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109 Geza31 demo activists arrested! Nyokayemabhunu, Geza, tell us, what are you doing about it?
The government of Zimbabwe gave SADC & South Africa feedback about the effects of Geza M31st demonstration that was quiet, with sporadic incidences, and insignificant. But 109 activists were arres...Published: 05 Apr 2025 at 19:40hrs | 1194 | by Nomazulu Thata
Prominent Bulawayo doctor seeks downward variation of US$500 maintenance
A well-known medical practitioner in Bulawayo has filed an application at the Bulawayo Magistrates Court seeking a downward variation of his maintenance obligations from US$500 to US$200, citing sever...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 10:09hrs | 933 | 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
Govt shuts down unregistered health facilities
The Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPA) shut down 22 unregistered health facilities in 2023 as part of its efforts to combat unlicensed medical practices, ensuring patient safety and mainta...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:25hrs | 1406 | by Staff reporter
Dr Zulu discharged
Regional Magistrate Bishard Chineka has officially discharged Dr. Noel Ralph Zulu, the Medical Superintendent at Masvingo Provincial Hospital, who was facing charges of culpable homicide related to th...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 10:32hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Nurse illegally performing surgeries on patients in ZImbabwe
Admire Munyeki, a former nurse from Mbizo 5 in Kwekwe, has been found guilty of illegally practicing as a medical doctor and performing four surgeries in Gokwe. He appeared before Kwekwe Magistrate Gr...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 16:48hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
Abortion pills sold like sweets on the streets of Bulawayo
ARE you aware of what your children are doing online?A thriving business for abortion pills is booming in the streets of Bulawayo and the rest of Zimbabwe as the illegal drugs are easily acces...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 07:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge arms smuggling saga: Fears Mnangagwa was main target
FEARS are mounting within President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner security circle that the arms which were smuggled into the country through Beitbridge by a seasoned gun-runner without a consignee were m...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commanders investigate Beitbridge arms saga
WHAT started as an arms smuggling racket by seasoned gun-runners who bungled their mission like amateurs has now deteriorated into a major political scandal maddening President Emmerson Mnangagwa and ...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe arms smuggling saga deepens as new details on the deal emerge
THE recent saga involving the botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines is deepening as it takes a new political twist amid fresh details.Those close to Pres...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:18hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Catholic bishop in acerbic attack on Mnangagwa
CONTROVERSIAL Catholic Diocese of Chinhoyi cleric, Bishop Raymond Mpandasekwa, has once again taken aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration's alleged misrule characterised by violen...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious AK-47 assault rifles were smuggled for Zimbabwe Presidential Guard?
THE deepening mystery behind the recent botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines through Beitbridge border post - now playing out in the courts - has been unravelle...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Not to dehumanising other people based on nationality
THE Zimbabwe Community is South Africa is dismayed by the distasteful treatment and humiliation of an obviously frail and powerless patient by Limpopo province health MEC Phophi Ramathuba.The ...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Zim Community South Africa
Zimbabwean doctor at centre of Grace Mugabe farm 'gift' charged with medical misconduct; risks being struck off by tribunal
A doctor at the centre of a 2016 farm seizure row in Zimbabwe is appearing before the UK Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) over allegations of mistreating patients.The tribunal, un...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Taguta laid to rest
THOUSANDS of Johane Marange Apostolic Church members converged at their Mafararikwa shrine to pay their last respects to High Priest St Noah Taguta Momberume who was buried here in Bocha yesterday. ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Taguta
President Mnangagwa yesterday accorded Johane Marange Apostolic Church leader, High Priest Noah Taguta Momberume a State-assisted funeral.The President said Mutumwa Taguta transformed the sect...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Prominent medical practitioner Shah succumbs to Covid-19
PROMINENT medical practitioner, Dr Bilal Shah, who succumbed to Covid-19 at a local hospital yesterday has been buried at Warren Hills cemetery in Harare.Dr Shah (67) was buried within 24 hour...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 08:08hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Pharmacists seek amendment of Public Health Act
PHARMACISTS have urged Parliament to amend the Public Health Act and incorporate clauses that ensure all professionals in various units of the health sector are considered for top administrative posts...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Patients suffer as doctors, medical aid societies clash
A TUSSLE has erupted between medical practitioners in the private sector and medical aid societies, as doctors are accused of turning down policy holders without cash co-payments due to health funders...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Traditional medicine practitioners bemoan underfunding
TRADITIONAL medicine practitioners on Tuesday bemoaned underfunding towards research and the manufacture of traditional medicines, which has resulted in lack of recognition of their practice in the he...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nick Mangwana and the Medical Assassins, Did he mean any harm?
