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Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1821 | by Staff reporter
Help the nurses so they can help the sick
In rural areas health centres painkillers are a very essential necessity for pain management and treatment. The majority of patients visiting clinics countrywide are those who would otherwise be just ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 158 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
South Africa plays an unofficial Big Brother to Zimbabwe
The government of South Africa and the ruling ANC have raised concern over the latest developments in Zimbabwe - perhaps so much earlier than many would have anticipated.South Africa plays an ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2243 | by finx
Covid-19 grounds Mnangagwa's ministers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been thrown into disarray after a number of ministers and senior bureaucrats were placed in isolation in the past week after either contracting the highly...Published: 22 hrs ago | 5503 | by Staff reporter
No pay for striking nurses
STRIKING health workers did not receive their July salaries after the Health Services Board (HSB) implemented the no-work-no-pay principle but talks are underway for them to be put back on the payroll...Published: 23 hrs ago | 989 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3565 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Chiwenga best hands to cure ailing health sector'
SMALL and Medium Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni says Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was ideal for the highly demanding health ministry portfolio.President Emmerson Mnangagwa Tuesda...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 13:12hrs | 1847 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa tightens noose on opposition
PRESDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is seeking to suffocate opposition parties in the country by crafting tough laws that will regulate their operations.Mnangagwa's government is also drafting laws to...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:31hrs | 4997 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses hail Chiwenga appointment
DOCTORS and nurses yesterday welcomed the appointment Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga as Health minister and Jasper Chimedza as the ministry's secretary, saying they hoped the two would work towar...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:30hrs | 11326 | by Staff reporter
New Health minister Chiwenga faces tall order
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has finally replaced the dismissed and corruption-tainted Health minister Obadiah Moyo with his deputy, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to the portfolio.Zimbab...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:21hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
America unveils US$17.5 million for Zimbabwean doctors and nurses
The United States of America Embassy in Harare has announced that the U.S. government through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has invested more than USD17.5 million to support ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:08hrs | 7193 | by Mandla Ndlovu
20 Maphisa Hospital nurses test positive to COVID-19
TWENTY nurses at Maphisa District Hospital in Matabeleland South province tested positive for coronavirus this week, sending the settlement, predominantly occupied by civil servants, gold miners and p...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1562 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'puts Dr Chiwenga in a trap?'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has bizarrely appointed his Vice President Constantino Chiwenga as the Minister of Health and Childcare with immediate effect.Last month Obadiah Moyo was sacked as...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:50hrs | 6144 | by Staff reporter
Doctors seek urgent meeting with Mnangagwa
MEDICAL doctors are seeking an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the wake of the spiralling cases of the lethal coronavirus in the country, the Daily News reports.In addition...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:01hrs | 4261 | by Staff reporter
Repatriated body triggers COVID-19 scare in Chivhu
HEALTH workers in Chivhu have called on government to prioritise community education on COVID-19 after a family held a normal two-day funeral wake for a dead relative whose remains were repatriated fr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misleading Mnangagwa, says Mashakada
FORMER Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation through his continued de...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1558 | by Leonard Koni
'Civil servants salary gap a security threat'
PROGRESSIVE Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou yesterday warned that the huge salary gap between the security sector and other arms of the public service was a serious securi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:03hrs | 6199 | by Staff reporter
Border jumping escalates at Beitbridge
THE number of desperate Zimbabweans using illegal entry points along the Limpopo River to access medical treatment and cheap basic commodities and drugs from South Africa has shot up, a Beitbridge leg...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1633 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mustn't politic, but engage health workers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's weekend call on striking health workers to return to their workstations as their grievances are "being looked into" doesn't sound genuine given government's lackadaisica...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Doctors scoff at Mnangagwa plea
STRIKING doctors have vowed to press on with their job boycott despite pleas by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for them to return to work amid revelations that scores of people could be dying in their h...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:38hrs | 3445 | by Staff reporter
Massive mealie meal and bread shortage looming in Zimbabwe
A massive shortage of mealie meal and bread is looming in Zimbabwe after security agents manning roadblocks are reportedly blocking delivery vehicles to supply retailers with the commodities. ...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:23hrs | 1427 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Zimbabwe govt to recruit more nurses
THE Government has given the greenlight for the recruitment of more nurses to complement the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the ongoing job action by the health workers enters its second month...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 502 | by Staff Reporter
Hospitals should not demand Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients
Hospitals should neither turn away patients nor demand a Covid-19 certificate before admitting patients, particularly in emergency cases, the Government has said.The exhortation comes after th...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:04hrs | 724 | by Staff Reporter
