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India, UAE roped in to revive CAPS, Datlabs
THE government says it is taking concrete steps to revive the country's health sector by engaging India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help resuscitate fallen pharmaceutical giants CAPS Holding...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:11hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
Rebirth of the Zimdollar
Zimbabwean central bank authorities have a traceable record of overnight monetary policy changes. Memories of the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono era of monetary policy hip-...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1368 | by Paddington Masamha
Time to close South Africa's borders
Fellow South AfricansOur border posts, such as the one near here at Jeppes Reef, are meant to protect South Africa...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 08:09hrs | 9325 | by Mmusi Maimane
Mesi roped into anti-drug campaign
SUNGURA musician Paradzai Mesi is part of an initiative by a local organisation, Zimbabwe Network for Economic and Social Transformation (Zinest) to help fight the scourge of drug abuse, especially am...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:11hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
We've failed to guard our independence
ZIMBABWE's independence in 1980 did not come on a silver platter but it came at a huge cost and most of the people who made sure this day became a reality are long gone.But for those who were ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 118 | by Harry Peter Wilson
Vuzu parties trigger storm
TEACHERS' unions have added their voice to the proliferation of Vuzu parties in the second city, saying there is a real danger that the country may lose a whole generation to drug and alcohol abuse if...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:00hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has failed to revive economy and Gono to take over in 2020 - he too will fail, guaranteed
Zanu-PF hardliners are in panic mode and for good reasons, the economic meltdown is in overdrive! The country's de fact local currency the Real Time Gross Settlement Dollar (RTGS$) has been losing mor...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 09:04hrs | 5979 | by Wilbert Mukori
I'm HIV+ at 85 but
EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Sekuru Samba has revealed his HIV positive status and described it as a blessing in disguise.The Maruta Kraal Headman heir apparent, real name Robert Ticharwa Maruta, said...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 16:54hrs | 2148 | by Staff reporter
The case for the compensations of former white farmers
Last week Government announced the commencement of the process of identifying and registering the former white farmers, who lost land during the land reform programme, in an exercise which is being co...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 11:33hrs | 1471 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Boy loses leg because of church belief
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy from Bulawayo is precariously clinging to life, as his parents, who are staunch Jehovah's Witnesses are allegedly refusing that he undergoes a blood transfusion to save his life, ...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Councillor's son hit by 2 cars, dies
A NORTON councillor lost his 21-year-old son who was hit by two cars in a nasty accident. Elton Zinyemba, son to Norton Town Councillor Albert Zinyemba, is said to have been abusing drugs the ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1947 | by Staff reporter
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 22695 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo doctor 'steals' drugs
A DOCTOR at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo has appeared in court for allegedly stealing drugs worth $110 from the hospital theatre while on duty. Emmanuel Mucheni (33) yesterday appeared b...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:26hrs | 886 | by Staff reporter
Mental patient runs amok, kills 2
A SUSPECTED Mutoko mental patient reportedly went berserk before fatally axing a couple over an undisclosed matter.The suspect, Takudzwa Zaranyika (30) has since been arrested following the de...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:30hrs | 3377 | by Staff reporter
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 320 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 135 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Govt probes drug leakages
GOVERNMENT is investigating leads that seem to suggest high-ranking officials could be involved in the disappearance of drugs from its warehouses into private pharmacies.Recently, three men em...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:16hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
ZCLDN engages George Stark High students on illicit drug use
The Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network today held a drug awareness campaign at George Stark High School in Mbare, Harare.George Stark High is a co-education learning centre with enrolme...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:27hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
How did Zimbabwe end up with such toxic debts?
What I witnessed last Saturday at Zimbabwe's biggest hospital, Parirenyatwa, got me thinking.In the casualty unit, there was no doctor attending to patients from 5.30pm to 9pm. I saw patients ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 09:59hrs | 617 | by Editorial _ The Independent
Man up for wilful HIV transmission
A 50-YEAR-OLD man from Bulawayo has been arrested for deliberately transmitting HIV to his wife. The accused person appeared before Western Commonage magistrate, Mr Lungile Ncube, who remanded...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman escapes sex slavery after defying SA 'traffickers'
A Zimbabwean woman escaped a life of sex slavery after "refusing to be submissive" to two men who allegedly trafficked her from Johannesburg to Cape Town.The Hawks' anti-human trafficking team...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 11:16hrs | 3557 | by Staff reporter
Cops raid Pumula, 81 arrests recorded
A MAJOR police operation in Bulawayo's Pumula suburb targeting shebeens and drug peddlers has resulted in the arrest of one murder suspect and 80 others for various offences. The crackdown fol...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Group camps at US Embassy in Zimbabwe
A group of seven citizens has camped at the United States Embassy in Harare calling for the removal of the illegal sanctions the country imposed on Zimbabwe and vowed to stay put until they are remove...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean seeks twinning of Mutare, Toronto
RENOWNED Zimbabwean paediatric cardiologist Norman Nhamohainavazhinji Musewe, who is based in Toronto, Canada, is pushing for the twinning of Mutare city with a satellite city of Greater Toronto....Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Health ministry to float RTGS$ tender for drugs
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo on Thursday assured Senate that his ministry was prepared to avert any health calamities that may face Cyclone Idai victims, adding that his ministry will soon float a rea...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa luxury jets torch storm
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube was yesterday grilled in the Senate by opposition legislators over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's penchant to travel in hired luxurious private jets when the country is s...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:41hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
US$500 000 medicines recovered from backyard pharmacy
Medicines worth US$500 000 was on Tuesday recovered by the police from a warehouse in Waterfalls, Harare, with the Health ministry tags, raising suspicion that the drugs could have been stolen from a ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:16hrs | 1833 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel consumption declines
The consumption of diesel and petrol plunged by almost 1,5 million litres and 1,8 million litres per day respectively between January and February this year, compared to previous months on the back of...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:42hrs | 2230 | by Staff reporter
39 years without sniffer dogs…where is Zanu-PF taking us?
