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Zimbabwe must deal with currency volatility causes, not symptoms
THE United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca) executive secretary Claver Gatete this week said Zimbabwe should deal with the root causes of currency volatility not symptoms.Gatete ...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:10hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe electoral dispute backfiring
CATHOLIC Bishops yesterday said the unresolved August 2023 election dispute has plunged the lives of ordinary citizens into disarray, amid a deepening economic meltdown where the majority is strugglin...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:47hrs | 2898 | by Staff reporter
CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 2385 | by Ntando Dumani
Sikhala confirms prison cell poisoning
Sikhala, the opposition activist recently released after spending 595 days in pretrial detention, has confirmed that he was poisoned during his time in solitary confinement at Chikurubi Maximum Prison...Published: 01 Feb 2024 at 05:02hrs | 2606 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's strategic ambiguity made CCC vulnerable to political autoimmunity
THE term "autoimmune disease" refers to a condition whereby the body attacks normal cells by mistake because its natural defence system is unable to distinguish between foreign and body cells....Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:45hrs | 751 | by Tapiwa Gomo
140 boreholes for cholera hotspots
GOVERNMENT has drilled 77 boreholes in cholera hotspots across the country out of a target of more than 140 as it steps up efforts to fight the deadly water-borne disease through increased access to c...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:49hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Gayton McKenzie takes his anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbridge
Recklessly xenophobic South African opposition Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie and members of his right-wing party took their anti-immigrants vigilantism to the Limpopo River in Beitbri...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 09:31hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Zambia delays start of school year as cholera deaths rise
Zambia has delayed the start of its school year by three weeks, echoing measures taken in January 2018, as cholera deaths in the southern African nation climb.School reopenings have been suspe...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 09:01hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
SA ramps up screening at its borders over outbreak of cholera
The National Department of Health said the outbreak of cholera in neighbouring countries has led to the government intensifying screening efforts at South Africa's borders.One of the countries...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:56hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Dark underbelly of pickpocketing in Harare CBD
AWARD-WINNING Zimdancehall chanter Killer T aptly captured Harare central business district in his chartbusting song Masuspect whose lyrics partly go: "Vapfanha vacho vanobhosha masuspect. Havan...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:28hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
'Tshabangu's efforts to bar recalled candidates will fail'
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) says Sengezo Tshabangu's efforts to bar its recalled candidates from contesting under the CCC banner will fail because their representatives were successfully n...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1913 | by Staff reporter
Cholera is wreaking havoc in Harare's poor suburbs
TWO men struggle to push a rusty wheelchair over quarry stones into one of the tents at a clinic in Kuwadzana phase 4, one of Harare's densely populated suburbs.In the wheelchair is an elderly...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:35hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans warned about heatwave effects
HEALTH experts have warned of life-threatening illnesses, including deadly heat stroke due to the extreme temperatures being recorded in most parts of the country recently, as they urged members of th...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 615 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe kills over 150
These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.The virulent bacterial disease...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:45hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on high alert for cholera
WHILE Bulawayo has not recorded any cholera cases in the past four months, local health officials are on alert, urging residents to practise good hygiene and desist from shaking hands at public gather...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:30hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak fear grips Kwekwe
THE death of an 18-year-old male in Kwekwe from a suspected case of cholera on Saturday has left the gold mining city gripped with fears of a cholera outbreak, this publication reports.The cou...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo school hit by water crisis
Ngwalongwalo Primary School in Pumula South, Bulawayo, is facing a water crisis due to pump failure, resulting in the school being without water for three days. This situation has compelled the studen...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:31hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man comes back from the brink after open heart surgery in India
WHEN Mr Wilberforce Matashu (46) of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo arrived in India early this year for open heart surgery, which saw him implanted with artificial heart valves to assist the aorta, he h...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillor dies
Patricia Chibaya, the Councillor for Ward 2 in Chinhoyi and a member of the Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC), has tragically passed away just a month after being re-elected for her second term in ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders versus Dynamos: The anatomy of violence
Once again — and not for the last time — a Highlanders versus Dynamos football match ended in violence with the usual accusations and counter accusations of referee bias and oppression being the o...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 21:33hrs | 970 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Next Zimbabwe President faces uphill task
ZIMBABWE is facing a host of pressing challenges that voters dearly want the next president to address. Persistently high inflation, elevated interest rates, and a slumping and volatile Zimbabwe dolla...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 29 | by Jonathan Munemo
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 | 364 | by Erick Matotoba
Mumps outbreak hits Harare
Harare has been hit by an outbreak of mumps, a contagious viral infection mostly common in children that affects the salivary glands.Mumps is most recognisable by the painful swellings in the ...Published: 06 Aug 2023 at 08:35hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Mystery disease decimates kraals in Mberengwa
FOR a month and a half, Mr Thomas Mangena of Jeka area in Mberengwa District, Midlands Province lived in what seemed to be a bad dream that he wished he would one day wake up from.The reality,...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fears cholera outbreak may spiral out of control in Zimbabwe
THERE are fears that cholera may spiral out of control as latest statistics show that the outbreak worsened in recent weeks, with a number of cases reported in Manicaland and Harare provinces....Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC to blame for immigration crisis, says Maimane
OUTSPOKEN South African opposition leader, Mmusi Maimane, says the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is to blame for the immigration crisis in that country by condoning Zanu-PF's bad govern...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Flue bug hits Bulawayo
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s department of health services has said the wave of flu that has affected a number of residents in the city was being investigated, adding that Covid-19 cases were sti...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cholera hits wedding guests in Zimbabwe
HARARE City Council officials are investigating a case in which 40 wedding guests developed cholera symptoms at a resort in the capital.Council spokesperson Innocent Ruwende confirmed the inci...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Unserviced stands blamed for Beitbridge cholera'
BEITBRIDGE Municipality has said the occupation of Kwalu 2 residential area has fueled cholera cases as the area has not been fully serviced but has close to 50 families residing there already, with v...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:34hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Cholera breaches 3000 cases mark
ZIMBABWE has surpassed the 3 000 mark for new suspected and confirmed Cholera cases since an outbreak was reported in February this year with reports that a total of 57 people are hospitalised due to ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Zanu-PF reform under sanctions?
