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Zimbabwean woman gives birth in kombi
A Dangamvura woman in Mutare had a kombi journey through the city to remember on Wednesday morning after giving birth to a baby boy in the loaded city-bound public transport.Ms Patricia Chitsa...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 09:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo Hospital infant deaths raise eyebrows
BULAWAYO'S largest referral health institution, Mpilo Central Hospital is in the eye of a storm after some women claimed they suspiciously lost their new-born babies at the health centre.Immed...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ruvheneko regrets publicising pregnancy on social media
JOURNALIST and media consultant Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, who recently lost her new-born twins, says she regrets announcing her pregnancy on social media.Last year, Parirenyatwa took to so...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:23hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
A vote to remain masters of our own destiny
Here we reproduce excerpts of President Mnangagwa's speech to Zanu-PF supporters at Nyele Primary School in Bulilima, Matebeleland South province, yesterday.SalutationsWhen Jesus was b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:39hrs | 14 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
'Zimbabwe public hospitals slide into dereliction'
A SURVEY by a civil society organisation, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), has revealed the continued dilapidation of the country's health facilities, with most district hospi...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shock as 13-year-old impregnates 9-year-old cousin in Tsholotsho
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has issued a statement confirming that the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) results obtained from National University of Science and Technology on 25 November 2022, in connecti...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 14:39hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Parirenyatwa in fresh negligence storm
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals has come under the spotlight for negligence following the death of Joyce Chabvura of Mt Darwin after the medical facility reportedly refused to operate on her broken le...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council officials in birth records scam
Officials at Harare City Council clinics are allegedly demanding kickbacks ranging between US$5 and US$10 to issue out birth records for newly born children, preventing from accessing the critical doc...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is imperialism faltering or restrategising?
IMPERIALISTIC activities of western industrialised countries in Africa have since 1990 subtly changed, bearing violent objectives and consequences.Colonialism and imperialism today in Africa h...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Cheat kills baby to conceal extra-marital affair
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman from Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province has been arrested for allegedly killing her newborn baby to conceal her infidelity from her husband who is based in South Africa....Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman caught stealing baby from clinic 'wanted its head for a customer'
A woman sneaked into the maternity ward of a clinic in Epworth, Harare, before kidnapping a new-born baby, police said on Thursday.The woman was intercepted by an alert guard before she could ...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 13:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces shortage of midwives
ZIMBABWE is still facing an acute shortage of midwives and the situation has escalated due to the COVID-19-induced demand for nurses globally.As the world celebrated International Day of the M...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stanbic equips Sally Mugabe Hospital
STANBIC Bank has donated equipment worth US$37 000 to Sally Mugabe Central Hospital's maternity wing.The bank also availed $2 million towards refurbishment of the wing.This initiative ...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff writer
China donates US$1,2m medical supplies to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE in the past year managed to reduce maternal deaths in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts by 46 percent following interventions by the Government in partnership with the Chinese Government and...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Higherlife Foundation hands over maternal health medical equipment
Harare, Zimbabwe. December 10, 2020 - Through a generous investment from ELMA Philanthropies, Higherlife Foundation yesterday (Dec 10) commenced the handover of maternal health medical equipment to se...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 15:54hrs | | by Agencies
Violent man invades Mpilo hospital, mum, new born injured
A MOTHER and her newly born baby were injured after a violent man broke into Mpilo Central Hospital's maternity ward and assaulted them while damaging the health institution's property. The mo...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Village head, wife kill baby
A TSHOLOTSHO village head and his wife allegedly helped their daughter to give birth to a child whom they strangled and buried in a shallow grave because it was a disgrace that the woman had been impr...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New-born baby thief convicted
Chipinge Magistrates Court have convicted 21 year old Joyce Maputire for stealing a baby boy from Chipinge District Hospital last Friday.Maputire who resides in Chimanimani visited the hospita...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's babies are warning us about state capture
Last week the Mugabes made headlines again. It was reported that President Robert Mugabe took 72 people with him to New York and while he was falling asleep at the UN, they spent a staggering $1500 pe...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 09:31hrs | | by Melanie Verwoerd
6 students pregnant: Ministry probes Founders High
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has dispatched an investigating team to Founders High School in Bulawayo following a report that six boarders at the school have fallen pregnant....Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Comrade Chihuri and Justice Makarau: Will Zimbabwe ever be big enough for big dreamers?
