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BCC 'tie-up order' targets stray dogs
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) intends to introduce a "tie-up order" where stray dogs will be shot as part of efforts by the local authority to control the growing population of dogs roaming the streets....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo vendors sell meat on streets
FEARS abound that a major disease outbreak could hit Bulawayo following an increase in illegal meat vendors in the city's high-density suburbs.The most affected suburbs are Pumula, Emganwini, ...Published: 15 May 2023 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murder charges for killer dog owners
A COMMUNITY in Southview Park, Harare, is living in mortal fear of vicious dogs belonging to a family that recently moved into the neighbourhood. Some, if not most, properties in the suburb are not ga...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga confronted over Zimbabwe's nurses' mass exodus
VICE-President Constantino Chiwenga was confronted by legislators in Parliament yesterday over the mass exodus of nurses and other health professionals as well underfunding of the health sector....Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane High accused of setting dogs on villagers' goats
UMZINGANWE High School authorities in Matabeleland South have been accused of setting dogs on goats that enter the schoolyard, sparking tensions with villagers.Izinkondo villagers said school ...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | | 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 to donate 2,25m road-runner chicks to 4 provinces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to distribute 2,25 million four-week-old chicks to 225 000 households in Matabeleland North, South, the Midlands and Masvingo provinces in the next three years....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Goats now biting people
Believe it or not, but it's the gospel truth. As an eye witness, a primary school pupil was today, the 5th of instant bitten by a goat. Yes, a she goat that looks normal in every aspect expect the wei...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 17:55hrs | 8 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
Harare residents to pay dog, bicycle fees
Harare residents who own at least a dog and a bicycle will now have to fork out an extra $2 500 on their bills, with the figure rising if one has additional dogs or bicycles.Latest figures ava...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why are we not holding councils to account?
MY soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering about our inexplicable docility, cowardice, and inability to stand up against local government authorities who have failed to...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:28hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Teachers start receiving Covid-19 vaccine jabs
The second stage of the national vaccination programme against Covid-19 opened in Harare yesterday with teachers, the elderly and people with underlying conditions now getting their jabs with the roll...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabweans can't even stand up against non-brutal opposition urban authorities who're failing in service delivery, then what
A morning like today, is one of those when my soul is so disquieted, as I feel so dejected as a Zimbabwean, wondering if we truly knew what we wanted as a people - displayed by our inexplicable docili...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 08:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
More vaccines expected today from China
A second plane carrying Sinopharm vaccines, this time 344 000 doses, is expected in Harare at around 8am this morning with health authorities working out how to accelerate the national vaccination pro...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 vaccination: So far so good
Covid-19 vaccination started on February 18, 2021 in our country, making Zimbabwe one of the first 10 countries to roll out this important programme. The national airline, Air Zimbabwe, had to fly to ...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:48hrs | | by Johannes Marisa
Raging bulls trample man to death
VILLAGERS in the resettlement area of Moyo Ranch, Ward 30 under Zibagwe Rural District Council (RDC) are living in fear after bulls that have reportedly gone wild and are attacking villagers.T...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diarrhoea kills 13 people in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has recorded an increase in diarrhoea cases, which have claimed 13 lives, and remains on high alert for a typhoid outbreak as the city continues to facewater problems.The water pr...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to shoot stray dogs
The Bulawayo City Council will next month launch an operation to rid the city of stray dogs.The operation will run from September to November with the local authority warning dog owners that a...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC (South Africa) and Gukurahundi
Amhlophe to the African National Congress for resoundingly winning another term under President Cyril Ramaphosa. There is an obligation for South Africa to avoid the tribal and racist path of ot...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:47hrs | | by Sihle Ndlovu
Woman eaten by dogs alive leaves for India on 10 May
Cherish Muchegwa the woman who was mauled by dogs in Bulawayo South is leaving for surgery in India on 10 May. The Bulawayo Soutrh Member of Parliament Raj Modi said Muchegwa will be accompani...Published: 02 May 2019 at 16:05hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dogs that attacked Bulawayo woman had rabies
THE dogs that mauled a Bulawayo woman last month had rabies. The five dogs bit chunks of flesh out of Ms Cherish Muchegwa's arms and legs. A report from the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman eaten by dogs
A Bulawayo woman was caught by dogs which ate soma parts of her flesh. The circumstances surrounding the incident are yet to be revealed. Commenting on the incident Bulawayo South MP Raj Mod...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 11:02hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiredzi to kill stray dogs
Chiredzi Town Council has recommended that all stray dogs in the town be shot after three children who were attacked by dogs died of rabies, while several others were treated.According to the ...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 06:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF rigged electoral victory is worse than a Pyrrhic - dog got hare's ticks and worse
You can tell the dog has a flea or tick problem by the frequency the poor creature scratches itself and the greater the vigour the greater the infestation! Rigging the recent elections was the easy bi...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Boy paralysed after dog attack
Eight-year-old Raymond Botsanzira from Chivhunga Village in Murewa has been bedridden for close to a year after he was attacked by a rabid dog.A visit to the Botsanzira homestead under Chief M...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Govt killing Matobo dogs'
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said it has come to its attention that the government through the veterinary department has killed over hundred dogs,more are still dying through wrong vaccination, in Toh...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Typhoid case in Nkayi linked to Mbare
THE typhoid outbreak in Harare is suspected to have been trafficked to Nkayi District in Matabeleland North.The Herald on Tuesday reported that about 200 new cases were detected this month, ro...Published: 19 Jan 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Escalation of stray dogs worry BCC
Bulawayo City Council authorities have expressed concerns over the increasing number of stray dogs in the city.Latest council minutes states that the Committee considered the matter and Counci...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Was Rhodesia's Ian Smith right - African rule will lower the country's standards?
