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Workers in Zimbabwe applaud govt over new retrenchment regulations
Workers in Zimbabwe have welcomed the government's recent overhaul of retrenchment regulations, hailing it as a progressive step towards better protection for employees amid the nation's economic chal...Published: 12 Dec 2024 at 06:51hrs | 15284 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa praise singer diagnosed with cancer?
Chief Shumba Hwenje, a musician closely associated with Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF party and reportedly a relative of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, born Admire Sanyanga Sibanda, has retreated to h...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 13:49hrs | 1471 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi's beef with Zimbabwe resurfaces
South Africa's Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, has criticized Zimbabwe for its deteriorating healthcare system, which has led to an influx of patients into South African hospitals. Zimbabwe's healt...Published: 13 Aug 2024 at 07:05hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's brother bashes ex-lover
Former Mbare Constituency legislator Starman Chamisa, brother of Nelson Chamisa, is seen in a viral video assaulting his former girlfriend, CCC MP for Southerton, Ms. Bridget Nyandoro, with whom he sh...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions to blame for drug shortages in Zimbabwe'
The prevailing shortages of essential medicines in Zimbabwe's major hospitals is a result of economic sanctions imposed on the country by the US, Britain and their western allies, Leader of Government...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Disastrous collapse of the country's health sector laid bare
The death of Dr Mthabisi Nembaware, a Zimbabwean medical doctor, in Mutare after a car accident as a result of Mutare Provincial Hospital's lack of an Intensive Care Unit to attend to emergencie...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 12:12hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era
LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Iran, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions are a fallacy
SO, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Zimbabwe for a visit.That was good news; well, for me at least, because I believe this was an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabweans resort to comedy to cope with failing economy
Zimbabweans are resorting to comic relief in the face of a failing economy, as the local currency loses value by the day. After all, laughter is the best medicine.This week, government workers...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
At what stage does a President concede failure?
IF I were the President of Zimbabwe - what would I be expected to do under the prevailing economic circumstances?The country goes for an average 20 hours each day without electricity, and most...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Mnangagwa's govt misplaced priorities on helicopters'
OPPOSITION party Zapu says government's move to buy helicopters from Russia was a misplaced priority and insensitive to the plight of the citizens who are struggling to access basic healthcare service...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chopper deal raises stink?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been criticised for presiding over a controversial deal that saw Zimbabwe acquire 32 helicopters from Russia worth a staggering US$320 million without following laid d...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 arrested over smuggled drugs
POLICE in Nyamapanda, Mashonaland East province, have arrested two men for smuggling three bags of medical drugs into the country.Collins Kanhukamwe (49) and Brian Samu (35) were arrested for ...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Mnangagwa's US$54m jet
ZIMBABWEANS have angrily reacted to reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has acquired a US$54 million presidential jet — a Dassault Falcon 7X , at a time the majority of the population is wallo...Published: 01 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never accounted billions to build Blue Roof, talents he received and wasted; instead blamed British for everything
Let me say from the on-set that white colonial exploitation of Africa has a lot to answer for why the continent is in the economic and political mess it is today. But this is not say the whites are so...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 14:11hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Family fumes over death of relative at hospital
SALLY Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare has stirred the ire of a family whose relative died following a reported operation mishap at the institution.The deceased, Tafadzwa Chasakara (41), died...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips undocumented foreign workers in South Africa
Zimbabwean domestic migrant worker Precious clocked in late for work, launched into her duties for a white South African family as if nothing happened, yet hours earlier she had been arrested for bein...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masarira lashes out at Chiwenga
LEAD president Linda Masarira came out guns blazing on August 24 as she lashed out at the Ministry of Health and Child Care for poor medical state in government-run hospitals claiming that national bu...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga summoned over ailing health sector
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday demanded that Health and Child Care minister Constantino Chiwenga be summoned to the august House to issue a statement on the state of the country's health sector.Th...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa Hospital runs out of painkillers, bandages
OPPOSITION Harare East legislator Tendai Biti said Thursday that the country's largest referral public hospital, Parirenyatwa, has run out essentials including painkillers with patients forced to buy ...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must fix healthcare system
THE Zimbabwean government has been challenged to fix the country's ailing healthcare system, which has forced citizens to cross the border to neighbouring South Africa to access better health services...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime unmitigated failures, and yes, Smith was far much better!
I do not even understand what the whole debate is all about, because there are some matters that are undeniable and can not be contested!For starters, we never had to fetch our water for domes...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:09hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe healthcare bleeds amid mass nurse exodus
Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in Harare."It's tiring - the nurse-patient ratio is really bad," she says, ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of headaches and Covid-19!
