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GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1566 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 wrecks Mpilo Hospital
OVER 40 staffers at the opportunistic infection (OI) clinic at Mpilo Central Hospital have reportedly tested positive to COVID-19."COVID-19 cases among staff are out of control," said one of t...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1010 | by Staff reporter
UBH still open to members of the public
MEMBERS of the public in need of medical attention can still access services at United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) but only those who test Covid-19 positive will be admitted with those suffering from oth...Published: 11 hrs ago | 180 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3481 | by Nomusa Garikai
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 10989 | by Staff reporter
Defections hit Chamisa's MDC in Zaka
MDC Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa has suffered a heavy blow in Zaka after scores of its members, led by its parliamentary candidate for Zaka West in the 2018 polls, Mr William Zivenge, recently de...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe's new Minister of Health General Chiwenga talking about doctors
The newly appointed Minister of Health and Child Care General Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has set social media with Zimbabweans reposting a video of him mocking doctors...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 8763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Private doctors send distress call
DOCTORS in private practice have appealed for government and corporate sector assistance in the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) as they have been overwhelmed by patients turned away f...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:23hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers, police brutally assault Chitungwiza mayor
Chitungwiza mayor Lovemore Maiko was on Sunday evening allegedly assaulted by four soldiers and two police officers on his way to park his vehicle after rushing to a local clinic with a resident who n...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 832 | by Staff reporter
'Anger can be a symptom of some mental illness'
Anger, also known as rage, fury, temper is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. It is a reaction of tension and ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:09hrs | 331 | by Pastor Barbara Meck Silumbu
Zimbabwe needs a break
This Zanu PF government is a farce, a sham and a masquerade. The problem with this government is like a person who is going to the carpenter to pull their aching tooth. Imagine the type of a tool the ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1422 | by Leonard Koni
Zanu PF rigged election and now rigging covid-19 data with tragic consequences
This Zanu PF regime blatantly rigging the coronavirus statistics with disastrous consequences to us all! "The final results as announced by the Electoral Commission contained numerous errors a...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1671 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa told not to use lockdown for political expediency
ZIMBABWE Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has urged the government to desist from using lockdown measures for political expediency.This comes at a time the government has put in...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:17hrs | 1362 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland central not serious about COVID 19 preparedness
I am based in Mash Central Mazowe district and would like to raise my concern about COVID-19 suspects handling, testing and reporting.Mash central is being reported as one of provinces with low ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 308 | by Worried Glendale Member
Dead granny (99) in graveyard 'resurrection'
A 99-year-old granny from Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North left villagers shocked after she moved her body just as she was about to be buried. Mrs Nkazanyana Ncube from Kwine village under Chief...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1976 | by Staff reporter
Man stabs father-in-law
A GWANDA man has been sentenced to perform 315 hours of community service for assaulting his father-in-law during a misunderstanding. Siqokoqela Nyathi (40) of Sinkugwe Village was convicted o...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Western Commonage suspends proceedings: 12 prosecutors in isolation
Magistrates' courts at Western Commonage Court in Bulawayo have suspended all trials after 12 public prosecutors, among them seven police officers attached to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA),...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Universities forced to postpone exams
UNIVERSITIES are postponing their end of semester examinations as a precaution against the spike in local Covid-19 cases with most allowing students already on campus to finish writing.Univers...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:35hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi Nationalist Particularism: A pitfall to the resolution of regional question of Matabeleland
In recent times the political framing of the question of regional development of Matabeleland has increasingly sought to locate Matebeleland citizenship and nationhood within the broader narrative of ...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 07:47hrs | 4162 | by Ntando Dumani
Mnangagwa impose curfew to contain covid-19 - madness, need nurses and PPE not soldiers and guns
I have listened to President Mnangagwa's address to the nation three times and still failed to understand what understand the purpose. Yes, the number of corona virus cases have increased significantl...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1073 | by Nomusa Garikai
Let us sing songs in honour of Arikana Chihombori
My dear brother Fabian Mabaya, I have examined with some thoroughness the story of Arikana Chihombori, former African Union (AU) ambassador to the United States.Before I enter into the controv...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 09:26hrs | 2237 | by Kenneth Mufuka
City of Bulawayo, Mnangagwa govt headed for clash over renaming of roads
The government was on a collision course with the City of Bulawayo on Friday after the Local Government Ministry gazetted new names for some of its roads.The ministry, headed by July Moyo, ren...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 21:33hrs | 4577 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 epicentre shifts to Bulawayo
THE Covid-19 epicentre has shifted from Harare to Bulawayo with health experts warning that Matabeleland provinces are under heightened threat due to their proximity to South Africa, Africa's epicentr...Published: 18 Jul 2020 at 08:41hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic Structural Transformation-REST. (Part 8 of 10)
The youth all over the world have been acknowledged as an important human resource with the potential to contribute significantly to national development and therefore must be accorded such recognitio...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 12:07hrs | 762 | by Vince Musewe
