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Chiwenga, nurses clash over flexi hours ban
NURSES have objected to the decision by the Health ministry to scrap the flexible working hours system so that they can work for 40 hours a week.Health secretary Jasper Chimedza on October 19 ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 627 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga bans flexi-hours
A SHOWDOWN is looming between health workers and the government after the Health ministry banned flexi-hours which will see nurses working everyday instead of selected days per week.In a lette...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2746 | by Staff reporter
US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on. The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Ndavaningi...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:58hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Govt to pay US$500 for dead civil servants
GOVERNMENT has extended an equivalent of US$500 as funeral assistance for its underpaid civil servants who would have passed on.The offer, which was confirmed by both Information secretary Nda...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3767 | by Staff Reporter
Nurses protests: 10 acquitted
TEN of the 11 nurses, who were arrested in June for allegedly contravening COVID-19 lockdown regulations after they gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in Hara...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 16:30hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ministry rocked by salaries scam
THE profligate President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is spending millions of dollars per month on double salaries and allowances for senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Child Care des...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 11028 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally grilled over recruitment of State agents
LABOUR minister Paul Mavima was on Wednesday grilled by MPs over continued recruitment of State security agents at a time the country is not at war, thus raising fears that government might be prepari...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | 3029 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must openly apologise for Gukurahundi'
Victims of Gukurahundi have dared President Emmerson Mnangagwa to openly apologise for the massacre of approximately 20 000 innocent civilians, arguing that half-hearted approaches such as the issuanc...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 21:22hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Doctors were very foolish to bow to Chiwenga demands - without PPE, still susceptible covid-19 military or civilian
Zimbabwe is facing a serious economic crisis brought about by 40 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption. The economy has all but collapsed forcing unemployment rate to soar to nauseating ...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 22:51hrs | 1539 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa threatens to withhold striking teachers' wages
LABOUR groups have criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa over plans to withhold salaries of all teachers on strike.Speaking during a briefing in Mutare last week, Mnangagwa vowed to stick to...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1149 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 19739 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Zimbabwe's health system in ICU
IN Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centres, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:38hrs | 130 | by Bloomberg
Farms deal 'complicates' Zimbabwe crisis
A LANDMARK deal recently inked between white former commercial farmers and the government of Zimbabwe will make it difficult for the country to repay debts, negotiate fresh lines of credit and ask for...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 5565 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean women abused by their partners in the UK
Some Zimbabwean ladies saw a chance to better their lives by going abroad to work, but being abroad is not always a wonderful thing when your family is not with you. Many foreign women in the United K...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:21hrs | 883 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Junior doctors can join army, police'
HEALTH deputy minister John Mangwiro yesterday told Parliament that public health institutions had filled up all vacancies for junior doctors, and urged the new graduates to either join the army and p...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:54hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education in crisis
That Zimbabwe is in a deep crisis is open to everyone to see. What is disheartening is the choreographed denial by the ZANU PF government. The ZANU PF government has been driving Zimbabwe towa...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 08:16hrs | 5814 | by Staff Reporter
Teachers, govt talks face hurdles
NEGOTIATIONS between teachers and government over salaries could hit a snag, with the employer expressing fear that further salary adjustments could trigger inflation and reverse the gains made by gov...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube scoffs at poverty reports
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has dismissed reports of high poverty levels in the country arguing that the cushion extended by government to vulnerable groups had made "instant impact" and thus elimin...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:10hrs | 935 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says his life was saved at UBH
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's visit to the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) last Friday rekindled memories of how his life was saved at the institution after he ruptured his appendix 37 years a...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:43hrs | 5116 | by Staff reporter
Nurses deny violating lockdown regulations
THE 11 nurses arrested for contravening national lockdown regulations after they allegedly gathered at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare to protest over poor salaries and working conditions have...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:28hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Mass demonstration for deportation of foreigners in South Africa set for 16 October
A certain section of South Africans under the banner of #PutSouthAfricansFirst will stage a demonstration in Pretoria calling for the immediate deportation of foreigners from the Southern neighbouring...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 15:15hrs | 4129 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Varsity workers declare incapacitation
WORKERS at State universities have declared incapacitation and threatened to return to work only after government reviews their salaries.Institutions of higher learning were set to reopen on O...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:00hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Cop sues for $1m over disposed cyst
A POLICE detective is suing the Gwanda Provincial Hospital for nearly $1 million after a nurse at the health facility disposed of an ovarian cyst removed from her body without sending it for laborator...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga speaks on adolescent health
Eradication of poverty and increased education are among key factors in dealing with early sexual activity among adolescents, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwen...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pledges to improve the working conditions of health workers
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who is also the country's Health Minister has pledged to improve the working conditions of public sector health workers.This comes as the Health Apex Counci...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1752 | by Staff reporter
Govt salary talks collapse
GOVERNMENT salary talks broke down last week, with teachers saying they will boycott classes when schools reopen for examination classes next week as a result.The Apex Council, an umbrella bod...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 4904 | by Staff reporter
