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Zimbabwe health authorities monitoring Mpox contacts after 2 cases
Health authorities in Zimbabwe are closely monitoring the contacts of two individuals who recently tested positive for Mpox, a viral infection that has spread globally from equatorial forests in Afric...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:39hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
MPs demand clarity on Zimbabwe govt's Mpox response plan
Lawmakers in Zimbabwe put Health and Child Care Deputy Minister Sleiman Kwidini under scrutiny on Wednesday, seeking detailed explanations regarding the government's response to the recently confirmed...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:48hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt says there Is no need to panic over Mpox
The Zimbabwean government has sought to allay public anxiety following the confirmation of two isolated cases of Mpox disease, which were reported for the first time in the country on Sunday. With com...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 08:35hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirms 2 cases of imported Mpox
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has confirmed that Zimbabwe now has two confirmed cases of Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox). One case has been reported in Harare, and another in Mberengwa. Bot...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 16:46hrs | 1098 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ups Mpox surveillance
The Zimbabwean government has ramped up surveillance efforts at the country's borders in response to the rising threat of Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, which has recently been declared a public h...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital’s lab gains international certification
The United States has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening Zimbabwe’s healthcare system, with an annual investment exceeding US$200 million aimed at improving health outcomes across the countr...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 19:35hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe still Mpox free'
Health and Child Care Minister Dr. Douglas Mombeshora has confirmed that Zimbabwe has no confirmed Mpox cases after screening all suspected cases. The government has heightened surveillance at the cou...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 07:08hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Government engages BCC over water in schools
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is working with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to ensure that schools have uninterrupted water supplies as they reopen for the third term amidst the ci...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:31hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high alert over disease outbreaks
In July 2024, Bulawayo reported around 400 cases of diarrhoea, an increase from 318 cases the previous month, as noted in the latest Bulawayo City Council minutes. Health services director Edwin Siban...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:18hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe issues Mpox alert
The Zimbabwean government has issued a public warning about the outbreak of Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, which has recently spread to non-endemic countries, including neighboring South Africa. A...Published: 05 Sep 2024 at 07:19hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says on high alert for Mpox, urges citizen precaution
The government says it has activated systems to tackle any outbreak of Mpox and has called on citizens to avoid unnecessary contact with animals that could be hosting the dreaded disease which has dev...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 10:33hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt tight-lipped over teachers' salary demands
The government has yet to respond to teachers' demands for better salaries and improved working conditions, as educators prepare to declare incapacitation when schools reopen for the third term on Sep...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:57hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Mpox threat jolts Zimbabwe govt into action
The Zimbabwean government has responded swiftly to the recent outbreak of the Mpox virus in various African countries, including non-endemic regions, by strengthening its disease surveillance systems....Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:44hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Africa declares Mpox public health emergency amid surge in cases and deaths
Africa's top health authority, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), has declared an outbreak of mpox a public health emerge...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 06:44hrs | 490 | by Staff Reporter
Phathisa Nyathi didn't see Lobengula's tomb
Prominent historian Phathisa Nyathi says reports that they discovered Ndebele King Lobengula's tomb in Zambia were not true as they only saw the mountain where he is said to have settled after leaving...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 16:07hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
King Lobengula fate mystery deepens
The mystery surrounding the fate of 19th century Ndebele King Lobengula - son of the nation's founder King Mzilikazi - is still a moot historical event to Ndebele people, some Zimbabweans and scholars...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 10:30hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
UK scientists are developing a vaccine for an unknown disease
UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infe...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 23 | by Erick Matotoba
Gonorrhoea and syphilis sex infections reach record levels in England
England is seeing record high levels of gonorrhoea and syphilis sexually transmitted infections, following a dip during Covid years, new figures reveal.People are being urged to practise safe ...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC confiscates 2 232kg of condemned meat
THE Bulawayo City Council's (BCC) department of health services has raided various grocery shops in the city, confiscating and destroying condemned meat weighing over 2 200kg.Council minutes s...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Time Africa solved its own problems'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro has urged African countries to resolve their own problems, particularly tackling HIV/Aids and other diseases.Mangwiro made the remarks at th...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to fight measles, monkey pox
GOVERNMENT says it is ready to fight the measles outbreak which has claimed at least 157 lives countrywide, as well as monkey pox which has affected different countries in the world.The countr...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases increase
BULAWAYO has recorded an increase in the number of diarrhoea cases, a cause for concern considering the havoc wrecked by the disease previously.Diarrhoea is defined as the passage of three or ...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe still free from monkeypox, says govt
Zimbabwe has not recorded any case of monkeypox, authorities said Tuesday.Monkeypox has been reported in 19 endemic and non-endemic countries within and outside Africa.As of 26th May 2...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:10hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready for monkeypox
