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Nurses issue strike threat
THE government is facing a tall order to placate its restive employees after nurses became the latest group to threaten a strike due to the worsening economic environment in the country.This c...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 05:54hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
'Teachers need new skills to counter Zanu PF enslavement' - name just one profession with 0% unemployment
Once upon a time, 40 years ago but it might as well be 400 years ago for we have regressed so quickly we are now back in the dark ages, Zimbabwe used to produce enough food to not only feed all her pe...Published: 10 Jan 2020 at 07:55hrs | 1063 | by Wilbert Mukori
Nhaka Foundation begins charity at home in Zimbabwe
In this interview, Patrick Makokoro, the Founder and Chief Eexecutive Officer of Nhaka Foundation, discusses the organisation's efforts at supporting education and health care in rural regions in Zimb...Published: 08 Jan 2020 at 07:21hrs | 500 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Health minister applauds volunteer nurses
Government has applauded the Zimbabwe Young Nurses' Association for volunteering to work at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals during the festive season. Speaking during a tour of the hospital ye...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 14:46hrs | 1517 | by Staff Reporter
Heard of Government Organised NGO (GONGO), in POLAD have Zanu PF organised opposition (Zoo)
After 40 years of corrupt and tyrannical Zanu PF dictatorship Zimbabwe is in a serious mess with the economy in ruins, millions of our people now living in abject poverty and, worst of all, the plungi...Published: 01 Jan 2020 at 08:42hrs | 1279 | by Nomusa Garikai
Online nurses recruitment a sham - Team 2020
Team 2020, a grouping of activitsts based in Matabeleland which was formed with the aim of assisting prospective nursing students to apply on line have described the excericise as a sham considered th...Published: 31 Dec 2019 at 12:18hrs | 2887 | by Stephen Jakes
'Unity brought development, must celebrate Unity Day' - yeah, but is the development
Propaganda is the art of presenting what you want people to believe is the truth and the reality, repeating it over and over again, and totally disregard the facts and mountain of evidence to the cont...Published: 19 Dec 2019 at 19:29hrs | 919 | by omusa Garikai
'Nursing is a calling'
Over 200 midwives and PCN Up-skilling nurses yesterday graduated at The Salvation Army-owned Howard Hospital in Chiweshe.Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo, who officiated at the g...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 17:45hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Ingutsheni Hospital getting early Christmas tomorrow
Ingutsheni mental health hospital in Bulawayo is tomorrow getting early Christimas after a group of well-wishers promised to donate goods to the institution.A group of psychiatric nurses some ...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 14:03hrs | 739 | by Stephen Jakes
Higherlife Foundation launches 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign
Higherlife Foundation today launched the 'Support Our Hospitals' campaign aimed at capacitating doctors working in public hospitals by mobilizing funding and material support to ensure public medical ...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 16:23hrs | 1896 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe doctors troop back to work
Eighty junior doctors were back at work by yesterday, while another 282 are expected to have joined them by the beginning of next month. Part of the incentives to get junior doctors back to wo...Published: 10 Dec 2019 at 06:41hrs | 891 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled drugs flood Zimbabwe market
High mark-ups imposed by importers, wholesalers and retailers of medicines have resulted in a flood of cheaper drugs being smuggled from neighbouring countries and sold on the streets by vendors. ...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:50hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
'MRP not a tribal outfit'
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has insisted that it is not a tribal outfit following accusations that the Matabeleland based opposition party is not only pushing a tribal agenda but cultivating tr...Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:10hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in Mat South targets civil servants
ZANU-PF Matabeleland South province has resolved to push the government to adopt a policy of vetting civil servants to establish their political affiliation to allegedly guard against sabotage....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 12:09hrs | 1436 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube rues Mnangagwa lost opportunity to unite with Tsvangirai
ZIMBABWE could be better off economically if President Emmerson Mnangagwa had roped opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into an inclusive transitional arrangement soon after the November 2017 coup....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:50hrs | 2521 | by newzimbabwe
Huge windfall for doctors