While some people found headaches cleared up alongside other symptoms, others say they've lingered on.For some people with COVID-19, th...Published: 18 May 2022 at 19:32hrs | 7 | by Shelton Muchena
ZRP, Interpol operation nets 2 000
At least 2 000 people have been arrested countrywide during the ongoing operation by the police with back-up from Interpol and the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation (Afripol) targeting in...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Teenager says raped by cop biological father, stepfather and third relative
A police officer has been arrested accused of raping his 16-year-old biological daughter at a police station.Police are investigating the New Year's Day incident at Senga police camp in Gweru ...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 19:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Macabre spectacle as frail Mubaiwa is put on trial
PAIN is written all over her face as she makes her way up the staircase to the courtroom where her trial is being heard.The estranged wife of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, Marry Mubaiwa...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Boy with disability beats able bodied in 5km run
A 14-year-old Bulawayo boy with disability defied all odds on Saturday when he won a family fun marathon, beating able-bodied competitors.With an amputated right leg and walking with aid of cr...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:03hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry could be amputated, court hears
Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.The Harare Ma...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Backyard drug peddling exposed
SOME unscrupulous health professionals in Harare are running backyard pharmacies in blatant contravention of regulations that prohibit unlicensed personnel from selling drugs to the public.Inq...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Top doctor comes up with 'must-have' Covid-19 cocktail to reduce severe illness
As the Health Ministry is overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients requiring admission in public health and private hospitals, a leading medical practitioner F Mamvura has come up with a proposal termed The...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
UBH pharmacy loses critical drugs
NEARLY 400 doses of sedative drugs - pethidine and morphine - were stolen from the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) last week, a development which has forced patients to source their own. ...Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
The infamy of Mnangagwa's US$18m chopper toy
A parent's aptitude is determined by their priorities. As teachers and other civil servants table legitimate grievances regarding their grossly inadequate salaries and parlous living circumstances, Em...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Chamisa, allies run out of options, push for dialogue
THE opposition MDC Alliance and its key allies labour, student movements and church have resolved to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to convene a broad-based dialogue to end the country's multiface...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean-born actress, Sibongile Mlambo joins Black Lightning cast
ZIMBABWE-born actor, Sibongile Mlambo has been cast for American superhero series Black Lightning's spinoff, Painkiller, as an attractive icy and mysterious woman named Maya.Black Lightning is...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 19:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The ultimate checklist for the winter adventure of your dreams
Bears sure have it easy. At the very least, they get to hibernate all winter without a worry in the world. After all, sleeping in and doing nothing during cold winter days is a dream for a lot of peop...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 11:34hrs | 7 | by Staff writer
How can a person qualify for the medical use of marijuana
The use of medical marijuana has been steadily growing in recent years as more and more research comes out in support of its use as an effective and safe alternative medicine to traditional over-the-c...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 20:01hrs | 17 | by Allen Brown
A staggering number of Zimbabweans dying outside hospitals
A huge number of Covid-19 victims in Zimbabwe are dying outside health institutions with half of the casualties in Matabeleland South succumbing to the respiratory disease before accessing treatment, ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:48hrs | 1 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Mafume seriously ill, says lawyer
SUSPENDED Harare mayor Jacob Mafume says he suspects he has contracted the deadly coronavirus due to poor health conditions at Harare Remand Prison.Mafume, who is in custody after allegedly vi...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 10:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe police shoot, injure pregnant woman'
A pregnant woman was allegedly shot and injured by police during a high-speed chase in Lupane, Matabeleland North along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway after boarding a suspected stolen kombi with...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chegutu hospital in sorry state
A freak accident near Mupfure River on Sunday in which two people died has exposed the shocking condition at Chegutu District Hospital with reports that survivors were left in pain and bleeding as the...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions hampering prosperity' said Mnangagwa didn't stop US$2 b Blue Roof, Parthenon to greed
Ever since Zimbabwe gained her independence in 1980, 40 years ago, the nation has been on a quest for freedom, justice, peace and economic prosperity for all. "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as Robert Mugabe never...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Thank God for ingenious coronavirus vaccine - we must now deal with political challenge
It was just over a year ago, November 2019, that the world learned of the coronavirus outbreak in China. By March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak a world pandemic. ...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 17:57hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Are Zimbabwean doctors now too cowed to speak?
WE are truly apologetic for the chain of events that have taken place over the past few months and we hope that you will have a kind heart to allow the rest of the students to return to class and fini...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gringo lashes out at govt
ARTISTES have been known for moralising at the expense of reality through their creative work, setting the agenda in national discourse, but popular yesteryear actor Lazarus "Gringo" Boora has decided...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Citizens are collateral damage in sanctions matrix
SEVENTY TWO-year-old Sihle Jani* wriggles and whimpers in pain in a dim-lit kitchen hut where a cloud of smoke belches out in no particular order through the grass thatch giving evidence of life at a ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:29hrs | | by Vincent Gono
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | | by The Guardian
The situation in Zimbabwe has moved to another level
"FELLOW Zimbabweans … the situation in our country has moved to another level. Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe and sound an...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Cliff Chiduku
Khupe accuses Chamisa's MDC of being sponsored by Mugabe
MDC-T leader, Dr Thokozani Khupe, has accused the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa of being sponsored by former President Robert Mugabe.Khupe said this in a statement on the just Lupane by-election w...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:05hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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