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Why Zimbabwe will not ban the use of the title 'Doctor'

While countries such as Ghana and Ethiopia are taking bold steps to regulate the misuse of honorary and fake doctorates, Zimbabwe remains unlikely to follow suit. The reason is simple, the system is deeply compromised. Many senior official…

Published: 09 Sep 2025 at 07:08hrs | 271 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

'Doctor of Nothing: Zimbabwe's elite and the theft of knowledge'

In the hallowed halls of academia, a doctorate stands as a towering monument to intellectual endurance, sleepless nights, existential crises, and a few thousand cups of coffee brewed stronger than most relationships. In Zimbabwe, however, …

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 16:30hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter

Harare doctor embroiled in NEC Medical control wrangle

A leading Harare-based medical practitioner, Dr. Billy Rigava, stands accused of attempting to retain control of the National Employment Council (NEC) for the Medical and Allied Industry by allegedly blocking a legitimate workers' union fr…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:35hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo bogus doctor caged 5 and half years

A man who spent two years posing as a qualified medical doctor - defrauding patients and promising fake nursing placements at Mpilo Central Hospital - has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison.Prosper Vanhuvaone was convicted o…

Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:05hrs | 490 | by Staff reporter

Fake doctor found guilty in Bulawayo, sentencing set for today

A man who posed as a qualified medical doctor, Prosper Vanhuvaone, has been found guilty of three counts of fraud and one count of impersonation following a high-profile trial in Bulawayo. The verdict, delivered yesterday, has set the stag…

Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:42hrs | 1187 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo fake doctor breath temporary sigh of relief again

Prosper Vanhuvaone, accused of masquerading as a medical doctor in Bulawayo, breathed a temporary sigh of relief last Friday after the court postponed delivering judgment until Tuesday.The delay was attributed to the State's failure to mee…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:23hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter

Judgment date set for Mpilo fake doctor

Bulawayo magistrate Mrs. Eva Matura has scheduled May 30 for delivering judgment in the case of Prosper Vanhuvaone, a 29-year-old man charged with fraud for allegedly impersonating a medical doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital.Vanhuvaone face…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:20hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo fake doctor trial date

The trial for Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, a 29-year-old Bulawayo man accused of impersonating a doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital, has been scheduled for March 28, 2025. Vanhuvaone, who resides in Barbourfields suburb, briefly appeared befor…

Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 08:05hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter

Chinese doctors to provide free surgeries for 600 cataract patients in Zimbabwe

A total of 600 cataract patients in Zimbabwe will receive free surgeries from Chinese doctors under the China-aided "Bright Journey" program.A team of 12 doctors from China's Hunan Provincial People's Hospital will perform the surgeries fr…

Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:34hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean medical doctor convicted of cyberbullying

Specialist neurologist Lennon Tonderai Gwaunza has been convicted of contravening the Data Protection Act after being found guilty of falsely claiming that another neurologist, Dr. Andrew Mataruse, was unqualified to practice neurology.Har…

Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 20:06hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter

Fake doctor appears in court, further remanded

Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, who has been in the spotlight for allegedly impersonating a doctor, appeared in court yesterday and was remanded to October 14. His case has drawn significant attention since his initial arrest and subsequent rel…

Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:25hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo doctor earns milestone recognition

Bulawayo paediatric therapist Dr. Precious Madzimbe has made headlines once again, representing Zimbabwe at the esteemed 2024 International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders held in Philadelphia, USA. This congress, or…

Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:59hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo 'fake doctor's' troubled past resurfaces

The drama surrounding Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, also known as Prosper Mpofu, continues to unravel after the 29-year-old was arrested for the second time at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Monday. Vanhuvaone, who had previously been …

Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 17:19hrs | 1819 | by Staff reporter

Fake doctor spotted at Mpilo Hospital days after release on bail

Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, the 29-year-old alleged fake doctor, was reportedly seen at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Monday, just days after being released on bail following his arrest for extorting money from patients seeking medi…

Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 16:05hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter

Fake doctor arrested at Mpilo Central hospital

A man posing as a doctor was arrested at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Tuesday after being discovered attending to patients in the outpatient department. The suspect, identified as Prosper Mpofu, had managed to infiltrate the hospi…

Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 10:17hrs | 2044 | by Staff reporter

Fake Zimbabwe nurse carries out 4 operations

A former nurse has been convicted of practicing as a medical practitioner carrying out surgeries on people in Gokwe.Admire Munyeki of Mbizo 5, Kwekwe appeared before Gokwe Magistrate Grace Tupiri facing four counts of contravening the medi…

Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 16:23hrs | 2350 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean doctor nominated for continental award

Dr. Rufaro Nyakatawa, a distinguished Zimbabwean doctor renowned for her innovative contributions to paediatric medicine and advocacy for enhanced healthcare services for children in Africa, has been nominated for the prestigious African G…

Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:30hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter

Haulage truck wheel dislodges, knocks dead medical doctor walking on roadside

On Wednesday, a tragic incident occurred at Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital, claiming the life of Dr. Tinotenda Madzima (30), a young medical doctor stationed at the hospital. The shocking incident occurred when Dr. Madzima was struck and fat…

Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 06:03hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Harare doctor in court for blackmailing colleague

A SPECIALIST neurologist was on Wednesday brought before a Harare magistrate charged with contravening provisions of the Data Protection Act after he was accused of blackmailing a colleague, Andrew Mataruse.Lennon Tonderai Gwaunza (40), ap…

Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 17:41hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter

Doctor in court for blackmailing a colleague

A SPECIALIST neurologist was on Wednesday brought before a Harare magistrate charged with contravening provisions of the Data Protection Act after he was accused of blackmailing a colleague, Andrew Mataruse.Lennon Tonderai Gwaunza (40), ap…

Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Doctor testifies in Biti assault case

Deputy Prosecutor General Mr Micheal Reza has closed the State case after leading evidence from his last witness Doctor Ushewokunze who admitted treating Mrs Tatiana Aleshina at Trauma Centre in Borrowdale, Harare.Biti is facing charges of…

Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Doctor to testify in Biti's assault case

The doctor who attended to Mrs Tatiana Aleshina at the Trauma Centre in Borrowdale, Harare after she was allegedly assaulted by politician Tendai Biti is expected in court tomorrow to give testimony.Biti is facing allegations of assaulting…

Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 23:15hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Harare doctor forges medical papers to help suspect skip bail

A medical doctor at Sally Mugabe hospital in Harare is in trouble after he allegedly forged medical affidavits claiming that a Chinese suspect arrested for illegal possession of rhino horns was sick.The doctor, Simbarashe Michael Mundawaro…

Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Pressure group flags doctors for double dipping, shortchanging patients

Kwekwe based pressure group, Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has called on authorities to step in and stop some public hospital doctors from shortchanging poor citizens through spending much of their time in their private…

Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 17:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Drama as trainee doctor assaults rival lovers

A man from Bulawayo, who is also a trainee medical doctor at Mpilo Central Hospital, and suspected his pregnant girlfriend of cheating for some time had his suspicions confirmed in the most dramatic way.It, however, ended in tears for the …

Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Harare doctor sued US$100,000 for defamatory Twitter posts

A HARARE medical doctor, Leon Gwaunza, has been sued for US$100,000 over defamatory statements posted on social media questioning his supervisor Andrew Mataruse's qualifications.Gwaunza has been ordered to withdraw the statements he made a…

Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

Backlash as SA's Phophi belittles Zimbabwean patient

SOUTH Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has lodged an official complaint against medical doctor and Limpopo province Member of Executive Committee (MEC), Phophi Ramathuba for "dehumanising" a  Zimbabwean patient."Thi…

Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean arrested for fraud after submitting fake doctor's note to employer

An Ekurhuleni man who allegedly submitted a fake doctor's note to his employer has been charged with fraud, the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) said on Friday.The council's  inspectorate office conducted a joint operation wit…

Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Ex-army captain, doctor in court for impersonation

A former army captain and a local doctor appeared before Harare  Ruth Moyo on Thursday charged for impersonation with intent to commit crime.Moyo remanded Alfred Ngonidzashe Mugadza (54) from Chimupamba farm under Chief Mujinga Tengwe…

Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:40hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Cry, the beloved country Zimbabwe

THE average salary of a Zimbabwean teacher is now only able to buy just 20 loaves of bread. But the majority of the teachers' take home can no longer even buy half a dozen loaves given that many of them have loans which suck away much of t…

Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 07:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Doctor testifies in Marry Mubaiwa assault case

MAXILLO and oral-facial surgeon Dr Wayne Manana yesterday told a Harare court that the woman who was allegedly assaulted by Marry Mubaiwa incurred a slight movement on her tooth because of the trauma sustained during the said attack.Dr Man…

Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:54hrs | 3 | 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 January.Patrick Mugoni, writing on Twit…

Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean doctor forged UK visa documents

A former Salford doctor has been refused in his bid to be restored to the medical register after being struck off back in 2014, a medical practitioners tribunal found.Dr Dazimbi Manika, who qualified in Zimbabwe in 1990, was struck off aft…

Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Renewed exodus of healthcare workers hits Zimbabwe

Earlier this year, Johnson Chegore, 33, resigned from his job as a nurse at a government hospital in the Zimbabwean capital Harare before he left for the UK.In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, medical doctor Hilda Zilawe, 37, also…

Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Top doctor comes up with 'must-have' Covid-19 cocktail to reduce severe illness

As the Health Ministry is overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients requiring admission in public health and private hospitals, a leading medical practitioner F Mamvura has come up with a proposal termed The CovidCocktail  which he says help…

Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Fertility doctor in court for sexual assault

A PROMINENT Harare medical doctor Tinovimba Mhlanga (36) was Monday brought before a Harare magistrate facing aggravated indecent assault charges after he allegedly inserted his fingers into the private parts of a female ovary donor.Mhlang…

Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Trio steals US$50 000 from doctor

INVESTIGATIONS into the case of a Ruwa medical doctor whose double storey mansion was gutted by fire last week, losing property worth US$130 000 have led to the arrest of his nephew, driver and gardener for theft and malicious damage to pr…

Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Prominent doctor's house gutted by fire

A suspicious fire on Friday destroyed prominent Harare physician Johannes Marisa's house in Ruwa's Riverside suburb in a suspected act of robbery.Marisa, who is also the president of the Medical and Dental private practitioners of Zimbabwe…

Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Fake doctor' treats Bulawayo patients

A CLINICAL officer at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for allegedly masquerading as a doctor to patients at his private practice in the city centre. Police arrested Watson Mpala (67) at Mpilo on Thursday after Health Professions A…

Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo

Pfumvudza is what the doctor ordered

This-PFumvudza programme, where ever the idea came from is what the doctor ordered. The rains are falling abundantly adding to the success story of the project. Wherever you go countrywide, the maize crop is a pleasure to watch, lush green…

Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:05hrs | | by Tondo Murisa

Doctor feels vindicated on COVID-19 drug

UNDERFIRE MEDICAL doctor Jackie Stone who has been accused by her colleagues in the medical fraternity for reportedly prescribing unorthodox COVID-19 therapy yesterday said she had been vindicated after government indicated it was testing …

Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe warns over rogue Covid-19 medical doctor

THE Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ) on Friday warned over the illegal practice of one Jacqueline Carey Stone, who is allegedly treating COVID-19 patients using unregistered medicines.In a statement, the MDPCZ s…

Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Doctor, nurse in oxygen scam

A PRIVATE medical doctor working in cahoots with a nurse at Victoria Chitepo Provincial Hospital are alleged to have smuggled an oxygen concentrator into the hospital and used it to rip-off desperate Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen.The…

Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Doctor under fire for prescribing unapproved COVID-19 remedies

MEDICAL doctor Jackie Stone has come under fire from colleagues in the medical fraternity for allegedly prescribing unapproved COVID-19 remedies for her patients.Specialist physician Rashida Ferrand and Katharina Kranzer, who is an associa…

Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Doctor stabs his 3 children to death

Tragedy hit the small sugar farming town of Mkwasine in Chiredzi last night when William Phiri, a medical doctor allegedly stabbed three of his children to death following a domestic dispute with his wife.Phiri allegedly set the house on f…

Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 20:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Drugs-theft Bulawayo doctor arrested for practising without a licence

A medical doctor who was suspended for stealing drugs at Mpilo Central Hospital has been arrested for practising without a licence at a city clinic.Emmanuel Mucheni, 35, was arrested last Friday following days of investigations by detectiv…

Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Nurse head-buts doctor over girlfriend

A Bulawayo magistrate Friday convicted and fined a 35-year-old United Bulawayo Hospital (UBH) nurse, Jabulani Moyo for assaulting a doctor working at the same health centre following a dispute involving a student nurse.Magistrate Nomalanga…

Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:10hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe

'Mugabe doctor's death a great loss'

The late senior medical consultant, Dr Kumbirai Mumbwandarikwa who died on the 11th of this month at his Borrowdale home after battling cancer has been described as one of the best medical practitioners to come out of this country.Dr Mubwa…

Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 20:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe's doctor dies

Doctor Kumbirai Mubwandarikwa, who treated prominent liberation fighters including former President Robert Mugabe in colonial jails, has died. He was 78.His son, Joram, confirmed the death to NewsDay yesterday."(My father) passed away at h…

Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mpilo Hospital doctor's house gutted by fire

PROPERTY worth thousands of dollars was reduced to ashes after a doctor's residence was gutted by fire at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. It is suspected that the fire was caused by a heater which was left on. The incident occurred bet…

Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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