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South Africa tightens screws on xenophobic health MEC
The ANC in Limpopo has defended premier Phophi Ramathuba amid a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) probe into her controversial remarks to a patient from Zimbabwe in Bela Bela Hospital...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:28hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Vulindlela Ndlovu unveils Cimas mobile clinic
The Vulindlela Ndlovu led Cimas has launched a mobile clinic aimed at improving healthcare access for marginalized communities in Zimbabwe. The mobile clinic is equipped with essential medical...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 07:55hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors, nurses milking patients through syndicates
The Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe is taking stern action against laboratory professionals who are collaborating with health workers in public institution...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 11:25hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Zahara dies in SA hospital
The world bids farewell to the exceptionally talented musician Zahara, known in private life as Bulelwa Mkutukana. The multi-award-winning artist took her final bow on Monday night, leaving a void in ...Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 21:18hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joshua Nkomo named dogs after Ian Smith and his wife
WHAT Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Government had not anticipated was the resilience of the country's nationalists.They remained courageous and refused to regard the hardships and strenuous chal...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Xenophobic SA MEC loses in bid to quash inquiry into her 'killing my health system' rant
Limpopo MEC for Health Dr Pophi Ramathuba has failed in her attempt to put a stop to a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) inquiry into comments she made to a Zimbabwean patient when sh...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP in court for rape
A former member of parliament for Kambuzuma, Tinashe Maduza, yesterday appeared in court for allegedly drugging, sexually assaulting and robbing one of his former employees and later for kidnapping hi...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga ex-wife's attempted murder trial opens
MARRY Mubaiwa diverted the entourage that accompanied Vice President Constantino Chiwenga to seek medical attention in South Africa to a hotel instead of going straight to hospital upon their arrival,...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA's health council slams xenophobic Limpopo health MEC for berating Zimbabwean patient
Limpopo health MEC Phophi Ramathuba has been reprimanded by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) for shouting at a Zimbabwean patient in a Limpopo provincial hospital in August....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Making the most of a small bedroom: Space-saving furniture ideas
For many people, a small bedroom can be a real challenge when it comes to decorating and furnishing. With limited space, it can be difficult to create a functional and stylish bedroom that meets all o...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:16hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
UBH says nothing amiss with mattresses on the floor
United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) acting chief executive officer, Narcisius Dzvanga has rubbished claims that the referral hospital is subjecting patients to inhumane conditions.This is after a ...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bus crew relives moments before horror crash that claimed 36 ZCC members
THE speeding St Charles Lwanga High School driver, whose bus lost brakes, veered off the road and rolled several times before landing over 200 metres down the steep, killing 36 people on the spot on T...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shingi Kawondera spends 2 'glorious hours' with ex-wife Marry Chiwenga
Ex-footballer Shingayi Kaondera met his ailing ex-wife Marry Mubaiwa bedside in hospital for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday.Mubaiwa left Kaondera, with whom she has a child, and marri...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ndumiso Gumede laid to rest
HUNDREDS of people converged at Ndumiso Gumede's rural home in Inyathi Village, Bubi District in Matabeleland North, to pay their last respects to the late decorated football administrator.The...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
It's a cruel world for black people
So the world decided to gather in Glasgow, Scotland, last week to try and save the planet from what we are told could be an imminent apocalypse caused by rising global temperatures.Well, Bisho...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:08hrs | 8 | by Bishop Lazarus
Tshinga Dube supports Mugabe family for clinging to ex-leader's body
OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe's family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba.Add...Published: 29 May 2021 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prison break at Chikurubi, Mamombe escapes prison?
In the past week there has been a serious talk about how Johanna Mamombe who is in a remand prison was treated. The issue was bordering on the video clip ...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
State-of-the-art Covid-19 equipment for Mpilo, UBH
FOUR central hospitals including Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals are set to receive state-of-the-art equipment including intensive care unit (ICU) monitors and emergency ventilators to help fight ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mary Chiwenga missing?
