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Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams
A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Central Hospital secures MRI scan
The government has procured advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines for Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare. This development is expected to low...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 12:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Peacemaker axed in party brawl
IN an attempt to break up a fight between his friends at a party, a 31-year-old man from Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North province seemed to have got more than what he had bargained for when he was ...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctor extorts US$350 from accident victim
A Chitungwiza Central Hospital medical doctor is facing disciplinary charges on allegations of attempting to extort US$350 from a parent of a girl who was one of the learners injured in a road traffic...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
United Bulawayo Hospitals now doing brain operations
A SUPER-SPECIALIST hospital is set to be constructed at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH), a move that will reduce the number of locals going outside the country to get specialised surgeries....Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Vendors attack council police
BULAWAYO City Council chamber secretary Sikhangele Zhou says the local authority has been forced to upgrade municipal security uniforms to include helmets.According to Zhou, the decision was m...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza: Ireland's first female paediatric neurosurgeon
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza says that growing up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, she always wanted to be a doctor.Having just been appointed as the first female paediatric neurosurgeon in Ire...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
MHCT fights Hydrocephalus
The joys of expectant parents are shuttered upon hearing these words, "Your child has a bigger head than any normal child and you have to go through a caesarian section to give birth." What! a big hea...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 11:00hrs | 11 | by Health Correspondent
Chiwenga's wife fights for her passport
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wife, Marry, is battling to retrieve her passport to enable her to seek urgent medical treatment in South Africa — with the State saying yesterday tha...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diego Maradona to undergo surgery for a blood clot on the brain
Argentina legend Diego Maradona is to have "routine surgery" on a blood clot on his brain, his doctor said.The 1986 World Cup winner, 60, was admitted to Ipensa clinic in Buenos Aires on Monda...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 21:43hrs | | by BBC
Cops severely assault stock theft suspect
A STOCK THEFT convict is reportedly battling for life after he was allegedly severely beaten by police detectives recently while in their custody for a different case.According to court papers...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manyika launches second book
USA-based writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika has published a second novel titled "Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun" (2016, Cassava Republic Press) which she officially launched last Saturday afterno...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:40hrs | 28 | by Beaven Tapureta
Road traffic accidents cause neuro surgical backlog
THE increase in the number of road traffic accidents has resulted in a long backlog in patients in need of neuro surgeries, an expert said.Professor Kazadi Kalangu said while the country alrea...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Mirirai Nsingo
Reliance on school curriculum limits students' knowledge
Zimbabwe is credited with one of the best education systems in Africa - producing some of the brightest minds on the globe - and similarly prides itself with the highest literacy rate on the continent...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 13:16hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Donald Trump steps up insults of rivals on campaign trail
Concord - Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump stepped up attacks on his campaign rivals on Wednesday, insisting none of them have the calibre to become the next president of the United States....Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by AFP
Harare man spend $80 000 in sex change
A Harare man has spent close to $80 000 transforming himself into a woman - including sex change.Tatelicious, born Tatenda Zenzo Karigambe was born in Budiriro.According to Sunda...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Only 6 brain surgeons left in Zimbabwe'
Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday revealed that only six neurosurgeons had remained behind after the majority fled the country in search of greener pastures a few years a...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister of health reveals only 6 brain surgeons left in the country
HEALTH and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa yesterday revealed that only six neurosurgeons had remained behind after the majority fled the country in search of greener pastures a few years ago, ...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Michael Schumacher in 'critical condition' after skiing accident
Michael Schumacher, seven-time Formula 1 world champion, is in a "critical condition" after a skiing accident, says the French hospital at which he is being treated.The 44-year-old German suf...Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 18:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Girl with swollen head - parents pray for 'miracle' to save her life
A desperate Indian father whose young child suffers from a condition that caused her head to swell up to an enormous size said Saturday he is praying for a "miracle" to save her life.Eighteen...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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