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Is this health justice or state overreach?
In the swiftly evolving drama of Zimbabwean healthcare, a new bill in Parliament has stirred both hope and alarm. The Medical Services Amendment Bill, championed by Justice and Parliamentary Affairs M...Published: 18 hrs ago | 174 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabwe govt moves to regulate private health fees
Private health institutions in Zimbabwe will no longer be allowed to arbitrarily increase their fees or impose charges beyond government-prescribed limits without prior approval from the Minister of H...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 19:10hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's medical aid coverage crashes to just 4%
Zimbabwe's healthcare system faces a deepening crisis as health insurance coverage has plummeted to an all-time low, with just 4% of the population currently enrolled in any form of medical aid. The s...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:29hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
HIV patients pay hidden fees as ARV shortage deepens in Zimbabwe
A growing crisis is unfolding in Zimbabwe as some nurses at public clinics in Harare are reportedly charging people living with HIV illicit fees for access to lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) medicatio...Published: 01 May 2025 at 12:11hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
DA flexes its control over Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is confident a talk with President Cyril Ramaphosa will resolve their objections to the National Health Insurance (NHI) in its current form."Health Minister Aaron ...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:40hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
World Bank warns of grim future
Climate change and global warming are no longer buzzwords. They have emerged as clear indicators of an impending crisis that threatens the very fabric of global societies, economies and food systems....Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cholera outbreak kills more than 400 in Zambia
Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health experts fret over cholera resurgence
HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the resurgence in cholera cases, which they blame on poor sanitation and a lack of long-term planning for water supplies in urban areas.Community Wor...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga meets Iranian medical specialists
A team of 11 Iranian medical experts is in Zimbabwe and for the next two weeks will be in Bulawayo working as specialists in the first fruits of a medical collaboration deal between the two countries....Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Report exposes double standards in Zimbabwe's reform drive
THERE have been double standards in Zimbabwe's hyped reform programme, a report by the United States (US) has noted, raising concern over land expropriations and undertakings to protect property right...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Arundel rescues Zimbabwean patient humiliated in SA hospital
Arundel Hospital in the capital has offered to cover the medical bills for the Zimbabwean woman who was recorded while being harassed by a senior health official at Bela Bela Hospital in Limpopo provi...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says his policies will guarantee certainty
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa said his party will prioritise fighting corruption as part of measures to restore economic stability in the country.In a se...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
School heads get salary boost
HEADMASTERS will get a salary boost that will see some pocketing 25 percent more in addition to their salary depending on the number of pupils at the school, an official has said.Speaking on t...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
China rescues Zimbabwe on Covid-19 as world faces vaccine apartheid
AS the world faces a Covid-19 vaccine apartheid amid privatisation and monopolisation of its science and technology as well as the doses, and hoarding by rich countries, China has rescued Zimbabwe by ...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Government is in the process of taking over all council health facilities
Government is in the process of taking over all health facilities owned by local authorities as part of a grand plan to ensure standardised service delivery as envisaged by the National Development St...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dumb advisors, deaf Executive
"JANUARY 2021 has been cancelled," is a joke that went viral in Zimbabwe last weekend.It is a joke premised on Zimbabwe's return to COVID-19 lockdown measures. These are the strictest conditio...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:29hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Government must review the decision to lockdown the country !!!
The recent lockdown statement done by the Vice President and Health Minister Dr Chiwenga. My assumption was that Government of today, Government of Zimbabwe, was supposed reach out to many Inclusive o...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Mnangagwa's wife donates masks to school children
FIRST LADY Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is the Angel of Hope Foundation patron, yesterday handed over a consignment of face masks to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, as she presses ahead wi...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vigilance needed as Zimbabwe prepares to easy the lockdown
As Zimbabwe begins to ease the lockdown measures instituted to control the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk of a resurgence of the pandemic. Most people mistakenly took the Lockdown as a sort of a h...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiwenga outlines health policy to partners
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Wednesday briefed foreign and local development partners and suppliers on the new structures in the Ministry of Health and Child Care and other moves taken to bo...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New normal in schools
TEACHERS and learners should brace for a new normal ahead of schools reopening and forget customs such as hugs, handshakes and sharing of desks as they used to. Break and lunch time will be st...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 06:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cimas opens impressive clinic in Manresa for Lafarge Cement
Cimas Medical Aid Society on Friday (10 May) officially opened Manresa Clinic at Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe to cater for factory employees, their families and the surrounding community.The clinic...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo pushes for a Policy Indaba
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo's initiativeI'm driving a national agenda which has no political affiliation, but to assist on enhancing development. We simply ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Doctors' strike calls for relook into health policy
AS the circus and confusion with regards to the junior doctors' strike continues unabated, it is time government shows sincerity to both the disgruntled medical practitioners and the general public....Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Zimbabwe Mine workers want US$ wages
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers' Union (ZDAMWU) has demanded that its members be paid their wages in United States dollars or have their earnings pegged above the poverty datum line t...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
