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City of Harare launches crackdown on business by-laws compliance
The City of Harare has initiated a rigorous enforcement campaign to ensure all businesses operating within the Central Business District (CBD), industrial areas, and suburbs fully comply with relevant...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:29hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dismiss fong kong claims on Nkulumane bed bugs infestation
The City of Bulawayo has strongly refuted claims circulating on social media alleging a bedbug infestation in the Nkulumane suburb and surrounding areas. In an official statement, city authorities des...Published: 08 May 2025 at 20:03hrs | 1198 | by Staff reporter
Donkey meat concerns surfaces in Bulawayo
Ward 15 councilor Ashton Mhlanga has encouraged Cowdray Park residents to buy their meat from reputed licensed butcheries rather than backyards, following complaints of individuals selling donkey meat...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 18:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
50% Harare boreholes unsafe
Half of the boreholes in Harare's western and northern districts are contaminated with human waste and could be potentially unsafe sources of drinking water.Water samples from boreholes in the...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo suspends health services director over CBD garbage
Bulawayo's health services director Dr Edwin Sibanda has been suspended for alleged incompetence over uncollected garbage in the city centre and deteriorating environmental standards.The decis...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea outbreak hits Bulawayo
A vicious diarrhoea outbreak has hit Bulawayo suburbs with more than 1 000 cases recorded so far.Cases in the latest outbreak were first recoded in the city’s Ward 17 in Pumula suburb ...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 07:41hrs | 19 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo battles religion-influenced vaccine hesitancy
BULAWAYO is battling to deal with Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy stemming from religious beliefs, a development which has kept the city from reaching herd immunity.The city's health department has...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora Mutare mayoral candidate faints after losing to CCC
MUTARE councillor Farai Bhiza (MDC Alliance) who was acting mayor yesterday fainted at the Mutare Civic Centre after he lost mayoral elections to lawyer, Simon Chabuka, who contested the elections und...Published: 18 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
BCC, CAAZ object to cemetery near airport
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has turned down an application by a local private company to establish a cemetery adjacent to the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport.The snub came after...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, council clash over medical tests
PRIVATE doctors are up in arms with the Harare City Council after the local authority unilaterally passed a resolution which bars registered private practitioners from conducting examinations on food ...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo safe from malaria
THE BULAWAYO City health department says the heavy rains that recently pounded the city have assisted in disrupting the breeding cycles of mosquitos, which makes the city safe from malaria.Cit...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
One COVID-19 death per hour
ZIMBABWE's COVID-19 dilemma is likely to escalate if serious precautions to prevent its further spread are not taken, with official statistics yesterday revealing that one person is dying every hour i...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Makokoba residents protest over burst sewage pipes
MAKOKOBA residents dumped plastic bags with sewage at Bulawayo City Council offices protesting the municipality's slow response in attending to burst sewage pipes.The disgruntled residents rev...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The economics of demonstrations
Demonstrations are a huge mark on a nation's economy. The average man is not aware of this. Maybe after reading this piece, the common man will be able to contextualize what a political demonstration ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 12:10hrs | 1 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Harare council nurses on go-slow
NURSES working at Harare City Council-run clinics have embarked on a one-day working week starting yesterday, saying they could no longer afford to go to work every day due to the high cost of living ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'BCC has no HIV viral load testing machines'
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) health department does not have viral load testing (VLT) machines that are critical in anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive patients.As a result, co...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wears bulletproof vest to clinic opening
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wore a bulletproof vest to the opening of a clinic in Harare on Thursday, pictures reveal.Mnangagwa delivered a World Population Day speech at the official opening...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 08:16hrs | 3 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa wears bulletproof vest to clinic opening
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wore a bulletproof vest to the opening of a clinic in Harare on Thursday, pictures reveal.Mnangagwa delivered a World Population Day speech at the official opening...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa to open clinic
President Mnangagwa is today expected to officially open Tariro Clinic and Youth Centre in Hopley, Harare. The facility was built through a skills development project supported by the United N...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NMB joins fight against cholera
NMB Bank on Sunday handed over 3 000 buckets, 3 000 units of Water Guard and 120 000 litres of water to the District Health Office in Glen View to help in the fight against cholera in this Harare subu...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Cholera: Harare City Council caught sleeping on the job
The ongoing cholera outbreak started on 1 September in Glen View 3, Harare and has since spread, killing 30 people with 5 463 cases having been reported to date. As usual opposition elements hav...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Bulawayo safe from Harare cholera
