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Chiwenga, Moyo hospitalised in SA
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo are admitted at top South African hospitals where they are said to be in bad shape, the Daily News reported.The t...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2690 | by Staff reporter
Contraceptives prices shoot up
For the average Zimbabwean, birth control pills are lifestyle drugs while condoms are one of those accessories many would put into the shopping basket without considering the cost.Well, that w...Published: 10 hrs ago | 957 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, SB Moyo in bad shape
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo are admitted at top South African hospitals where they are said to be in bad shape, the Daily News reported.The t...Published: 16 hrs ago | 7674 | by Staff reporter
Mbanje, bronco dealer jailed 2 years
TEN bottles of Broncleer (Bronco) and a kilogramme of cannabis earned a prominent Guruve drug dealer two years in prison yesterday.Munyaradzi Muzhona pleaded guilty to possessing the drugs bef...Published: 16 hrs ago | 297 | by Staff reporter
Drugs shortages hit clinics
A serious shortage of drugs for chronic ailments including high blood pressure (BP) and diabetes has hit most rural health centres in Beitbridge West constituency where about 10 percent of the populat...Published: 17 hrs ago | 158 | by Staff reporter
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | 10237 | by Tawanda Majoni
Bond notes disaster: Zimbabweans count costs after a week of madness
Mary Muchenje bolted out of a pharmacy in Harare's Avenues area, only to stop a few metres away scratching her head.Muchenje's world had just crumbled after the pharmacists informed her she ne...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:59hrs | 4071 | by Staff reporter
Cimas accepting RTGS, FCAs
One of the country's leading medical aid societies, Cimas, said its members should continue to pay their contributions through payment modes made available to them by the regulatory authorities....Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:07hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Guruve drug dealer gets 2 years in prison
Ten bottles of Broncleer (Bronco) and a kilogram of cannabis earned a prominent Guruve drug dealer two years in prison yesterday.Munyaradzi Muzhona pleaded guilty to possessing the drugs befor...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:48hrs | 934 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Government avails US$7 million for drugs
GOVERNMENT has availed nearly US$7 million for the purchase of medicines, a development set to ease drug shortages and price distortions. Pharmacies started closing their doors from last week ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Panic bond notes sellers count their losses
PARALLEL market rates continued tumbling yesterday with US$100 which was recently being exchanged $600 falling to as low as $150 bond. The rates started declining after Government guaranteed t...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:09hrs | 7530 | by Staff reporter
First Mutual engaging Finance Minister for allocation of foreign currency
First Mutual Health Care has said it is engaging Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for the allocation of foreign currency to healthcare service providers for drugs and consumables.This the o...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:30hrs | 834 | by Stephen Jakes
ZADHR will sue Gvt to secure forex for drugs - Placid forced to act, 'charova sei chando!'
"Charova sei chando kukwidza hamba mumuti!" (It will have to be bitterly cold to force the tortoise to seek warmth up a tree! It will take unusual hardships to force the placid and indifferent to act!...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 19:11hrs | 765 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mugabe's 'I can come back' meme go viral
Social media is awash with memes of former president Robert Mugabe naughtily asking if he should return to office‚ complemented with jokes suggesting he should get dressed up just in case he's calle...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 08:17hrs | 6220 | by TimesLive
Zimbabwe police, protesters expected to clash
A showdown is looming in Zimbabwe on Thursday as labour unions have vowed to go ahead with planned protests against the country's continued economic crisis. This is despite a police ban on account of ...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2956 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets 72-hour ultimatum
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been given 72 hours to fix the economic challenges that have crippled the healthcare sector or face an urgent constitutional court challenge.The Z...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:57hrs | 30786 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses rejects bond note
PANICKY retailers and suppliers yesterday started rejecting the surrogate bond note currency or electronic transfers after its value collapsed on Zimbabwe's active black market, demanding, instead, to...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:50hrs | 11823 | by Staff reporter
Empty shelves, rationed bread ring alarm bells in Zimbabwe
In one of the biggest supermarkets in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, cooking oil, rice and Coca-Cola are all out of stock while a notice on the bread rack tells shoppers they can only buy one loaf each....Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 19:06hrs | 3458 | by AFP
Chamisa 'won't stop people from protesting'
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has reportedly said that his party "will not stop people from exercising their constitutional right to protest against the collapse of the ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 14:38hrs | 3731 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces worst economic crisis in a decade
As Zimbabwe plunges into its worst economic crisis in a decade, gas lines are snaking for hours, prices are spiking and residents goggle as the new government insists that the country - somehow - has ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 14:36hrs | 1969 | by AP
Chamisa ready to lead Zimbabwe out of crisis
As Zimbabwe's economic crisis deepens - with critical drugs, fuel and wheat in short supply - the opposition MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has called for a crisis meeting with President Emmers...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 07:11hrs | 8323 | by African News Agency
Biti, Mashakada table alternative economic policy
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance MPs yesterday tabled their party's alternative economic policy, which includes demonetising the surrogate bond note and for the country to join the Rand Monetary Union....Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gounds to a halt as shops, pharmacies close doors
THE price hike madness prevailing in the country has seen some shops and pharmacies closing doors to customers. A snap survey across Bulawayo showed that a number of shops are reluctant to sel...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Government warns on price hikes
THE Government has directed that prices of basic commodities increased without justification be reduced immediately, as it moves to bring sanity on the market. Retailers are hiking prices of b...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'is not the answer to Zimbabwe's economic challenges'
The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed claims by the opposition that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa holds the keys to the current economic problems affectin...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 09:54hrs | 5802 | by Staff reporter
DJ Templeman acquitted
A REGIONAL magistrate has acquitted music promoter and radio disc jockey Simbarashe Maposa, who is popularly known as DJ Templeman, of kidnapping a teenage girl whom he had offered transport to Beitbr...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:06hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
