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Zimbabwe expands access to advanced surgeries
Zimbabwe's public health sector is making major strides in specialist healthcare provision, with the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals having successfully conducted 62 open-heart surgeries to date, whil...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:05hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Covid-19 scare in China
TWo members of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's delegation tested positive for Covid-19 in China, forcing hundreds of people to be removed from the luxury hotel where they are staying.Chi...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs come face-to-face with Zimbabwe's crippled healthcare system
ON January 20, Zimbabweans were shocked to hear the news of the death of Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the latest government official to succumb to Covid-19.The 61-year-old, who rose...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZNA Commander flown to India for medical treatment
Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant General Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chimonyo is in India for medical treatment, The NewsHawks reported.Lt. Gen. Chimonyo is said to be suffering fr...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 08:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's China visit hypocrisy of the highest order
REVELATIONS that Vice-President and Health minister Dr Constantino Chiwenga has flown to China for treatment just months after declaring that the government was banning health tourism exposes the stin...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga flown out for treatment
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been flown to China for treatment - just months after declaring that the government was banning health tourism.The 64-year-old former army general has n...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 07:49hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to ban medical trips abroad for 'everybody'
Vice president and health minister Constantino Chiwenga has announced the government will ban overseas medical flights for all Zimbabweans, saying the trips are bleeding the country of scarce foreign ...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 16:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Robert Mugabe's latest picture on a wheelchair
President Robert Mugabe is now using a mobile chair at least according to the latest picture that has gone viral on social media. Mugabe who is currently in Singapore where he is being treated...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 13:50hrs | 18 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ex-Military government officials angered by public scrutiny
Following a soft coup that deposed former President Robert Mugabe from power last year, a number of military generals were retired to take up civilian posts in the new government in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Alistair Nyakudya
Mnangagwa admits hospitals need fixing but cannot say when - rigged elections are milestone round his neck
On Friday 1st February Mnangagwa visited Parerenyatwa Hospital and admitted that everything from the floor, walls, windows, hospital beds and bed linen, everything were in a sorry state and needed to ...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 30 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe wheelchair-hound, Zimbabweans to foot $4m bill
THE taxpayer continues to foot former president Robert Mugabe's medical bills, as it emerged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave the deposed strongman US$4 million to cover his hospital exp...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hits out at 'foreign medical trips'
FOREIGN trips to seek specialised medical attention by Zimbabweans are bleeding the country of the much-needed foreign currency, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Writing in his weekly col...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Singapore perks payback time for Mnangagwa
CROSS continental medical errands for the former First Family are not a justifiable cost to the taxpayer.They must be stopped immediately.As I see it, if deposed former President Rober...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Chiwenga must shed army culture
Inherent in the dismissal of striking public service nurses is a hangover from a military mindset drilled to a regimented environment. As I see it, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga might no longer ...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Mugabe visits Singapore hospital
Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe visited a hospital in Singapore this week apparently for medical checks, his first trip outside his country since he was ousted from office last month, sources ...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 15:47hrs | | by Reuters
Who is Grace Mugabe?
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe, a polarising figure, has gradually positioned herself as a potential successor to her 93-year-old husband Robert as president when he dies or steps down....Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by BBC
Welshman Ncube sending wrong message
During my time as a reporter I always looked forward to having interviews with politicians, musicians and athletes who gave me riveting stuff.If it was not riveting, it was controversial stuff...Published: 05 Nov 2017 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Guthrie Munyuki
Mugabe stashing stolen cash in Singapore under guise of medical trips
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's endless visits to Singapore are most likely more than medical, but a cleverly disguised way of stashing millions of stolen dollars.Mugabe and his misguided, ...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 09:41hrs | | by Sandra Kudenga
'Mugabe as strong as an iron bar'
Grace Mugabe on Tuesday said her husband President Robert Mugabe is as "strong as an iron bar" which continues to endure despite old age.According to NewZimbabwe.com, Grace Mugabe said this wh...Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has spent 77 days out of Zimbabwe in 2017
President Robert Mugabe spent a staggering 77 days out of the country in the first five months of the year as his love for foreign travel continues to drain the cash-strapped government.Mugabe...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's age can't be a manifesto or an ideology
TODAY'S sermon comes from Leviticus 19 vs 32 and Isiah 46 vs 4. This sermon was inspired by comments that followed the statement by Presidential spokesman Mr George Charamba who last week took time to...Published: 14 May 2017 at 15:09hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mugabe leaves for Singapore for his routine medical check-up
President Mugabe yesterday left Zimbabwe for Singapore for his routine medical check-up hardly a week after rejecting the profiling that Zimbabwe was 'a fragile State' and instead declaring it is the ...Published: 09 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Ndau Paul
Mugabe headed abroad for checkups shortly - twitter
President Robert Mugabe is reported heading abroad for checkups shortly. It is not clear at this stage whether this is fake or factual news. It is difficult to get President Mugabe's medical checkup s...Published: 08 May 2017 at 13:45hrs | 4 | by Ndou Paul
When a child accepts food from strangers - kukwata
Bridgette Malenga is an actress by night and teacher by day - naturally she has a new word to teach everyone: kukwata."Kukwata: verb. In Shona culture, whe...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 09:44hrs | 3 | by Bridgette Malenga
Frail Tsvangirai rushed to South Africa, is he HIV+?
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has been rushed to South Africa for treatment over a yet-to-be disclosed ailment.In a statement yesterday, the party's secretary-general, Douglas Mwo...Published: 20 May 2016 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's walking sick
One of the most basic human needs is to be in good health. Poor health inevitably leads to death. Thus one of the primary functions of any government must be to secure the health of its citizens. This...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Professor Welshman Ncube
Bona inclusion on Mugabe trip causes stir
The inclusion of President Robert Mugabe's daughter, Bona Mugabe-Chikore, on her father's government trip to Japan and the decision to allow her to sit by his side during an official meeting with ...Published: 17 Mar 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe under fire for shunning Zimbabwe, Africa
President Robert Mugabe and his family have as usual gone to the Far East for his annual holiday amid growing criticism that he is a double-faced leader who loves to talk a tough pan-African language ...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:51hrs | | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa dismiss cyanide attempt as 'normal'?
Audio of the interview is at the end.Two more individuals have been hospitalised following the attempted cyanide assassination of Emmerson Mnangagwa. The poison was sprayed in his Zanu-PF HQ o...Published: 12 Dec 2014 at 17:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe inauguration reminds one of Jesus' 'Last Supper' - analyst
President Robert Mugabe, who will extend his 33-years in power on Thursday, once quipped he would rule his country until he turned 100.Taking the oath for a fresh five-year term at 89-and-a-...Published: 22 Aug 2013 at 06:48hrs | | by AFP
Mugabe's prostate cancer scare is old news
WikiLeaks' release of a cable alleging Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is dying of prostate cancer and could be gone by 2013 may have raised eyebrows around the world last week, but it's old news ...Published: 07 Sep 2011 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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