BULAWAYO has not recorded any cases of cholera or typhoid with officials calling on travelling residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at funerals, churches and other public g...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high cholera alert
BULAWAYO City Council is on high cholera alert following the declaration of a cholera outbreak in Harare on Thursday. BCC senior public relations officer Mrs Nesisa Mpofu, responding to questi...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe has the highest teenage fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa - Study
One study revealed that Zimbabwe has the highest teenage fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa with one in every 10 girls aged between...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 11:19hrs | | by MSF / APO
Condemned chickens on sale
Chickens that were part of a consignment deemed unfit for human consumption are being sold to unsuspecting customers in Harare and its hinterland, raising serious health risks.The chickens, we...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oxfam hands over Water Quality Testing and Monitoring Kit
In an effort to contribute towards strengthening the current and future capacity of the City of Harare's Health Department in its efforts to respond to disease outbreaks such as Cholera and Typhoid, O...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 4 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Cash and Carry caught up in expired food stuffs storm
BULK Commodities Cash and Carry, a Bulawayo wholesaler, has come under fire for allegedly selling expired products to the market.Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Dennis Ndlovu alleged B...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Bianca Mlilo
Harare council tries to silence personnel
Harare Residents Trust has claimed that in a clear case of trying to silence health personnel, the City Health Department suspended 64 nurses with full pay and benefits for allegedly visiting the offi...Published: 28 May 2016 at 06:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Health centres in a deplorable state- HRT
Harare Residents Trust has claimed that most health centres were in a deplorable state despite the country having competent personnel."Services at local health centres are mostly d...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Masvingo launches blitz on stray dogs
MASVINGO City Council has launched a blitz to hold all dogs that are not registered with the local authority and shooting stray dogs as a way of reducing incidents of humans being injured by the pets....Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Health and Environment deplorable in Harare
Harare Residents Trust has expressed concern that health services at local health centres are mostly deplorable yet it is common knowledge that Zimbabwe and the City of Harare in particular have some ...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Harare City Council on Typhoid awareness campaigns
Harare City Council in conjunction with the Harare Residents Trust will on Wednesday hold a public meeting to increase awareness to the residents on the pandemic disease Typhoid.The trust indi...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Typhoid affect 14 in Glennorah Harare
Typhoid has reported affected 14 people at Glennorah in Harare amid revelations the city health department has started working on curbing the spread of the disease.Harare Residents Trust repor...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 05:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare City health department on high alert of possible typhoid outbreak
Harare City health department is reportedly on high alert of possible typhoid outbreak at the Hopley area.Harare Resident Trust indicated that the City Health Department is on high alert on th...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 12:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Harare Residents Trust monitors town council house developments
Harare Residents Trust has indicated that it is monitoring the developments taking place at the Harare City Council town house as it has keen interests in seeing the city develop."The HRT is closely m...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 06:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Ebola centre in Harare
50 wards have been set aside at the Wilkins Hospital, Harare, in case Ebola is confirmed in the country.The Harare City Health Department took journalists from various media houses on a tour ...Published: 23 Sep 2014 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
U.S. agency honors Zim public health expert
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) honored Zimbabwe public health expert Donewell Bangure with the International Night Honor - the 2014 William H. Foege Award for M...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Prophets mislead people living with HIV/Aids'
The government has been urged to be alert and act swiftly following revelations by health institutions that many people living with HIV and Aids were now defaulting therapy claiming to have been heale...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by Mary Taruvinga
10 city high rise buildings condemned
Several high-rise buildings in central Harare have been condemned as unsafe or unfit for human use by the Harare fire and city health departments.The departments say the buildings do not meet ...Published: 27 Aug 2012 at 02:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Transcript of Harare Mayor on Question Time: Part 1
Despite the formation of the coalition government in 2009, Harare and several other cities still face serious water problems. The Mayor of Harare, Muchadeyi Masunda, joins Lance Guma on Question Time...Published: 02 Mar 2012 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Lance Guma
2012 tobacco selling season opens
THE 2012 tobacco marketing season opens today with 150 million kg of the golden leaf expected to go under the hammer.Firmer prices are expected following floods that destroyed the crop in the ...Published: 15 Feb 2012 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare - ILLEGAL settlements spreading typhoid
The Harare City Health Department has said ILLEGAL settlements have contributed largely to the spread of typhoid that has so far seen over 1 000 people treated since most of them have no sewer reticul...Published: 03 Feb 2012 at 21:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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