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Aflatoxin contaminated maize sparks fear in Zambia after 400 dogs die
An "alarming number" of 400 dogs are thought to have died over the past month in Zambia after eating contaminated maize and humans could be at risk too, the country's health minister has said....Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 12:34hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Benylin paediatric syrup banned
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) has banned the sale of Benylin Paediatric Syrup, which is manufactured by Johnson and Johnson in South Africa, after authorities in Nigeria found tox...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Suspected donkey thief tortured to death
CLOSE to 20 residents of Dumba village near Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped and tortured to death a fellow villager accused of stealing a neighbour's donkey.A police report indicated that Austin Siband...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 12:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A random 10 political questions that will make 2023 an uncertain year
As the euphoria of the New Year begin to fed away, we have to wait to see whether it's clear that the trends we have been seeing over the last few decades show no signs of slowing down. You might say ...Published: 04 Jan 2023 at 01:08hrs | 1 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Panic over Hwange underground fires
Decades-old infernos spewing ash and smoke are causing sinkholes that have subsequently consumed a key trunk road linking Makwika Village (Number 3) and Hwange town.The road, which also links ...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council sued over air pollution
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has taken Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to court for failing to properly manage its sanitary landfill site popularly known as Ngozi Mine in Richmond suburb resu...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents demand refuse fee removed from their rates
side from the Covid-19-induced lockdown restrictions where many of us had to adjust to working from home among many other things, 2020 was a burdensome year because of the Bulawayo City Council's fail...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Harare pulls out all stops to halt Zimra garnish
HARARE town clerk Hosiah Chisango, who recently dramatically bounced back at Town House despite serving a suspension, is desperately seeking a relief order from Treasury to stop the Zimbabwe Revenue A...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to send dead elephants' brain tissue to US for toxin tests
Zimbabwe plans to send brain tissue samples from dead elephants to the United States to test for toxic micro-organisms blamed for hundreds of elephant deaths in neighbouring Botswana, the parks author...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 18:57hrs | | by Reuters
FULL TEXT: Tawanda Muchehiwa's gory story on how he was abducted by Ferret team
I often wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely with a pulsating headache. At that moment, I can feel intense pain on the right side of my jaw. I never get back to sleep.I have t...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 09:49hrs | 18 | by Tawanda Muchehiwa
Poisoning fears spook Zanu-PF bigwigs
THE fear of poisoning has once again come to the fore within Zanu-PF and government circles following allegations by Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's close associates that the ailing former Zimba...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Beitbridge should fit into National Ports Authority scope
The quest to boost productivity in industries and to grow the national economy has seen Zimbabwe, like any other progressive nation in the world, coming up with a raft of measures to remove trade barr...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Zanu-PF's Dexter Nduna calls for death sentence for sanctions advocates
ZANU-PF Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna has moved a motion to have any Zimbabwean who calls for sanctions on the country to be sentenced to death. Nduna said the people who call for illeg...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex sweets hit Bulawayo streets
SALONS and flea markets dotted around the Bulawayo have become hot spots for selling a new type of aphrodisiac that comes in the form of sweets and candy.Going by the street names of "sex swee...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Have more sex to beat cancer'
The Cancer Association of Zimbabwe (CAZ) is encouraging men to be sexually active and at least have 21 ejaculations in a month to reduce the risk of prostate cancer.CAZ information officer Pri...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 people die from snake bites
HARARE - At least 13 people have died from snake bites since the beginning of the year, statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Care reveal."The total snake bite cases reporte...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 17:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Infrastructure sharing to improve telecoms services
Infrastructure sharing is increasingly becoming a necessary requirement and the most viable business model in the telecommunications industry. Its benefits for both consumers and service providers are...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 12:12hrs | | by Charles Motsi
Harare's dirty and smelly water
Harare's piped water is dirty and smells foul when it is available, but scientific research indicates that it could also be killing residents slowly and silently.Health minister David Parireny...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
He milks snake venom to save lives
In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial - the way he had do...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poisonous snakes on the prowl in Zimbabwe
Poisonous snakes are on the rampage, particularly in the country's snake belt regions, biting 320 people in the first four weeks of the year.Statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 14:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Raw food treatment for cancer - Alternative cancer treatments
The Editor,I thought this information can help improve someone's quality of life.https://www.cancertutor.com/rawfood/This is a very potent cancer treatment; however, it should ...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 14:58hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Mphoko, Mnangagwa, in nasty fight
ACTING President Phelekezela Mphoko, and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa openly traded barbs, as 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe's succession wars reached a tipping point yesterday.Mphok...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blasts liars over Mnangagwa 'poison'
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday castigated some elements peddling false allegations that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently fell sick after eating ice cream from Gushungo Dairy owned by the First F...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala speaks on taking oath as lawyer
Firebrand MDC secretary for recruitment Job Sikhala - who signed the High Court's roll of attorneys officially becoming a lawyer last week --has said his political life will not affect his newly-acqui...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo challenges Mnangagwa on poisoning
HARARE - Cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo waded into the saga involving the alleged poisoning of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday; suggesting that police shou...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mugabe's village face health crisis
Residents from Zvimba communal area have been pushed to bear the brunt of an ineffective waste management system from the neighboring Harare culminating into garbage being illegally dumped into their ...Published: 11 May 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Foot rot disease in cattle
HEAVY rains received this year came with a number of challenges for livestock farmers especially as it relates to diseases.The disease prevalence and morbidity as well as mortality tend to...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dialysis too expensive, says Parirenyatwa
Zimbabwe records 1 000 cases of kidney failure every year yet only 700 of those are on dialysis, Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has said.Speaking at the 12th annual c...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru outwits Gumbo, Mutasa
Former vice-president, Joice Mujuru has presented herself as a shrewd political strategist by changing the name of her political party, dumping the name Zimbabwe People First that had been at the ...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top 10 Fat Busting Foods
The key to a healthy lifestyle is eating a balanced diet and getting plenty of exercise. However, if losing weight is your aim then there are a few foods that you should be incorporating into your die...Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 18:19hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
From DJ to Prophet
IT was practically at the height of his prime in the music industry when one of Bulawayo's award-winning tribal house music group Djembe Monks' founding members - Black Cee (real name Ndumiso Tshu...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare dumpsite smoke pose health hazard to residents
The harmful effects of toxins being emitted from the Pomona dumpsite are exposing individuals and the environment to serious health and ecological implications.There are growing fears and ...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 19:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
School poison terror
THIRTY-SEVEN Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting, apparently from food poisoning after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources ...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:40hrs | | by Bongani Ndlovu
Please stop disconnecting water in all cities of Zimbabwe! Water is a human right. Period!
