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Zimbabwe's herbalists, doctors unite thwarting non-communicable diseases
HARARE - With government's research confirming that 80 percent of Zimbabweans consult herbalists prior to visiting hospitals, the country's Ministry of Health has shifted to partnering traditional hea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 16:56hrs | 756 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze
Zim student admitted at Limpopo Mediclinic after Funeral firm donate R100 000
A ZIMBABWEAN student was on Wednesday admitted at the Mediclinic hospital in Limpopo province - South Africa to under go operations....Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 12:32hrs | 3396 | by Stephen Jakes
Rare skin disease hits Zimbabwe
SYMPTOMS upon first exposure to sunlight: Freckling on sun-exposed areas. Dry skin. Pimples resembling blisters develop into spider web-like vessels and eventually dark brown tumours.If your c...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:37hrs | 8020 | by Staff reporter
Rats cannot think beyond peanuts
AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a gen...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | 139 | by Bishop Lazarus
26 trafficked gorillas from DR Congo recovered in Zimbabwe
At least 26 great apes illegally removed from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been seized in Zimbabwe, where four suspected traffickers have been arrested, authorities in both countries said Fri...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 21:01hrs | 2865 | by Staff reporter
'I'm a Zim doctor, the COVID-19 crisis is worse than you imagine'
YOU may have heard about the seven babies stillborn at Harare Hospital in one day at the end of July. From the maternity register that night, you can see that the infants were on average a healthy wei...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1288 | by African Arguments
FUNDRAISER: Pumula's Geshom Ndlovu needs £2 000 for tumour operation
Mthwakazi Queens UK is running a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for Pumula South's Geshom Ndlovu who needs funds to be operated to remove the tumour that has grown on his left jaw. Of the £...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 617 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe coronavirus victim died 'alone and scared'
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help.Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba was "alone and scared", according t...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 16:21hrs | 2444 | by Shingai Nyoka BBC News
Council refutes negligence over COVID-19 fatality
The Harare City Council (HCC) has refuted allegations from the Makamba family which insinuate that Zororo Makamba, the first casualty of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Zimbabwe died due to lac...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:24hrs | 770 | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa's govt officials take measures to avoid contracting lethal disease
IN AN unprecedented development, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and his ministers held their weekly Cabinet meeting in a tent at State House yesterday, after it emerged that the late broadcas...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 15:19hrs | 1459 | by Staff reporter
Makamba family fumes over Zororo's death
BELOW is the statement by the late Zororo Makamba's family after he became the first Zimbabwean to succumb to coronavirus at Wilkins Hospital in Harare on Monday. Zororo was the son of busines...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 07:50hrs | 68662 | by Daily News
Newcastle disease outbreak hits Bulilima district
A NEWCASTLE disease outbreak has hit Bulilima district, Matabeleland South province, leaving villagers counting heavy losses of their chickens.The epicentre of the disease was reported to be v...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:03hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Cause of Mugabe's death revealed
National hero and Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe died of advanced prostate cancer, the state controlled newspaper Sunday Mail reported.The revelation follows widespread conjec...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 7407 | by Staff Reporter
'Cancer man' unfazed by Magaya-hospital furore
Forty-three-year-old Peter Manganda is not concerned much about the current furore over circumstances surrounding his cure from a 5,3 kilogramme debilitating tumour that had grown on his head....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 11:20hrs | 4600 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's perpetual struggle with forex black market
AS Zimbabwe continues battling a boisterous foreign currency black market, there are strong signs that a parallel goods markets will soon emerge.Notwithstanding the distinguishable history of ...Published: 31 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 815 | by P Masamha
Dabengwa knew his time here was up, says relative
Fallen national hero Dumiso Dabengwa, 79, knew his time on earth was up and wanted to die at home, according to a family source.Dabengwa, president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu...Published: 26 May 2019 at 20:55hrs | 7182 | by Sunday Times
'Prostate cancer on the rise in Zimbabwe'
The growing spread of prostate cancer among Zimbabwean men now warrants a serious epidemiological investigation, the Zimbabwe Cancer Registry (ZCR) has revealed.ZCR registrar Eric Chokunonga s...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:35hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa demands lifting of sanction - crying shame, one so powerful is hopelessly wrong
