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Lithium haulage trucks chaos in Zimbabwe
Heavy trucks transporting lithium ore from Sandawana to the Gwanda lithium mine (plant) in Mandiwongola are leaving a perilous trail of boulders along the Causeway/Ntalale road, posing significant ris...Published: 09 Apr 2024 at 20:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Graft rocks Midlands Mines office
The Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has published a report that exposes widespread corruption purportedly occurring at the offices of the Midlands provincial mining department (PMD)....Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 07:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa must expand Lady R probe to include Nato
SOUTH Africa's sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of t...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 17:05hrs | 8 | by Abbey Makoe
Zimbabwe's new mines law a welcome game changer, but.....
AFTER years of debates and uncertainty, government finally gazetted the Mines and Minerals Bill in February 2023 to ostensibly replace the current Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05]. The current A...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by James Tsabora
Child dies at clinic gate after 11 hour wait
IN a heart wrenching incident, a one-year six month-old child from Silobini Village died at the gate of Mhlahlandlela Clinic in Matobo, Matabeleland South province where her parents had waited for abo...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ambulance distribution begins
The Government has allocated 40 new fully kitted ambulances to public health institutions countrywide, while an additional 60 specialised medical emergency vehicles are set to be distributed to health...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Medical equipment gathers dust at UBH
WHILE patients countrywide are complaining that public health institutions are running without enough equipment and medication, some donated equipment at Bulawayo United Hospitals (UBH) has been gathe...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans not to blame for Limpopo health system problems'
SOUTH Africa's National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) says the problems the Limpopo public health system faces can't be blamed on Zimbabweans seeking treatment in the province....Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Family demands compensation for United Bulawayo Hospitals death
FOR eight months, a family from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb did not bury the body of a loved one who died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he fell from the third floor of a building at the insti...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Family demands compensation for UBH death
FOR eight months, a family from Bulawayo's Emganwini suburb did not bury the body of a loved one who died at the United Bulawayo Hospitals after he fell from the third floor of a building at the insti...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 07:00hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Mine owner kicked out by invaders
A MINE owner in Matobo has lost his mine to invaders who are reportedly being assisted by the government officials in the takeover of the property.Ndodana Moyo says he has been the owner...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:46hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Two clinics commissioned in Bikita
Two clinics have been commissioned in Bikita, Masvingo province at Shumbaimwe in Ward 11 and Mupamaonde in Ward 22 amid excitement by the villagers....Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
Bulawayo experiences COVID -19 decrease in first, second dose recipients
BULAWAYO Provincial Covid-19 has experienced low numbers of people who have taken both the first and second dose of the COVID 19 vaccinations due to a number of challenges.Bulawayo's weekly re...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Car washer speaks on Guka
A Harare based car washer Emmerson Nheshe has warned the youths in the country to stay away from drugs and encourage them to start their own businesses so that they won't end up resorting to criminal ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 16:27hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Omicron variant detected at Lupane state university
Lupane State University and Inyathi High School in Matabeleland North province have recorded six and 13 COVID-19 cases, respectively, prompting authorities to be on high alert as the country braces fo...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 13:14hrs | 13 | by Desmond Nleya
COVID-19 strikes at LSU, Inyathi High
LUPANE State University (LSU) and Inyathi High School in Matabeleland North province have recorded six and 13 COVID-19 cases, respectively, prompting authorities to be on high alert as the country bra...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:31hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Anger over delay in disbursement of Covid-19 funds
Nurses who took part in the Covid-19 vaccination program in Gokwe are unhappy with the deliberate delay in the distribution of funds meant for vaccinators.Eleven million RTGS was deposited int...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 12:48hrs | | by Paul Ndou
'Covid-19 patients starving at Isolation Centre'
Covid-19 patients admitted at Rujeko Isolation Centre are reportedly going for long periods without food as shortages have allegedly hit the district's sole isolation facility. Relatives of ad...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 18:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt spends $120 million on lunch
GOVERNMENT yesterday said at least $119 million has been spent on daily allowances and lunch for health professionals administering COVID-19 vaccination across the country, while only $99 million was ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends Covid-19 vaccination to private sector
Health experts have welcomed the move by the government to extend the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to the private sector saying it would speed up the uptake of the vaccine.As part of the cond...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai medicines were left to expire in warehouses
Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has revealed that some medicines that formed part of donated goods for Cyclone Idai victims were left to expire in warehouse shelves.Cyclone Idai which affected m...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cabinet to decide on reopening of schools
CABINET is today expected to announce its decision on the issue of reopening of schools after Government postponed the start of the second term following a spike in Covid-19 cases. Schools were schedu...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government is in the process of taking over all council health facilities
Government is in the process of taking over all health facilities owned by local authorities as part of a grand plan to ensure standardised service delivery as envisaged by the National Development St...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
27 test positive in Kwekwe
A total of 27 people including children and members of staff at Mary Ward Children's Home in Kwekwe have tested positive for Covid-19.The development comes in the wake of a surge in positive c...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
27 Covid-19 cases at Kwekwe home
