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Woman vows celibacy until jailed 'fake doctor' fiancé is freed
In a poignant tale of love tested by crime and conviction, 23-year-old Hazel Mangwiro has vowed to remain celibate until the release of her fiancé, Taurai "Prosper" Vanhuvaone, a man recently jailed ...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 16:12hrs | 850 | 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...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:42hrs | 1184 | 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 del...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:23hrs | 220 | 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...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:20hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo fake doctor appeals against conviction
A man who masqueraded as a doctor in Bulawayo and operated at Mpilo Central Hospital while defrauding several people has launched an appeal against his conviction.Taurayi Prosper Vanhuvaone, w...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 17:52hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo fake doctor convicted, back behind bars
The trial of Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, who was arrested last year for impersonating a doctor, began yesterday with the State revoking his bail following his conviction on two counts of fraud....Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 09:16hrs | 814 | 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 Barbo...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 08:05hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Public hospitals now death traps, says residents
Residents in Bulawayo have expressed growing frustration with the deteriorating state of service delivery at government hospitals, citing long delays, misdiagnoses, and a rising wave of corrupt practi...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:57hrs | 228 | 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 sinc...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:25hrs | 305 | 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 Monda...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 ext...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 Mpo...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 10:17hrs | 2043 | 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 insp...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:43hrs | 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) ...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Yoliswa Dube-Moyo
Nothing new about the 'new dispensation'
Grace Mugabe is like a civet cat's stench. It's so strong it will burn your nostrils. And it doesn't go away in a hurry. Now, that disgraceful smell is hanging around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's se...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnagagwa is a habitual liar
I am now forced to believe that the President of South Africa is visiting Zimbabwe in days to come because he may want to get a lecture/exchange notes from/with John Mangudya and Mthuli Ncube. News th...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
'Dzamara has a fake degree'
The Vice President of the Thokozani Khupe led MDC Obert Gutu has accused activist Patson Dzamara of possessing a fake Doctoral Degree.Gutu revealed that during a Twar with Dramara over the Mon...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe exposes Mnangagwa over killings
Former president Robert Mugabe yesterday opened up about his ouster last year by the army, disclosing for the first time that some people were allegedly killed and others tortured as the 94-year-old p...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Controversy continues to escalate in Grace's PHD
Controversy has continued to mount in former First lady Grace Mugabe's flawed doctorate amid indication that soon after the University of Zimbabwe decided to publish her thesis online some schol...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 11:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
You are doomed without me, Cdes
Dear Former ComradesMY former Comrades, as I have always pointed out, I am and will always be, a loyal servant of the people. When the people decided that I had served them enough and it was t...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by CZ
NERA calls for resignation of Makarau from ZEC
A the nation gears for the harmonized elections expected next year, National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA) has called for resignations of various government officials from their positions among them ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 07:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
University of Zimbabwe must recall Grace Mugabe's fake Doctarate - analyst
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has challenged the University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura to recall the fake doctorate which was given to the first lady Grace Mugabe in unclear man...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa: Entitlement doth come before a fall
Just like that, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been fired, something nobody could have imagined just seven days ago.That Mnangagwa was probably going to be axed was now a public secret, but no soothsa...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Can Nkosana Moyo free Zimbabweans?
IN the battle for the minds and hearts of Zimbabweans looking for a powerful voice to tell the Philistines: "Let my people go," I have found no voice more intense and powerful in support of Nkosana Mo...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 17:52hrs | 3 | by Ken Mufuka
Fake doctorates: Jonathan Moyo; person to face jail is 'Dr.' Grace Mugabe
It is indeed selective morality: a travesty of justice: it is ludicrous to the highest order. Jonathan Moyo tells us that those who fake degrees or purchase degrees should face jail. By that same logi...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 11:26hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Pastor Evans Mawarire was ill-advised in the US
It was a sad story to learn that a sober Man of God now aspires for State House through further scatter of the electorate by default. It was most sad that he has failed to acknowledge the oppositi...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 11:48hrs | 4 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The Treachery of Mawarire and Dzamara
As the whole world watched the traitorous behavior of the bogus pastor, Evan Mawarire and the fake doctor, Patson Dzamara, literally calling for economic sanctions against their own motherland on fore...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 16:32hrs | 1 | by Chadzimura Mhute
Zimbabweans in South Africa beg for next meal
JOHANNESBURG - Having fled economic turmoil in Zimbabwe in 2008, Merlyn Ndou sought refuge in neighbouring South Africa; anticipating a change of fortunes, but the place of gold or Egoli, as South...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake doctor nabbed
A fake doctor at Ha-Rankopane Village in QwaQwa has been nabbed after the community doubted his credibility. Daily Sun reported that on Sunday afternoon, having noticed that the doctor did not...Published: 24 Mar 2016 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus doctor bust, again
An alleged bogus doctor who has examined, prescribed medicine to and treated thousands of patients for years has been nabbed following an undercover investigation by The Citizen.Mogaswa James ...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe STOP it!
The Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (RTUZ) is appalled and condemns the abuse of teachers, school children and school premises by ZANU PF Secretary for the Women's League, Grace Mugabe.The ov...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by RTUZ
Fake doctor shoves thermometer up nurse's bottom
A 62-year-old fake doctor from Miami Beach, Florida, allegedly shoved a rectal thermometer into a female job applicant's bottom and felt her breasts during a bizarre 'job' interview.Police say...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 09:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Why Mugabe should go now!
When someone is sick the doctor looks for signs and symptoms to identify the disease the patient is suffering from.These may be ailments like a rash, coughing, bleeding, vomiting, an abnormal ...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 18:35hrs | | by Pius Wakatama
Zimbabwe students view Grace Mugabe's 'bogus' doctorate as an 'insult'
The Zimbabwe National Students Union condemns university Vice-Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura for condoning Grace Mugabe's bogus doctorate.Grace Mugabe's PhD, awarded just months after she e...Published: 28 Sep 2014 at 19:23hrs | | by AFP
Zimbabwe students protest over Grace Mugabe's 'miraculous' PhD
The Zimbabwe students union has demanded the resignation of the university's officials over Grace Mugabe's "miraculous" PhD from the University of Zimbabwe apparently just months after she enrolled fo...Published: 27 Sep 2014 at 11:24hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Grace Mugabe PhD scandal deepens
THE Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) has called for a thorough investigation into how First Lady Grace Mugabe acquired her controversial PhD degree and demanded resignations of all those invo...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers absentism hits Zambezi Sec School [Binga District]
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number. ...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 12:06hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Fake Nigerian doctors nabbed
Lagos - Nigerian police have arrested two fake doctors accused of causing the deaths of "many" women during childbirth or surgery at a clinic they ran for three years, a spokesperson said on Monday....Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 18:47hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
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