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Plot to oust Chiwenga thickens
The factional fights between Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and President Emmerson are far from being over with revelations that some ZANU PF Youth aligned to President Mnangagwa have been target...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:25hrs | 23830 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Army, Zanu-PF role in protests exposed
A SERVING top military official and a police officer were yesterday unmasked as leaders of the deadly protests in the Epworth dormitory town, which led to the death of civilians and looting of shops....Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:11hrs | 1883 | by Staff reporter
Army continues terror as Bulawayo is shutdown
Members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police support unit aided by members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces on Thursday entered Day 3 of beating up citizens at the aftermath of the violent protests that rock...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 10:45hrs | 10342 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A divided people, a defeated people!
The national shutdown or stayaway is developing in interesting dimensions.... It is not as peaceful as earlier predicted and disturbing reports of loss of lives keep filtering in. Variously motivated ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 13:41hrs | 1067 | by Zifiso Masiye
Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards
They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 4366 | by Everson Mushava
Guvamombe threatens to dish out dirt on magistrates
Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe was freed on $3,000 bail Saturday after being charged with criminal abuse of office.Guvamombe, who was suspended following his arrest on Friday, is accused o...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 08:44hrs | 2723 | by ZimLive
Civil servants warn Mnangagwa
CIVIL servants yesterday warned government that a full-blown national strike was imminent if their employer fails to review its decision to offer them a paltry $41 pay rise.Civil servants who ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:20hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
Pre-term baby discharged as doctors’ strike continues
A MABVUKU family has come face to face with the grim reality of the doctors' strike after their premature baby, born at 24 weeks and weighing just over 1,4kg, was discharged on Monday by Parirenyatwa ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:58hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
More doctors report for duty
More doctors yesterday heeded Government's call to return to work and joined their colleagues who reported for duty on Monday. In a statement yesterday, Government said all doctors who had bee...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
35 out of 273 doctors presented themselves for the Disciplinary Hearings
1. The industrial action entered the 37th day for those continuing on strike following the signing of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (03A) i of 2019 on the 5th of January 2019. 2. All mem...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 22:52hrs | 2887 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-minister evicted over breach of contract
Former Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa, who was last year taken to court for failing to settle a $291 000 outstanding balance for a house he bought in 2014, has been ordered by the H...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants plead poverty
TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This cam...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Doctors divided over strike
Cracks have begun to emerge among striking junior doctors after some of them returned to work yesterday as part of an agreement they signed with the Government at the weekend. However, others ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:57hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Doctors report for work in 5 cities
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that in the past two days all doctors have resumed their duties in the following areas:Marondera - All Doct...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | 4720 | by Mandla Ndlovu
$3m to fight cancer
Government will this year release US$3 million in support for cancer programmes.As resources become available, there are also plans to establish a fully-fledged cancer hospital.Current...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:02hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike: Lives on ropes as lies, arrogance blot hope
Timothy Kafiramberi (not his real name) is visibly desperate and scared as he carries his ailing son who cannot walk due to an unexplained sickness. He has been moving from one room to another along t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:16hrs | 854 | by Vanessa Gonye
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 | 490 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fails to end doctors' strike?
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's surprise intervention yesterday into the crisis in the health sector failed to end the strike by junior doctors, which has dragged on for the past 35 days.Mnang...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:12hrs | 2129 | by Staff repoirter
Striking 'intern' doctors agree to return to work
The junior doctors who had withdrawn their services have agreed in principle to return to work after holding a meeting with the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa this morning.The junior docto...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:41hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike
Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old....Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:33hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira confronts Mnangagwa
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has called for President Mnangagwa to come out clean on the credentials of Minister of Health Obadiah Moyo. "With all due respect Mr. President Emmer...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 11:32hrs | 9182 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Armed robbers pounce on passengers
TRAVELLERS aboard a Beitbridge bound bus lost cash and cellphones to three armed robbers who pretended to be passengers on the New Year' Eve.Total value stolen was R10 900 and $2 225 bond and ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 21:57hrs | 4750 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe senior doctors join striking juniors
THE crisis facing Zimbabwe's stricken public health care system deepened Wednesday as senior medical practitioners announced they are joining junior doctors on a strike that has lasted more than a mon...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:31hrs | 4150 | by newzimbabwe.com
Another setback for striking doctors
Junior doctors have lost their quest to get permission to appeal against a Labour Court ruling that ordered them to end their month-long industrial action.The doctors had filed an application ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 2957 | by Staff reporter
Doctor loses $21 000 in fake stand deal
A 51-year-old Mufakose man was last week taken to court for allegedly swindling a doctor based at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals of $21 000 in a fake residential stand deal. Jametias Kudzai Z...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 08:58hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1160 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's bid to replace striking doctors hits brick wall
Government attempts to hire recently qualified doctors to replace striking medical professionals in Zimbabwe hit a wall as graduates snubbed the state's offer.The country has two medical schoo...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:45hrs | 5271 | by Business Day
Busy year for Zimbabwe courts, as govt takes corruption head-on
THE year 2018 was characterised by arrests of most high profile figures for corruption, including former ministers, senior government officials and public entity bosses who were serving in the old dis...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:30hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa forgives G40?
Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira has said Zanu PF was closely monitoring the movements of members of the G40 cabal, whom he said used to torment their rivals in the Team Lacoste fa...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:28hrs | 2664 | by Staff reporter
Please save our doctors
The handling thus far by the government of the ongoing industrial action by the country's medical doctors has left a lot to be desired - reflecting very poorly on both the bona fides and humanity of t...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:41hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, doctors in crunch meeting
FEAR gripped government yesterday forcing discussions with striking junior doctors as well as consultants and senior health practitioners, who on Friday issued a 48-hour-ultimatum, NewsDay can reveal....Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:08hrs | 2491 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'misled' on doctors' issue
Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them.They said their parents, guardians and fami...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 8896 | by Staff reporter
Wheels come off Zimbabwe health sector
Medical experts have warned the government that it is putting the lives of thousands of people at risk, after it recently started dispensing expired drugs in hospitals - including life-prolongin...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:36hrs | 641 | by Nokuthaba Nkomo
Chiwenga committed to ending impasse with doctors
Negotiations to reinstate suspended junior doctors are ongoing as government works to find an amicable solution to end the impasse.Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obediah Moyo says his minis...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 17:38hrs | 861 | by Staff reporter
Doctors rubbish Chiwenga
STRIKING doctors have reacted angrily to claims by government that the State assisted them through medical school and that there are enough medicine stocks in the country.In a hard-hitting sta...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 22:08hrs | 1951 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga escalates govt, doctors' fight
Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday warned that government will soon introduce a new law regulating the hiring of doctors after he came face-to-face with the dire situation at one of the h...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 21:55hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Doctors' strike: A balancing act of ethics and rights
ON March 1 this year, junior doctors downed their tools in protest over deteriorating working conditions, on-call allowances, a facility to import vehicles duty-free and poor remuneration. Senior doct...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:40hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to change doctors intern conditions
The Chronicle Paidamoyo Chipunza, Harare Bureau Government is considering changing internship conditions for junior doctors to avert future work disruptions that expose patients to risk, Acting Presid...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:32hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Sober people must handle the Doctors' impasse
The ongoing strike of medical practitioners which is now on day 28 is a serious matter, it is lives of Zimbabweans at stake and it requires delicate handling.So far, madness has been displayed...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 16:36hrs | 1047 | by Jacob Mafume - MDC National Spokesperson
Chiwenga happy with supply of medicines across Zimbabwe
Government has started receiving medicines and medical sundries from suppliers and is distributing them across the country. They comprise medicines for daily use and sundries like gloves and face mask...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 09:53hrs | 1085 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga blasts striking doctors
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday tore into the striking doctors, dismissing them as mere "interns" who had no respect for ethics and berated them for engaging in the job action....Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:23hrs | 1885 | by Staff Reporter
More boys born on Christmas Day
At least 72 babies were born on Christmas Day in four of country's major hospitals. Chitungwiza and Mpilo central hospitals recorded the highest number of 20 babies each, followed by Harare Cent...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 08:44hrs | 1186 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa not genuine in dealing with political corruption'
Zimbabwe's transition to a democratic and economic recovery is shadowy due to a lack of political will to fight corruption, a local political think tank has said.In its December 2018 report, t...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:49hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
When politicians say things to make people angry, not to solve problems
Many of the people who appeared before the commission of inquiry into the events leading to the August 1 killings, the shootings themselves and then map the way forward, proved themselves to be invent...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 10:53hrs | 774 | by Conway Tutani
Chiwenga to fire doctors?
GOVERNMENT has tasked Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga with resolving the ongoing impasse between the State and the striking junior doctors at public hospitals amid reports senior medical practitio...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2019 | by Staff reporter
Findings of Commission of Inquiry into 1 August 2018 Post-Election Violence
RELEASE STATEMENT FOR THE REPORT ON THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE 1ST OF AUGUST 2018 POST ELECTION VIOLENCEOn the 14th of September 2018, I established a Commission of Inquiry into the 1s...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1294 | by ONline
Motlanthe commision nails soldiers; police
The Kgalema Motlanthe led commission of inquiry into the August 1 post-election killings has fingered police the military and police as the culprits behind the murder of six civilians during the alter...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:24hrs | 10123 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: 14 die in Murehwa accident
14 people have been confirmed dead in a road accident that occurred when two commuter omnibuses collided head on at the 49-kilometre peg along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway, two kilometres from Juru G...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 08:53hrs | 7951 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Senior doctors join strike
SENIOR doctors have joined the strike by their juniors citing increased workload as the Labour Court spurned government attempts to declare the crippling industrial action by the medical professionals...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:54hrs | 1837 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors using condoms as medical gloves?
Zimbabwean doctors at public health institutions have been forced to use condoms in place of disposable medical gloves as the government struggles to maintain critical supplies to the facilities....Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 10:02hrs | 2931 | by ZimLive
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