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Prosecutors discredit evidence in Parirenyatwa trial
THE trial of former Health and child Care minister David Parirenyatwa continued yesterday with prosecutors attempting to discredit evidence given by the key witness.Parirenyatwa allegedly dire...Published: 7 hrs ago | 181 | by Staff reporter
State moves to impeach witness for siding with Parirenyatwa
The State yesterday moved to declare its witness, George Washaya, as hostile for siding with former Health minister David Parirenyatwa in his decision to relieve NatPharm managing director Flora Sifek...Published: 7 hrs ago | 232 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa application for review dismissed
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa's application for review was last week dismissed by a Harare magistrate. Parirenyatwa is facing criminal abuse of office charges after ...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:34hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Man kills father with hammer
A 25-YEAR-OLD Mushumbi Pools man was arraigned before a Guruve magistrate yesterday facing charges of killing his father with a hammer over a ritual.Clive Jimmy of Bandayi village under Chief ...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:10hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
State case against Dr Parirenyatwa crumbles
The state's case against former Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa is faltering.This follows one of the key state witnesses and former Natpharm board chairperson Dr Goerge Wa...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 16:52hrs | 1716 | by Staff reporter
Witness exonerates David Parirenyatwa
Former Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa brought new ways of tendering medicine and there was a positive response from the board because procurement of medicine and distribution was be...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:08hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
The Bulawayo Tower block; a labour of love?
A running thread in generations of residents that have called Bulawayo home has been their deep veneration and steadfast belief in its status as an exceptional habitat. Exemplary epochs of thi...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 18:02hrs | 8012 | by Innocent B. Ncube
2017 military coup ghosts spooking Mnangagwa govt
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 3194 | by Staff reporter
Cops sued for not granting post-mortem consent
THE family of a man allegedly killed by police has sued the law enforcement agency for refusing to grant consent for a hospital post-mortem to obtain information on the cause of death.Rights l...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:23hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Killed CIO boss' wife demands US$600 000
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:08hrs | 4710 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa accuses presiding magistrate of twisting facts
Former Health minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday unsuccessfully filed an application to have his matter referred to the High Court for a review.Parirenyatwa was also seeking an order to res...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:31hrs | 318 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Facing national challenges: None but ourselves
In mid-March Zimbabwe together with Malawi and Mozambique fell victim to the violent and destructive Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds of people and left thousands displaced in these three southern A...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:17hrs | 134 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Parirenyatwa and Harare hospital CEOs fired
The Minister of Health and Childcare Dr Obadiah Moyo is reported to have fired the CEOs of Harare Hospital, Dr Nyasha Masuka and Parirenyatwa Hospital, Thomas Zigora.The pair were report...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 20:05hrs | 4910 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How did Zimbabwe end up with such toxic debts?
What I witnessed last Saturday at Zimbabwe's biggest hospital, Parirenyatwa, got me thinking.In the casualty unit, there was no doctor attending to patients from 5.30pm to 9pm. I saw patients ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 09:59hrs | 615 | by Editorial _ The Independent
Zanu-PF leaders to have mandatory ideological training
ZANU-PF will no longer tolerate leaders who use money and bribery to get leadership positions as everyone must pass through the Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, the party's National Commissar, Enge...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:24hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean seeks twinning of Mutare, Toronto
RENOWNED Zimbabwean paediatric cardiologist Norman Nhamohainavazhinji Musewe, who is based in Toronto, Canada, is pushing for the twinning of Mutare city with a satellite city of Greater Toronto....Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:10hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Leicester City ace's easy Warriors decision
LEICESTER City's youthful Warriors striker Admiral Muskwe has revealed that it has always been his dream to play for Zimbabwe despite playing for England's Under-17 team about five years ago.M...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:02hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in vote buying ahead of by-election
Zanu-PF is being accused of vote buying ahead of the Cowdray park local government by-election slated for tomorrow. This was after Vice President Kembo Mohadi donated 60 tonnes of maize and 30 ton...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Tedious Matsito dies
Sungura musician Tedious Matsito of the ‘gede mwana' fame has died.Matsito (48) died at Parirenyatwa hospital last night after suffering a stroke.His son Tedious Muchapedza Junior sa...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:54hrs | 1535 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo calls for a Joshua Nkomo Public Holiday
Exiled Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo says 1 July should be declared a national holiday in honour of the late Vice President of the country who passed on in 1999."On 1 July, i...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 08:37hrs | 3315 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Fierce battle for Bulawayo council seat
THE battle for the Cowdray Park ward 28 council seat has reached fever pitch with parties contesting in the by-election leaving nothing to chance.The by-election has been set for this coming S...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:26hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pulls all stops to win Bulawayo ward
ZANU-PF has pulled all the stops in a bid to win Bulawayo's ward 28 by-election set for Saturday, deploying top party officials from its commissariat department, led by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi to ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:13hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt probes US$100m botched deal
Government has opened investigations into circumstances surrounding a botched US$100 million deal to supply the country's referral hospitals with modern equipment.Although Government continues...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | 2032 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's absence felt in Zanu-PF
NEARLY two decades after his death, Zanu-PF says it misses Joshua Nkomo's extraordinary skill in uniting the nation and mobilising votes for the ruling party.The late revered vice president pa...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | 3235 | by Staff reporter
Natpharm given 48hrs to get supplies
