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Maphisa Hospital set for major upgrade, to train nurses
Plans are underway to transform Maphisa Hospital into a functional nurse training centre, in a move aimed at revitalising the healthcare system and fast-tracking development in Matabeleland South prov...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:10hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Karanda hospital dismisses fake nurse training advert
Karanda Mission Hospital has issued a public warning about a fraudulent social media message falsely advertising nurse training recruitment at its School of Nursing.The misleading post, circul...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 17:24hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
Bogus Mpilo doctor swindled prospective nurse trainees US$8,000
A 29-year-old Bulawayo man, Prosper Taurai Vanhuvaone, has been sentenced to an effective 42 months in prison after being convicted of multiple counts of fraud for posing as a qualified medical doctor...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 13:29hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Woman admits forging O-Level certificate to gain nurse training spot
A 29-year-old woman from Greendale, Harare, has pleaded guilty to forging an Ordinary Level certificate in a desperate attempt to secure a place in a nursing training programme.Tendai Florence...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:24hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Fake Health Ministry officer jailed 12 yrs for nurse training scam
A woman who masterminded an elaborate scam targeting job seekers by impersonating a Ministry of Health official has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, with 10 years suspended. Patricia Muyambo Maga...Published: 05 May 2025 at 16:13hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces critical shortage of student nurses' accommodation
Zimbabwe's health sector is grappling with a critical shortage of training infrastructure, particularly in accommodation for student nurses and other healthcare trainees, Deputy Minister of Health and...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 07:00hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF director defrauded prospective nursing course applicant of US$530
Stanford Chigumira, the ZANU-PF director of health services, appeared before Harare Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa on charges of defrauding a parent seeking a nursing position for her son. The complainan...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 10:42hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF health services director arrested for fraud
ZANU-PF's Director for Health Services, Retired Colonel Stanford Chigumira, has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on charges of fraud.Chigumira, a trained medical...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:43hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe considers scrapping English as a requirement for nurse training intake
The Ministry of Health and Child Care is contemplating removing the English Language requirement for nurse training intake.During the post-cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Minister of Health and C...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministry clarifies nurse training requirements
PROSPECTIVE nurses require five Ordinary Level subjects, including English and Science, and these requirements have not changed since Statutory Instrument of 245 of 2000.There was speculation ...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of health scraps O' Level Maths as requirement for nurse training
The ministry of health has quietly scrapped the requirement to have passed O' Level Mathematics for one to qualify for nurse training.The requirements were tweaked more a decade ago, compellin...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 06:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
General nurse training: May 2024 intake has now begun
General Nurse Training May 2024 Intake has now begun. The ministry of Health and Child Care are announced the intake in the Sunday papers on 7 April 2024.The training intake advert reads:...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 19:47hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Health Service Commission
The new Health Service Commission, which assumes full control of the staff in the State health services, has become active with the appointment of Civil Service Commission chair Dr Vincent Hungwe as c...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:41hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
10 free clinics for disabled, war vets
Kadoma-based businessman Mr Jimayi Muduvuri has constructed 10 clinics across the country where the disabled and war veterans will receive free treatment.The gesture is in honour of the financ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 23:36hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scraps online nurses' recruitment
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care has scrapped the centralised nurses' online application system in an effort to decentralise the recruitment of nurses and cater for applicants from across the cou...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Health workers trained using tax payers' money owe us,' says Chiwenga
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has said health workers trained locally using Zimbabwe's resources must ‘pay back' through working in public hospitals.Chiwenga added that in the future w...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nurse recruitment bottlenecks handicap Zimbabwean women
She lay on the ground facing the sky, hoping for a miracle to happen.Different hymns could be heard in her mind and heart, as she tried to get answers on this particular "curse.""Why d...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hijacks trainee nurses recruitment
THE Zanu-PF Youth League (YL) has ordered all government hospitals offering general nurse training courses across the country to only enrol candidates it has vetted and approved.All party prov...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to remain unitary State, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe will remain a unitary State and no amount of machinations from the country's detractors, or those calling for a separate State, will divide the country, President Mnangagwa has said.A...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe re-engages retired nurses
GOVERNMENT has turned to retired nurses and training of Primary Care Nurses (PCNs) as a solution to the massive brain drain currently bleeding the country's health sector, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves to block nurses' exodus
THE government has set up an inter-ministerial committee to look into the brain drain in the health sector following a sharp rise in the number of health professionals leaving the country for greener ...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Health personnel exodus hits public hospitals
HEALTH workers, particularly nurses, are deserting public health institutions in droves amid a surge in demand for their skills abroad in a development that has further plunged Zimbabwe's healthcare s...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UBH petitioned to reinstate suspended trainee nurse
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have petitioned United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) to reinstate a trainee nurse who was suspended after a pregnancy test returned a "positive" result....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt takeover of council clinics draws fire
MATEBELELAND civic society organisations have condemned government's decision to take over council-run health facilities, saying it was against the provisions of devolution of power.This was a...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 11:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
