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7 robbers raid funeral parlour get away with $30, embalming liquid
SEVEN armed robbers wearing balaclavas who raided a funeral parlour in Bulawayo and found nothing in the safe vented their anger on the security guard who was manning the premises when they attacked a...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
$20k Norton Mortuary Commissioned
January 18, 2018 saw the commissioning of the new and upgraded Norton Hospital Mortuary after it had been abruptly shut down in 2011 due to bad state of the premise. In her opening and welcome...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 22:12hrs | 8 | by By Maxwell Teedzai/Local Government News
Drug dealers turn to embalming powder
DRUG peddlers in the country have reportedly formed a syndicate with employees at local morgues in the illicit sale of embalming compound which in turn is used by addicts as an intoxicating substance,...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 13:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'300 Zimbabwean nationals die in SA monthly'
More than 300 bodies of Zimbabweans who die in South Africa are repatriated home every month, with the number of locals who died in that country having increased to nearly 4 000 for the whole of l...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ambassador to Kuwait owed $127,000 in salary arrears
MEMBERS of Parliament have recommended the closure of some embassies due to the cash crisis that has seen some diplomats and embassy staff failing to get their salaries.Presenting a report in ...Published: 17 May 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
881 dead bodies repatriated from South Africa
A TOTAL of 881 bodies of Zimbabweans have been repatriated from South Africa in the past three months, the country's consul-general to South Africa, Batiraishe Mukonoweshuro, said yesterday.Th...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 06:47hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
1 418 Zimbabwean dead bodies repatriated from SA
A total of 1,418 bodies of Zimbabweans were repatriated from South Africa between January and June this year, an official said yesterday.Zimbabwe's consul-general to South Africa, Batiraishe ...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 08:11hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Dying in the Diaspora
Often we hear people proclaiming that we are born to die, and it is indeed the inevitable which give us the challenge to do the utmost and enjoy the years before it happens.Others, however, vi...Published: 28 Feb 2015 at 15:04hrs | | by Fanuel Kangondo
Funeral parlours contaminate drinking water
Funeral parlours, service stations, fuel holding depots and food processing plants have been dumping waste in the drinking water system countrywide.This has incensed a Cabinet Committee, which...Published: 09 May 2014 at 06:15hrs | | by Felex Share
Embalmed chickens a cancer risk
CONSUMING chickens that have been embalmed with chemicals as a preservation measure can result in cancer, a medical expert warned yesterday.Ruth Labode, a medical expert and chairperson of th...Published: 31 Oct 2013 at 04:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zim food outlets selling chicken treated with chemicals used to preserve human corpses'
ZIMBABWEAN food outlets are selling Brazilian chicken imports preserved with embalming chemicals normally used to preserve human corpses, Parliament was told yesterday.Zimbabwe National ...Published: 30 Oct 2013 at 02:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hugo Chavez has been laid to rest
The late President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez who succumbed to cancer on March 5 at the age of 58 has been laid to rest.Chavez was laid to rest at a military museum after an emotional journey ...Published: 16 Mar 2013 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru lawyers request for a second autopsy
The lawyers representing the Mujuru family are saying they will press on with their request for a second autopsy to determine how the late retired army general Solomon Mujuru died, whether it was ind...Published: 03 Mar 2012 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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