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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
13 people die from snake bites
HARARE - At least 13 people have died from snake bites since the beginning of the year, statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Care reveal."The total snake bite cases reporte...Published: 29 Apr 2018 at 17:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Angry farmer bites off snake head after reptile bit him on leg
A farmer reportedly chewed off a snake's head in revenge after the reptile bit him, with his attending doctors saying they had never come across such a bizarre case.The incident took place in ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
He milks snake venom to save lives
In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial - the way he had do...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poisonous snakes on the prowl in Zimbabwe
Poisonous snakes are on the rampage, particularly in the country's snake belt regions, biting 320 people in the first four weeks of the year.Statistics from the ministry of Health and Child Ca...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 14:26hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Harare's finest duo-darts
Highfields Canteen was the venue for the 2017 Harare Darts Association closed doubles tournament for players registered in the Harare darts league. The tournament being held for the second time after ...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 10:17hrs | | by Maenda Collen
Treachery of African philosophy
One of the unseemly decorations of Western science and philosophy has been, in this century and its many forerunners, its vaunting and chest-beating arrogance.Without a single dot of shame, Fr...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:27hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Mkwasine man dies from snake bite
A 23-year-old man from Mkwasine died after he was bitten by a snake while chasing away a monkey from a sugarcane field last Sunday.The type of the snake is not known.Jelousy Remhunga who...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 09:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Snake keeper killed by cobra in Gweru
A Gweru man who had an affinity for snakes died on Monday after he was bitten by a banded cobra which he had caught at a neighbour's house in Brankhurst suburb of his hometown.Fayaz Motala's d...Published: 17 Oct 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Snake bite cases on the rise
THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare yesterday warned that cases of snakebites could shoot up in coming weeks amid reports of acute shortage antivenom.In an interview on Monday, Head of E...Published: 30 Jan 2013 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
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