All qualified nurses hired
All 849 qualified nurses listed with the Health Services Board as not in employment have now been hired by the Government along with available doctors and environmental health technicians to boost the...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 06:30hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
Mnangagwa suspends nurse recruitment
GOVERNMENT will suspend nurse training recruitment with effect from May 2019. Health and Child Care permanent secretary Dr Gerald Gwinji said the decision was a temporary measure, with recruitment set...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government Must Intervene in Bulawayo TM Saga
Editor, I must salute you for giving us refreshing news and and the good work that your Team has done in reporting fairly and without fear or favour. We hope that this excellent service contin...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 19:53hrs | | by S Dube
Zicosu joins #EDHasMyVote campaign
THE Zanu PF-aligned Zimbabwe Congress of Students Union (Zicosu) has launched the #EDHasMyVote campaign at tertiary institutions, as part of efforts to drum up support for President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring nurses sue Parirenyatwa over training
TWENTY aspiring nurses from Bonda Mission Hospital in Manicaland Province have taken Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa to court challenging his decision to nullify their training progr...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho School of Nursing 2018 Intake
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE TSHOLOTSHO SCHOOL OF NURSING: MAY INTAKE 2018 Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for three (3) year D...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 11:09hrs | 3 | by Tsholotsho
How nurses in Bulawayo can advance their careers
As nursing continues to evolve and improve in Bulawayo, nurses who work locally must keep up with developments or risk getting left behind. As a nurse, you can also improve with focus and dedication o...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mphoko buries the 'Iron Lady of Masvingo'
It was a majestic send-off for national heroine Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Shuvai Ben Mahofa, a veteran politician, who was laid to rest before thousands of people at the National He...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Certificate forger fined $300
A BULAWAYO woman who forged an Ordinary Level certificate which she then used to secure a place to train as a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital has been fined $300.Naleki Nyathi (42) of Northval...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jailed for forging 'O' Level certificates
A BULAWAYO woman, who secured a post to train as a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital using a forged Ordinary Level certificate, has been jailed three months.Naleki Nyathi (42) was, however, spar...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trainee nurse forges academic certificates
A WOMAN from Kingsdale in Bulawayo allegedly secured a place to train as a nurse at Mpilo Central Hospital using forged certificates.This was heard by the Bulawayo magistrate, Gladmore Mushove...Published: 24 Jul 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda plans new town
GWANDA municipality is embarking on an ambitious project to establish a new town with three suburbs and a Central Business District across the Mtshabezi River along the Gwanda-Maphisa road. Th...Published: 12 May 2016 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Richard Muponde
Government told to stop nurse training for three years
Parliament's Health Portfolio Committee has advised government to stop training nurses for three years until those unemployed are absorbed.Committee chairperson Ruth Ladode told parliaments on...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dinha arrest: ten-point economic plan in action
The State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament by President Robert Mugabe recently emphasised the need for the government to be modeled on the ten-point plan for economic development as a way of...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
The last vestiges of our cruel culture, IsiNdebele culture: Polygamy
Polygamy will be wiped off by growing globalization My mother was the fourth wife to my father, he had six wives in his homestead. She was no...Published: 04 Jun 2015 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata: taken from the eBook 'Sweetmother'
Lobola: A celebration of family union
On Sunday, we all gathered in a big round hut while our daughter Stella was getting married. No, it was not a white wedding. It was a roora, the bride price ceremony. We knew Stella would fetch good r...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Sekai Nzenza
Nurses to remain jobless, says govt
THE Zimbabwe government says it will not be able to employ all trained nurses roaming the streets at the end of the year although government freeze on civil servants was recently lifted.G...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses fail their final exam
STUDENT nurses who sat for their final third year examinations in March at Gweru Provincial Hospital failed to make it with only seven out of a class 37 passing. A source said of the seven tha...Published: 24 May 2014 at 14:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse forges an O'Level certificate
A HARARE woman forged an "O" Level certificate, enrolled for training as a nurse and got employed at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals.The offence was committed in 2009, but the anomaly was only...Published: 21 Jan 2014 at 22:44hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Govt to unfreeze nurses posts,' say Dr Chimedza
The Ministry of Health and Child Care says it is liaising with the treasury to speed up the unfreezing of posts to ensure all unemployed nurses are recruited to improve the nurse-patient ratio in line...Published: 27 Oct 2013 at 11:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fake nurse nabbed
A 25-YEAR-OLD Marondera woman who duped several local youths after she masqueraded as a nurse and promised to secure them vacancies for nurse training in Harare and Marondera has been sentenced to an ...Published: 31 Aug 2013 at 05:49hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Don't be fooled, its election time
The state media today released the third part of a paper on development in Matabeleland by Bulawayo Metropolitan Province Governor Cain Mathema.In a statement Mathema claims that: ...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 04:08hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Mpilo,UBH in a deplorable state
BULAWAYO’S main referral hospitals, Mpilo Central and the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), are in a deplorable state that requires urgent intervention from the Government and develop...Published: 13 Feb 2013 at 00:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru praises UZ for introducing Tonga language at tertiary level
Vice President, Joice Mujuru has commended the University of Zimbabwe for introducing Tonga language at tertiary level saying government wants to be part of the programme to ensure its success....Published: 20 Oct 2012 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim govt to double trainee nurse intake
GOVERNMENT says it will soon double the intake at their nurse training schools despite having over 2 000 unemployed nurses in the country.Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr Henry Madzore...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 14:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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