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Zanu-PF arsonists pose as firefighters
On June 11, 2025, my friend sent me a message I'll never forget: his wife had delivered a stillborn baby. The young couple was shattered. He said delays at the Harare hospital had cost them their chil...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:07hrs | 183 | by Reward Magadhi
Panic at Sally Mugabe Hospital as fire breaks out
Panic gripped Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, formerly known as Harare Hospital, on Saturday, June 28, 2025, after a fire broke out in one of the hospital's buildings, sending plumes of smoke into the ...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 18:21hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Mid-Level managers are Destroying Zimbabwe's Health Sector
Zimbabwe's health sector is in critical condition, unfortunately no amount of propaganda or spin can change the facts on the ground. The problem with our health care system is not because of lack of f...Published: 03 May 2025 at 11:51hrs | 890 | by Hector Madzima
Chiwenga to bury Mupamhanga
Acting President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga will today preside over the burial of national hero Justin Mupamhanga at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. He will stand in for President Mnangagwa, who is ...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 08:19hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Hospital stuck with a broken, archaic machine donated by Zanu-PF senator
Gutu Mission, the only referral hospital in Gutu District, is grappling with a broken and outdated anaesthetic machine donated by Zanu PF Senator Lovemore Matuke during his 2023 election campaign. The...Published: 25 Jan 2025 at 16:00hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Mother, daughter sells new-born baby for US$180
A 16-year-old girl from Murehwa and her 47-year-old mother, Evelyn Zisengwe, have appeared in court alongside 34-year-old Dion Tore, accused of trafficking a newborn child in violation of Zimbabwe's T...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 17:05hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Infant dies after falling into hot water bucket
A six-month-old baby girl tragically lost her life on Friday in Kambuzuma, Harare, after falling into a 20-litre bucket filled with hot water.The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the i...Published: 18 Nov 2024 at 15:04hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga visits Rtd Air Chief Marshal Moyo after accident
Retired Air Chief Marshal Elson Moyo, the former Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) Commander, is in stable condition and receiving specialized care at a Harare hospital after being involved in a road accide...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:35hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Retired Chief Air Marshal Elson Moyo injured in road accident
On October 29, 2024, at approximately 3:00 PM, Retired Chief Air Marshal Elson Moyo, the former Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, was involved in a single-vehicle accident along the Chegutu-Pick...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 09:32hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zimbabwean nurses lose US$8,000 to bogus employment agencies
Eight aspiring nurses were allegedly conned of over US$8,000 by bogus employment agencies they engaged to assist them with securing vacancies at Sally Mugabe Hospital, a Harare court heard Tuesday....Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CAG accidents draining govt coffers
GOVERNMENT has committed to assist families of five people who died after a CAG bus was involved in a head-on collision with a truck along the Karoi-Magunje Road last week.Speaking during the ...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni overwhelmed by abandoned patients
AUTHORITIES at Zimbabwe's largest psychiatric hospital, Ingutsheni in Bulawayo, have accused families of dumping their loved ones who are suffering from mental health issues at the facility, resulting...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:37hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Financial services group partners with government to enhance healthcare access in Bulawayo
In a notable initiative towards improving healthcare accessibility, a local financial services group collaborated with the government to host a two-day free medical health camp and officially open a c...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 16:45hrs | 38 | by Staff Reporter
Ivy Kombo and Admire Kasi's legal woes continue
Ivy Kombo has been in the public eye for many years. She has embraced difficult experiences, problems and scandals as well as other trials and tribulations Zimbabwe's female musicians face. With her g...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 08:43hrs | 215 | by Fred Zindi
Police brutality victim's family demands 'supernatural' justice
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has been accused of covering up its officers' attack on a handcuffed suspect, who later died in holding cells at Banket Police Station, last month.The now de...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 05:07hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
CID boss 'attackers' remanded in custody
FOUR individuals accused of assaulting Alexander Jachi, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department's Harare Homicide section, and robbing him of US$140 and a pistol, were remanded in custody p...Published: 04 Oct 2023 at 06:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man's manhood hacked off over infidelity
Police in Marondera, Mashonaland East province, have arrested a 24-year-old woman who cut his boyfriend's manhood using a broken mirror over infidelity.The victim, Thomas Masarirenhamo (43), i...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 08:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Van Blerk nails Biti
Former Pokugara Properties general manager Mr Michael Van Blerk last Friday told the court that it was necessary for him to jump in between Tendai Biti and Mrs Tatiana Aleshina in order to save ...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Second witness for Biti assault case
Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza will today call his second witness to testify in Tendai Biti's assault case.This comes after the first witness Mrs Tatiana Aleshina finished her cross...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biti 'assault' victim nearly fainted
The assault case for Tendai Biti continued today with Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza leading evidence from the complainant and witness Mrs Tatiana Aleshina.Biti is facing charges of...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman charged with two counts of child kidnapping
A-RUSAPE woman (48) was arrested after she preyed on two mothers and kidnapped their two babies on different occasions in 2013 and 2015. Enator Marumani of Madhibhu Village, Rusape was yesterd...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 family members killed by Black Mamba
THREE members of a Hurungwe family succumbed to poisoning after they were struck by a venomous snake suspected to be a Black Mamba, while foraging for firewood.The bizarre incident occurred in...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 20:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga admitted at private Harare hospital
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was admitted to a hospital in Harare on Thursday for what sources described as a "long-planned procedure".The 65-year-old retired army general arrived at th...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 18:15hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife alive but critically ill