AHFoZ calls on RBZ to urgently allocate forex for healthcare products
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe has expressed concern that there is no mention of healthcare products in the list of strategic imports for which the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe says it ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 16:12hrs | 719 | by Agencies
Politics of sabotage won't take the nation anywhere
The past few weeks have been characterised by arbitrary price increases, soaring foreign currency exchange rates and general anxiety among Zimbabweans, who are dreading the spectre of the recurrence o...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 11:39hrs | 5128 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe, SA in labour migration policy talks
ZIMBABWE and South Africa have opened discussions to regularise (legal) labour migration between the two countries to curb exploitation of undocumented immigrants, a senior Government official has sai...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:07hrs | 1565 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies reject medical aid cards
Most pharmacies in the country are refusing to issue drugs to patients on medical insurance, the main doctors' association said yesterday, leaving thousands to pay cash.Zimbabwe Associat...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:55hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman smuggled drugs in canoe
A 35-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge woman appeared before a Guruve magistrate today charged for smuggling boxes of illicit drugs from Zambia.Mavis Bhayi (35) of stand number 192 Dhulivadzimu Township Bei...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 11:34hrs | 1666 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mthuli Ncube to cut government jobs in savings drive
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe will cut public sector jobs to help stem ballooning expenditure, the country's finance minister said on Friday.Recently-appointed Mthuli Ncube said job cuts were among a...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 19:20hrs | 6163 | by AFP
Zimbabwe runs out of critical drugs
Zimbabwe has run out of critical medical drugs, among them painkillers, TB, cancer and Hypertension tablets-raising fears of a gigantic crisis similar to the one experienced in 2008- when public hospi...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 07:53hrs | 2569 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortage hits essential drugs supply
The Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) has raised a red flag over the worsening shortage of essential drugs, warning there is only a few weeks supply in their reserves.PSZ president Port...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge woman nabbed for smuggling drugs into the country
A 35-YEAR OLD Beitbridge woman was arrested on Monday at a roadblock in Guruve after she was allegedly caught with two cardboard boxes and travelling bags of unregistered drugs bought in the neighbour...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 09:49hrs | 1946 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Parirenyatwa accomplice, Newman Batanai Madzikwa, arrested
Former Minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa's accomplice was yesterday hauled before the court to answer to two counts of criminal abuse of office charges.Newman Batanai Madzik...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 22:16hrs | 2431 | by Staff reporter
Sam Wezhira; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise
Your today's article on Bulawayo24: Bread and sugar will kill you anywhere was to the best article I could ever read today. Our approach to civilisation was when we started eating bread and drinking t...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 19:10hrs | 933 | by Nomazulu Thata
Call to uphold dignity of lepers
LEPROSY patient Morris Chikunga (not his real name) has clocked several years at Mutemwa Leprosy Centre in Mutoko where he is receiving treatment for the condition which has separated him from his fam...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:07hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Innovative vendors sell poo to desperate Zimbabweans
Some innovative vendors at the Chirundu border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia have been selling human stools to Zimbabweans after Zambians made them take laxatives in a bid to deal with the cholera ...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 22:38hrs | 7372 | by Staff Reporter
First Mutual reviews health contributions by 5%
First Mutual Health sector has reviewed health contributions by 5% with effect from October 1.The company advised its various clients of the developments this week."Please be advised t...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 908 | by Stephen Jakes
Sanctions affect the man on the street sir
The newly appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nicholas had an interesting interview with one of the pirate radio stations, Voice of America, wherein he was very economic with the ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 11:50hrs | 1643 | by Tafara Shumba
'Arrest of bigwigs in line with Zanu-PF’s anti-corruption stance'
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Dr Obert Mpofu has said the arrest of bigwigs, among them former Cabinet ministers, is in line with the ruling party's resolutions to clamp down on all forms of gr...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:56hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blocks donated life-saving drugs
LIFE-SAVING drugs worth millions of dollars, donated by the Global Fund, could soon go to waste after they were reportedly blocked from distribution and quarantined at government warehouses under uncl...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:34hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
12 Zimbabweans face the gallows in China
Twelve Zimbabweans - one man and 11 women - face the death sentence in China, unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government moves with speed to operationalise a prisoners' exchange programme with t...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 5275 | by Staff reporter
Cholera hits Beitbridge
Of the four suspected cholera cases reported in Beitbridge yesterday, only one tested positive while three other patients were discharged, SoutherEye has heard.A woman who resides near Elangen...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:55hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 16:30hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Datlabs invests $1 million
PHARMACEUTICAL and personal care products maker, Datlabs Limited, has invested $1 million in capital expenditure meant to bolster production capacity and meet market supply requirements. The B...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Cholera death toll hits 30
THE number of people who have died of cholera has risen from 28 to 30 as Government, Harare City Council, the police and other stakeholders continue to make concerted efforts to curb the spread of the...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
The fight against cholera
I may not speak on behalf of other towns and cities but in Harare CBD I am an eyewitness, eye-sore sights are commonplace. The only public toilets with a modicum of hygiene and cleanness are the pay-a...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 18:12hrs | 1204 | by Tondorindo
Cholera death toll climbs to 28
The death toll in Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 28, state media said on Sunday, as the health minister announced new antibiotics were being used after the disease strain was found to be res...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 17:41hrs | 1623 | by AFP
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