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Zimbabwe govt says there Is no need to panic over Mpox
The Zimbabwean government has sought to allay public anxiety following the confirmation of two isolated cases of Mpox disease, which were reported for the first time in the country on Sunday. With com...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 08:35hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo diarrhoea cases surge 700%
The City of Bulawayo has experienced a concerning spike in diarrhoea cases, with approximately 555 reported as of August 2024. This marks a staggering 693% increase from the 370 cases recorded in July...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:58hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Sheep on a high: Flock feasts on cannabis after extreme weather
In a truly bizarre twist of fate, a flock of sheep in Greece found themselves feeling a bit too "ewe-phoric" after munching on a crop of weed!Wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding had left the po...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 857 | by Staff Reporter
Grains importing Zimbabwe claims to have enough grain until next harvest
ZIMBABWE has 240 000 tonnes in its Strategic Grain Reserves which is enough to take the country to the next harvest, according to a report released by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture Fisheries, Wat...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK scientists are developing a vaccine for an unknown disease
UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infe...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:07hrs | 23 | by Erick Matotoba
A curse that will forever haunt Zimbabwe opposition
THOSE of us who grew up in the village know that nothing can be as foul-smelling as a skunk.It literally stinks to high heaven.By some freak of nature, these cat-sized black-and-white ...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 9 | by Bishop Lazi
We Africans have our ways of doing things the African way
Believe it or not, rumours 'makuhwa', rumours 'manyepo'. Gossip and fibs make them triplets. At the end of the day, it's the mother of all lies. Some nutty professor would say hogwash but, it's true....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 11:35hrs | 9 | by Mutanda Wachingama
33% drop in Bulawayo diarrhoea cases
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded a 33% decrease in diarrhoea cases from 148 in March to 97 in April this year.Latest Bulawayo City Council minutes state that although the city is still experi...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:34hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Harare, Chitungwiza choke on own garbage
In front of Mrs Florence Kasambira's home in Manyame Park lies an enormous landfill.It is easy to miss her well-manicured front yard as one's attention is easily drawn towards mounds of waste ...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
A snake catcher's advice to homeowners, residents
SNAKES are increasingly invading homes in Bulawayo as the rains have disturbed their habitats, forcing them to seek refuge elsewhere.Experts say the country is in the snake season as the repti...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo runs out of mosquito control chemicals
INADEQUATE supply of chemicals has hampered Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s efforts to fight mosquitoes. The matter was discussed at the latest full council meeting, with the director of health ...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City hit by influx of rodents and mosquitoes
MOST parts of the City of Bulawayo have been hit by an unprecedented influx of rodents and mosquitoes, which have become a nightmare to residents due to itchy bites which the parasites inflict to huma...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'BCC has no chemicals to fight mosquitoes'
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it has no chemicals to fight the mosquito menace in the city, leaving residents exposed to malaria-causing pathogens.This came at a time city fathers also repo...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return: Beware the cobra effect
Last month, the government took all and sundry by surprise when it banned the use of multi-currencies in all local transactions and reintroduced the Zimdollar; abandoned due hyperinflation in 2009....Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:24hrs | | by Cliff Chiduku
University of Zimbabwe challenges govt to support post-harvest programmes
THE University of Zimbabwe's Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering has urged government to support its ongoing Nutritional Post-Harvest estimation (Nutri-P-Loss) programmes, which ar...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Ministry fails to account for donations
THE Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare has failed to account for or distribute goods donated by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) which are reportedly lying idle and losing val...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
You can eat anything but do not make your brother fall
May those in the know tell us more or, may the enlightened in truth and spirit add more flesh to the bone? Keeping the Sabbath, is it for all humanity to observe or its a preserve for the Jews only by...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:08hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Avoid snake bites
Despite not getting much publicity snake bites are very common in Zimbabwe, with some cases resulting in deaths. These slitherers are warm climate creatures that are found all over the country though ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Mugabe's ex-minister fights default judgment
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti, who was recently slapped with a default judgment for failing to pay over $13 600 in rental arrears for a property he allegedly left infested with pests and ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-health minister sued over rent arrears
FORMER Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti has been taken to court by his former landlady, Joyce Mako-Mushaninga, over rental arrears amounting to more than $13 600 and failing to properly look after ...Published: 16 May 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman attacks cattle in revenge for cat's death
A Masvingo woman allegedly axed and seriously injured his brother-in-law's two beasts in an act of revenge after accusing him of being behind the gruesome injury of her cat. The woman, Raviro ...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