The past few days social media was awash with the news of the Permanent Secretary of Information Ndavaningi Mangwana's statement on the Medical assassins. Many sort to accuse Nick for alleging that th...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 19:53hrs | | by Dr Masimba Masimba
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 unregistere...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 16:06hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe faces $500 000 lawsuit over bungled abortion
A HARARE woman is claiming $500 000 damages from Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe in respect of non patrimonial loss suffered as a result of failure by the police to carry out their constitutiona...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Democracy and philanthropism in governance and five of Africa's most rare men in politics
Democracy is a system of governance in which the people choose their leaders by voting for them in elections. ... Philanthropy is free-giving of help or money to those in need. Governance is control o...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 5 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Dr Nicholas Ndebele dies
PROMINENT Bulawayo medical doctor Dr Nicholas Ndebele has died.Dr Ndebele died on Wednesday morning his family has confirmed.He conducted his medical practice at Galen House.Mo...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 18:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reshuffles top civil servants
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has, with effect from May 1, appointed specialist public health physician Dr Agnes Mahomva as the new Permanent Secretary for Health and Child Care to replace Dr Gerald Gwinji who ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive drugs, ambulances from India
Indian Vice-President Shri Venkaiah Naidu, who left the country yesterday, assured President Mnangagwa that his country will offer immediate assistance to Zimbabwe's health sector, in what has come as...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Healthcare could be an engine for economic growth, says Cimas CEO
Healthcare could be an engine for growth in the economy, according to Cimas chief executive Vulindlela Ndlovu. He told journalists there was the potential for specialist health institutions to be esta...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Agencies
British Conservative Government must account for Zim aslyum Moyo suicide
A desperate Zimbabwean Asylum Seeker committed suicide at a park in London after the British Government put dry sticks on its ears about his desperate plea. Britain merchandises itself on planet Earth...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Minister Parirenyatwa fires warning shots
Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa has urged the Traditional Medical Practitioner Council (TMPC) to decisively deal with bogus faith healers who are on the rise countrywide....Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo accused of wanting to destroy Zanu PF
Higher Tertiary, Science and Technology Minister Jonathan Moyo has been accused of being a traitor who want to destroy the ruling Zanu PF party from within by always tweeting issues to do with party m...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 06:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Smell of 'death' in Zimbabwe opposition parties
One thing is certain for Dabengwa: he is set to join other failed and fallen Zanu-PF members such as James Chikerema and Ndabaningi Sithole.A suicide. Mercy killing. A stillbirth. A slow death...Published: 29 Oct 2015 at 09:29hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
UK based Zim Doc launch skills support network - in horse Boxer mould!
A Zimbabwean doctor has launched an organization to make it easy for Zimbabweans in the diaspora to share their expertise with those back home. The organization will help remove Zimbabwe's red-tape de...Published: 15 Sep 2015 at 19:46hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Violation of patient privacy at Mpilo hospital' - Staff posts photo on Facebook
Editor,Please see below, I think it's worth informing the public about violations of patient privacy at Mpilo hospital.This is the email I sent to the hospital, along with picture evid...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 14:19hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Zimbabwean teacher to be deported after years in SA
Pretoria - While the court has sympathy for a former school teacher who fled to South Africa from Zimbabwe, the man will have to return to his country after spending seven years in South Africa....Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 15:26hrs | | by Pretoria News
Econet's Dial-A-Doc operating illegally
ECONET Wireless's Dial-A-Doc is operating illegally as it is not approved by the Medical and Dental Practitioners' Council of Zimbabwe (MDPCZ), an official has said.The MDPCZ and the Health Pr...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Shamiso Yikoniko
Zimbabwe police investigate bogus doctor
POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a man who has reportedly been practising as a medical doctor without a licence.Although details about the way he was operating were still sketchy as police...Published: 27 Mar 2012 at 05:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
United Kingdom (UK) Scholarships
Overseas Student Scholarship, University of Abertay Dundee, UKOverseas S...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe at ideological crossroads
The 2012 elections will be important for Zimbabwe as the two main political parties, Zanu-PF and MDC-T try to sell different economic visions for the nation's future. MDC-T, led by Prime Minister Mor...Published: 01 Nov 2011 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Garikai Chengu
Africa University choir on tour in the United States
According to The Water Town Daily Times and RelZim, the 12-member Africa ...Published: 22 Jun 2011 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by relzim
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