It is so embarrassing that for 39 years former President Robert Mugabe and his power hungry Zanu Pf party failed to acquire helicopters and sniffer dogs, of which the later had to be borrowed from Sou...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:46hrs | 1055 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe should have long invested in sniffer dogs
With close to 400 people still missing since Cyclone Idai hit the eastern parts of the country over a week ago, it is sad to note that Zimbabwe had to ask for special sniffer dogs from neighbouring So...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 12:59hrs | 1331 | by Maxwell Sibanda
SA Home Affairs conducts door to door search for foreigners
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs is reportedly engaging in a surprise door to door search for undocumented immigrants who are residing in the country illegally. A notice at Ponte City...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 10:29hrs | 57281 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Discipline mustn't be administered through brutality
The problem of child abuse is getting out of hand and our society must act now to stop the terrible crimes against innocent children.Recently, the Midlands community awoke to the shocking news...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:55hrs | 1688 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
People should stop peddling falsehoods on cyclone donations
President Mnangagwa, Vice President Chiwenga and cabinet ministers visiting the affected areas hit by Cyclone Idai at Ngangu area in Chimanimani.Zimbabweans managed to bury their differences a...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:13hrs | 220 | by Editorial - The Chronicle
Call to monitor hospital drug stocks
GOVERNMENT is working on getting access to records of drugs in pharmacies and public hospitals to ensure transparency in drug delivery, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has said. ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:08hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
ZCLDN applauds Government decision to decriminalise HIV transmission
THE Zimbabwe Civil Liberties and Drug Network (ZCLDN) welcomes the recent announcement made by the Government that it wants to repeal a legal provision that criminalises willful transmission of HIV/AI...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 192 | by ZCLDN Communications Department
'MDC Alliance stronghold among the first Cyclone food aid beneficiaries'
GOVERNMENT has denied reports of food aid politicisation to the victims of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani and Chipinge saying it can never allow that when people are in serious need of food. In f...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Census for cyclone-ravaged communities
Government will conduct a census using official records to ascertain the number of people who have been staying in communities that were affected by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani and Chipinge.Th...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:47hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
A male birth control pill has just passed human safety tests
A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according t...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 10:28hrs | 2594 | by Staff reporter
'RTGS$ a failed fraud' Tendai Biti says
Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti says the recently introduced RTGS$ currency has failed to maintain a steady exchange rate thereby affecting people's savings. "The RTGS$ is a failed fraud. ...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:56hrs | 6013 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe legalised the growing of marijuana for medical purposes
THE daily use of cannabis is associated with an increased risk of psychosis or serious mental illness, with more potent forms of the drug such as "skunk" heightening the risk, a study by leading scien...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:40hrs | 558 | by Gift Phiri
'Traditional healer' in court for fraud
A SELF-PROCLAIMED traditional healer from Gweru, who allegedly defrauded his clients claiming he could make them rich and cure HIV, last week appeared in court facing fraud charges.Lackshman M...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leads nation in mourning
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday joined the nation in mourning people who perished during Cyclone Idai and expressed gratitude to various countries, embassies, local companies, organisations, churches an...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Medical insurance for Zimbabweans in SA
Government is considering providing health insurance services for Zimbabwean citizens based in South Africa. The issue, which was agreed to by the Zimbabwean and South African governments duri...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:51hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
Natpharm to fast-track drugs procurement
THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been given 48 hours to approach the local market to procure required drugs using RTGS dollars in a move meant to speed up the drug procurement proces...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:50hrs | 448 | by Staff reporter
Fixing Zimbabwe's broken reputation chain
The Economist Intelligence Unit's livability survey 2018, pitches Harare, in Zimbabwe, in the 10 least "livable" in the world out of the 140-city sample.Harare is ranked number 135, only eclip...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 07:02hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe sanctions affecting Sadc'
A GROUP of South Africa-based civic society groups is in Bulawayo campaigning for the removal of Western imposed economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe, saying they had missed their targets and are no...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 827 | by Staff reporter
Doctors give government two-week ultimatum on supplies - decisive action at last, after 38 years of dithering
"DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last wee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:12hrs | 2017 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
High Court to decide Parirenyatwa's fate
THE High Court is on Wednesday expected to rule on ex-Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa's application seeking charges of criminal abuse of office against him dropped.Parirenyat...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
We were misled - Doctors
DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last week...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:32hrs | 3989 | by Staff reporter
Shocking rot at Zimbabwe hospitals
PATIENTS are spending several days waiting for treatment at the country's poorly resourced public hospitals and many are dying prematurely due to lack of drugs, an investigation has revealed.A...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
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