10 hectares of wheat crop perishes at Pot Bury Irrigation Scheme in the Mbalabala
MEMBERS of Pot Bury Irrigation Scheme in the Mbalabala area of Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South are in despair as their prospects of salvaging anything from their wheat crop have all but vanish...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe kids hunt mice and sell them as tasty snacks
With headlamps to peer through the darkness, children in rural Chidza village in central Zimbabwe scamper through the night to trap mice, which they roast and sell to motorists on the road to neighbou...Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | | by AP
Ngunis eat imbiba too
I GREW up in the area famously called the midlands, specifically in Lions River. I have grown up to realise that everyone brags about the area he or she grew up in. I am no exception. You can take you...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by MOKGOTSI Ngcobo
Lost crops: Food for thought for Zimbabwe
Many do remember the yesteryear song of Oliver Mtukudzi "Tsika dzedu" in which the musician pitched the importance of the traditional way of living, when people used to consume traditional leafy veget...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 18:44hrs | 4 | by Praxedis Dube1, Rico Ihle1, Wim Heijman1 and Paul Struik2
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
The veld fire menace
As I was writing this article, a veld fire was raging across a part of Trenance in Bulawayo, destroying whatever else in its path, grass, trees, and reptiles.It was unattended and would die do...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 06:37hrs | | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The case of a National Transitional Authority
Waiting for GodotWananchi, the motherland continues to heave and suffocate under the weight of a sterile oligarchy, exhausted and indeed frail nationalism, downright statism, indifference and ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 16:37hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Mice outbreak, cold weather affects crop production
AN outbreak of mice and the prevailing cold weather conditions in Umguza district are threatening thriving horticultural produce in the area denying farmers potential yields in the process. Sp...Published: 20 Dec 2015 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
City Council raid rodents
Bulawayo City Council has embarked into an programme meant to clear the city of rodents which are reportedly destroying power cables and house hold and offices property.According to latest cou...Published: 15 Nov 2015 at 07:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
So Zulus eat imbiba too?
I GREW up in the area famously called the midlands, specifically in Lions River. I have grown up to realise that everyone brags about the area he or she grew up in. I am no exception. You can take you...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 16:55hrs | 87 | by MOKGOTSI Ngcobo
Chaos as EFF destroys snake pastor's church
There was reportedly pandemonium and Chaos when the infamous End Times Disciples Ministries church in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Sunday was destroyed by members of the Julius Malema led the Eco...Published: 09 Aug 2015 at 14:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baby (1-month) awaits surgery after rat attack
Johannesburg - A 1-month-old baby whose three fingers and part of a nose were eaten by rats in Alexandra, Johannesburg is awaiting surgery as her family cannot afford it, The New Age reported on Wedne...Published: 27 Aug 2014 at 16:40hrs | | by Sapa
MDC-T leadership wrangle turns tribal
THE no holds barred MDC-T leadership renewal wrangle has taken a tribal turn in Bulawayo with members suspected to have links with Secretary general Tendai Biti circulating a memo in which they dema...Published: 06 May 2014 at 20:31hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Witchcraft scare as strange creatures drop from ceiling
RESIDENTS of Mutare's Dangamvura high-density suburb were last Thursday left shell-shocked after a pack of "mysterious mongooses" were exposed after dropping from a ceiling at a house in the Area 14 s...Published: 11 Jan 2014 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Silent killer in our Homes: The unintended consequences of GMOs
Within North America, if you purchase milk at your local supermarket and leave it out in the open for 1-4 days it will not curdle (turn into lacto). Women in North America are uncomfortable with brea...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
Food shortages reach critical levels in Matabeleland North
FOOD shortages have reached critical levels in Matabeleland North with reports that the province's harvest from the just ended farming season can only last for three months. This emerged duri...Published: 14 Jun 2013 at 23:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Coke and Pepsi change recipe to avoid cancer warning
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the way they make the caramel colouring used in their drinks as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens bear a can...Published: 22 Apr 2012 at 10:22hrs | | by AP
Sex deprived fruit flies seek solace in drink
In experiments seeking to understand the root causes of human addiction, UCSF scientists have discovered that male fruit flies turn to alcohol when female flies reject their sexual advances.W...Published: 18 Mar 2012 at 10:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim diarrhoeal cases triple
REPORTED diarrhoeal cases throughout the country have tripled this year compared to last year affecting mostly children under five years, a Cabinet Minister has said.Speaking to journalists d...Published: 01 Dec 2011 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Colombian rats trained to sniff landmines
Eleven white-furred rats could play an important role in making conflict-wracked Colombia safer. The rodents are in the final stages of a training program to find landmi...Published: 24 Nov 2011 at 11:55hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Top 10: ways to prevent breast cancer
No,10 Lose weight Being overweight or obese has been found to increase breast cancer risk, especially for women after menopause, when -- because the ov...Published: 03 Aug 2011 at 21:19hrs | | by Michele Borboa, MS
Man to sue after rat bites his penis!
A US man who says a rat bit his penis during a jail stay may sue county officials, a judge has ruled.Peter Solomon, who said he later had to endure a course of rabies jabs, says jailers knew t...Published: 14 Jan 2011 at 01:51hrs | | by Byo24NEWS
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