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Gukurahundi genocide brigade was deployed on this day 41 years ago
Today in history: On this day 41 years ago and three years after Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Fifth Brigade was deployed in Matabeleland North on 2...Published: 20 Jan 2024 at 16:40hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa tried to kill Chiwenga' - Doctor drops bombshell at court?
A South African medical doctor on Friday claimed that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's former wife Mary Mubaiwa told him that President Emmerson Mnangagwa tried to kill his deputy in 2018....Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 09:26hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
SA doctor nails Chiwenga's ex-wife in court
The fifth witness in the trial of Marry Mubaiwa on charges of attempting to kill her ex-husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, by unplugging his life support system in a South African hospital,...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 07:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman who has been 'pregnant for seven years' seeks help
IN a shocking matter, a 29-year -old Mufakose woman, Alisa Sakile Marova claims she has been pregnant for the past seven years.The condition, NewZimbabwe.com was told, is suspected to be an ac...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Almost 200 babies born through IVF Zimbabwe programme
The in vitro (IVF) fertilisation programme which was reintroduced in Zimbabwe in 2016 by a team led by Dr Tinovimba Mhlanga has proved a great success with 197 live births recorded so far and more exp...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:06hrs | 8 | by Agencies
9 year-old girl 8 months pregnant
IN what could be the first in the country, a nine-year-old girl is admitted to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) as she is 33 weeks pregnant and is expected to give birth at the institution....Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa daughter launched GoFundMe appeal for weight loss op
Her father often makes jokes about Zimbabweans who don't have cash - now Michelle Chiyangwa is getting not a lot of sympathy in her hour of need.The 31-year-old daughter of Phillip Chiyangwa, ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 20:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Infertility: A shared responsibility
Being a parent is a desired part of adult identity in most societies. For many couples, the inability to bear children is a tragedy. The conflux of personal, interpersonal, social, and religious expec...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 12:01hrs | | by Heaven Munyuki
Cop sues for $1m over disposed cyst
A POLICE detective is suing the Gwanda Provincial Hospital for nearly $1 million after a nurse at the health facility disposed of an ovarian cyst removed from her body without sending it for laborator...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cancer man' unfazed by Magaya-hospital furore
Forty-three-year-old Peter Manganda is not concerned much about the current furore over circumstances surrounding his cure from a 5,3 kilogramme debilitating tumour that had grown on his head....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sanitary wear firm sets up shop in Bulawayo
A CHINESE owned company, Tiens International Group, plans to open a new sanitary wear plant in Bulawayo, whose products they claim have reproductive system healing qualities. The firm pa...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LIVE- All eye on Mangudya #MonetaryPolicyStatement speech
THE governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Dr John Mangudya will today (Wednesday) at 14:30hrs release the long-awaited Monetary Policy Statement (MPS). The market is eagerly waiting t...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:16hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-Health minister to compensate patient
FORMER Health deputy minister, Edwin Muguti, has been ordered to pay R252 546 and $28 000 compensation to one of his patients, Patricia Singizi, following a botched medical procedure which resulted in...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Negligence costs Parirenyatwa Hospital $27 000
NEGLIGENCE by doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals which resulted in a patient suffering a bile leak has proved costly after the High Court ordered the public institution to pay damages amountin...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump face found in dog's ear
A cyst found in a dog's ear looks like Donald Trump's face and blonde quiff, its owner claims.Jade Robinson, 25, of Jarrow, Tyneside had to wait until her two-year-old beagle Chief was a...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
First test tube baby born in Zimbabwe
The first baby to be born through in vitro fertilisation since the procedure was reintroduced in Zimbabwe last year at The Avenues Clinic in Harare has been born and is doing well.The baby was...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:53hrs | | by Chengetai Chinembiri
Sanitary pads over condoms
Every time people go to clinics or hospitals for HIV testing and for contraception, before they leave, they are given a packet of condoms, I have experienced that too. This other day, I was sitting in...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 15:32hrs | | by Belinda Chowa
Woman gives birth to 'goblin'
A HARARE woman reportedly gave 'birth' to a goblin like creature after enduring weeks of incessant bleeding.Reports are that the woman had been admitted at a local hospital where doctors h...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 13:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Fake pregnant' women undergoes operation
Doctors have come to the aid of the 29-year-old Gokwe woman who spent two years believing she was pregnant with a set of twins.Dr Fabian Mashingaidze and his team operated Tendai Sibanda of Mu...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland cattle contract measles
The deadly measles disease is said to be attacking cattle in Matabeleland region which is fuelled by the lack of ablution facilities for human beings in most of the areas.Matabeleland S...Published: 23 Aug 2015 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
25kg cyst removed from woman
The 35-year-old Highfield woman who endured four years with a heavy belly resembling a pregnancy was successfully operated on at Chitungwiza Central Hospital where a cyst weighing about 25 kilogramme...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Zimbabwean writer publishes thriller novel in UK
When the economic situation in Zimbabwe deteriorated, her citizens just packed their bags and left. But the exodus was neither exactly planned nor the same for everyone. Some families seamlessly ...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 07:01hrs | | by Mandla Stone
Bizarre 'pregnancies'
Two women, one from Domboshava, Mashonaland East and the other from Highfield in Harare, are tied by some inexplicable twist of fate and nature.The duo, Maidei Nemhara (40) and Portia Tapfuman...Published: 28 Jun 2014 at 13:08hrs | | by Kingstone Mapupu
Woman pregnant with 'a bag of air'
A Victoria Falls woman has endured a painful nine-month pregnancy only to be told by doctors her bulging tummy is just a bag of air.Twenty-seven-year-old Future Sibanda claims she is now confu...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
'Tino 'Tin Tin' Katsande is infertile'?
Tinopona Katsande has revealed she suffers from endometriosis, a gynaecological condition that causes cells from the uterine lining to flourish outside the uterine cavity. Announcement on Fac...Published: 21 Jan 2014 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 signs you might be HIV+
Fever One of the first signs of ARS can be a mild fever, up to about 102 degrees F.The fever, if it occurs at all, is often accompanied by other...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 05:05hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Breast ironing to disguise the onset of puberty taking place in UK'
A hidden form of abuse known as "breast ironing", in which girls as young as 10 have their chests pounded with hot objects to disguise the onset of puberty, could be taking place in Britain.T...Published: 28 Sep 2013 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pastor Mboro 'helps' pregnant woman deliver 'fish'
Jackson Linda (61) of Matatiele, Eastern Cape, confessed that he used muthi 'herbs' to get his way for 30 years."When one of my sons died in 1983, I stole his shadow and used it to get money a...Published: 21 Jun 2013 at 05:17hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Checking testicles for cancer does more harm than good - doctor
'Turning the nation's blokes into ball watching neurotics'Campaigns backed by celebrities to encourage men to check their testicles for cancer may be doing more harm than good, according to a...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman with two vaginas offered $1Million to star in a porn film
A woman (27) whose rare medical condition means she has two vaginas has been offered one million dollars to star in a porn film, according to reports."We would pay you up to $1 million for yo...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 23:09hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Woman catches fire during surgery
Kim Grice, 29 of Holt, Fla., was having three cysts removed from her head at a hospital in Crestview, Fla., on Tuesday when a flash fire erupted, torching her face and neck, family members told t...Published: 03 Dec 2011 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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