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Zimbabwe is a failed state. So, who will care for the carers when they are old?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?" Asked Roman poet Juvenal.Replace guard with political leader and you can see why democr...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 13:18hrs | 142 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's sick turn to herbalists over ailing health system
When Agnes Kativhu could not get treatment for breast cancer from Harare's main public hospital, she checked in to one of the many self-styled herbal clinics opening up across Zimbabwe's capital....Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 08:15hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
UK, Ireland healthcare carers hopefuls lose thousands to scammers
POPULAR Bulawayo mental health activist and founder of a mental health organisation, Win Over Addiction and Trauma (WOTA), Witness Bongani Mguni, has reportedly gone into hiding after allegedly defrau...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurse aid robs Ireland pensioners
"LOCK them up for a long time because they are evil," were the words of one of six vulnerable pensioners preyed on by their former carer for Euro 34 000 in violent burglaries in Athlone, Co. Westmeath...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:13hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa
A CARE company serving NHS patients has been charging migrant workers from Africa thousands of pounds to work in the United Kingdom when the cost of a visa is only a few hundred pounds, The Guardian h...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
UK care work visas to Zimbabweans up 170% this year
The number of Zimbabweans who moved to the United Kingdom to do health and care work rose by 169% in the year to September, deepening the skills crisis in the country.Migration is rising as Zi...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 20:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans among top 5 most exploited nationals in UK
A LATEST situational report by a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom (UK) has painted a gloomy picture that reeks of massive exploitation, bordering on slavery, of migrants from developing c...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 19:30hrs | 2 | by James Muonwa
Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era
LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
17,000 Zimbabweans leave for UK care work
THE number of Zimbabweans leaving for care and support jobs in the United Kingdom jumped 562 percent to more than 17,000 last year but the escape option may close as the Tory administration faces a hu...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must introduce social safety nets for unpaid care givers
VENDORS Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (Viset) is part of a steering committee working group on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).The working group is convened by the Wom...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Viset
Zimbabwe caregivers in the UK pay huge fees to agencies
Zimbabweans working as carers in some of United Kingdom's health care centres are being charged a shock 31% of their initial wages over a period as administration fees by unscrupulous agents back home...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'COVID-19 patients opt for home-based care'
MEMBERS of the public who have tested positive to COVID-19 are increasingly opting for home-based care management of the disease rather than seeking hospitalisation, a recent survey by the Women's Coa...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New emergency project to help displaced people in Zimbabwe fight COVID-19
Displaced people living in temporary settlements in Zimbabwe are to get help to protect themselves against COVID-19 in a new project led by education and sociology experts at the University of Notting...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:39hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Family's fight to stop UK deporting carer ‘to her death' in Zimbabwe
An 'irreplaceable' carer fears she will be abducted or murdered if the Home Office deports her back to Zimbabwe.Siphiwe 'Pewie' Moyo, 34, came to the UK in 2007 to escape political persecution...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:04hrs | 2 | by metro.co.uk
Many Zimbabweans in the UK abandon their professions to become nurses
Nurses do enjoy a diverse and rewarding career that really makes a difference. Nurses act as leaders, carers and clinicians, taking responsibility for the care they provide to patients. They are life ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:51hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe and its numerous 'boy-scouts associations'!
It stank to high heavens just by looking at the pics of the JOC, a meeting held today and chaired by President Mnangagwa: pictures were in Bulawayo24: it was a group of only men, not one single woman ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 20:08hrs | 6 | by Nomazulu Thata
I'm not a tribalist, says Gorden Moyo
People's Democratic Party (PDP) secretary-general, Gorden Moyo has said he is not a tribalist and his faction, which claimed to have axed party leader, Tendai Biti, is made up of people from all the c...Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 12:57hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zim Achievers Announce Local Care Force as Sponsor
Multi-million dollar Nursing, Social and Community Care agency, Local Care Force, have been unveiled as a sponsor for the sixth edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA).Speaking of the c...Published: 25 Apr 2016 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Tidi Kwidini
Using talk to tackle Zimbabwe's mental health crisis
If you take the World Health Organization's estimate that one in four people will suffer mental health problems at some point in their lives, the figures for Africa would run into the hundreds of mill...Published: 23 Feb 2016 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Brian Hungwe
Zimbabwean Mawadzi among top care recruitment agencies in the UK
Care recruitment agency and Zimbabwe Achievers Awards 2012 winner of the company of the year award, Renaissance Personnel, has become one of the top 100 small businesses to work for in the UK....Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 06:36hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Vigil slams Zanu-PF arrogance
Anyone really hoping for a turnaround in the Zimbabwean economy will be dismayed by the comment by local government minister Ignatius Chombo. Speaking after a meeting with a 19-strong British investor...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 09:14hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Vigil
Prince Harry makes his first public appearance since nude photos scandal
Prince Harry has made his first public appearance since nude photos of him made international headlines.A fully clothed Harry attended an awards ceremony Monday for the charity WellChild to ce...Published: 04 Sep 2012 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by AP
Mother informed a week after about son's death
Social services from Sunderland City Council in the UK took nearly a week to tell a mother her disabled son had died.Michael Kershaw, 20, had been in care for most of his life after being born...Published: 13 Aug 2012 at 13:23hrs | 2 | by Staff Reprter
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