Global trade unions rally behind ZCTU
THE International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has set aside tomorrow, September 23, for global mass protests in solidarity with the poorly-paid Zimbabwean workers.In a statement, Zimbabwe...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:30hrs | 859 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt promises 200 000 new houses by 2023
At least 200 000 new houses will be constructed by 2023, while apartments that are unfit for human habitation will be rebuilt and informal settlements revamped as part of a raft of measures to overhau...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:40hrs | 240 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa tells Zanu-PF that 'soldier needed to silence nurses'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday told a Zanu-PF central committee meeting in Harare that he appointed Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to head the Health portfolio to sort out striking doctor...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 6749 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland hospitals management accused of abusing local drawn staff
HOSPITAL across Matabeleland region who have management from Mashonaland are reportedly to be rocked by serious tribalism and nepotism with the management being accused of abusing most local drawn mem...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1781 | by Stephen Jakes
'I deployed Chiwenga to deal with striking doctors and nurses' Mnangagwa says
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told the ZANU PF Central Committee that repeated strikes and general instability in the sector led him to the conclusion that a firm, soldiery hand was needed and appr...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:21hrs | 9493 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt abuses critics, allege rights groups
GODFREY Kurauone, a Zimbabwean opposition official, sang a protest song at the funeral of a party member in July. For that, and other political charges, he spent 42 days in jail before the prosecution...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
ZimThrive donates to Parirenyatwa hospital to help fight Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
ZimThrive, in collaboration with Covid-19 Zimbabwe, has donated $5900 USD to Parirenyatwa hospital to support the welfare of frontline health workers.The rise in cases in Zimbabwe has led to a...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:21hrs | 310 | by ZimThrive
Zimbabwe coming apart at the seams
In Zimbabwe, pregnant women are left alone in hospitals to give birth, taps have run dry in major urban centers, infrastructure has all but collapsed and more than half the population needs food aid....Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:18hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Nurses, doctors warn Mnangagwa's govt
HEALTH experts have warned the government against fully relaxing coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions as positive cases continue to rise. As at September ii Zimbabwe had registered 7 479 confirmed case...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 20:05hrs | 5927 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurse banned in Scotland
A ZIMBABWEAN mental health nurse has been banned from the profession after he was convicted of sexual assault.The watchdog for nurses and midwives said the nurse had brought the profession int...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1818 | by Staff reporter
Student nurses hold strip party at hospital
A group of female student nurses at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has been detained for a week as punishment after it held what authorities said was a wild striptease party in one of the hostels...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Housing nightmare for Beitbridge civil servants
SCORES of Beitbridge civil servants continue to live in squalid conditions because government is taking long to officially hand over a cluster of houses built for its workers four months ago.S...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:45hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
I miss Smith's Rhodesia
SINCE the attainment of our independence in 1980, the people of Zimbabwe have never tasted true freedom under the ruling Zanu-PF elite.The late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's regi...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:39hrs | 1790 | by Concerned
Chamisa says Mwonzora is a 'sell-out'
MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa has described his former colleague Douglas Mwonzora, as a sell-out who was fighting an unwinnable petty agenda.For close to six months, Mwonzora, MDC-T in...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:34hrs | 10875 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga outlines health policy to partners
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Wednesday briefed foreign and local development partners and suppliers on the new structures in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and other moves taken to bo...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 872 | by Staff reporter
'As we move forward, let's transform our work ethics' argue Chiwenga - until end vote rigging culture, going nowhere
"As we move forward and face the future with courage, the expectation of government is that the work ethics and work culture within the Ministry of Health and Child Care undergo deep transformation," ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:39hrs | 2075 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Nurses hit back at Chiwenga
STRIKING nurses yesterday reacted angrily to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's claim that they were using patients as pawns to fight for higher salaries.The nurses, who have paralysed the ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:31hrs | 6227 | by Staff reporter
Nurses call off strike
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has told its members employed by the Government to end their industrial action and immediately start reporting for work. ZINA yesterday also endorsed pla...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 1811 | 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 | 9488 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns doctors not to use patients as pawns
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has warned health professionals against using patients' lives as pawns while bargaining for better working conditions.Addressing journalists in Harare yeste...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:35hrs | 4421 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors, nurses receive threatening calls
Striking doctors and nurses have allegedly been receiving threats from anonymous people, trying to force them to return to work.Health workers, including nurses, downed tools three months ago ...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:06hrs | 3805 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe will have 5 000 MW capacity (2.5X present) by 2023' boasted Mnangagwa - buying time to rig 2023 elections
President Mnangagwa, his Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, and other Zanu PF leaders have promised economic recovery pegged at the country attaining middle income status by 2030, "Vision 20...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | 414 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe's new COVID-19 infections level off, recoveries rise
AUTHORITIES are considering lifting the current coronavirus curfew as the country records increasingly fewer infections and more recoveries from the lethal disease, the Daily News reports.Howe...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital nurse dies of Covid-19
MPILO Central Hospital has lost a nurse to Covid-19 who died at the institution last week. Sister Pretty Mpala (36) from Emakhandeni suburb in Bulawayo tested positive posthumously and was buried on F...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 855 | by Staff reporter
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