Mnangagwa orders Ncube to arm riot police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed Treasury to urgently buy a fleet of brand new vehicles for the police, including all-terrain troop carriers, water cannons, buses and equipment used by riot...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:51hrs | 14837 | by Staff reporter
Council hikes maternity fees 14-fold
Harare City Council has announced a 14-fold increase in clinic and maternity fees, a move that is raising opposition as the charges will now vary directly with weekly changes in the exchange rate, wit...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:42hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases surpass 10,000 mark for days
South Africa's daily confirmed COVID-19 cases have surpassed 10,000 for days running, indicating the approaching of the infection peak, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday. In the pas...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:39hrs | 481 | by Staff reporter
Solwayo Ngwenya now a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology
Acting Mpilo Central Hospital CEO Dr Solwayo Ngwenya has been awarded a professorship for his research, teaching and leadership qualities.The University of Science and Technology (NUST) has aw...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 19:08hrs | 2454 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records rise in home births
BULAWAYO has recorded a 53 percent increase in the number of women who deliver at home or on their way to a health institution owing to Covid-19. Home births are a leading cause of maternal an...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Hospital chief executives fired
Chief executives of five major Government hospitals have been "relieved of their duties" by the Health Services Board as part of what is described as a "restructuring exercise" within the Ministry of ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 2116 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2960 | by City Press
Zimbabwe's striking nurses cry foul over allowances
Health workers, that include nurses, who have been on strike for the past three weeks were not paid allowances given to all civil servants amid allegationsgovernment is trying to arm-twist them to...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:07hrs | 1981 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK vulnerable to Covid-19, embassy warns
The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic.It is a revelation which under...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:33hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
'We don't want Covid-19 cases' says hospital - and it paid dearly for its foolishness
The Zimbabwe authorities have not been testing for covid-19 as aggressively as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended repeatedly, especially among the local community. And now it is emerg...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:45hrs | 2269 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
'100 000 Zimbabweans could die from Coronavirus'
About 50 000 t0 100 000 Zimbabweans will die of Coronavirus in the next months, Mpilo Clinical Director Solwayo Ngwenya has foretold. In a Twitter post on Wednesday Ngwenya said, "Corona virus...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 17:57hrs | 4401 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Council departments request for control of rodents, cockroaches, mosquitoes
Bulawayo City Council departments have requested an increase in the control measures put in place to prevent the sprouting of cockroaches, rodents, and mosquitoes in the city.This is revealed ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:46hrs | 816 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF MP hijacks community clinic project?
A group of Izimnyama villagers in Bulilima district who are now based in the United Kingdom are up in arms with Zanu-PF Bulilima West Member of Parliament Dingumuzi Phuti for allegedly hijacking their...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 17:19hrs | 4197 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge roads in bad state
The poor state of major roads in Beitbridge East is adversely affecting the introduction of public transport resulting in communities relying on private motorists. This was said by Beitbridge ...Published: 06 Jul 2020 at 13:05hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans cry foul over COVID-19
Three months ago, Zororo Makamba, a multimedia journalist became the first casualty of COVID-19 in the southern African country.Before he passed on, members of his family complained about ill-...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 21:37hrs | 2411 | by Daniel Itai
Lancet Lab workers down tools
LANCET Clinical Laboratories employees yesterday staged a sit-in at their workplace over poor remuneration, demanding salaries in United States dollars or the black market rate equivalent.Thei...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
Caribbean countries get access to Africa Medical Supplies Platform for procurement of COVID-19 supplies
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been given access to the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), a procurement system for supplies and equipment in the fight against COVID-19....Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 111 | by Agencies
Avenues Clinic to covid-19 test all elective admissions after 'significant increase in cases' - how many?
Dear Medical Director, The Avenues ClinicI direct your attention your letter of 01 July 2020 below."TO: All Specialists, Casualty Officers, Matrons...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 351 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nurses demand US$ to immunise babies
CHITUNGWIZA council nurses have been accused of demanding payment from mothers for immunisation of their infants.According to parents who spoke to the Daily News yesterday, they were being ask...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Luveve MP to pay clinic fees for victims of council water
Luveve Member of Parliament Stella Ndlovu has pledged to source funds to assist members of her constituency who have been hospitalized after seeking medical attention after allegedly consuming Council...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1137 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Residents sue BCC over typhoid, Harare laboratory roped in
BULAWAYO residents have approached the High Court seeking an order directing council to release the laboratory samples of tap water and other vital information relating to the diarrhoea outbreak in Lu...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Malaria death toll rises to 279
THE malaria death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to 279 since January amid reports that 306 365 have been infected with the disease. In April the deaths stood at 201 with 185 585 cases countrywide...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's striking nurses declare total shutdown after govt snub
HEALTH workers in the country's public hospitals Monday declared a complete shutdown of the sector after government continued to pay a deaf ear to their plight.Zimbabwe nurses downed tools som...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
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