Appoint Chiwenga as health minister to tackle Covid-19
Zimbabwe is now gripped with the reality of the effects of COVID-19. It is now sinking in people's minds that COVID 19 is real and indeed serious. Zimbabwe lost a lot of people to the virus. In one we...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 06:59hrs | 3664 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwean protesters in Cape Town dispersed by police
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town were told to disperse by the police on Friday.When they refused, the police went to their cars to fetch their equipmen...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:54hrs | 4007 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa begs health workers
Health workers should put the nation first in the fight to contain Covid-19, President Mnangagwa said yesterday when assuring them that Government was attending to their grievances. In a movin...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:53hrs | 6793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa staves off threat to his rule for now
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has staved off national demonstrations that could potentially have loosened a few screws anchoring his faltering rule as there were no reported acts of any significant pub...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:58hrs | 9839 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe declares 12 new Covid-19 deaths previously missed
Zimbabwe's Covid-19 death toll climbed to 53 on Thursday as the ministry of health announced 12 previously undeclared deaths which occurred between July 13 and 20.There were 213 new cases of t...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 3565 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors down tools
SENIOR doctors yesterday downed tools, joining nurses who have been on strike for more than 40 days, a move that will add a strain to the country's already paralysed healthcare system.The stri...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Nurses' strike illegal, says HSB
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has slated the month-long industrial action by nurses as illegal saying they rushed to withdraw labour without sufficient notice. HSB, through the Attorney-Gene...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:28hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor in pyramid scheme scam
Over 2 800 people in Chiredzi are counting their losses after money pyramid schemes that were operating around town collapsed. Chiredzi Town Council ward 4 councillor, Liberty Macharaga (Zanu-PF) ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:08hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to implement stricter measures on Covid-19 hotspots
CABINET has approved stricter lockdown measures in localised Covid-19 hotspots in Bulawayo, Harare and Gweru to prevent further spread of the global pandemic in communities. This follows recen...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:16hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland central not serious about COVID 19 preparedness
I am based in Mash Central Mazowe district and would like to raise my concern about COVID-19 suspects handling, testing and reporting.Mash central is being reported as one of provinces with low ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 308 | by Worried Glendale Member
Churches take Mnangagwa to task
CHURCHES have challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to create an enabling environment that allows citizens to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate without hindrance....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 3509 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC urges Zimbabweans to take to the streets
THE opposition MDC Alliance has urged Zimbabweans to unite against the Zanu-PF regime, saying there was need for a broad alliance to demonstrate against the erosion of basic freedoms and confront Stat...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 8815 | by Staff reporter
'Politicians must stop victimising health professionals'
HEAlTH workers in Zimbabwe bear the brunt of savage politics and are victimised for providing professional services to victims of political violence and demanding better working conditions, United Kin...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:50hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Govt misled civil servants on US$75 allowances
GOVERNMENT'S treatment of its workers particularly barring them from accessing their US$75 allowances in hard currency merely demonstrates how it has perfected the art of frustrating not only its empl...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3775 | by Staff reporter
Movie-style robbery at Harare private hospital
OVER a dozen suspected armed robbers pounced movie-style on the affluent Borrowdale Hospital Trauma Centre yesterday -an incident that was captured on CCTV. National police spokesperson Paul N...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:19hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's Covid-19 hotspot suburbs revealed
FOUR high-density suburbs have been singled out the hotspots of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bulawayo, with authorities hinting that considerations were being put in place to introduce stiffer lockdown me...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
United Nations calls out Mnangagwa
THE Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) has reacted angrily to increasing cases of human rights abuses in Zimbabwe under the cover of the COVID-19 lockdown. In a statement yesterday, UNHCR...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 6374 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Mnangagwa donates food to nurses and doctors
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has donated foodstuffs to front,ine workers who include doctors and nurses food packages as an appreciation of the work that they are doing during the deadly Coronavirus p...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 16566 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
Demo timing might be wrong
THE July 31 planned demonstrations have stirred controversy in and outside the country as the date has coincided with the spike in COVID-19 cases. The obtaining situation in Zimbabwe clearly s...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 728 | by Pardon Maguta
The Patriotic Front white President Darryl Collet's message to Zimbabweans
My fellow Zimbabweans;This is the first time I address you as President of The Patriotic Front. And I do it with great honor and humility. TPF is a multiracial movement born out of a collectiv...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 19:16hrs | 5341 | by Darryl Collet
200 nurses, doctors contract COVID-19
ABOUT 200 health workers have tested positive to COVID-19, forcing some hospitals to shut down as government continues to dither on its promise to avail adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
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