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Zimbabweans caught in witchcraft practices in the UK
Zimbabweans in the UK have totally refused to abandon their beliefs in Witchcraft lucky charms and in superstitions. They have carried their beliefs in the United Kingdom and created a world of supers...Published: 2 hrs ago | 1461 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 704 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 3 hrs ago | 346 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Civic groups blasts government for sidelining health declaration
ZIMBABWE'S Civic groups have blamed Government for failing to uphold international declarations on health through implementation at national level, a predicament which has landed country's health syst...Published: 7 hrs ago | 301 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: No doctors or nurses at Parirenyatwa Hospital
A video of an empty Parirenyatwa hospital without any members of staff has surfaced online. The video which was posted by award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono shows the patients ward...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2501 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matabeleland North remains without provincial hospital
MATABELELAND North Provincial Medical Director Dr Purgie Chimberengwa has appealed to Government to urgently complete construction of Lupane Provincial Hospital as the province faces a critical shorta...Published: 9 hrs ago | 313 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encountered a group of people who are divorced from reali...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2809 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2238 | by Ken Mufuka
Obadiah Moyo urged to resign over doctors' strike
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has urged Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo to step down because he has failed to find solutions to the doctors' strike that is now running into its third month....Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:02hrs | 1105 | by newzimbabwe
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
'The genocide that robbed me of my father'
The doctors' strike was just one of those stories that we have become accustomed to as Zimbabweans and it didn't mean much to me until my father was hospitalised and subsequently passed on at the Unit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:58hrs | 444 | by Sinqobile Tesa
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 1993 | by Edmund Kudzai
Minister ordered to pay transgender activist $400k
THE High Court has ordered the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage and police bosses to pay Bulawayo transgender activist Ricky Eugene Nathanson $400 000 as compensation following her unlaw...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:02hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Govt, doctors meet
Government this afternoon met with doctors to map a way forward on ending the ongoing mass job action.Present were representatives of the junior, senior and specialist doctors awaiting licensu...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:17hrs | 1445 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU statement on the nursing recruitment saga
ZAPU has been seized with a fact finding mission for the past 4 weeks following an outcry from the citizens of this country over the recruitment of student nurses. The loudest protestations were from ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 12:29hrs | 3526 | by ZAPU Presidency
WATCH: Zimbabwe to build space satellite
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is planning to build a space satellite.Ncube revealed the information during the 2020 budget presentation on Thursday. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1535 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 years after Mugabe ouster in a coup: Zimbabwe in an abyss
"Following the address we made on November 13, 2017, which we believe our main broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our co...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1669 | by Staff reporter
No doctors, no currency Zim heading for total collapse
The main functions of the Zimbabwean government are not to: Check and challenge the work of the Government (scrutiny) Make and change laws (legislation) Debate the important issues of the day (debatin...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 22:06hrs | 3815 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Mnangagwa tries to eradicate poverty by killing the poor
Mr E.D.Mnangagwa campaigned saying that the average person's wealth and net worth would increase in Zimbabwe by such and such a date. The whole country assumed that he meant that there would be jobs c...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2764 | by Vusa Sigola
Parly summons minister over doctors' strike
Parliament has demanded a ministerial statement from Health minister Obadiah Moyo explained the state of the country's health delivery system after government fired over 280 doctors recently. ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
'Soft genocide underway in Zimbabwe'
A ZIMBABWEAN living in the diaspora has castigated government's move to fire nearly 300 medical doctors from their jobs.Netsai Makarichi, a Zimbabwean based in the United Kingdom, said the mov...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 1749 | by Staff reporter
Treasury is broke: Minister
GOVERNMENT, which has been hyping about a huge surplus, is reportedly broke and has been forced to fire 286 doctors because it cannot afford to pay them what used to be their United States dollar sala...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Minister Obadiah Moyo said prepared to seek treatment at Parirenyatwa
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo says he was prepared - if he were to fall sick sometime - to seek treatment at Parirenyatwa government hospital, more so, by the same doctors he has seemingly antagonised ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 626 | by newzimbabwe
New perks on the table for doctors
Government and striking doctors will meet tomorrow to discuss a proposed package of improved working conditions that includes accommodation, transport and food, as authorities seek to bring normalcy t...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Government offers doctors food for work
Minister of Health Dr Obadiah Moyo has revealed that government if offering to provide food and accommodation to junior doctors in exchange of their services. Speaking to the media on Tuesday ...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:08hrs | 1083 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe coup announcer admitted to SA hospital
Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo was on Tuesday admitted to a South African hospital for a "scheduled operation", days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government okayed a process of firing a third ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:09hrs | 8938 | by ZimLive
Government to meet doctors on 14 November
Government is set to meet the striking doctors of the 14th of November to discuss how to resolve the impasse that has seen the doctors not attending work for more than months. Doctors are dema...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:12hrs | 2960 | by Mandla Ndlovu
University of Zimbabwe under fire over junior doctors