GOVERNMENT says it is prepared to deal with monkeypox in the event that the virus, which has already affected 20 countries, is detected in Zimbabwe.The World Health Organisation (WHO) describe...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beware of monkeypox
GOVERNMENT has been urged to be vigilant after over 80 monkeypox cases were detected in 12 European countries.Monkeypox is a viral infection mostly common in central and west Africa.Ca...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jilted man hangs self
A 25-YEAR-OLD insecure man who accused his girlfriend of cheating on him killed himself after she dumped him. Sipho Dhewa from Nkulumane was in love with a lady only known as Caroline. Their l...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga and the endless search for King Lobengula's grave
IT is the story that has been told a million times.It is a story passed from generation to generation. It is the story that is sold to all children, whether they sit on grass mats around crack...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:08hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines administered in Zimbabwe effective against Delta variant'
ALL the Covid-19 vaccines being administered in Zimbabwe under the mass inoculation programme are effective against the highly virulent Delta variant, experts have concluded.In Zimbabwe, the D...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe funeral parlours warn of mass graves
FUNERAL service providers have indicated that they are overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths and warned that the country could be forced to bury deceased citizens in mass graves if the upward trend of new in...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
How safe are Covid19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
How safe are Covid-19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 22:54hrs | 1 | by Etiwel Mutero
Mwonzora wants compulsory vaccination
LAST week in the resort town of Victoria Falls, President Mnangagwa received his first Covid-19 jab at an event witnessed by several political leaders, who included main opposition leader Mr Douglas M...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Equating recently developed COVID-19 vaccines to long-known vaccinations is not only foolish, but irresponsibly dangerous
Who can deny that the Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has wrecked unimaginable havoc, destruction, and death throughout the world? Who can deny that there is urgent need for a long-lasti...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 10:33hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Government to arrest those spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 and the vaccine
The CORONA VIRUS pandemic has shaken the world and gripped it with fear. In the last 24 hours I lost people very close to me due to COVID. there is no one who can say he does not know a family which l...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Missing Malaysia's MH370 plane location to be revealed in Harare today
The Media Centre in Harare has invited journalists to a media briefing today (Monday) to be addressed by Prophet Forgiveness Nyakuweka on the location of missing Malaysia airplane. The Centre ...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Blow for Warriors
Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambga's hopes of using some of the England-born Zimbabwean players for the decisive Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier against Congo Brazzaville could have suffered a m...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lobengula did not disappear
INFORMATION diffused widely in this country after the extermination of the Allan Wilson Patrol by the heroic rear guard of King Lobengula under the command of Mtshana Khumalo was that the last Ndebele...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
Zim experts lead ground breaking HIV study
ZIMBABWEAN health experts and researchers are leading a regional ground breaking HIV study to determine if anti-bodies can prevent HIV infection.Laboratory tests have shown that a manufactured...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umthwakazi: Honouring the San (Abathwa) who tamed the land
TODAY'S article is the last in a detour we took to prepare for the continuation of visits to the Ndebele State by London Missionary Society (LMS) Reverend Dr Robert Moffat. His last trip to King Mzili...Published: 17 Dec 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Pathisa Nyathi
The truth about atrocities of British colonisation
MY previous two articles have concentrated on the period of the Bush War or the Second Chimurenga, mainly because this period covers my own time growing up in Rhodesia.In this article I focus ...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Simon Massey
WATCH: Australian based DJ Spox release debut Macheso style album
Polite Moyo, also known as DJ Spox, has released his debut single called "Domestic Violence" featuring Sifelilizwe "Fair" Shumba who popularly known for his song "Vachibhanzi Vauya....Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 14:26hrs | | by Agencies
Bond Notes Specimen
#BondNotes #Specimen...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No jail for granny who beat four-year-old girl to death
A Tsholotsho granny who beat her four-year-old granddaughter and burnt her on the face leading to her death, has been spared jail. Betty Ndlovu (54) of Paneni line, under chief Gampu in Tsholo...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Fairness Moyana
Xenophobia: Zimbabweans must learn SA languages
THE South African campaign against foreign black Africans is now over, and that country's social and political atmosphere has returned to normal.The campaign caused a great deal of emotional o...Published: 02 May 2015 at 20:05hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
HIV vaccine trials expected in Zimbabwe next year
Clinical trials to test the effectiveness of the first ever HIV vaccine, R144 are expected to commence next year in Zimbabwe and other African countries, a senior government official has said....Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flea market underwear causes infections
While business is bustling deep in the heart of Harare's central business centre as upmarket stores sell top side lingerie, the majority of shoppers flock to various second-hand markets to buy their v...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
U.S. agency honors Zim public health expert
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) honored Zimbabwe public health expert Donewell Bangure with the International Night Honor - the 2014 William H. Foege Award for M...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Who killed King Lobengula?
Since the death of King Lobengula in 1894, historians have been battling to unravel the truth regarding the death of this second and last King of the Ndebele. It has been reported that Lobengula died ...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 02:58hrs | | by SundayMail
The day Charamba fell pregnant
Putting your ideas in the public domain always has its pains. You are called names, given jabbing identities, misread...you name it. And you have to bear it all, meekly as behoves a humble columnist. ...Published: 27 Feb 2013 at 04:27hrs | 3 | by Nathaniel Manheru The Other Side
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