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political mess and there are many who have taken to shouting "Don't panic! Don't panic!" only to help spread the panic!"Ideally, the key thing is to establi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 20:59hrs | 2628 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
26 to get free cleft lip surgery at Mpilo
TWENTY six patients are set to receive free cleft lip and plastic surgery starting today at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, with the number expected to increase during the course of the week. ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:29hrs | 120 | by Staff reporter
Mixed views on Schweppes sweeteners
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited has added three artificial sweeteners to the Mazoe concentrated drinks which are feared to cause cancer and brain cell damage among other diseases, if consumed in large quan...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
2018 must, first and foremost, deliver free elections - forget ED's dogma saying otherwise
"Mhembwe rudzi inozvara mwana eneruzhumu!" (Each individual buck species has its own distinct marking!) so goes the Shona adage. Ever since President Mnangagwa took over from Robert Mugabe he has cert...Published: 19 May 2018 at 18:22hrs | 728 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa ignores Zanu PF violence to talk of 'democratic ethos' - essence one caught in 'legitimacy trap'
"Zanu PF's hotly-contested primary elections took place countrywide yesterday amid violent and chaotic scenes, as well as damaging allegations of bribery, favouritism and the imposition of candidates ...Published: 01 May 2018 at 06:49hrs | 771 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
If MPs cannot nail blundering Chivayo what more Macavity, 'bafflement of Scotland Yard'
Watching these parliamentary committee hearings of Wicknell Chivayo, Minister Obert Mpofu, ZESA management, etc. is comparable to listening to the childhood stories of "Tsuro naGudo" (The hare and the...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 18:06hrs | 2160 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mpilo doctors go on strike
DOCTORS at some hospitals including Mpilo Central Hospital yesterday embarked on a strike defying the Minister of Health Child Care Dr David Parirenyatwa who had warned against taking industrial actio...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:05hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
'We have $98m instead of $146m for elections,' complains ZEC - proof ZEC is compromised and useless
Zimbabwe is in economic mess; with unemployment soaring to 90% plus, ¾ of our people living on US$1.00 or less, etc., etc.; because for the last 38 years the nation has been stuck with a regime that ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 19:06hrs | 824 | by Nomusa Garikai
Tsvangirai moved to ICU
Ailing MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has been placed into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Johannesburg hospital.People in the know said Tsvangirai's situation is critical and he will be lu...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 13:11hrs | 8758 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai diagnosed with a kidney tumour
Ailing MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has been placed into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Johannesburg hospital after he refused to eat for 10 days due to the alleged ill-treatment of his wife Eli...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 17:38hrs | 12619 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Tsvangirai's current prognosis is grim - fears he might not pull through
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's current prognosis is grim, amid fears he might not pull through a local daily reported.Tsvangirai, 65, who was diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2016, is now...Published: 10 Feb 2018 at 10:08hrs | 21979 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's son restrained from assaulting his step-mum at hospital
The wife of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is being denied access to visit him in a Johannesburg hospital where the 65-year-old opposition leader is receiving medical treatment, his spokesperson ...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 16:01hrs | 22667 | by Staff reporter
Man with breasts seeks help
BOOBY trap?A Gokwe man claims to have mysteriously grown a pair of breasts.Blessed Bepe (46) of Village Tizora under Chief Njelele said he could not even sleep because of the newest fe...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'prisons are not fit for human habitation,' says First Lady - please, spare us the insufferable arrogance
New brooms sweep clean! President Mnangagwa and his wife are certainly trying very hard to give credence to that maxim. "First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa took a swipe at prison authorities and th...Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 22:01hrs | 4351 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Sanctions undermine Mnangagwa's reforms and economic recovery,' argues Daily News - base thuggery and blackmail
The Daily News has waded into the current debate on whether or not Tendai Biti, Nelson Chamisa and Dewa Mavhinga of Human Rights Watch were right to recommend that sanctions against the Zanu PF regime...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 04:40hrs | 1182 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Seek ye first political kingdom' said Nkrumah - one thing Zanu PF tricking us into giving up
In his classical tale Animal Farm, George Orwell has the witty and sharp –shooter, the pig Squealer, telling the other animals black is white today and the exact opposite tomorrow and the latter bel...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 07:03hrs | 689 | by Guramatunhu
'I am not bed-ridden,' says Tsvangirai