The State-appointed agent for the procurement, storage and distribution of medical supplies, the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (Natpharm), has been given 48 hours to approach the local m...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:01hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Natpharm given 48hrs to get supplies
The State-appointed agent for the procurement, storage and distribution of medical supplies, the National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (Natpharm), has been given 48 hours to approach the local m...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
War veterans, minister clash
War veterans in Mashonaland Central province are leading a campaign against the provincial minister Monica Mavhunga, accusing her of a litany of misdeeds that are reportedly affecting Zanu-PF's relati...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:07hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Natpharm to fast-track drugs procurement
THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been given 48 hours to approach the local market to procure required drugs using RTGS dollars in a move meant to speed up the drug procurement proces...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:50hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF members urged to show loyalty to party
ZANU-PF members in Bulawayo's Ward 28 have been urged to show their commitment and loyalty to the party by voting for the party's candidate, Kidwell Mujuru, in the council by-election set for March 30...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:49hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss coup death: Family wants justice
THE family of senior Central Intelligence Organisation operative Peter Munetsi, who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup that toppled former president Robert Mugabe, has written to...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 4263 | by Staff reporter
Ebola scare at Mugabe Airport
Passengers aboard a fastjet Airways flight, which landed at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on Wednesday went into a panic mode after one of the passengers complained of a headache and bod...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:41hrs | 1946 | by Staff reporter
Bulilima West MP bemoans absence of referral hospital
BULILIMA West legislator, Dingimuzi Phuthi has bemoaned the absence of a referral hospital in the district which is putting lives of patients and pregnant women at risk.The district is service...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 719 | by Bevan Musoko
Zimbabwe cannot outsource its development - it has to fix the fundamentals first
While South Africa believes sanctions should be scrapped in Zimbabwe, analysts indicate that the sanctions narrative has been an easy scapegoat in addressing the real issues affecting the country....Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 452 | by Sally Nyakanyanga
'Zimbabwe hospital nurses washing bandages to re-use on patients'
NURSES at Zimbabwe"s foremost medical institution, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, have resorted to washing bandages to dress burns on patients as health crisis at the institution deepens, plastic su...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 321 | by newzimbabwe
Doctors give government two-week ultimatum on supplies - decisive action at last, after 38 years of dithering
"DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last wee...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 19:12hrs | 2015 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
High Court to decide Parirenyatwa's fate
THE High Court is on Wednesday expected to rule on ex-Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa's application seeking charges of criminal abuse of office against him dropped.Parirenyat...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:44hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Fresh turmoil looms in Zanu-PF, as war vets demand clean up at party HQ
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party is heading for stormy waters, after it emerged a group of war veterans led by one Philemon Mutongi are demanding a "clean-up" of the party headquarters in ...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:54hrs | 3721 | by newzimbabwe
We cannot blame Nelson Chamisa without blaming all of us
We are under sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other Western outposts like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the ruin of the sanctions is without doubt. Our industr...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 2529 | by Reason Wafawarova
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Shocking rot at Zimbabwe hospitals
PATIENTS are spending several days waiting for treatment at the country's poorly resourced public hospitals and many are dying prematurely due to lack of drugs, an investigation has revealed.A...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:53hrs | 1158 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono's Save Our Hospitals initiative good idea but he is offside
I like Hopewell Chin'ono, he is an ambitious young man full of political energy. He is the mastermind of the idea behind the Save Our Hospitals initiative launched in the month of March 2019. He alrea...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1914 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa's neglect of health sector felonious
The head of Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals' paediatrics department, Azza Mashumba, wept in frustration as she chronicled how babies with a fair chance of survival were dying simply because there were...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:11hrs | 1382 | by Editorial - Newsday
When will Mnangagwa act on Zimbabwe's death trap hospitals?
She's being called the doctor who moved a nation. This week Azza Mashumba, the head of paediatrics at Harare's main-and-in-desperate-straits Parirenyatwa Hospital, made a tearful plea to the health mi...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 19:14hrs | 1095 | by Oliver Matthews
Mnangagwa must urgently solve doctor's grievances
Government should seriously look at concerns raised by senior doctors over the dire situation at the country's public hospitals.Yesterday, the senior doctors took their grievances to the street as...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 14:29hrs | 2018 | by Editorial - Daily News
Zimbabwe police face suit over protest killing
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has petitioned Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema, demanding compensation over a Chitungwiza man who was shot dead during the January fuel price hike protests....Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:34hrs | 1077 | by Staff reporter
Doctor weeps in front of Zimbabwe Health minister
Senior doctors at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals yesterday narrated to the minister of Health Obadiah Moyo, of the horrors and deaths occurring everyday at major hospitals because of acute shortages ...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 13:33hrs | 2494 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe runs out of betadine and painkillers
Zimbabwe's top hospital Parirenyatwa has run out of basic necessities like betadine and painkillers it has been revealed. The issue came out during a meeting between Minister of Health Obadiah...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 08:18hrs | 4312 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' strike a national disaster
The strike of specialist doctors' at Parirenyatwa Hospital is an indictment on the failed military government.It is a high level manifestation of a Nation in crisis. Mnangagwa and his cabal mu...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 21:08hrs | 1598 | by Jacob Mafume
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