The government of Zimbabwe has forced the junior doctors to sit for exams after they signified that they want them to be postponed because they did not learn enough to sit for them. The Zimbab...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:37hrs | 4614 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tragedy of the doctors' crippling strike
It is simple: The tragedy of the over two-months doctors' strike is that Zimbabwe has two finely distinct groups; those who feel (the majority) the impact of the strike and those who talk (the minorit...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1736 | by Learnmore Zuze
Doctors' absence prolongs patients' suffering
ORDINARY citizens whose pockets are not deep enough to afford private medical care continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing stand-off between medical doctors — who have been on industrial action fo...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government deluded about doctors
This has been one of the most deluded period for the Zimbabwe government – even by its own inherently schizophrenic standards — firstly claiming that providing low salaries to workers was economic...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1086 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dirty pieces of money ensnare civil servants
When President Mnangagwa embarked on the austerity path that is about to come to an end since the economy is showing positive signs of recovery, he did not seek to sugar-coat the pain that Zimbabweans...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:08hrs | 372 | by Pupurai Togarepi
Zimbabwe trainee medical registrars boycott final exams
DOZENS of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) postgraduate medical registrars, Monday boycotted their end of course examinations claiming they missed out on crucial practical lessons due to the ongoing strike...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:45hrs | 2751 | by newzimbabwe
UN condemns virginity testing
The United Nations has condemning and called for the end of virginity testing saying the practice is medically unnecessary, painful, humiliating and traumatic practice.The virginity test...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 16:43hrs | 1230 | by Staff Reporter
Tragedy of the cannibalistic Zimbabwe govt that devours and sucks dry its own teachers!
As a son of a teacher, I will never forget the utmost honour and pride attached to this profession in the 1980s - such that, even as a mere child, just being known as "Mr. Mbofana's son" made me walk ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 12:05hrs | 1427 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK to snatch fired Zimbabwe doctors?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his government will fast track visa applications for foreign doctors and nurses - opening new opportunities for over 500 Zimbabwean doctors facing the sack fo...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:32hrs | 2928 | by Press Association
Zimbabwe teachers to work Mondays and Fridays only
Teachers will now work a two-day week after galloping inflation shrivelled their wages, a union said.The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), the biggest teachers' union in the country, said...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 21:31hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
Sinking ship
With almost half the population now registered for food aid, the government is taking decisive action to deal with the threat - not by providing food for the people but by fattening up the army and po...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 18:20hrs | 1875 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Does SB Moyo live on earth?
For those who may not remember, Sibusiso B. Moyo, (PhD) is the man who became the face of the November 2017 coup. As I write, after his spate with the United States ambassador, Brian Nichols, I am beg...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1133 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe's money merry go-round
Zimbabwe is trying everything in the book to address a currency crisis that has undermined its productive capacity and threatened its economic sustainability. But its measures so far seem to have had ...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Saking doctors won't end crisis
The government's decision to fire 211 doctors last week reinforced the narrative that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration does not have any solution to the unfolding crisis in the health sec...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:43hrs | 197 | by The Standard Editorial comment
An open letter to President Mnangagwa
Your Excellency,Since your ascendency to the realms of power in November 2017 I have been monitoring your progress with keen interest.Mr President, today I will not write about the inc...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:42hrs | 550 | by Moses Julias wekwa Chibaya
Mpilo situation critical: Doctors
The Zimbabwe Senior Doctors Association (ZSDA) has said the situation at Mpilo Hospital was far from normal as most doctors were on strike.Responding to sentiments by Clinical Director Dr Solw...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:36hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Fired doctors slam Mnangagwa govt for negative energy
FIRED Zimbabwean doctors have slammed government for apparent display of negative energy into processes leading to their dismissal while failing to redirect the same towards fixing the country's ailin...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:20hrs | 409 | by newzimbabwe
MDC leadership meets, charts way forward on key national issues
The MDC national executive met today for seven hours and spent the better part of the meeting deliberating on the deteriorating situation in the country, particularly the worsening plight of t...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 16:44hrs | 2866 | by MDC Communications
Mental patient stabs mother
A CHIPINGE granny escaped death by a whisker after she was stabbed three times on the head by her mentally-challenged son.This was revealed yesterday when Daniel Muchongoyo (34) of Maronga vil...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:12hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as govt fires over 200 doctors
GOVERNMENT yesterday fired 211 doctors at public hospitals for going o strike to demand better pay, with another 500 at risk.Doctors have been on strike since September 3 demanding salaries th...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:09hrs | 910 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenges graduates to modernise Zimbabwe industry
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday challenged universities and colleges to ensure their graduates are equipped to provide solutions, services and products to propel Zimbabwe's modernisation and industriali...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:03hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
A third of Zimbabwe doctors face the axe
A third of doctors who work in public health institutions, a total of 516 out of the 1 601 on the State payroll, face dismissal from public service this month as Government continues to hold disciplin...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:03hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
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