Mary Chiwenga the wife of the ailing Vice President General Constantino Nyikadzino Dominic Chiwenga has not appeared in public for a few months now since it was revealed that she is suffering from the...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 18:43hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe
What do Slobodan Milosevic, Robert Mugabe, and Nicolás Maduro have in common? Other than being leaders who kept the Communist Manifesto at their bedside, all three ushered in devastating hyperinflati...Published: 14 May 2019 at 10:14hrs | 9 | by Prof. Steve Hanke
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 7 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Of heroes betrayed, forgotten
When, in the fullness of time, the lies can hold no longer, when the frail bottom of deception falls off, when the foggy morning dew of orchestrated media smokescreens withers and gives way to the pow...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Mnangagwa assists Banana's widow
THE widow of former President Canaan Sodindo Banana, Mrs Janet Madade Banana, who returned to Zimbabwe after an 18-year stay in the United Kingdom is admitted at a private hospital in Bulawayo where P...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stabbing at school
A Zengeza 4 High School pupil is nursing injuries at Chitungwiza Central Hospital after he was stabbed in the abdomen last Friday while defending his neighbour who had accidentally stepped onto assail...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Let the walls come down
The recent shutdown in Zimbabwe stirred a lot of reflective moments as I took time to engage some critical thinking and problem-solving mechanisms in a bid to find solutions that could address our bro...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Cynthia C Hakutangwi
One Night Stand
When we met at the bar last night, slurred speech and double vision had set in and it wouldn't have mattered to me if she had said she was a Zanu PF supporter - I still would have gone home with her. ...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 11 | by Jerà
John McCain dies at 81
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, d...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 07:17hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda calls for General Strike in Zimbabwe
The nurses in Zimbabwe are on strike. The doctors have joined. And Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda wants to shut the whole country down and quickly resolve the problems. A technique he knows too well. ...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Mlungisi Gwenya - Metro Youth News
Hubby 'killer' trial begins
A WOMAN from Mangwe who allegedly set her husband on fire after an argument over a bucket of sorghum has appeared before a Bulawayo magistrate in a bedside court session at the United Bulawayo Hospita...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Family of 3 sisters shot dead demand $40,000 compensation
THE family of three women in Bulawayo's New Magwegwe suburb who were recently fatally shot by a soldier who later turned the gun on himself in a suicide attempt, is demanding $40 000 as compensation f...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai wanted passport for prophetic healing
The much-publicised fight over late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's passport had to do with a trip to Germany where members of the politician's family had booked an appointment with a prophet in a...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Killer soldier further remanded
A SOLDIER who allegedly fired about 20 shots, killing his wife, her two siblings and injuring his 18-month- old daughter before shooting himself in an alleged suicide attempt in New Magwegwe suburb fo...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's mother boycotts service
The late MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai's mother, Lydia Zvaipa, was conspicuous by her absence at a memorial service for her son held at Mabelreign Methodist Fellowship Church in Harare yesterday, as...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The real coup in MDC-T
My People First things first, my deepest condolences to the Tsvangirai family for the loss of the family head, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.By extension, I would also like to proffer my condolenc...Published: 18 Feb 2018 at 22:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC letting Tsvangirai down
In 2015 the newly elected Zambian president, Edgar Lungu, collapsed during a public event and it was later announced that he would need to seek treatment abroad. The procedures following a presid...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 22:09hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
LISTEN: Tsvangirai relatives refuse with his passport in hospital meeting
In this leaked audio tape, Morgan Tsvangirai who is battling colon cancer in a hospital in South Africa, can be heard protesting the seizure of his passport in a bedside meeting attended by nephew Heb...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 14:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mudzuri confirms Chamisa barred from seeing Tsvangirai
Ailing Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai has met with the party's acting president. Elias Mudzuri at his hospital bedside at a Johannesburg Hospital earlier today. This comes aft...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:21hrs | | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mudzuri battle escalates
MDC-T's succession drama continued to unfold yesterday, with two of Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's deputies claiming interim leadership of the opposition party.The protagonists in that drama are Advoc...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Killer' soldier's relatives start negotiating with bereaved family
THE family of a soldier who allegedly fired about 20 shots, killing his wife and her two siblings before shooting himself in a suicide attempt in New Magwegwe suburb yesterday started negotiations wit...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wife, siblings shooting soldier out of ICU
A SOLDIER who allegedly fired about 20 shots, killing his wife, her two siblings and injuring his 18-month- old son before shooting himself in a suicide attempt in New Magwegwe suburb appeared in cour...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Magwegwe killer soldier out of ICU, appears in court
A SOLDIER who allegedly fired about 20 shots, killing his wife, her two siblings and injuring his 18-month-old son before shooting himself in a suicide attempt in New Magwegwe suburb appeared in court...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The day Mnangagwa visited Tsvangirai - Is it a noble gesture or cheap political points scoring?
Campaigning in Zimbabwe for 2018 elections has begun, at Tsvangirai's bedside, ZANU PF using his painful situation for image building, campaigning at the expense of MDC T /Alliance. This is for public...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 18:30hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo SK Ndiweni
Chiwenga and the Nyikadzino Prophecy
The day before Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga's grandfather died, he called the future general to his bedside and said: "What I wanted to achieve I could not achieve, but you are going...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sekeramayi ditches Mugabe
Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi, pictured, has thrown his weight behind Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential bid, saying he never wanted to succeed President Robert Mugabe as widely alleged.Se...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gang of 7 kills taxi driver.
A TAXI driver here was early yesterday morning gruesomely killed by a gang of seven armed robbers who later pounced on a money changer and robbed him of R30 000.The gang allegedly killed Mr Cl...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 08:22hrs | | by Stafff reporter
Zimbabwe military agrees to Mnangagwa Presidential takeover
COLOGNE - The top brass of Zimbabwe's security services, have reportedly agreed to back political artful dodger, Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the second republic president of the land, to re...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 07:46hrs | 18 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mugabe challenges Zanu-PF chefs
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday called on senior Zanu-PF leaders to emulate the unity shown in the party's youth league as he invoked the spirit of his late deputy Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo while emphasising...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 10:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man kills wife over SMS 'from lover'
A MAN from Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb allegedly sjamboked his wife to death after he found text messages in her phone and suspected she was having an affair.Thabani Mpofu, who is on the ru...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paralysed bus crash victim seeks help
FOURTEEN years after she was paralysed following a road traffic accident, a 62 year old Bulawayo woman is appealing for assistance.Ms Margaret Moyo was injured while on her way to her rural ho...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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