 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga is Joshua Nkomo of Mashonaland
Like Joshua Nkomo, Chiwenga is too generous with political power. Imagine a man who spent grueling weeks at the Blue Roof and State House in 2017 wrestling for political power from the late President ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 08:41hrs | 10275 | by Israel Dube
Wadyajena slates Zanu-PF gossip
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena has warned Zanu-PF supporters against engaging in divisive politics that can destroy the party and country. Wadyajena also lashed out at people that...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 3597 | by Staff reporter
Sell-outs will disappear, says Mnangagwa ally
DEFENCE deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has unwittingly exposed government's hand in the alleged abduction and forced disappearances of opposition and human rights activists after he bragged that "...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 6892 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns doctors not to use patients as pawns
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has warned health professionals against using patients' lives as pawns while bargaining for better working conditions.Addressing journalists in Harare yeste...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 4415 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga wife's trial fails to kick off
THE trial of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, on various charges, including attempted murder and money-laundering, failed to kick off at the Harare Magistrates Cour...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga restructures Health Ministry
The Health and Child Care Ministry is being restructured with a new sustainable funding model, far greater effectiveness, and a new work ethic for staff under plans outlined yesterday by the Minister,...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'planted' his intelligence operatives in all parts of Zimbabwe
Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena recently told party supporters that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had "planted" his intelligence operatives in all parts of the country to sniff out "sell-ou...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 00:02hrs | 5660 | by Staff reporter
The world has lost patience with Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile'
A YEAR ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, "We have rejoined the family of nations."The international commun...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
Zhuwao spurned Chiwenga attempts to get him support Mnangagwa
EXILED former cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwao has revealed he once told then Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Constantino Chiwenga not to put his faith in Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he described as "une...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 3112 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army revenges for the shooting of 2 soldiers
TWO yet to be identified people who shot Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers, killing one and seriously injuring another in Chivhu on Saturday were yesterday gunned down by security forces in a dram...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 2353 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga visits injured soldiers
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga last night visited two members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are admitted at West End Hospital in Harare, following a shootout with two assailants in separate i...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 4695 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors, nurses receive threatening calls
Striking doctors and nurses have allegedly been receiving threats from anonymous people, trying to force them to return to work.Health workers, including nurses, downed tools three months ago ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:06hrs | 3802 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will have 5 000 MW capacity (2.5X present) by 2023' boasted Mnangagwa - buying time to rig 2023 elections
President Mnangagwa, his Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, and other Zanu PF leaders have promised economic recovery pegged at the country attaining middle income status by 2030, "Vision 20...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 407 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa counters Chiwenga move
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cut soldiers' extended retirement age from 70 to 65, effectively reversing an extension made by his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga in 2018.In August 2018, Chiwen...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 28779 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dangerous drift puts Mnangagwa under spotlight
ZIMBABWE is quiet for now after President Emmerson Mnangagwa clamped heavily on dissent while figures who have led calls for protests have been locked up in jail, with investigative journalist Hopewel...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:15hrs | 2268 | by Alfonce Mbizwo
Ziyambi under fire over truant ministers
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who is also leader of government business in the House, was on Wednesday grilled by Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda for failing to commandeer fellow Ca...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's military Presidium has brought economic growth, says Mohadi
VICE PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has attributed what he found as economic success that Zimbabweans are enjoying to the impeccable military experience of the presidium led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:46hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 recovery rate impressive
GOVERNMENT interventions to curb the spread of Covid-19 are paying off as the country has recorded a significant rise in the number of recovering patients from less than 26 percent to over 80 percent ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 05:59hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC comes under fire for corruption in local authorities
ZIMBABWE has once again come under the spotlight over an alleged human rights crisis. Civil society groups, churches, political organisations in and outside the country have slammed President Emmerson...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer emerges front-runner in Zanu-PF succession race
FOREIGN Minister Sibusiso Moyo has emerged as a centre of power in government and the ruling Zanu-PF party, and now fancies his chances of becoming Zimbabwe's next president.This was said by e...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:36hrs | 15450 | by newzimbabwe
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