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'Blanket ban on demos, unconstitutional'
A blanket ban on demonstrations violates citizens' rights to protest as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe, a lawyer has said.Esau Mandipa, a legal practitioner and law lecturer at M...Published: 14 mins ago | 12 | by Staff reporter
#BringBackDrPeter
At 22:19 on the night of Saturday, 14 September, Dr Peter Magombeyi - acting president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) - sent a message to the ZHDA junior doctors WhatsApp gr...Published: 1 hr ago | 214 | by Kubatana
Harare gets financial lifeline, what about Bulawayo Prpf Mthuli Ncube
The Zimbabwe government on Thursday released 37.4 million Zimbabwe dollars (about 3.1 million U.S. dollars) to the City of Harare as a short-term intervention to help it improve service delivery whils...Published: 2 hrs ago | 487 | by Staff reporter
Doctors march to parliament
Over 200 doctors joined by other health workers marched from Parirenyatwa Hospital to parliament on Thursday to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union.The march was all...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2105 | by Reuters
Mugabe was a complex man, said Bona
There were few dry eyes by the time Bona Mugabe ended her speech.Former president Robert Mugabe's eldest child spoke from the heart to an audience that held her father in messianic reverence, ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 2046 | by ZimLive
Of illegal sanctions and global politics
Sanctions generally entail restrictions on international trade and finance that one country imposes on another for political reasons.Economic sanctions include the withdrawal of customary trad...Published: 5 hrs ago | 267 | by Peacemaker Zano
Magombeyi's abduction requires a firm 'Jamal Khashoggi-style' solidarity response
The recent abduction of the acting president the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) Dr. Peter Magombeyi should be a wake up call for all Zimbabweans to finally stand strongly together again...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1842 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chombo's health deteriorates, denied passport to seek medical attention in abroad
FORMER Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday said his health was deteriorating and needed urgent medical attention abroad, but a Harare magistrate again denied him his passport to enable him to t...Published: 12 hrs ago | 5166 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa trials Mnangagwa in America
Angered by the continued harassment of its supporters, as well as the escalating abductions of government critics in the country, the main opposition MDC plans to hold mass protests against President ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 8550 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces protests in New York
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York next week, will face angry protests from Zimbabweans based in the US over the deteriorating rights situation in t...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1260 | by newzimbabwe
‘We'll be watching' – a reporter's fraught return to Zimbabwe after 16 years
The immigration officer lifted his stamp to put the visa into my passport and I heaved a sigh of relief. But then my passport was taken by a smiling woman who asked, "Have you been to Zimbabwe before?...Published: 12 hrs ago | 998 | by Andrew Meldrum I Associated Press
Zimbabwe teachers to join protesting doctors over abduction
MEMBERS of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) have resolved to join doctors who are protesting the abduction of a fellow m...Published: 23 hrs ago | 7279 | by newzimbabwe
4 dead, 22 injured in Harare road accident
Four people were reportedly killed while 22 others were injured Wednesday afternoon when a Hino truck driver tried to overtake a commuter omnibus in Kambuzuma Suburb, Harare.Three died on spot...Published: 24 hrs ago | 7246 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 984 | by Daniel Itai
Doctors demonstrations continue
Health professionals have been boycotting work since Monday claiming they wanted Government to furnish them with the whereabouts of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president Dr Pet...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 14:27hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
Riot police block doctors from marching to Parliament, standoff ensues
Doctors protesting the abduction of a union leader have been met by a line of police in Harare as fears grow about government repression.The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association says its pres...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2251 | by Associated Press
Mnangagwa's govt panics over Magombeyi abduction
GOVERNMENT has struck the panic baton, going all out to issue multiple statements on the Saturday abduction of Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association acting president Peter Magombeyi.Magombeyi ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2092 | by newzimbabwe
Health workers down tools over abducted colleague
The Health Apex Council yesterday said its members were downing tools starting today until the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi, who was abducted by suspe...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:22hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to present human rights report to UN, AU for review
ZIMBABWE has made significant strides in promoting and protecting the human rights of citizens since 2007 in line with international agreements and is due to present reports to world and continental b...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys soldiers to hospitals
Government has moved to avert possible disruption of services at hospitals by deploying medical professionals from the uniformed forces so that they attend to patients. Health professionals ha...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1235 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe churches call for independent probe into abductions
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) on Tuesday warned that citizens are facing "the highest level of vulnerability" because of a failure by authorities to investigate and punish crimes against righ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 98 | by ZimLive
Gweru sued over shoot-to-kill policy on stray dogs
THE Gweru City Council has been dragged to court by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) over the local authority's decision to shoot stray dogs and donkeys, a senior council of...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Doctors paralyse Zimbabwe hospitals
ZIMBABWE's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Doctors confront Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's public health delivery system ground to a halt yesterday as doctors countrywide downed tools, with the Harare-based medical professionals marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumut...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:23hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on abducted doctor
At around 10pm, Saturday 14th September 2019, state agents armed with automatic weapons abducted Dr Peter Mugombeya, President of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) in Budiririro, Harar...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 03:57hrs | 1585 | by ZCP
Chamisa, diplomats crank up pressure on Mnangagwa
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Monday pointed an accusing finger at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime following the abduction of the doctors' union president....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 2082 | by ZimLive
Striking doctors blocked from confronting Mnangagwa
