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Gweru faces rising manhole cover thefts
The City of Gweru is battling a growing crisis as scrap metal thieves shift their focus to manhole covers made from cast iron, ductile iron, and galvanised steel - a move city authorities say is compr...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 07:40hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi School of Nursing closed
THIRTY-THREE trainee primary care nurses at Nkayi District Hospital have been moved to other nursing schools in Masvingo and Manicaland provinces following the temporary closure of the institution, wh...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi whitewashing hearings begin
PUBLIC hearings to document and resolve civil disturbances that transpired in some parts of the country in the 1980s are set to begin early next year, marking the commencement of a historically signif...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's withdrawal from Parly an empty thunder'
CCC's threat to withdraw its members from Parliament and councillors from local authorities across the country is empty thunder that will not have any effect on Government business even if it is imple...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gets elections head start
AHEAD of harmonised elections on August 23, Zanu-PF is already off the blocks and commands a comfortable head start against its disorganised rivals who are yet to come up with candidates even after th...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Smelly Dube honoured on global stage
Gweru-based businesswoman and philanthropist, Dr Smelly Dube was among seven businesspeople from across the globe who were recently honoured at the 2023 Leaders Without Borders annual business summit ...Published: 28 May 2023 at 12:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gweru business mogul targets UK property market
PROMINENT Gweru businesswoman and philanthropist, Dr Smelly Dube last week attended high-level meetings in Glasgow and England to prepare her entry into the United Kingdom’s most lucrative property ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 10:36hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF bolsters structures ahead of polls
The setting up of an Elders Council coming on the back of the intense cell verification programme has put Zanu-PF in good stead to win the forthcoming elections, analysts have said.Secretary f...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Lupane on National Youth Day
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to be the guest of honour at this year's National Youth Day commemorations that will be held in Lupane where more than 5 000 youths from across the country will converg...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gweru businesswoman bags another global award
Barely two months after winning an international business awa rd in the United Kingdom, Gweru-based businesswoman Dr Smelly Dube has bagged another presti...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Smelly Dube acquitted
The National Prosecution Authority has declined to prosecute Gweru-based businesswoman and philanthropist, Dr Smelly Dube on fraud charges over acquisitions and sale of state land around Gweru due to ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZIFA flying into major storm
ZIFA could be blindly flying into another constitutional storm which has the potential of pushing out scores of those in charge of domestic football, ahead of the elections to choose their leadership,...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Scores turn up for ZDF Covid-19 vaccination outreach programme
Over 200 Emgwanwini and Cowdray Park residents, Tuesday, received their Covid-19 jabs during a Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) community outreach Covid-19 vaccination programme.The community out...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 20:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni Medical Centre opening to be decided today
THE decision on the opening of Ekusileni Medical Centre will be made today when an inspection team from the Health Professions Authority (HPA) presents a report on its findings following an assessment...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 07:28hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Smelly Dube's trial stopped
GWERU regional magistrate Mr Christopher Maturure has stopped the criminal trial of River Valley Properties chief executive officer Smelly Dube, who was facing US$9 million fraud allegations, pending ...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 17:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concern over Thorngrove, Ekusileni opening
OVER a year after Government declared the start of rehabilitation works to turn Bulawayo's Ekusileni and Thorngrove hospitals into Covid-19 isolation centres, the two institutions have failed to offic...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation delivers health care to Bulawayo
THE new dispensation has undertaken a number of projects and introduced some measures that have improved the quality of health care services in Bulawayo. Top of the list is Ekusileni Medical C...Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Kombi conductors, drivers to pay tax
GOVERNMENT has directed workers in the transport sector, including commuter omnibus drivers and conductors, to register with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) as part of social protection ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kombi conductors, drivers to pay tax
GOVERNMENT has directed workers in the transport sector, including commuter omnibus drivers and conductors, to register with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) as part of social protection ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mashonaland East farming communities record high HIV rate
There is a high positivity rate among farming communities in Mashonaland East Province, which is retarding development. The development has been attributed to early child marriages, interchanging of s...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube refuses to vacate ex-property
FORMER Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube is refusing to vacate a Waterfalls property in Harare he lost over a debt a year ago, a development that has prompte...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Over 10 donkeys 'shot' at abattoir
THE Government will not license a donkey abattoir that is being built in Bulawayo.The Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services DLVS) made the announcement last week as the Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
99 inmates on death row
THE country's prisons and correctional institutions are struggling to provide essential services to inmates amid revelations that they have 19 000 prisoners against a holding capacity of 17 000 with 9...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legal action against donkey abbatoir
ANIMAL welfare groups are working on instituting legal action to bar a Bulawayo businessman who set up the country's first donkey abattoir in Bulawayo from operating.Veterinarians for Animal W...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dog meat can kill'
A VETERINARY surgeon has said people should not eat dog meat as doing so can result in illness or death.The warning follows an incident in which the Bulawayo City Council raided a homeless Bul...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ritual killing body stuck at mortuary
THE body of a mentally ill man from Gwanda who was beheaded in a suspected ritual murder three weeks ago, still lies unclaimed at Gwanda Provincial Hospital mortuary.A post mortem was done on ...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets boys in HIV response
Zimbabwe, with support from its partners, is targeting boys in its sexual reproductive health rights programmes as part of its HIV response amid concerns that the response was more focused on young wo...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 19:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube still faces prosecution
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) says former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) group chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube is not yet off the hook as the anti-graft body has gathere...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
No fraud case found against Cuthbert Dube
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has cleared former Premier Services Medical Aid Society group chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube and his board of any wrong-doing during their tenure of of...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dogs chew owner's manhood
A DOG is a man's best friend, so goes the saying. But not to two brothers who had to be hospitalised after their family dogs attacked them. The brothers from Kumalo suburb in Bulawayo were att...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:54hrs | 3 | by Tatenda Gapare
Cuthbert Dube and co to pay back $22 million to PSMAS
EX-PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube and his management team will be forced to return US$22 million-plus they allegedly siphoned out of the institution...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa is the best but...
