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Zimbabwe nurses to pay less for Certificate of Good Standing

The Zimbabwean Government has approved a reduction in the cost of obtaining a Certificate of Good Standing for nurses, lowering the fee from US$300 to a new amount yet to be gazetted.Information Minister Soda Zhemu announced the decision d…

Published: 16 hrs ago | 288 | by Staff reporter

11 nurses in Zimbabwe arrested, fined over protest

Eleven nurses were arrested at Marondera Provincial Hospital on Wednesday and each fined US$30 for public nuisance after allegedly attempting to stage a demonstration over poor working conditions and low salaries.The nurses had gathered on…

Published: 27 Mar 2026 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses declare three-day nationwide strike

Nurses across Zimbabwe are set to embark on a nationwide strike from 15 to 17 April 2026 over poor salaries and working conditions, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) has announced.In a notice to the Health Services Commission, ZINA sa…

Published: 27 Mar 2026 at 11:50hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter

Teachers promise to join striking nurses

Rural teachers under the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe have threatened to join nurses in industrial action if the government does not urgently review salaries and allowances.In a letter dated 24 March 2026, ARTUZ said prevai…

Published: 25 Mar 2026 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe nurses risk being fired en masse

Operations at several major hospitals in Harare ground to a standstill yesterday after nurses downed tools, issuing the government a 48-hour ultimatum to urgently address deteriorating working conditions.The abrupt strike action hit Parire…

Published: 24 Mar 2026 at 09:44hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter

Nurses' strike paralyzes Parirenyatwa, patients left stranded

Operations were severely disrupted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals on Monday after nurses downed tools, abandoning wards and leaving patients stranded as they demanded an urgent review of salaries and allowances.Business ground to a nea…

Published: 24 Mar 2026 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

32 000 jobs for nurses, doctors

Government has intensified efforts to stabilise and rebuild the public health system, recruiting more than 5 000 health workers last year and unveiling plans to double the national health workforce by 2030, a move expected to create at lea…

Published: 04 Jan 2026 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe need an urgent reset of parenthood and economic models

We are failing at the family level. When I was growing up, my mom always told me that if I ate vegetables, got good grades, stayed out of trouble, eat what we grew and be obedient to her, even a lowly boy from Honde Valley could grow up to…

Published: 01 Apr 2025 at 16:09hrs | 10 | by Brian Sedze

Politics of sympathetic pregnancies

Politics of mimesis Opposition in Zimbabwe - not the Zimbabwean opposition - is in a deep mess. It is vainly looking for causes, models and examples. Our politics, it would appear, has entered a phase which the Greeks would call mimesis.Th…

Published: 11 Aug 2024 at 17:27hrs | 66 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday

Zanu-PF is an obstruction to rule of law: The cost of dismissing nurses while people already die from lack of medicines in the c

One does not know what is best to believe in order to describe fully what Zanu-PF is. Sad, but however real, that Zanu is either tyrannical or outright in competed to run a country hence the state the country is what it is. Saying these re…

Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 04:41hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere

When firing backfires

As tempting as it is to engage in a full-on legal analysis of the government's decision to fire striking nurses, I will keep this piece as general as possible because the legality of the actions can be an entire thesis of its own.Vice-Pres…

Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 06:14hrs | 1512 | by Paul Kaseke

Is Mnangagwa hostage to an invisible hand?

THE question keeps popping up: Is incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa a real lawyer? Does he have intimate knowledge on things legal?Could it be that he has mastery of the law, but is hostage to some invisible hand? How does one explain…

Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze

Zimbabwe leaders must simply fix health care system

Vice President Kembo Mohadi has gone abroad for medical treatment. The reason for exercising this choice is pretty obvious: he lacks confidence in the Zimbabwe health systems and can also afford the trip given that the expenses are paid fo…

Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 10:48hrs | 1113 | by Staff writer

James Maridadi pens open letter to VP Constantine Chiwenga

Dear Sir,It was with a sense of shock and horror that Zimbabwe read of the your dismissal of 15000 nurses a few days ago. Nurses are the pillars upon which the health sector operates.In your wisdom or obvious lack of it, you summarily dism…

Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 10:27hrs | | by James Maridadi

Chiwenga should revoke firing of nurses, negotiate

There are a number of events in the past few weeks that flew under the radar, which I feel deserve more scrutiny, as they could have a telling effect on the route Zimbabwe takes in the not so distant future.President Emmerson Mnangagwa too…

Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi

'Bubi residents suffering from illnesses due to lack of health education'

I'm a concerned villager in Bubi.  I hear GVT is hiring 2000 nurses. People out here are suffering from a lot of illnesses because of lack of health education. I don't know what happened to our EHT who mobilised the majority of us to&…

Published: 06 May 2017 at 07:19hrs | 365 | by Concerned villager

'it's disheartening that govt is prioritising recruitment of Doctors and Nurses only'

Hie News Desk Am a concerned citizen in Zimbabwe. I have been following proceedings in happening in the civil service especially the Health sector. Its more like disheartening that our government is prioritising recruitment of the curative…

Published: 06 May 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Concerned citizen

How to predict which month Mugabe's government will fall

Thus far, #shutdownzim has called for two stay aways. The one was very successful and the other not so successful. This would have made the total score 1 - 1 between the movement and the Mugabe. The government however, scored an own goal w…

Published: 18 Jul 2016 at 16:29hrs | 3846 | by Mlungisi Moyo

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