A total of 27 people including children and members of staff at Mary Ward Children's home in Kwekwe have tested positive for Covid-19.The development comes in the wake of a surge in positive c...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates ambulance to Gwanda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has donated an ambulance to Gwanda Provincial Hospital as part of efforts to improve the country's health care services.Speaking during a handover ceremony held at the hosp...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia struggle to reclaim assets in South Africa
ZIMBABWE and Zambia are struggling to reclaim legacy indivisible assets including vast mineral rights covering close to two million hectares of land in South Africa left to them by the former colonise...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Tallach School closes as 100 students test positive to Covid-19
John Tallach Secondary School in Matabeleland North has been closed after 100 pupils and an undisclosed number of teachers tested positive to Covid-19, with the school now a quarantine centre with all...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach school Covid-19 cases reach 100
THE number of pupils who have so far tested Covid-19 positive at John Tallach Secondary School in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North province has risen to 100.Acting Matabeleland North Provincia...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 14:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Hospital loses essential equipment to thieves
There was an alleged break-in at Mvurwi hospital where an Administrator's laptop and scan equipment was stolen last week, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.Sources familiar with the incident allege th...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 14:59hrs | | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Nepotism rocks Hospital
TEN general hands at Chivhu General Hospital were recently suspended from work barely a month after they joined the institution amid allegations of nepotism in their recruitment.Allegations ar...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo women gather to discuss empowerment
Qoki Women Dreamers YES ITS TODAY 2pm👏🏻😜LETS DO THIS BOMAMA WASALA WASALA. I CANT WAIT 💃🏼WOZA LABANGANI BAKHO BUYA AND LETS DISCUSS EMPOWERING E...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Qoki
Lupane hospital construction set to begin
CONSTRUCTION of the Lupane Provincial Hospital in Matabeleland North is set to start this month after the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development made a commitment to fund the project.Mat...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Hundreds ill after drinking sewage-contaminated water
MORE than 200 residents including school children in Empumalanga's DRC suburb in Hwange were on Thursday and Friday taken ill following a diarrhoea outbreak suspected to have been caused by a sewage l...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Gweru in typhoid scare
A TYPHOID fever scare has rattled the densely-populated Mkoba suburb in Gweru, with 19 new suspected cases reported at health centres in the city, council has confirmed.Mkoba was hit by a typhoid ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors end strike?
Striking public sector doctors have agreed to return to work with immediate effect after an agreement with Government on a plethora of grievances that had witnessed the health practitioners' stay away...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches supplementary feeding programme in Matabeleland North
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday launched a supplementary feeding scheme aimed at curbing malnutrition and stunting in children aged between 6 and 59 months in Matabeleland North province....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo cholera tests negative
LABORATORY tests have ruled out cholera in 10 of the 12 people from Bulawayo who had been admitted to hospital on fears that they had contracted the disease. Bulawayo City Council director of ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chiwenga's bizarre fidgeting
A video shared by JustImagine Pictures on popular video sharing platform YouTube of a fidgeting Vice President Constantino Chiwenga at the launch of the Commission of Inquiry into post-election violen...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patient dies after drunk doctor performs caesarean operation
A Gutu Mission Hospital medical doctor, Henry Harry Mushuku, who performed a Caesarean operation while drunk resulting in the death of Locardia Mbinda last year, has been ordered to go to rehab....Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 19:40hrs | 5 | by TellZim
Battle lines drawn over Zimbabwe chrome claims
ON Saturday July 1, 2017 the Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco), the country's biggest ferrochrome producer, will officially surrender 22 700 hectares of chrome-rich claims to Government, ...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Sea lion snatches a young girl from a pier
A sea lion was captured on video dragging a young girl into the water at Richmond's Steveston Fisherman Wharf in British Columbia, Canada.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDtibc13fcThe...Published: 21 May 2017 at 22:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Kadoma miner accuse Principal Director of Information Ministry of abuse of office
Kadoma miner Jame Nyamarebvu has accused the Principal Director in the Minister of Information Regis Chikowore for abusing public officer by using it as a tool to try and frustrate him from mining at ...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 05:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chiredzi General Hospital gives out expired ARVs to HIV patients
CHIREDZI - Zimbabwean government's woes continue to mount, with government hospitals either running out of essential drugs or giving out expired drugs. Patients at Chiredzi general hospital to...Published: 06 Mar 2017 at 09:27hrs | 13 | by Garikai Mafirakureva
25 church members in hospital after poisoning
TWENTY five members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church have been admitted at Gokwe District Hospital suffering from suspected food poisoning following a church gathering held over the weekend in Mapf...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
Goblins hit clinic re-opens
VULINDLELA Clinic in Bulilima District re-opened yesterday after its closure on Monday following reports of goblins that were terrorising nurses.Ministry of Health and Child Care officials shu...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Doctor 'stabs rival suitor'
THE Medical Superintendent of Mnene Mission Hospital in Mberengwa, Dr Nyasha Makura allegedly ran amok and stabbed a rival suitor several times on both thighs in a fight over a girlfriend.Mid...Published: 27 May 2015 at 07:04hrs | | by Munyaradzi Musiiwa
Patients stranded as hospital's only radiographer dies
Scores of patients were left stranded at Masvingo General Hospital this week after the death of the health facilities' only radiographer Brighton Vaduma who drowned in a swimming pool at a local hotel...Published: 15 May 2015 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Job seekers bay for officials' blood
ANTI-riot police were called to maintain order at the Matabeleland South Provincial Medical Directors offices in Bulawayo yesterday after hundreds of job seekers charged at government officials and t...Published: 13 May 2015 at 08:38hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
Herbalist receives death threats
ST PETERS Diagnostic Centre - a private complimentary medicine and herbal clinic owned by Cephas Gwamure (40) is slowly but surely becoming Masvingo's busiest clinic amid revelations that around 400 p...Published: 10 May 2015 at 10:12hrs | | by Golden Maunganidze
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