Many have reacted with different opinions since the day when my fellow business mogul Phillip Chiyangwa announced his intended interest to run for the vacant Zifa presidential post.Many or to ...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Wilson Chipangura
Bulawayo hospital fights State takeover bid
Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo is challenging a Cabinet resolution allowing the government to take over the specialist medical project on the basis that it had failed to open its doors to the pu...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 06:26hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Labour Court blocks Cuthbert Dube's $3m payout
Arbitral awards giving former Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube over $3 million in salary arrears that accrued since his sacking in January last year, are de...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 23:17hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Cuthbert Dube shares $22m with PSMAS bosses
ELEVEN Premier Service Medical Aid Society executives, led by former group CEO Dr Cuthbert Dube, splurged US$22,8 million in "executive allowances" outside the payroll and evaded tax, resulting in the...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 15:32hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
'Prostitution high in Mashonaland East'
The National Aids Council (NAC) in Mashonaland East says prostitution is still high in the province with the Harare-Nyamapanda highway being the worst affected by the social vice.NAC Masho...Published: 06 Jun 2015 at 19:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dabengwa's massive R28 million salary less than Dube's
MTN Group has released its annual report for 2014, revealing how much its top executives got paid in the last financial year.MTN Group president and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa took home a total sum o...Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sheriff raids Cuthbert Dube's home as $281k debt hangs over his head
ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube, had personal property worth $281,000 attached over a debt in which he offered himself as guarantor in a matter where the football body owes Pandhari Lodge hundreds of tho...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSMAS forensic audit complete
Auditors contracted by the interim management at Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) to conduct a forensic audit on the society's operations have completed their task. Interim manag...Published: 25 Dec 2014 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Late diplomat, Kotsho Dube, declared a national hero
Diplomat and Zanu-PF Central Committee member, Dr Kotsho Dube, who died on Monday, has been declared a national hero and will be buried at the national shrine on Sunday.Dr Dube died in his sle...Published: 03 Dec 2014 at 22:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Cuthbert Dube loses $1million salary arrears case
The Labour Court has thrown away two cases in which former Premier Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive Dr Cuthbert Dube is demanding nearly $1 million in salary arrears from the society...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Paidamoyo Chipunza
Joshua Nkomo hospital doctors to be evicted
PARLIAMENT has called for the eviction of a team of doctors claiming ownership of the Ekusileni Medical Centre in Bulawayo saying they have failed to open the institution.Ekusileni, built of o...Published: 14 Jul 2014 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Cuthbert Dube still employed by PSMAS'
Lawyers representing former Premier Services Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube say their client was still employed by the health insurer because his contract had not been te...Published: 12 Jul 2014 at 08:16hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Why Muchechetere, Dube are not in jail
What is stopping the police from arresting suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Mr Happison Muchechetere and beleaguered Premier Service Medical Aid Society boss Dr Cuthber...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 16:08hrs | | by Makomborero Mutimukulu
Cuthbert Dube gives Herald one-day ultimatum
The former Premier Service Medical Aid Society CEO Dr Cuthbert Dube reportedly gave the state run, The Herald, newspaper a one-day ultimatum to stop publishing exposes on his alleged abuse of public ...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 23:35hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika
Cuthbert Dube back in the news again
Sacked Premier Service Medical Aid Society group chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube retired late last year, but was immediately re-employed on a contract basis and with a raft of benefits that i...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cuthbert Dube owns more than 20% of PSMAS key subsidiaries
Former Premier Service Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Dr Cuthbert Dube could own as much as 20 percent of a key subsidiary of the enterprise, an official close to the firm has revealed....Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSMAS board retires group CEO
The Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) board has retired its Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr Cuthbert Dube, ZBC News reported.In a statement today, the PSMAS Board Secretary, Cosmas...Published: 27 Jan 2014 at 16:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ekusileni Medical Centre set to reopen
EKUSILENI Medical Centre in Bulawayo, which has been idle for more than a decade, is set to reopen amid reports that the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is keen to inject $80 million to rev...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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