I developed problems with my left front wheel about nine hours into my journey from Johannesburg to Harare. I had left home at five in the morning and made it past Masvingo by three o'clock. But the t...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Manheru and Mrs Charamba's so-called death?
Gukurahundi is just the name, an encapsulation of a mass-murder committed on an industrial scale on the Ndebele - uMthwakazi - by Shonaist and Gukurahundist Zimbabwe, solely because uMthwakazi is Ndeb...Published: 18 May 2017 at 15:44hrs | | by Mavis Mathole
Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi talks succession
Speaking on the eve of Good Friday, Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi - the leader of what is probably the largest indigenous church in Zimbabwe, the Zion Christian Church - hinted for the first time at...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Health time bomb in Beitbridge, town run dry
A 120-bed hospital at the border town of Beitbridge has suspended most delicate operations and reserved its admissions for emergencies only as the town has run dry....Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Mary Charamba
Ex-soldier releases stinging anti-Mugabe book
War veteran and former military officer - Kudzai Sevious Mbudzi - has launched a scathing attack on President Robert Mugabe in a no-holds-barred book capturing the current political problems engul...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 17:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake pregnancy costs boyfriend $50 000
A Harare woman allegedly faked a pregnancy and has used her cousin's new-born baby to claim maintenance from her boyfriend since 2012, defrauding him of $50 000.Lilian Chitanga Marowa (44) and...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
Fake Bona Mugabe birth video goes on sale
President Robert Mugabe's delay in announcing the birth of his grandson has led enterprising designers to manufacture and sell a fake birth video and photos, Now Daily can reveal.The video...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beautiful ones not yet born
The launch in Harare earlier this week of a new-but-not-so-new party on Zimbabwe's political landscape left this pen, an avid student of liberation politics, with a feeling of déjà vu all the way....Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Baby dumped at cemetery
A TWENTY-SIX-year-old woman appeared at Mbare magistrates' court recently accused of dumping her new-born baby at a cemetery.Mercy Madziwa from Waterfalls, Harare, tied the baby's neck with he...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 05:19hrs | | by Fungai Jachi
Woman dumps infant at graveyard
A FIVE-DAY-OLD baby boy is lucky to be alive after he was dumped by his 26-year-old mother at a grave yard soon after birth.The baby was now temporarily being cared for at Parirenyatwa Hospita...Published: 14 Jan 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baby dumped in toilet
AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman from Dzere Village, Chief Zimunya was arraigned before Mutare Magistrates' Courts after she allegedly dumped her new-born baby in a toilet last Sunday.Beatrice Maguma was ...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:46hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Woman strangles new-born baby with umbilical cord
A 30-year-old Harare woman allegedly used the umbilical cord to strangle her newly-born before stuffing body in a plastic bag for disposal, the court heard on Friday. Delight Gapese appeared before Ha...Published: 02 Nov 2015 at 05:26hrs | | by Fungai Jachi
Man burns ex-girlfriend's house, steals baby
AN 18-year-old woman from Nyazura is ruing the day she dumped her boyfriend and settled for another after the former went berserk and set her house on fire before stealing her new-born baby.Ev...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 15:44hrs | | by Liberty Dube
New-born baby shoved in a handbag
AN UNWANTED new-born-baby has been rescued alive after its teenage mother placed the tot in a plastic bag, shoved it in a handbag and buried it under a pile of clothes.Investigators believe th...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 06:18hrs | | by Nokusa Masuku
Doctor caught stealing groceries worth $91 at OK
A MEDICAL doctor was yesterday facing the loss of his job and financial ruin after pleading guilty to shoplifting. Dr Paul Kadungure, 32, was caught stealing groceries worth $91 at an OK ...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 03:48hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Contraceptives failed me, woman tells court