USA's latest demands on Zimbabwe a red herring
The submissions by one Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Dr. Todd Moss and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Matthew Harrington before the United States Senate Foreign ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:23hrs | 1 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Trump's govt piles more pressure on Mnangagwa
THE United States administration has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to deal with his government's economic mismanagement rather than blame the current economic mess on sanctions the global po...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa will not drop Biti charges
Zimbabwe will not accept pressure to subvert the rule of law to pacify certain political interests and will uphold the Constitution in the conduct of its affairs, a senior Government official has said...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe reforms may cause suffering'
BUSINESS has urged government to take a cautious approach to the reform process, warning that a big-bang approach may result in unintended consequences and plunge the country into further crises....Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US accuses Mnangagwa of imitating Mugabe's autocratic rule
THE United States government says it is willing to engage Zimbabwe only after genuine political and economic reforms and accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of aping former President Rob...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in timely US intervention
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday made a timely intervention as he submitted a detailed paper on Zimbabwe's economic and political reforms to a United States o...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Zimbabwe's pregnancy termination laws still stringent
ZIMBABWE'S termination of pregnancy laws are still very stringent despite a Unicef 2016 report which said that 70 000 to 80 000 abortions occur annually in the country, while organisations like Popula...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
UK Zimbabweans die of HIV after being fooled by faith healers
A number of Zimbabweans in London with HIV have died after they stopped taking lifesaving drugs on the advice of their Evangelical Christian pastors. Pastors have taken advantage of the respect they g...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:44hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Medical aid firm targets informal sector
FAST-growing Gweru-based medical aid company, Zimbabwe General Medical Aid Fund (ZG Medical) has begun tapping into the country's vast jobless market, which is usually neglected by most insurance and ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean immigrant appointed new senator in Canada
AMONG the recent appointments to the Senate of Canada is that of Dr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, an immigrant from Zimbabwe who immigrated to Canada in 1984 to flee the African country's civil unrest....Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Agencies
WATCH: Chamisacare to be launched soon
MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa has promised to launch a 'Chamisacare' health policy soon after winning the 2018 elections.The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fails to issue termination letters to nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB), which is the appointing authority of practitioners in the public health system, has so far failed to issue termination letters to thousands of nurses relieved of their...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex education for schools
Government is finalising a comprehensive sex education policy for primary and secondary schools.This is to stem the problems caused by pupils engaging in early sexual relationships, which incl...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'David Parirenyatwa is lying'
Members of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) have labelled their paymaster, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa a "liar" and said he was misleading the nation.This...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Independent candidate promises wonders
JOSPHAT Mzaca Ngulube (33) is an independent aspiring legislator for Bulawayo South constituency. He is a teacher by profession, director in the Sports and Recreation ministry and human rights activis...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba blasts Chamisa over US trip
HARARE - Zanu PF MP for Buhera South Joseph Chinotimba has reprimanded MDC legislator for Kuwadzana East Nelson Chamisa, saying as a pastor he must not be globetrotting bad-mouthing the country....Published: 23 Dec 2017 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Opposition misreading political mood
Recently, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and representatives of the MDC Alliance - Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa - were in the United States of America as part of an invitation to discuss the fall of forme...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Setting the recod straight, full text of Biti's US presentation
The current government has benefited from lies peddled in an attempt to run away from a commitment to the democratic obligations provided in our constitution ,Contrary to reports, President Bi...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 18:46hrs | 2 | by PDP
The folly of MDC's mission of shame
The latest excursion to the West by the MDC, donning the new coat of "Alliance", is nothing more than the opposition returning to its treacherous roots. The MDC, with the help of the United States (US...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military coup is illegal and illegitimate transfer of power
The MDC Alliance on Tuesday described the intervention by the military in the country's political affairs as an illegal and illegitimate transfer of power from one faction of the ruling Zanu PF party ...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 14:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants strikes are legitimate
Doctors under the banner of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) will embark on strike from 15 February 2017 while teachers organized under Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ)...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 21:35hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Nathan Banana launches party in Johannesburg
Nathan Banana, the son of the late first president of Zimbabwe Cannan Banana has launched his political party Freedom Justice Coalition Zimbabwe in Johannesburg which he said will contest the 2018 ele...Published: 21 Dec 2016 at 04:20hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting on Friday (December 9) to discuss the proposed estab...Published: 07 Dec 2016 at 05:10hrs | | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting at Harare's Monomotapa Hotel on Friday (December 9) ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 20:53hrs | 1 | by Mike Hamilton
Medical aid societies invite debate on proposed regulatory body
The Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ), which represents the country's medical aid societies, is holding a breakfast meeting on Friday (December 9) to discuss the proposed establish...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 14:42hrs | 3 | by Agencies
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