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Residents clash with hospital staff
CHAOS broke out at Sakubva District Hospital on Tuesday afternoon after a mob that had brought a seriously injured man was denied access without a police report.The angry mob bayed for t...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:37hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4326 | by George Mkhwanazi
MP holds school heads to account for 0 to 3% pass rate - real change guaranteed is when people hold MP to account
"Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Leve...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 08:58hrs | 745 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's govt taken to task over health workers capacitation
GOVERNMENT has been urged to devise a sustainable plan that ensures health workers have adequate tools of the trade to avoid recurrent strikes by doctors and nurses.In a statement, Community W...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Nurse syndicate channel ARVs to black market
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that are supposed to be dispensed for free by public health institutions are being diverted to the black market by some unscrupulous nurses, who are selling a month's suppl...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors claim abuse of Global Fund facility
SENIOR doctors have asked Parliament to investigate alleged hijacking of funds from the Global Fund earmarked to pay doctors retention allowances so that they do not leave the country for greener past...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Ministry to train youths in ICT
THE Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, Postal and Courier Services is set to embark on a nationwide programme of training youths on ICT skills. This comes as most jobs eve...Published: 08 Feb 2020 at 09:34hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda students turn to gold panning and macimbi harvesting
Female students at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo College in Gwanda have turned to gold panning and mopane worm harvesting in a bid to raise the soaring rental and college fees as the institution has threat...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 20:37hrs | 1326 | by Makho Precious Moyo
More needs to be done action to deal with Corona virus threat in Zimbabwe
The 2020 novel corona virus threat is very real and developed countries like China are building brand new hospitals to deal with this immense threat, which has already surpassed the 2003 SARS pandemic...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 16:19hrs | 428 | by Dr Henry Madzorera
Teachers abandon formal dressing
Teachers have said they will no longer be able to adhere to the formal dress code requirement due to incapacitation as they push to be paid a clothing allowance as part of improving their working cond...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 2864 | by Staff reporter
Gweru Hospital nurses down tools
Gweru Provincial Hospital nurses on Monday temporarily downed tools to protest against deteriorating working conditions at the government health institution among other grievances, the Southern Eye ha...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 06:22hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Lets unite to fight Coronavirus outbreak - Masiyiwa
Econet Founder and Group Chairman Strive Masiyiwa has urged businesses to join hands with Government to fight the Coronavirus outbreak. Writing on his Facebook blog, Masiyiwa called on people ...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 14:11hrs | 683 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe hospital operating at 45% capacity
SALLY Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) was almost deserted yesterday as MPs in the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Health toured the institution.The committee, whic...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:02hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Doctors, nurses clash
A fact-finding visit to Harare's two biggest hospitals by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health yesterday exposed the acrimonious working relations between nurses and doctors who traded accu...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 05:52hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Can anyone please assist Chinehasha Health Centre in Mash. Central?
Imagine handling three new born baby deliveries at night using a phone light during an extended power outage, what a nightmare it must be? Chinehasha Health Centre is said to be the first of i...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:39hrs | 514 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Parliament petitioned over nurses recruitment
A group of Matabeleland activists assisting aspiring nurse trainees from the region with the recruitment processes is petitioning Parliament to push for an overhaul of the enrolment exercise they cond...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:23hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
Is the new dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 31 Jan 2020 at 13:45hrs | 474 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Where is our promised listening President?
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned from his brief exile in South Africa in 2017, he famously declared that the "voice of the people is the voice of God", promising a new era of responsive gove...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 08:56hrs | 282 | by Nqaba Matshaz
Senior doctors back at work
The return to work by senior doctors at Zimbabwe's referral hospitals has seen normal service returning to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) and Parirenyatwa Group of Ho...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:08hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
More voluntary nurses at hospitals
The Zimbabwe Young Nurses Association (ZYNA) has so far mobilised 300 State-registered nurses and 150 nurse aides countrywide to end staff shortages in public hospitals and clinics. Their recr...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:32hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
'We Are Going To Overthrow Him Before 2023, That Is Not A Joke'
"The Treason trial of the MDC Deputy National Chair Hon Job Sikhala that was scheduled to kick off on Monday 27-31 January 2020 has been postponed to 03 - 07 February for the State has indicated its u...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1904 | by Knowledge Hakata
Nurses to ambush government
RESTIVE nurses, who along with other professionals in the health sector have declared incapacitation due to poor remuneration, are planning to ambush government by staging crippling industrial actions...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:17hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
1 866 doctors sign up for sponsorship package
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX doctors have signed up or applied for Higherlife Foundation fellowships after 1 504 extra doctors submitted acceptance forms ahead of yesterday's deadline....Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 06:42hrs | 877 | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs leave one dead, several injured in ore heist
"Mining in Zimbabwe is no longer safe for women," says Sanelisiwe Maseko, a single mother of two whose mine in Colleen Bawn was recently invaded by machete-wielding men in a bloody raid that left one ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:29hrs | 3915 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors resume normal duty
Senior doctors who have been providing limited services and attending to emergency cases only since December have returned to work fulltime and upscaled their services to include numerous urgent other...Published: 22 Jan 2020 at 06:33hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
MDC linked youths excluded from army recruitment
Young Zimbabweans who went to city schools will be prevented from joining the army, in an apparent move to bar MDC supporters from the military, ZimLive has learnt.The army invited application...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1897 | by Staff reporter
