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Gwanda, St Luke's hospitals still lack capacity to handle mental patients
A recent parliamentary investigation into youth empowerment, development, vocational training, and the state of drug and substance abuse treatment in Zimbabwe has exposed a severe shortage of rehabili...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:42hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Overcrowding crisis hits Ingutsheni Hospital
BULAWAYO's Ingutsheni mental hospital has become overcrowded, triggering a serious shortage of blankets.A Bulawayo resident, who recently visited the health institution to see a relative, said...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parliament flags overcrowding in Zimbabwe prisons
Parliament on Thursday raised concern over overcrowding within the country's jails with Harare Remand Prison having the most inmates at 1,485 against a holding capacity of 900 inmates.Accordin...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Woman kills son (3) at shrine
POLICE in Dema, Mashonaland East province, have arrested a 31-year-old woman who allegedly choked her son to death by stuffing ashes in his mouth at an apostolic sect shrine.The suspect (name ...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to build new prison in Gwanda
GOVERNMENT will soon construct a new prison in Gwanda, Matabeleland South to address the problem of overcrowding at Gwanda Prison which is compromising the rights of inmates.A site for the new...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under pressure as drug abuse cases spike
GOVERNMENT is under intense pressure to establish rehabilitation centres accessible to ordinary drug users owing to the growing demand of people in need of professional mental health care.An i...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Register to vote if you have had enough of Zanu PF,' said the deceitful to the insane
"Register To Vote If You Have Had Enough Of Zanu PF" was the headline of the article in Zimeye / Newsday. Reading a few lines was enough to evoke memories of my first visit to Ingutsheni Menta...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 13:56hrs | 6 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
2 doctors to examine Mamombe's fitness
Two neutral doctors will examine MDC Alliance activist Joana Mamombe to determine her fitness to stand trial, a Harare magistrate ruled yesterday. Mrs Bianca Makwande ruled that Mamombe be exa...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Schoolboy (17) 'commits suicide'
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Nkayi in Matabeleland North allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree at Mafela Primary School in Bulawayo's Nkulumane suburb. Mpilo Khumalo's body was ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 00:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo becoming haven for drug peddlers, gullible youths turn to mental patients' pills
BULAWAYO is fast turning into a haven for drug peddlers, who are pushing an assortment of dangerous substances, turning gullible youths into addicts.Sunday News discovered that so cunning are ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:43hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe prisons overcrowded'
DESPITE the release of 3 000 prisoners through the Presidential Amnesty last year, Zimbabwe's prisons are still overpopulated, with the country's correctional facilities carrying 2 382 inmates above t...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Sytaff reporter
Mental patient runs amok, kills 2
A SUSPECTED Mutoko mental patient reportedly went berserk before fatally axing a couple over an undisclosed matter.The suspect, Takudzwa Zaranyika (30) has since been arrested following the de...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 20:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nun murderer threatens to kill magistrate
A 21-YEAR-OLD Mutoko man, who allegedly murdered a Roman Catholic Church nun while she was praying at a shrine near Mutemwa last year, yesterday threatened to kill a Harare magistrate for indicting hi...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mental patient goes berserk, kills 2
A 28-YEAR-OLD suspected mental patient from Chief Neshangwe's area in Chikomba went berserk before killing his uncle and aunt using an ox yoke on Saturday.Learnmore Chikunguwo was arrested in ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mental patient kills, buries granny (100) inside her hut
A SUSPECTED mentally-challenged 28-year-old Mudzi man last week killed his 100-year-old grandmother after a misunderstanding over the sale of a family beast and buried her remains in a shallow pit ins...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministry seeks amnesty for over 2 000 prisoners
THE Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs wants more than 2 000 prisoners to be pardoned to ease congestion in the country's prisons in its 100-day plan and is engaging President Emmers...Published: 09 Jan 2018 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mental patients detained at Chikurubi Maximu Prison
OVER 200 mentally-challenged inmates are held up at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison due to failure by the Mental Health Review Board to sit and determine their fate for the past three years....Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dangerous and addictive drug hits Bulawayo streets