Former Prime Minister in the unity government, Morgan Tsvangirai, is now out of danger.Tsvangirai left for South Africa last month to seek urgent medical attention after his condition had sudd...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 13:30hrs | 4315 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai suffering from an aggressive form of colon cancer
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai - who is fighting an aggressive form of cancer of the colon - is struggling with excruciating pain, one of his closest allies told the Daily News yesterday....Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 18:19hrs | 3621 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai in excruciating pain
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai - who is fighting an aggressive form of cancer of the colon - is struggling with excruciating pain, one of his closest allies told the Daily News yesterday....Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 05:58hrs | 11522 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T has to hope for the best and prepare for the worst
Painful as it might be, some things have to be said and sorted. Whether you like it or not, they cannot be postponed or shelved any further.It has been courageous - not outrageous - for Eddie ...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 09:34hrs | 1112 | by Conway Tutani
Tsvangirai's cancer could spread throughout his body
A top aide of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has disclosed that the former prime minister is battling an aggressive tumour that could spread throughout his body.It has been three weeks since Tsv...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 7527 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to divert Aids levy to cancer treatment
Government will be diverting part of money collected for the Aids levy to bankroll cancer treatment, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said.Aids levy - introduced in Januar...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:12hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Tooth extraction goes awry
A FAMILY from Njube suburb in Bulawayo is appealing to members of the public to help secure funds for blood and an operation for one of its sons who developed a tumour after his tooth was extracted....Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 07:14hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Italian court rules mobile phone caused tumour
Rome - In a potentially landmark case, an Italian court has ruled that excessive, work-related use of a mobile phone caused an executive to develop a benign brain tumour.In a ruling ha...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 20:32hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Prophet clashes with prostitutes
A LOCAL church leader, prophet Lazarus Mashavave, is headed for a clash with hookers at Tobacco Sales Floors who accuse him of disrupting their business.Prophet Mashavave of Life Giving Sp...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 16:59hrs | 1054 | by Staff reporter
Birthday boy video goes viral on Facebook
A video posted by a disabled boy who was diagnosed with a brain tumour aged 17 months has gone viral on Facebook.The video posted on the boy's 16th birthday has reached over 3.6 million views...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 12:36hrs | 1530 | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai has tumour in the colon, family thought he will die soon
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says being diagnosed with cancer of the colon came as a shock to him and his family who believed his days were numbered, but he has learnt to take the disease in his...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 18:58hrs | 3842 | by Staff reporter
Mandoza dies
Kwaito singer Mduduzi Tshabalala, also known as Mandoza, has died at the age of 38, South African media has reported. Mandoza is said to have passed on around mid day after being ta...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 14:25hrs | 3172 | by Staff reporter
Cancer deals Tsvangirai a big blow
MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai's stamina and capacity to sustain a rigorous 2018 campaign has been thrown into doubt following his public announcement that he has colon cancer.Tsvangira...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 11:17hrs | 3397 | by Staff reporter
After phony factional war Zanu PF gets rude welcome to reality with bond notes fiasco!
Let me say from the onset, I am really pleased that Zanu PF's phony factional wars are now over and the regime can finally focus its attention on the nation's BIG ISSUE - the worsening economic meltdo...Published: 07 May 2016 at 18:38hrs | 4045 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Chinamasa admitted' sanctions are NOT the cause of Zim economic meltdown said US Ambassador!
The American government imposed targeted sanctions against Mugabe and a select few in his inner circle for the regime's bad human rights record and failure to hold free elections. I applaud the succes...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 16:26hrs | 3973 | by Wilbert Mukori
Man has tumour weighing more than his weight removed in 'miracle' surgery
Doctors in India have successfully removed a massive 55 kg malignant bone tumour from a 26-year-old man's thigh. The man, Gurmeet Singh from Jalandhar, was suffering from the tumour for ...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 08:23hrs | 4209 | by Staff Reporter
Nkrumah was right we must 'seek ye first political power,' GPA reform for us!
"Seek ye first the political freedom and everything else shall be added unto you" is a myth, a monumental lie, a delusion that assumes political power will necessarily result in economic freedom and d...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 04:52hrs | 2689 | by Wilbert Mukori
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