THE Higher Life Foundation (HLF) has received more than 300 applications from doctors around the country in response to its recently announced Training Fellowship for junior and senior medical practit...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to reveal secret for the Zanu-PF conference in his province
Mashonaland East province which is the province which house the Vice President of Zimbabwe retired Army General Chiwenga sets to witness fireworks as the ZANU PF conference begins. It's great to be he...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 12:03hrs | 11904 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Doctors defy Mnangagwa
STRIKING public hospital doctors have defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest 48-hour moratorium which came after government reversed its earlier decision to fire them.Information ministe...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:32hrs | 6658 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in the UK compete in lifestyles - part 2
Zimbabweans in the UK were irked by a previous article on the zeal by most of them to compete le in life styles. The article concentrated on the nurses who are more blessed with the spirit of competit...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:34hrs | 14440 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe prisons struggle to feed, treat inmates
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is struggling to feed and provide medical attention to inmates due to shortages of food and drugs, officials have said.This emerged at a Z...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:19hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's current environment not ideal for social dialogue
SINCE the beginning of the year, Zimbabwe's government has been confronted by restive workers and their leadership from different labour unions, either threatening industrial action or alleging incapa...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:18hrs | 202 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Zimbabwe doctors want more than just better salaries
NEWS that the country's doctors have spanned an offer by business tycoon, Strive Masiyiwa, is depressing as it is curious. In fact, the whole debacle speaks to the major problem facing this country: I...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:24hrs | 218 | by newsday editorial
Fired doctors want moratorium extended
FIRED doctors, who ignored the initial 48-hour moratorium extended to them last Thursday to return to work without reapplying, have now asked for an extension in a letter to the President. Alt...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:05hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Mandaza improves Masiyiwa's pay offer to doctors - foolishness, will not end health crisis
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 21:38hrs | 13262 | by Nomusa Garikai
Govt bows to pressure, introduces 'decentralised' nurses recruitment application process
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has employed a new system in the online application process for trainee nurses who will now be required to submit national identity cards, a move that is meant to...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:06hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Carnage in Zimbabwe hospitals continues
TOUTS are usually known for their confidence, foul language and naughtiness, but recently, they sobered up when one of their own died right on the streets with his hospital record card in hand, after ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
ZCC still demanding Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - for 39 years insane set national agenda, enough is enough
Albert Einstein said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."It is very sad to note that Zimbabwe must have one of the largest number of insane ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 1845 | by Wilbert Mukori
Health crisis moves from tragedy to farce
GOVERNMENT has failed to solve its impasse with medical doctors, who have withdrawn services from the country's major hospitals for 89 days today. While the country's health delivery system remains in...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1052 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa, $100m saved 2k doctors but condemning vote rigging would save nation and posterity - THINK!
"ECONET Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa and his wife, Tsitsi, through their Higher Life Foundation, have set up a $100 million fund which will see up to 2 000 junior and senior doctors employed by go...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 593 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe Communist Party speaks on doctors' strike
ZCP Statement On the Incapacitation of Workers: Senior Doctors' Strike 26 November 2019 In November 2017 when the late President Robert Mugabe was forced to resign from power after a military coup whi...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 14:23hrs | 1287 | by ZCP
Root cause of economic meltdown is rigged elections - must deal with curse or die
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! This is a common sense observation noted in every human society and goes back to the very beginning of human civilisation. Indeed, the me...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:48hrs | 1426 | by Wilbert Mukori
Is Zimbabwe's e-nurse recruiting scandalous?
