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Zimbabwe platinum output to remain stable
Platinum production in Zimbabwe is expected to remain stable this year, with global demand projected to rise by 3% to approximately 226,000 ounces, according to a report released by the World Platinum...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 08:51hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Ukrainian smuggled into Zimbabwe, Immigration officers in trouble
Four Plumtree immigration officers find themselves embroiled in a scandal as they stand accused of fraudulent and corrupt activities involving the unlawful entry of a Ukrainian national into Zimbabwe,...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 20:27hrs | 15 | by Desmond Nleya /Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe public health collapse
The cries of doctors at Zimbabwe's largest public hospital appear to have fallen on deaf ears and an increasing number of health professionals are emigrating, resulting in a dearth of cancer treatment...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 08:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
When desperate, tactless opposition fakes victimhood
Last Monday the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) faction was at it again. It was involved in skirmishes with the people of Masvingo in an incident which involved the discharge of a firearm.This was all sc...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa's new tool against dissent
THE incarceration at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison and delayed acquittal of two opposition activists by the Supreme Court last week is symptomatic of Zanu-PF's desperate attempt to weaponise the l...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted' Zimbabwe doctor free of poisoning: Tests
A RANGE of blood and urine specimens extracted from Peter Magombeyi, the former Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) president, who was allegedly abducted by state security last year showed no...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
You can't continue to lie in this era of technology
Last week Zimbabweans watched in awe when the ZBC TV serialised a documentary that exposed the alleged abduction of the MDC-Alliance trio of Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marowa, as a ch...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 16:38hrs | 6 | by Innocent Mujeri
US and its Allies barking up the wrong tree
ZIMBABWE is under attack from the West through the use of proxies in the form of the MDC Alliance, Lawyers for Human Rights, cheque book journalists, Civic Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Government...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Zimbabwe's striking doctors dig in
Public hospital doctors have vowed to continue with their strike, which started on Tuesday this week, despite the government's move to ban all forms of industrial action.Cabinet on Tuesday ann...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zimbabwe doctors go on strike
Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has written to the Health Services Board informing them that they are incapacitated from offering their services with immediate effect. In a letter in pos...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Furore over unemployed doctors
The government has been accused of failing to deploy doctors that qualified in April despite a huge shortage of the health professionals.Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors deploying Association (ZHDA) ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses on go-slow
NURSES at public health institutions have announced that they are cutting their working hours to two days per week, pending action on their grievances by their employer, failure of which they will dow...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors, nurses strike in 14 days
Doctors and nurses have issued a 14-day notice to go on strike, saying health workers have had enough of austerity measures.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last year introduced austerity measure...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Government still open for negotiations with health sector
Government is still working hard to address challenges facing employees in the health sector despite concerns by worker representatives at the pace at which the State was moving, the Health Service Bo...Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors make fresh demands
THE Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) has appealed to the Health Services Board (HSB) for better conditions of service saying inflation has eroded their salaries.In a letter addres...Published: 14 May 2019 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, doctors showdown.2 looms
Another showdown is looming between doctors and government as the Health ministry has not yet addressed doctors' demands agreed in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which saw the medical pract...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 11:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
No pay for striking doctors
Government has said it will not pay doctors for the days they were absent at their work stations during the 40-day long industrial action which started early in December and ended at the start of last...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Threats and blackmail: The real story behind the doctors' return to wards
They stood their ground against government threats, but it took coercion from one of their own to end the junior doctors' 40-day strike.At one time they were fired by Vice-President Constantin...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Everson Mushava
Mnangagwa's wife broke the ice, not the strike - doctors
Zimbabwe government hospital doctors have been on strike for the past 36 days, plunging the public health sector into deep crisis, which has led to the near-collapse of the health delivery system. But...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's health ministry apologises for loss of lives
The Health and Child Care ministry has issued a public apology for the loss of lives and suffering during the just-ended doctors' strike.In a statement published in the press, the ministry exp...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors 'arm-twisted' to suspend strike
JUNIOR doctors at public hospitals yesterday ended their 40-day long strike after some consultant doctors allegedly threatened to cause them to fail their internship.The Zimbabwe Hospitals Doc...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's defining moment
GOVERNMENT will today meet its restive employees in a crunch meeting for salary negotiations in a desperate bid to stop a full-blown strike that could cripple State operations.This comes as wo...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Doctors officially end strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have announced that the industrial action that had been running for the past 40 days has come to an end.In a statement released on Thursday ZHDA said,...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 06:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans become more restless
Political analysts have warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that his government is running out of time to fix the country's worsening economic rot - which has triggered strikes and growing unrest amon...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 13:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More doctors report for duty
More doctors yesterday heeded Government's call to return to work and joined their colleagues who reported for duty on Monday. In a statement yesterday, Government said all doctors who had bee...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors still on strike
