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Zimbabwe's health system profits from the dead
Blessing Mucharambei's uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. "[He] started bleeding from the nose," she says, "and died on the spot."As far as his family knew, he had no he...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 08:03hrs | 352 | by Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe
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
Parirenyatwa's doctors on-call doctors sleep in cars
DOCTORS based at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals have demanded a meeting over the deteriorating conditions at the hospital which they say are leading to patients dying from preventable illnesses....Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's crying doctor stabbed in South Africa
A Zimbabwean doctor who famously wept at a Zanu-PF rally while claiming doctors were having it good under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that he was nearly killed in a stabbing incident in ...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC chokes on abduction lies?
POLITICAL analysts have described the self-abduction tricks by the former Harare mayor, Hebert Gomba, of the Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) last weekend as an overused and outdated scheme meant to...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter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
Why Mnangagwa doesn't want Justice Happias Zhou
REASONS why President Emmerson Mnangagwa strongly dislikes High Court Justice Happias Zhou - who led a brave judicial panel that dramatically blocked Justice Luke Malaba's controversial tenure extensi...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:23hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
General strike is the only way out, says ZCTU
WORKERS under the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) banner have declared that a crippling general strike was the only way out of the current salary crisis as government was not keen on addressi...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe workers under siege, claims Global Report
ZIMBABWE has been red-flagged as one of the world's 10 worst countries regarding workers' welfare.Violations of workers' rights, including abductions and other forms of violence and threats of...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
The harassment of nurses is getting ridiculous!
THE Zanu-PF politburo on Wednesday took a jab at nurses and we know the meaning of what the party bigwigs were trying to say — intimidation and harassing of health workers.This is the same p...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:47hrs | 5 | 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
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
Mayhem in Zimbabwe hospitals as doctors down tools
Doctors at public hospitals have turned down a 60% salary rise offered by government and vowed to go ahead with their planned industrial action starting today to press for a better offer and an improv...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Doctors to strike on Tuesday
Doctors at public hospitals will go on strike on Tuesday after they rejected a government offer of a 60 percent salary increase.The doctors have given an ultimatum to the government demanding ...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by ZimLive
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
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
Mnangagwa's govt gears for winter of discontent
PRESSURE continues to mount on President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country faces the prospect of crippling power cuts and looming work stoppages by doctors and teachers over poor salaries.Powe...Published: 14 May 2019 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
PRESSURE continues to mount on President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country faces the prospect of crippling power cuts and looming work stoppages by doctors and teachers over poor salaries.Powe...Published: 14 May 2019 at 08:13hrs | | 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 | 3 | 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
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
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
Blame not the striking doctors but the insatiable greed of ruling elite for the nation's mess
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: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:24hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
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
Mnangagwa allowing his wife 'to usurp constitutional power'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing allegations of allowing his wife Auxilia "to usurp constitutional power". Analysts said Mnangagwa's wife has no right to run government, and questioned i...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers planning paralyzing strike
Zimbabwean teachers are planning a stay away next Tuesday on the first day of the school year due to the harsh economic situation which has resulted in the devaluation of their salaries.In a state...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Doctors report for work in 5 cities
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has announced that in the past two days all doctors have resumed their duties in the following areas:Marondera - All Doct...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 10:08hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's wife overstepping her mandate
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing allegations of allowing his wife Auxilia "to usurp constitutional power". Analysts said Mnangagwa's wife has no right to run government, and questioned i...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Meeting won't stop strike, says Teachers
GOVERNMENT will today face off with its restive workers in a last-minute ditch to stifle a proposed nationwide civil servants' strike, but teachers unions yesterday vowed to go ahead with the industri...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 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
Solve doctors' grievances ASAP
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has reportedly been forced to cut his vacation short due to the worsening health crisis, needs to address the doctors' grievances immediately.Zimbabweans are ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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
Labour unrest as teachers, nurses and senior doctors join strike
Zimbabwe has been plunged into a labour crisis of monumental proportions after senior doctors, nurses and teachers joined the ongoing strike by junior doctors which is now more than a month old....Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
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
Teachers strike action imminent, Mnangagwa cuts his leave
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe secretary general Raymond Majongwe said a strike was inevitable when schools open unless Government acts fast to meet demands to raise salaries to $3000 from the...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 19:14hrs | | 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
2018 did not inspire hope for 2019
Today marks the end of 2018 and what a dramatic year it has been. It started off full of promise and hope coming just six weeks after departure of former President Robert Mugabe.There was rene...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:00hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Gomo
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