As my dear wife Tinta and I were taking a stroll in our neighbourhood - which used to be a 'Whites only' suburb during the colonial era - we started discussing how standards had greatly deteriorated s...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SPCA collecting stray dogs in the city of Bulawayo
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Bulawayo has embarked on collecting stray dog in the city to help the local authority clear the domestic animals which at some points attack res...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Four pupils mauled by rabies infected dog
Four pupils from Kapiri primary and secondary school in Hurungwe North, Mashonaland West were mauled by rabies infected dog on Tuesday morning on their way to school.Eye witnesses allege two p...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 17:59hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dog that killed Gambian president's son put down
BANJUL - A dog that killed a young son of the Gambian president Adama Barrow has undergone a fatal injection, according to the veterinary unit of the country's Ministry of Agriculture.Seven-ye...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe promised war vets $500k and/or prosperity only to deliver poverty
Financial Gazette columnist CZ's (satirizing he who must not be named, the satanic satyr Robert Gabriel Mugabe, totem Gushungo) latest contribution "I never promised any war vet US$500k Cdes" Bulawayo...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 19:28hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'
In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by PDP
Zimbabwe:- A case for colonial taxes
When my brother turned eighteen in 1973, he went ko Skomitshi to apply for ispeketsheni - a form of identity document which all boys had to have before they actually qualified to get the real isithuph...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 16:20hrs | 5 | by Clerk Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe police set dogs on protestors'
The Zimbabwe Republic police has been accused of setting their dogs on protestors they had arrested after conducting door-to-door raids in the Harare suburbs of Mabvuku, Zimre Park and Epworth in the ...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 21:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
104 Epworth, Mabvuku protesters appears in court
One hundred and four people from Epworth and Mabvuku in Harare linked to Monday's public violence against police roadblocks appeared in court yesterday and were remanded in custody to today for bail h...Published: 07 Jul 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Harare City Council to gun down stray dogs
Harare has recorded 858 cases of dog bites since January, prompting local authority to gun down stray dogs as part of measures to prevent the spread of rabies.Last week alone, the city had 35 ...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Bianca Leboho
Bulawayo Council adopts shoot to kill policy on dogs
Bulawayo City Council has resolved to enforce the shooting to kill stray dogs in the city in an effort to control the spread of diseases such as rabies.According to latest council report, the ...Published: 04 Jun 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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Hi Sis NoeI JUST found out I am two months pregnant. I want to know whether it is ok to run while I am pregnant. — Worried.ReplyYes, you can run but not too much. In fact, you sh...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:06hrs | | by Sis Noe
Masvingo launches blitz on stray dogs
MASVINGO City Council has launched a blitz to hold all dogs that are not registered with the local authority and shooting stray dogs as a way of reducing incidents of humans being injured by the pets....Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masvingo hunts, kills stray dogs
MASVINGO municipality has embarked on an operation to shoot all stray dogs in the city to prevent the spread of rabies.The local authority is carrying out the exercise in conjunction with the ...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Stray dogs wary city councillors
Bulawayo City Councillor Thobani Ncube has expressed concerns over the increased number of stray in the city amid fears they were posing danger to the residents who might contract rabies if they happe...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 05:54hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Vicious dogs kill four-year-old boy
A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy was mauled to death while another 10-year-old child was left for dead allegedly by about eight vicious dogs in Masvingo's Eastvale suburb. Success Kasanhayi of Shakashe Str...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 05:26hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Donkey 'infected with rabies' mauls granny
VILLAGERS under Chief Charumbira area, Masvingo are living in fear after a donkey suspected to be infected with rabies mauled a 62-year-old woman in the wee hours as she went out to relieve herself. ...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 14:16hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Mugabe plans to fire Chiwenga - will be shocked one has to pay for fuel but a lot worse will follow!
According to the Zimbabwe Independent, Mugabe could soon remove Chiwenga as ZDF commander anytime between the ...Published: 18 Dec 2015 at 18:42hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Donkey kills goat, eats it
A DONKEY allegedly killed and ate a goat as horrified herd boys watched in Halali area in Maphisa. The incident which has become the talk of the area and beyond has been described as a bad ome...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 05:29hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Donkeys run amok, maul villagers
TWO Filabusi villagers sustained injuries after they were mauled by donkeys in separate incidents that have triggered a rabies alert in the district. The two animals have since been put down.S...Published: 19 Nov 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
BCC allocate vehicle for dogs vaccination to Vet Department
Bulawayo city council has allocated the department of Veterinary Services one vehicle for the dogs vaccination programme as a way of assisting in preventing the spread of rabies in the cityThe...Published: 09 Oct 2015 at 11:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dead animals cause for concern in Harare
Harare Residents Trust has bemoans failure by Amenities department to remove dead animals in Harare."The removal of dead animals from our roads is the responsibility of the Amenities Departmen...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Dog breeding now source of income in Zimbabwe
Dogs have always been regarded as "man's best friend".But in recent years, that friendship has become a means of livelihood for many Zimbabweans.Just a couple years ago, few people in ...Published: 29 May 2015 at 16:58hrs | 2 | by Erol Ersoy - Anadolu Agency
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