THE crippling five-week strike by public hospital doctors is far from over after an undisclosed number of medical practitioners have elected to stay at home, arguing that government did not place conc...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe.com
Civil servants plead poverty
TEACHERS yesterday said they were too poor to go back to work as schools open countrywide today, piling pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the worsening economic crisis.This cam...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Auxilia Mnangagwa saga: Fadzayi Mahere digs in
Prominent human rights lawyer Fadzayi Mahere had questioned about who mandated the First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa to meet the doctors and solve their grievances.Mahere said the act is against co...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:53hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Full list of doctors who have resumed duties
The Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting has released the number of doctors who reported for duty in various hospitals on Monday. "Doctors continue to report for duty in all hosp...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 08:02hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors dump work and resume strike
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has announced that its members who had resumed duty on Monday will be withdrawing their services on Tuesday to join the rest of their counterparts who did not...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 16:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Suspended doctors appeal for $250,000
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association have launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000 for the suspended junior doctors who engaged in industrial action for the past 38 days....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors' strike: Lives on ropes as lies, arrogance blot hope
Timothy Kafiramberi (not his real name) is visibly desperate and scared as he carries his ailing son who cannot walk due to an unexplained sickness. He has been moving from one room to another along t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:16hrs | | by Vanessa Gonye
Suspended striking doctors snub disciplinary hearings
Striking junior medical doctors who were scheduled to appear before disciplinary hearings at their respective workplaces on Friday have disregarded the process, insisting they will turn up only once t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:15hrs | | by newzimbabwe.com
Junior doctors say no to 'new' deal
Striking junior doctors last night rejected a deal that was signed between government and Apex team leaders which could have seen an end to the month-long industrial action saying they did not agree t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctors end strike?
Striking public sector doctors have agreed to return to work with immediate effect after an agreement with Government on a plethora of grievances that had witnessed the health practitioners' stay away...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets spies on striking doctors
Government is using unorthodox tactics including political intimidation to force striking doctors to abort their industrial action, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) has claimed....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fails to end doctors' strike?
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's surprise intervention yesterday into the crisis in the health sector failed to end the strike by junior doctors, which has dragged on for the past 35 days.Mnang...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff repoirter
Breakthrough for doctors finally
The cat and mouse chase between the government and the doctors seems to have come to and end after there was an agreement on Friday on the employers and employees can engage moving forward. There are ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:55hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Striking 'intern' doctors agree to return to work
The junior doctors who had withdrawn their services have agreed in principle to return to work after holding a meeting with the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa this morning.The junior docto...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Divisions rock striking Zimbabwe 'intern' doctors camp
DIVISIONS have rocked the country's public hospital doctors camp following their conflicting Friday messages on the status of a five-week-long strike which was said to have been called off at the behe...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:40hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Fresh twist to doctors strike saga
In a latest development, the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association has dismissed media reports that doctors have called off the strike after meeting First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in Friday.Thi...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 15:18hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Intern' doctors threaten to snub disciplinary hearings
THE over 500 suspended junior doctors at public hospitals have vowed to snub disciplinary hearings scheduled for today at their various work stations around the country and continue with their industr...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Doctors vow to continue their month-long industrial action
Striking junior doctors have vowed to continue with their month-long industrial action despite claims by government that the two sides have reached a consensus on the majority of their demands....Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors speak out on latest developments
The Zimbabwe hospital doctors are deeply saddened by the continued misrepresentation of facts by some elements in regard to the on-going industrial action by doctors at all levels nationwide. This has...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 13:14hrs | 5 | by ZHDA
Another setback for striking doctors
Junior doctors have lost their quest to get permission to appeal against a Labour Court ruling that ordered them to end their month-long industrial action.The doctors had filed an application ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces mass protests
Mass protests have been lined up in the New Year as public disenchantment against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration continues to grow, the Daily News can report.Yesterday, the main...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cuts leave to solve Chiwenga's mess
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to cut short his leave days and try to break the impasse in the negotiations between the government and the junior doctors who are on industrial action....Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Doctors reject Chiwenga deal
Negotiations between government and striking doctors collapsed yesterday after the medical practitioners rejected a deal struck by negotiators, prolonging the month-long strike.Doctors in publ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Intern' doctors refuse to return to work
The negotiations between health workers and Government yesterday failed to lure striking doctors back to work as they insisted on their demands despite the employer offering to review their allowances...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'misled' on doctors' issue
Doctors yesterday came out guns blazing, telling Acting President Constantino Chiwenga that government did not spend a single cent in educating them.They said their parents, guardians and fami...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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