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa is alive but in a critical condition that has prompted her family to seek a second medical opinion.Last week, she refused to...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa did not consult on Mabenge hero status'
CONFERMENT of national heroes status on the late Retired Brigadier General Benjamin Mabenge by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a given as the struggle veteran was " a real soldier in the pedigree of ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga orders investigation on errant nurses, doctors
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga has ordered a thorough investigation into cases of alleged corruption and theft of drugs by nurses and doctors at public hospitals.This follows a NewsDay re...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's doctors, nurses turn mercenary
SOME public health workers, who include doctors and nurses, have reportedly devised a well-knit scam to milk cash from desperate patients to supplement their meagre salaries.Those involved all...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby's lover with cooking oil
AN 18-year-old Epworth woman has landed in the dock after she scalded her husband's mistress with hot cooking oil.Patricia Gwanyamwanya from Jacha appeared before magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, Mond...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Disloyal Zimbabweans face tough times ahead
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade has called for the expeditious enactment of the Patriotic Bill to stop unpatriotic and disloyal Zimbabweans from dispar...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shingi Kawondera spends 2 'glorious hours' with ex-wife Marry Chiwenga
Ex-footballer Shingayi Kaondera met his ailing ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa bedside in hospital for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday.Mubaiwa left Kaondera, with whom she has a child, and marri...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:06hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
MHCT fights Hydrocephalus
The joys of expectant parents are shuttered upon hearing these words, "Your child has a bigger head than any normal child and you have to go through a caesarian section to give birth." What! a big hea...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 11:00hrs | 19 | by Health Correspondent
Chief who called for Mugabe's genocide reburial succumbs to Covid-19
A ZIMBABWEAN chief, who was spearheading the reburial of the late former President Robert Mugabe's remains, has succumbed to Covid-19 with some of his subjects claiming that the Mugabe ancestral spiri...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Daring thieves breaks into houses of CIOs
TWO suspected habitual thieves yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi to answer to charges of house-breaking, including nreaking into houses of State security agents.Kudakw...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Living between a rock & hard surface - Brenda Manyoni Narrates her Story!
The quagmire that Brenda Manyoni (25) is living through is terribly deplorable. Brenda says she does not 'understand' how, her nylon skirt caught fire when she was just five. The girl reports that she...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 13:46hrs | 2 | by Dumisani Mawere
Gringo's widow gives birth
The drama continues . . . After giving birth to her bouncing baby boy on June 5, the late comedian Lazarus "Gringo" Boora's widow Netsai Meki described the child as "heaven sent, a comfo...Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family collects wrong corpse, discovers mix-up shortly before burial
A HARARE family last week mistakenly processed a burial order and organised funeral rites for an unidentified man whom they mistook for their presumed dead relative, Enock Foya.The family only...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mamombe trial
BRITAIN says it is following closely the trial of MDC Alliance legislator Joana Mamombe and two other activists for allegedly faking their abduction.Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mass vaccination starts in Vic Falls
ZIMBABWE yesterday marked a year after it reported its first Covid-19 positive case in Victoria Falls, triggering unprecedented events that have seen the country recording 36 652 cases, 34 249 recover...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 07:44hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Daily News assistant editor dies
Tributes have been pouring in for veteran journalist and Daily News assistant editor Maxwell Sibanda who died at a Harare hospital yesterday morning after a short illness. In a statement, the ...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soul Jah Love's dodgy hero status divides opinion
THE ruling Zanu-PF party's decision to declare the late Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love - born Soul Musaka - a liberation war hero has inadvertently raised political dust and left internet users di...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Youths appeal to mourn Soul Jah Love
Youths have appealed to government to give them a waiver and attend the King of Dancehall musician, Soul Jah Love.This request comes in the backdrop of allowing Zupco buses to carry a capacity...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 13:27hrs | 4 | by Shelton Muchena
Ziyambi Ziyambi hospitalised, battling for his life in the ICU
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 horror traumatises Zimbabweans
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza yesterday became Zimbabwe's fourth minister to die from coronavirus.Matiza, 60, succumbed to complications brought about b...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'2020 marks death of public health system'
In the midst of severe economic unrest, the Zimbabwean healthcare system has been disintegrating and coming apart at the seams over the years and 2020 took it a notch higher with the advent of COVID-1...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
NewsDay senior reporter dies
NEWSDAY senior court reporter Charles Laiton has died. He was 48.Laiton, who is survived by his wife and five children, passed on yesterday mid-morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospita...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses demand justice from govt
Nurses are up in arms with government after officials demanded that they apologise for taking it to court over flexible working hours, saying that government sees itself as if it is above the law....Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forcing nurses to apologise is illegal and unjust, says ZINA
THE Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) president, Enock Dongo recent actions by government and the ministry of health and child care of forcibly coercing nurses into submission and apologising for dem...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 21:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo poke holes into ZBC 'fake abduction' video
MDC Alliance and several political commentators have roundly dismissed as cheap propaganda, a ZBC documentary flighted this week, purportedly exposing as fake, the abduction of Harare West MP Johanne ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC comes under fire for corruption in local authorities
ZIMBABWE has once again come under the spotlight over an alleged human rights crisis. Civil society groups, churches, political organisations in and outside the country have slammed President Emmerson...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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