The US targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe are working in the sense that their effects have now reached a boiling point unlike the earlier days during the time they were imposed on the country the signs an...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 13:42hrs | 12 | by Leonard Koni
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 | 4 | by Staff reporter
Diabetes, the silent killer
54% of people living with diabetes in Africa are not aware of their status, highest in the world resulting in them presenting to hospital late when already with complications. This raises the risk of ...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 18:12hrs | 8 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwean national with cholera admitted to Musina Hospital
Limpopo has recorded its first cholera case, according to the provincial Department of Health.It said the 26-year-old Zimbabwean national reported to Musina Hospital on Friday after experienci...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Nigerian man arrested in the UK for allegedly impregnating his spouse, in-law's mother, and in-law sister
A Nigerian man living in the UK has been detained after he allegedly impregnated not one but three women: his wife, his wife's mother, and his wife's sister. The arrest has stunned the neighbourhood a...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:25hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
China new variant of COVID 19 could infect 65 million per week.
Zhong Nanshan, a top Chinese epidemiologist, said Monday that two new vaccines for the XBB omicron subvariants (including XBB. 1.9.1, XBB. 1.5, and XBB. 1.16) had received initial approval, accord...Published: 26 May 2023 at 10:27hrs | 7 | by Erick Matotoba
Harare suburbs now cholera hotspots
THE City of Harare is in panic mode due to rising cholera cases in the high-density suburbs.Harare Provincial Affairs and Devolution secretary Tafadzwa Muguti yesterday urged residents to be o...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in panic mode
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pressed the panic button over galloping prices of basic commodity as he accused retailers of plotting his defeat ahead of the August elections. Retailers last ...Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally attacks 'educated, but incompetent ministers'
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has launched a broadside on "educated, but incompetent government ministers" whom he accused of running down the economy and failing to reign in the country's run-away inflat...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC raises alarm over spike in cholera cases
THE CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has raised alarm for the cholera outbreak amid Zimbabwe's weakening health delivery system.This comes after five people succumbed to the infectious dise...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politics in generational transition
It seems there is a growth in the number of younger candidates being nominated to represent the parties in the upcoming polls.ONE of the most stubborn facts is that the old die, and the new are bo...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:24hrs | 22 | by Ntando Dumani
'Your vote counts!' said Obama. Only selective amnesia: politics (Sapo) sufferers believe it's equally true in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans suffer from selective amnesia, a peculiar variant that affects their political thinking. I will call it selective amnesia: politics (Sapo). Amnesia...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Man seeks US$24,000 for heart surgery
A 46-YEAR-OLD man from Nkulumane suburb whose main artery to the heart has a weakened wall and expands abnormally when the heart pumps blood, is seeking US$24 000 to replace the defective valve....Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dunderhead' Chiwenga asking WHO to stem nurse haemorrhage - Wasting time treating symptom, treat the Mafiosi disease
Zimbabwe's VP and Minister of Health, Dr Constantino Chiwenga ask the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help stem the haemorrhage of Zimbabwe health care workers. "One of the problems we disc...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 18:00hrs | 12 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa must allow the opposition to campaign freely
A democratic Zimbabwe cannot be built on undemocratic processes like violation of the constitution, continuation of Zanu PF poor policies, violence, lack of respect of the rule of law and abuse of hum...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 18:25hrs | 9 | by Leonard Koni
Chegutu records 2 cholera cases
TWO cholera cases were recorded in Chegutu last week, sending signals that the waterborne disease that has already been reported in some African countries had entered Zimbabwe's borders.In a s...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on cholera alert
ZIMBABWE is on alert for any potential outbreak of cholera following reports of rising infections and deaths in some parts of Southern Africa mainly Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.To date, ove...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:29hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 25 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Suspected wizards/witches usually found at people's homes suffer from mental health
THE grey-haired, half naked and stumbling elderly individuals who are usually found at people homes in the wee hours are not all wizards and witches but some suffer from mental health.A family...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 07:54hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
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