A 28-YEAR-OLD Cowdray Park woman who strangled and buried her new-born baby girl minutes after giving birth in her parents' home has told the court that the pregnancy was a mistake as contraceptives f...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 10:08hrs | | by Plaxcedes Hove
Woman gives birth to child with nostrils above eyes
A BEITBRIDGE woman gave birth to a baby girl with nostrils above the eyes in what health experts describe as congenital anomaly. Ruvimbo Kunzekwemusha, 24, delivered by caesarean section at Be...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 10:49hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Woman throws live baby in a pit toilet
A MANGWE woman allegedly threw her new-born baby alive in a pit toilet shortly after giving birth recently.Sibonginkosi Ngwenya, 25, is suspected to have secretly given birth and committed th...Published: 31 May 2014 at 07:30hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
New born baby dumped in city toilet
A NEW-BORN baby boy was found dumped in a public toilet at TM Hyper Supermarket yesterday morning in a cruel and inhuman incident.According to a TM Hyper employee Modi Mbanje, a woman had ente...Published: 29 May 2014 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Girl buries new-born baby at employers' house
A 15-YEAR-Old from Bulawayo's Lobengula West suburb allegedly gave birth to a baby and buried it under a guava tree at a house where she was employed. The juvenile yesterday appeared before Bu...Published: 08 Apr 2014 at 06:27hrs | | by Plaxcedes Hove
Woman pregnant with 'a bag of air'
A Victoria Falls woman has endured a painful nine-month pregnancy only to be told by doctors her bulging tummy is just a bag of air.Twenty-seven-year-old Future Sibanda claims she is now confu...Published: 05 Apr 2014 at 09:13hrs | | by Leonard Ncube
Apostolic sect's bizarre rituals
Dogs, chickens, goats and cattle have better chances of survival than humans, a hard-pressed Johanne Marange Apostolic Church member vending locksets and glue at Sakubva Bus Terminus conceded....Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 14:43hrs | | by Bernard Chiketo
Dog spotted eating body of new-born baby
MIDLANDS police have launched an investigation after a dog was seen feasting on the body of a new-born baby at a rubbish dump site in Gweru's Mkoba Village.Shocked residents tried to chase th...Published: 07 Nov 2013 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
UK woman gives birth in a supermarket
England - A pregnant mother went shopping at a Tesco supermarket with her two children and left with an extra mouth to feed after giving birth in the store.Chanelle Mackay, 25, went into l...Published: 17 Aug 2013 at 19:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pregnant woman collapses at Beitbridge border post
A heavily pregnant Zimbabwean woman collapsed at the Zimbabwe -South Africa border post over the weekend after standing in the queue for hours at the busy Beitbridge Post.The woman who was la...Published: 11 Jun 2013 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman nabbed for lying about her new-born twin babies being stolen
POLICE in Masvingo have arrested a 25-year-old woman on allegations of making a false report to police that her new-born twin babies had been stolen by four Good Samaritans who had offered her a lift...Published: 01 Jun 2013 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
False police report on 'stolen new born twin babies' backfires
Police in Masvingo yesterday arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly making a false report to police that her new-born twin babies had been stolen by four Good Samaritans who had offered her a lift...Published: 30 May 2013 at 03:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman 'sacrifices' third baby
A 22-YEAR-OLD woman from Plumtree decided to "sacrifice" her new-born baby in a bid to have a good relationship with her family.Thokozile Moyo revealed that she killed her third born baby beca...Published: 10 May 2013 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Woman in court for dumping new-born baby in pit latrine
A WOMAN from the Ngwanyana area in Mangwe District has been hauled to the Plumtree Magistrates courts on allegations of dumped her new-born baby in a pit latrine after giving birth at home.S...Published: 06 May 2013 at 19:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman buries 'fatherless' son alive
A 19-year-old Zvimba woman who gave birth to a baby boy before taking him to a garden where she buried him alive has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for infanticide.However, magistra...Published: 11 Mar 2013 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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