A DANGEROUS and addictive drug called diazepam - popularly known as "dypapa" or "amangemba" in street lingo - has hit the streets of Bulawayo, with anti-drugs campaigners raising the red flag....Published: 16 Aug 2017 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kangai family abandons daughter
A woman said to be the daughter of the late liberation war stalwart, Kumbirai Kangai, has been living in a rundown rural mental hospital without any visitors for nearly 40 years now, the Eastern News ...Published: 06 Jul 2017 at 14:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has no capacity to train psychiatric doctors
THE country has no capacity to train psychiatric doctors at a time when the number of people suffering from mental illness is on the increase, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Aldr...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP a traditional healer
A man from Tsholotsho who allegedly killed his neighbour's son by hitting him on the head with a hammer before ripping his stomach open with a knife was being treated for a mental problem by Tsholotsh...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 06:32hrs | 7 | by Nqobile Tshili
6-yr-old bludgeoned with hammer, gut ripped open
A TSHOLOTSHO man pounded his neighbour's six year-old son to death with a hammer before tying his body to a bicycle frame and ripping his stomach open with a knife.Thereafter, Lizwe Ncube alle...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Police dawn raids net 6 family members as kingpin tries to flee
POLICE have arrested six family members believed to be part of a syndicate that has been selling drugs to school children in Bulawayo.Sources close to investigations yesterday said the drug pe...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:45hrs | 1 | by Auxilia Katongomara/Nqobile Tshili
Three pupils hospitalised after taking $1 drug
THREE pupils from Msiteli High School in Bulawayo were admitted to Mpilo Central Hospital after they allegedly drank a concoction containing pink pills that are allegedly being peddled to school child...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara/Nqobile Tshili
After Dzamara damp squib, what next?
SO the big day came and went, without incident. March 9 was supposed to be the biggest day yet this year in the opposition MDC-T and its civil and political activists as they converged in Harare to co...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Staff write
'Haunted' prisoner dies during jailbreak
AN inmate at Khami Prison Complex on the outskirts of Bulawayo died after he allegedly fell from a four-metre wall while attempting a jailbreak.Elliot Mundoza, 27, sources from the prison said...Published: 17 Feb 2016 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Nqobile Tshili
Insanity saves baby killer
A HIGH Court judge has urged the legislature to relax the procedures related to the Mental Health Act to enable mental patients to receive early treatment as he ordered a Bulawayo man who beheaded his...Published: 15 Feb 2016 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Zimbabwe Judge wants sex offenders data base
BULAWAYO High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese has called for the setting up of a national register for sex offenders to help monitor the movement of people convicted of sexual offences.Off...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 05:21hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Mpilo, UBH battle to recover $23 million
BULAWAYO'S Mpilo Central Hospital and the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) are owed a combined $23 million by patients, a situation authorities say is compromising service delivery.Mpilo Centra...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 05:36hrs | | by Nqobile Tshili
Machete wife killer acquitted
A MPOPOMA man who in 2012 gruesomely murdered his estranged wife with a machete thinking that she was a gorilla, was acquitted yesterday at the High Court.Goodman Nyoni murdered Miriam Takavin...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 07:01hrs | 10 | by Thandeka Moyo
'10% of Zimbabweans mentally ill'
AT least 10% of Zimbabwe's 13 million population suffers from some form of mental illness mainly due to the harsh economic situation being experienced by the country, a health official said.Sp...Published: 29 Jan 2015 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni workers jailed for patient abuse
A MENTALLY ill man lost three teeth in a brutal assault by three hospital workers because he refused to eat his lunch, a court heard.Ingutsheni Central Hospital support workers George Samambwa...Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Mpumelelo Nyoni
'Mugabe's long lost daughter' sent to Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital
A BULAWAYO woman claiming to be President Robert Mugabe's daughter remains admitted at Ingutsheni Psychiatric Hospital two weeks after being arrested for demanding an audience with the 90-year-old lea...Published: 10 May 2014 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Hospital patients abandoned my families up to 3 decades
BULAWAYO's Ingutsheni Central Hospital is overwhelmed with patients that have long been discharged after treatment as their relatives do not want to collect them.Hospital authorities on Friday...Published: 25 Mar 2013 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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