Striking Zimbabwean doctors in Harare were Monday blocked within just a hundred mitres from marching to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa offices amid fears for the State leader's security....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:06hrs | 645 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's minister condemns doc's 'abduction'
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has condemned the alleged abduction of Harare Central Hospital medical practitioner, Dr Peter Magombeyi, saying he has since engaged State secur...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:02hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Lobby for 24-hr clinics taken to Parliament
PARLIAMENT has referred a petition by Bulawayo activist Khumbulani Maphosa requesting that council clinics operate 24 hours daily to the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care for deliberations,...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:49hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
The scourge of stage-managed abductions
In the middle of the busy national schedule of the body viewing and funeral service for the former President, the late Robert Mugabe over the weekend word filtered over the social media that Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 16:39hrs | 2730 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Coup stress accelerated Mugabe's health challenges
LATE former President Robert Mugabe's nephew says the founding leader's health challenges took a turn for the worse when he was forcibly removed from power 2017 by his most trusted lieutenants....Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1733 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa celebrated his 77th birthday yesterday
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa celebrated his 77th birthday yesterday and citizens from across the political divide wished him well. First was the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Serv...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:46hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Village containerised information centres, bridging digital gap
Devolution is one of President Mnangagwa's flagship policy. This policy is centred on bringing services and development as close as to the point of need as possible.The point of need in this c...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:40hrs | 90 | by Nick Mangwana
Doctors strike calls for urgent attention
The death of Robert Mugabe has taken the nation's focus away from very pressing issues, among them the strike by doctors at public hospitals.Doctors went on strike almost two weeks ago after f...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2336 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers no apology for the coup on Mugabe
Robert Mugabe died a "sad man", his nephew told a state funeral service attended by two dozen current and retired foreign leaders in Harare on Saturday.Walter Chidakwa fought back tears as he ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 8899 | by ZimLive
Striking doctors dig in
Doctors have refused to return to work after the government increased their allowances by a paltry $360.The junior doctors went on strike a fortnight ago after the government announced that it...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:02hrs | 2109 | by Staff reporter
Graca Machel: Appreciate Mugabe's role in Zimbabwe
FORMER Mozambican First Lady Graca Machel has urged young people to appreciate the role played by the country first black leader the late former President Robert Mugabe who died last week in Singapore...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stuck with expired medical drugs, says committee
AT a time when the country is facing drug shortages, it has been revealed that the company mandated to store and distribute medical supplies of public health institution, NatPharm, is stocked with exp...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
'18 people living in one room'
BULAWAYO's oldest suburb, Makokoba is still struggling to resolve the issue of shared accommodation, with over 170 houses having three to four families sharing a single room, investigations have revea...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
G40's ahistorical narrative
It was a comic spectacle to watch some G40 elements coming out of hibernation, mouth-frothing like demented confused fools gushing vitriol that former President Mugabe was forced to die in exile. Noth...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 306 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabweans now living in extreme poverty as economy declines
With Zimbabwe's economy all but confirmed to contract by at least 8% in the year 2019, households are feeling the heat as poverty levels surge at alarming levels. Zimbabwe's last recession cycle occur...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1300 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mugabe's death must unite Zimbabweans, says Kasukuwere
SELF-EXILED former minister Saviour Kasukuwere believes ex-president Robert Mugabe's death must unite Zimbabweans to fix the economy, adding that blaming the departed strongman will not bring solution...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:02hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
'Shame, elite using foreign hospitals after destroying local one' said Mahere - fuming she not MP
"It's embarrassing and selfish for political elites to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then imp...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:58hrs | 589 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe to build mausoleum to honour dictator Mugabe - even in death his selfish greed is insatiable
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwean government is building a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre as a way of paying homage and honour to the country's late founding father Robert Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:49hrs | 913 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ex-fighter sheds light on Mugabe's escape to Mozambique
Robert Gabriel Mugabe's life epitomises a journey well travelled, with cumulative substance offering new horizons where outspokenness made and indeed earned him the coveted place of being the darling ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
'Heads should roll at Parirenyatwa'
Health watchdogs have called for thorough investigations into the recent death of a woman during labour at Parirenyatwa Hospital amid allegations that she was left unattended for too long.Shar...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:48hrs | 2575 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe death ignites an inferno of debates, discussions
DEPOSED late former President Robert Mugabe is currently the most talked about individual among Zimbabweans. Ever since his death last week, tongues never took leave from wagging. His death was bound ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 242 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe sets up centre for xenophobia victims
Government has reactivated a reception centre at Beitbridge to handle Zimbabweans fleeing xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The first batch of 60 repatriates was expected to arrive last night....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:05hrs | 638 | by Staff reporter
MaZimnat ready to take on Cape Town marathon
Tariro Makanga and Lilian Choruwa, who won from Zimnat an all-expenses paid trip to the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, are expected to arrive in Cape Town tomorrow (Saturday) to participate in the 10km ru...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:04hrs | 261 | by Agencies
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