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Nurses in desperate bid to flee Zimbabwe
Thousands of Zimbabwean nurses are stranded and financially drained after spending up to US$2 000 each in failed attempts to migrate for better-paying jobs abroad, as government authorities allegedly ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt racks US$3m from nurses, blocks their diaspora dreams
The government is facing sharp criticism for withholding crucial verification letters from thousands of Zimbabwean nurses seeking to work abroad, despite collecting more than US$3.6 million from healt...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:31hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt blocks 4,000 nurses from leaving
The Zimbabwean government has reportedly withheld verification letters for more than 4,000 nurses, effectively blocking their chances of securing employment abroad in a controversial attempt to stem t...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:44hrs | 493 | by Staff reporter
Govt cannot block the exodus of professionals through force
Let's not kid ourselves. You can burn the letters, double the fees, threaten the nurses, and chain the airport gates if you want - but people will still find a way to leave this crumbling husk of a na...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:09hrs | 385 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabweans among top immigrant groups to the UK
Over the past year, Zimbabwe has seen a marked increase in the number of its citizens migrating to the United Kingdom, with 36,000 individuals making the move in the 12 months leading up to June 2024....Published: 01 Dec 2024 at 12:19hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zimbabwean nurses lose US$8,000 to bogus employment agencies
Eight aspiring nurses were allegedly conned of over US$8,000 by bogus employment agencies they engaged to assist them with securing vacancies at Sally Mugabe Hospital, a Harare court heard Tuesday....Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport fee includes US$20 QR Code fee
Those who spent the night at the Harare Passport office and the many who arrived early in December received a fortunate advantage as the government confirmed the anticipated increase in passport appli...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:05hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Economic gloom feeds Christmas rush to get passports to leave Zimbabwe
Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document, and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year....Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:44hrs | 11 | by Associated Press
Zimbabwe accused of blocking nurses from taking jobs abroad
Struggling to survive on her meagre salary, Zimbabwean nurse Jane decided to start a new life abroad but, one year after landing a job in Britain, she is still waiting to pack her bags.Jane is...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:59hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurses fret over global recruitment ban
UNDERPAID Zimbabwean nurses and doctors have vowed to find alternative ways to circumvent a foreign recruitment ban recently imposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying they cannot bear the...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 09:54hrs | 66 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa bans health workers from prolonged strikes
Zimbabwean health workers are now barred from going on strikes lasting more than three days, according to a new law just signed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The government says the Health S...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Nurses blast Chiwenga
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga has with immediate effect ordered the Nurses Council of Zimbabwe (NCZ) to stop issuing Nurses' Verification Letters, a key document for those seeking employment o...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:44hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean firefighters join nurses in leaving the country for better pay abroad
Samuel Chikengezha, a 35-year-old fireman, sits on a sofa in his modest home, staring at the television set while he stresses over how he'll make ends meet this month.He has not yet paid schoo...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 14:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe one of biggest labour exporters to UK
UNITED Kingdom's National Health Services (NHS) has revealed that Zimbabwe is one of its biggest exporters of labour in the health sector, ranking it as the second country after Nigeria in terms of th...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'engaging' UN to recoup millions from countries hosting Zimbabwean nurses, doctors
THE Zimbabwean government says it is engaging the United Nations in an attempt to recover millions of dollars from countries that have recruited the nation's health workers, including nurses and docto...Published: 02 Jan 2022 at 18:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Health personnel exodus hits public hospitals
HEALTH workers, particularly nurses, are deserting public health institutions in droves amid a surge in demand for their skills abroad in a development that has further plunged Zimbabwe's healthcare s...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa leads people astray new covid rules are not political
In the past 24 hours United Kingdom has lost 53.000 fifty three thousand people to COVID 19. The number is growing. In twenty four hours six Zimbabwean nurses in the UK have lost their lives to COVID ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Sheer innocence leads many Zimbabeans to UK prisons
MOST Zimbabweans see their dreams of prosperity tumbling down like a sand castle as they are bundled into police cars and eventually taken to prison for being Zimbabwean. In many British prisons, ther...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 16:24hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The darker side of nursing in the UK
NURSING is a popular profession for Zimbabweans here in the UK. Nurses enjoy a diverse and rewarding career.They are considered leaders and are highly regarded. Experienced nurses have found t...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 09:53hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Leaders seeking treatment abroad destroy their health system
My father used to say if a man does not sleep at home he will never buy a bed. This is very true when applied to politicians on the continent seeking medical help anywhere but home. Politicians have s...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 16:24hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Minister dismisses South Sudan jobs adverts
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has dismissed advertisements inviting registered nurses to apply for jobs in South Sudan.He said his ministry was not aware of the said...Published: 27 Jun 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans stampeding out of the country, mainly to South Africa
After a period of relative calm and stability that obtained in the country during and just after the government of national unity era, desperate Zimbabweans are once again stampeding out of the countr...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 19:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe attacked over diasporans deportation remarks
The first lady Grace Mugabe has come under fire after she taunted diasporans who claimed that her husband wanted to kill them saying they now faced deportation from the United Kingdom where there are...Published: 04 Jul 2015 at 08:09hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwean nurses threaten 'crippling' strike over unpaid bonuses
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) Harare Chapter has given the government an ultimatum to pay off their bonuses by Friday the 9th of this month or face a crippling industrial action.The ...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to 'export' jobless nurses
GOVERNMENT is working on modalities to "export" unemployed nurses to work in other countries, mostly in the Sadc region.Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Douglas Mombeshora, said a...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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