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Russian pilots flying Zimbabwe's air ambulances
Zimbabwe's much-touted free air ambulance service is currently being operated and maintained by Russian pilots and technicians, due to a shortage of local expertise, Health and Child Care Minister Dou...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:12hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Helidrive service expands operations in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is on track to become the first African country to establish a nationwide public air rescue service following the launch of the Helidrive National Air Rescue Service. Officially inaugurated i...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:23hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo city council struggles with ambulance shortage
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing a critical shortage of ambulances, significantly impacting its ability to provide emergency medical services. Chamber Secretary Sikhangele Zhou revealed that ...Published: 30 Mar 2025 at 15:35hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains 'restrict' cross border smuggling
SOUTH AFRICA Border Management Authority (BMA) says although four of its border gates remain closed due to flooding, the weather phenomenon actually serves as a natural deterrent to illegal crossings ...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 10:36hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets Russian helicopter ambulance
The Matabeleland region saw a major advancement in its emergency medical services yesterday with the arrival of the first of two dedicated air ambulances from Helidrive Zimbabwe. The state-of-the-art ...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:41hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree council suspends ambulance services due to breakdown
Residents of Plumtree and the general public are being urged to make alternative arrangements for medical emergencies, following the announcement that the town's council ambulance is currently out of ...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 13:21hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Air ambulances airlift 19 patients so far
In less than a month since its launch, the government's air ambulance service, operated by Russian company HeliDrive, has already airlifted 19 patients. These patients include victims of road accident...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:54hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's air ambulance services take off
The government-sponsored air ambulance service in Zimbabwe, using Russian helicopters, successfully completed its first mission by transporting a cardiac arrest patient from Chegutu to Harare free of ...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:03hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Air ambulances training starts
The Russian HeliDrive Air ambulances medical services team has arrived in Zimbabwe to establish an efficient air ambulance service under a public-private partnership. This initiative aims to reduce fa...Published: 30 Jul 2024 at 07:33hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to get more air ambulances from Russia
President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the Government will establish an efficient air ambulance service staffed by highly skilled medical professionals, engineers, dispatchers, and pilots to redu...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Russian flight paramedic instructors Zimbabwe - bound
Russian flight paramedic instructors are expected in the country this week to start training local air ambulance personnel, paving the way for the launch of Zimbabwe's first national air ambulance ser...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man brutally murdered in Limpopo
POLICE in Seshego, outside Polokwane are investigating a case of murder after a 36-year-old Zimbabwean man was allegedly stabbed to death with a sharp object.The brutal murder happened on a st...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive explosion rocks Joburg CBD, leaving devastation in its wake
Authorities rushed to the Johannesburg Central Business District on Wednesday evening following reports of an explosion in Bree Street.The city's emergency medical services confirmed an explos...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 17:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ambulance shortage hits Bulawayo council
BULAWAYO has been hit by an ambulance shortage, a move that could impact negatively on the city's health delivery services.This came out of a Bulawayo City Council (BCC) internal audit which r...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
5 killed as bus headed to Zimbabwe in head on collision
A head-on collision Friday near Ventersburg claimed five lives while five others were admitted to hospital in a critical condition.Motorists were advised to use alternative routes as the polic...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAA & WorldRemit honor five Zimbabweans for contributions to education
Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) has partnered with global fintech company WorldRemit, to honour five outstanding contributors towards the education sector in Zimbabwe at the upcoming ZAA UK 10th Anniv...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 14:12hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Why does Zimbabwe have such a high road death toll?
Road safety in Zimbabwe is such a major issue that it has attracted the attention of the United Nations. According to Zimbabwe's own nu...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
'ZRP must adopt regional policing protocol'
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has called on local police officers to adopt the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (SARPCCO) guidelines to instil discipline in the f...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's soldiers used excessive force against protesters
Zimbabwe security forces used excessive lethal force to crush nationwide protests in mid-January 2019. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sudden announcement of a fuel price increase of 150 percent result...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 21:56hrs | | by Human Rights Watch
Zimbabwean man feared dead after falling into ocean
A 25-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man is feared dead after he fell off a cliff into the Indian Ocean near Gordon's Bay in Western Cape, South Africa. The incident happened on Sunday evening at around 6...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's medical condition deteriorates, airlifted to SA
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was on Saturday morning reportedly airlifted again to South Africa for emergency medical services after his health deteriorated last week.Top government sou...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 bullets kill Zimbabwean woman in South Africa
A BULAWAYO woman died on the spot after she was shot 13 times by unknown suspects while on her way to catch a taxi in Pretoria, South Africa.The incident occurred on Wednesday last week....Published: 28 Jul 2017 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA warns against illegally crossing Limpopo River
Johannesburg - The Limpopo Department of Health has warned of the danger of drowning in the Limpopo River which is commonly used as a crossing point into South Africa from neighbouring Zimbabwe and Bo...Published: 06 Jan 2017 at 20:54hrs | | by IOL
Unfreindly weather kills two in KZN
After an 80-year-old gogo died on Monday, and a man was killed by lighting the following day, Daily Sun has reported.A 40-year-old man from the Chief Sithole area of Greytown, in the Umzinyath...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Train crashes into car killing two people
Johannesburg - Two people were killed and another was critically injured when a train crashed into their car in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, Emergency Medical Services said."The incident occurred j...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Schoolboy (9) shot dead in class
Police in South Africa have confirmed that a nine-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet in his classroom in Lwandle, on Friday."The nine-year-old learner was in the classroom, just after a mo...Published: 09 Aug 2014 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zim toddler dies after she was left alone in a family SUV
Tsitsi Chitekedza spent Tuesday afternoon at a park splash pad, frolicking with her younger brother and older sister under a hot summer sun.Her mother, Grace Vela, doesn't know how the three-y...Published: 05 Jul 2013 at 18:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean killed as wall collapses in SA
A Zimbabwean has been killed while two others suffered critical injuries after a wall collapsed onto them at a residence on Adam Tas road in Somerset West in Cape Town. Another person was also killed...Published: 08 Nov 2012 at 05:45hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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