Following an outcry over the selection process of student nurses at Mpilo and UBH Central hospitals that were published by this paper, the Ministry of Health and Child and Care (MOHCC) claimed tha...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 07:43hrs | 3538 | by Robert Ndlovu
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1482 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Silent genocide' going on in Zimbabwe's hospitals
Senior doctors in Zimbabwe have gone on strike in protest against the sackings of hundreds of junior doctors who have boycotted work in a pay dispute.The senior doctors' association, SDHA, sai...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1876 | by BBC
The arrogance of the men in suits and scarfs
Constantine Chiwenga is the man who spearheaded a coup which toppled Mugabe from power in November 2016 in Zimbabwe. After the coup he became unwell. He was so ill that you could hardly recognis...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 13:05hrs | 1313 | by Lucia Mungwari
Ramaphosa asked to push Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - endorsed rigged elections soiled his hands
There is no denying that President Mnangagwa's trade-mark "Zimbabwe is open for business!" clarion call is dead in the water. Instead of putting the Zimbabwe economy back on track, the economic meltdo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 09:23hrs | 3328 | by Nomusa Garikai
Senior doctors withdraw labour in solidarity with fired junior doctors
Zimbabwe's public hospitals face a complete shutdown after specialist senior doctors on Tuesday announced that they would stop attending to emergencies in solidarity with over 400 doctors sacked for g...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 2253 | by ZimLive
Doctors dig in over readmission
Fired government doctors have said they will not reapply for their jobs and have instead asked Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to first address their concerns as well as the chaos that is prevaili...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Harare council threatens striking nurses
HARARE City Council has threatened to withhold salaries for striking nurses and take disciplinary measures because their job action was illegal, NewsDay revealed.About 600 council nurses are on st...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:25hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Why do war veterans want preferential treatment?
AS much as we would want to always support our fellow country folk who sacrificed their life and limb fighting for the liberation of this country, we sometimes find it difficult to accept some of thei...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 686 | by NewsDay Comment
Chiwenga torches storm
HARDLY a day after his arrival from a four-month long medical trip in China, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga torched a fierce storm when he blasted MDC-run councils for failure to address service ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:58hrs | 5545 | by Staff reporter
Mission hospitals overwhelmed
Desperate patients, failing to get help at State hospitals due to the strike by some Government doctors, are flocking to mission hospitals, with Karanda Hospital in Mt Darwin now seeing up to 500 pati...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:34hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents bitter over selective renaming of roads
BULAWAYO residents and opposition political parties have criticised government's move to rename several roads in the city, leaving out some of the city's luminaries.Government on Thursday anno...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:24hrs | 2209 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's adviser breaks ranks
A MEMBER of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council, Jana Ncube, has openly expressed her frustration at the government in the wake of rampant human rights abuses in the country, ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:23hrs | 5280 | by Staff reporter
Man abducts sick wife, demands sex
A MAN from Hwange District stunned hospital officials at St Patrick's Hospital when he stormed the institution and attempted to kidnap his ill wife who was admitted, arguing that he wanted to take her...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:14hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga return raises eyebrows
The government yesterday made conflicting statements about Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's return after his four-month-long stay in China where he was receiving treatment.Chiwenga quietl...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2416 | by Staff reporter
G40 plots political comeback
Former president Robert Mugabe's loyalists, including those that were forced into exile after the 2017 coup, are regrouping amid indications that they are rallying around former Zanu-PF commissar Savi...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:49hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pledges loyalty to Mnangagwa
Constantino Chiwenga pledged loyalty to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, attacked the opposition as "gangsters" and suggested government workers had no right to strike in his first interview after return...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1528 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe government scared of Mthwakazi independence agenda while its ministers 'support' the agenda - MIOR
Mthwakazi Institute Of Research has established UNTHINKABLE fears in the government of Zimbabwe and some intelligence networks to divert and confuse the Road to Mthwakazi Independence, which seems to ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 09:05hrs | 1541 | by Mthwakazi Institute of Research
Zimbabweans competing in lifestyles in the UK
In November alone fifteen Zimbabweans have died in the Uk from stress related cases. The life in the UK has been moulded to a competition. It may not be The Hunger Games, but in this massive multi-pla...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 07:40hrs | 75916 | by Masimba Mavaza
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