Please dear citizens, pass this message to all city councils in Zimbabwe. A country that has 90% unemployment, where do they get money to pay water rates from? Has it ever dawned on the whole Mayor of...Published: 17 Nov 2015 at 13:28hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Dialysis continues undisturbed at Harare Haemodialysis Centre
Dialysis continues undisturbed at Harare Haemodialysis Centre, even when power goesEvery day at least 28 patients with chronic or acute kidney failure visit the Harare Haemodialysis Centre, in...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 11:33hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Zanu-PF cannot afford perpetual 'self cleansing'
This October, Zim-Asset has reached a two-year milestone. Last year at this time, this column covered the hits and misses of this great five-year programme. So another year on, it would have been the ...Published: 20 Oct 2015 at 09:28hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Another GNU beer talk
Revision of history has it that Adolf Hitler's beer hall speeches, decorated by populist scapegoats to blame economic woes on the civilian leadership, shaped his political ideology which evolved on th...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 10:27hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Public smokers to be jailed
SMOKING in public will attract a fine of $500 or six months in jail after the country has aligned the Public Health Act on Tobacco Control Regulation 264 of 2001 with the World Health Organisation sta...Published: 20 Sep 2015 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T to fight the Labour Amendment Act
17 July 2015 marked the beginning of the worst nightmare in history for Zimbabwean workers in the private sector with the handing down of the Supreme Court judgment allowing the termination, by employ...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 13:37hrs | | by Jessie. Majome, MP
Midzi post mortem results out
Ousted Zanu PF Harare Provincial Chairman and Epworth constituency legislator, Amos Midzi died of marked Pulmonary Oedema due to poisoning.This was revealed by results of a post mortem perform...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 19:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Harare water heavily polluted
The Harare residents could be drinking heavily polluted water as the local authority is struggling to test effluent discharged into the capital's drinking water sources.Council has for the...Published: 24 May 2015 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Toxicology report stalls DJ Munya trial
DJ Munya's trial has stalled because of a pending toxicology and histology report. The reports which looks at body tissue and organs through examination of the microscopical architectur...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 09:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public smokers face $500 fine or 6 months jail term
MINISTRY of Health and Child Care has called on the law enforcers to descend on public smoking offenders as the ministry intensifies its crackdown on citizens reluctant to comply with the Public Healt...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Together let us protect our environment
On the occasion of World Environment Day it is imperative that the opportunity the day presents is seized, to take a lead in raising awareness of growing environmental hazards to the country. It is th...Published: 04 Jun 2014 at 13:27hrs | | by Prosper Tsvanhu
Zimbabwe to regulate biological weapons manufacture
Zimbabwe's government, under constant surveillance from western powers over its dealing with huge deposits of uranium, is seeking to establish a law that would "prohibit the development, production an...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to regulate biological weapons manufacture
Zimbabwe's government, under constant surveillance from western powers over its dealing with huge deposits of uranium, is seeking to establish a law that would "prohibit the development, production an...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Silent killer in our Homes: The unintended consequences of GMOs
Within North America, if you purchase milk at your local supermarket and leave it out in the open for 1-4 days it will not curdle (turn into lacto). Women in North America are uncomfortable with brea...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
Al-Qaeda poison gas cell busted
Baghdad - Iraq's defence ministry said on Saturday it has broken up an al-Qaeda cell that was working to produce poison gas for attacks within the country as well as in Europe and North America....Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff Report
Top 10 cellulite-busting foods
Eat your way to smoother skinSuffering from bumpy "orange peel" skin on your legs, bum or tum? You're not alone – cellulite affect...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 22:20hrs | 3 | by Realbuzz.com
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