Doctors leave Zimbabwe in droves amid govt hostility
FRUSTRATED Zimbabwean medical doctors are leaving the country in droves as government fails to break an impasse with the health professionals following a four-month strike action late last year over p...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1458 | by NewZimbabwe.com
Doctors meet Chiwenga
Senior doctors who have been providing partial services and attending to emergency cases only since December have up-scaled their services to include other cases deemed as urgent. This means, ...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:40hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Nurses issue strike threat
THE government is facing a tall order to placate its restive employees after nurses became the latest group to threaten a strike due to the worsening economic environment in the country.This c...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1685 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers need new skills to counter Zanu PF enslavement' - name just one profession with 0% unemployment
Once upon a time, 40 years ago but it might as well be 400 years ago for we have regressed so quickly we are now back in the dark ages, Zimbabwe used to produce enough food to not only feed all her pe...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1130 | by Wilbert Mukori
Nhaka Foundation begins charity at home in Zimbabwe
In this interview, Patrick Makokoro, the Founder and Chief Eexecutive Officer of Nhaka Foundation, discusses the organisation's efforts at supporting education and health care in rural regions in Zimb...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 07:21hrs | 535 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Health minister applauds volunteer nurses
Government has applauded the Zimbabwe Young Nurses' Association for volunteering to work at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals during the festive season. Speaking during a tour of the hospital ye...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1525 | by Staff Reporter
Heard of Government Organised NGO (GONGO), in POLAD have Zanu PF organised opposition (Zoo)
After 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with the economy in ruins, millions of our people now living in abject poverty and, worst of all, the plungi...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1302 | by Nomusa Garikai
Online nurses recruitment a sham - Team 2020
Team 2020, a grouping of activitsts based in Matabeleland which was formed with the aim of assisting prospective nursing students to apply on line have described the excericise as a sham considered th...Published: 31 Dec 2019 at 12:18hrs | 2916 | by Stephen Jakes
'Unity brought development, must celebrate Unity Day' - yeah, but is the development
Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the cont...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 19:29hrs | 942 | by omusa Garikai
'Nursing is a calling'
Over 200 midwives and PCN Up-skilling nurses yesterday graduated at The Salvation Army-owned Howard Hospital in Chiweshe.Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo, who officiated at the g...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 17:45hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni Hospital getting early Christmas tomorrow
Ingutsheni mental health hospital in Bulawayo is tomorrow getting early Christimas after a group of well-wishers promised to donate goods to the institution.A group of psychiatric nurses some ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 14:03hrs | 743 | by Stephen Jakes
Higherlife Foundation launches 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign
Higherlife Foundation today launched the 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign aimed at capacitating doctors working in public hospitals by mobilizing funding and material support to ensure public medical ...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 16:23hrs | 1900 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe doctors troop back to work
Eighty junior doctors were back at work by yesterday, while another 282 are expected to have joined them by the beginning of next month. Part of the incentives to get junior doctors back to wo...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:41hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled drugs flood Zimbabwe market
High mark-ups imposed by importers, wholesalers and retailers of medicines have resulted in a flood of cheaper drugs being smuggled from neighbouring countries and sold on the streets by vendors. ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
'MRP not a tribal outfit'
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has insisted that it is not a tribal outfit following accusations that the Matabeleland based opposition party is not only pushing a tribal agenda but cultivating tr...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in Mat South targets civil servants
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South province has resolved to push the government to adopt a policy of vetting civil servants to establish their political affiliation to allegedly guard against sabotage....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:09hrs | 1442 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube rues Mnangagwa lost opportunity to unite with Tsvangirai
ZIMBABWE could be better off economically if President Emmerson Mnangagwa had roped opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into an inclusive transitional arrangement soon after the November 2017 coup....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:50hrs | 2561 | by newzimbabwe
Huge windfall for doctors
THE Higher Life Foundation (HLF) has received more than 300 applications from doctors around the country in response to its recently announced Training Fellowship for junior and senior medical practit...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to reveal secret for the Zanu-PF conference in his province
Mashonaland East province which is the province which house the Vice President of Zimbabwe retired Army General Chiwenga sets to witness fireworks as the ZANU PF conference begins. It's great to be he...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 12:03hrs | 12067 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Doctors defy Mnangagwa
STRIKING public hospital doctors have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest 48-hour moratorium which came after government reversed its earlier decision to fire them.Information ministe...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 6706 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK compete in lifestyles - part 2
Zimbabweans in the UK were irked by a previous article on the zeal by most of them to compete le in life styles. The article concentrated on the nurses who are more blessed with the spirit of competit...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:34hrs | 14467 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe prisons struggle to feed, treat inmates
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is struggling to feed and provide medical attention to inmates due to shortages of food and drugs, officials have said.This emerged at a Z...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:19hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's current environment not ideal for social dialogue
SINCE the beginning of the year, Zimbabwe's government has been confronted by restive workers and their leadership from different labour unions, either threatening industrial action or alleging incapa...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:18hrs | 212 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe doctors want more than just better salaries
NEWS that the country's doctors have spanned an offer by business tycoon, Strive Masiyiwa, is depressing as it is curious. In fact, the whole debacle speaks to the major problem facing this country: I...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 220 | by newsday editorial
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