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Treasury defaults on $6,4m BEAM debt, students risk missing out on exams
More than 532,000 students risk missing out on their final examinations this year after the government's Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) debt to the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMS...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 11:18hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unemployment, education system not directly linked
IN the Wednesday edition of NewsDay we carried a story in which some of our college student leaders were frothing at the mouth over the failure by many of the students to get employment soon after gra...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Students blame Zimbabwe education system for joblessness
ZIMBABWE's tertiary students have blamed the country's education system for not preparing them for formal job after completing their studies, resulting in many turning to vending to make ends meet....Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to open Gweru Hospital Centre of Excellence
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga is expected to commission the Gweru Provincial Hospital (GPH) Centre of Excellence today in a major milestone set to improve health services at the facility....Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 triggers fatal disputes
COVID-19 is said to be one of the major causes of a surge in disputes within communities and has also contributed significantly to loss of lives.This was said yesterday by National Peace and R...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mazibuko reflects on mental health fight
POPULAR Bulawayo-based modelling guru and Strides Modelling Agency founder, Sipho Mazibuko has revealed that pressure around her once popular Miss Rural Zimbabwe helped trigger the bipolar disorder th...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 05:53hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Vaccines safe for HIV+ people'
A SENIOR health official has said COVID-19 vaccines being used in Zimbabwe are safe for people living with HIV, especially those on anti-retroviral therapy.Paul Chinakidzwa, the deputy directo...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cancer patients face stigma from loved ones
HARARE - Nobody gets nearer to her. She has become a loner, with the television turning into her only friend yet 60-year-old Tendai Makuwana is a cancer survivor.For Makuwana, pounded with can...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 12:09hrs | 1 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze and Dr Masimba Mavaza
Ramaphosa takes Zimbabwe sanctions removal call to UN
THE 75th Session of the UN General Assembly began yesterday with African Union (AU) chairman and South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa reiterating the call for the removal of illegal sanctions agai...Published: 23 Sep 2020 at 06:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Cabinet approval of HIV/Aids transmission law repeal is irrational
The decriminalisation of HIV aids transmission is surely a violation of the rights of the victims and would be victims of that felonious behaviour. That is now going to give a green light to many who ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Njabulo
Auxillia joins Mnangagwa in hiring pricey private jets
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets - which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars.The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife charters pricey plane to Dubai
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined her husband in hiring pricey private jets - which cost taxpayers thousands of United States dollars.The first lady returned home from Dubai on Tuesday ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa takes luxury private jet home from Dubai
First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa was flown home by private jet on Monday, ZimLive has learnt.Mnangagwa attended a meeting of the Merck Foundation in Dubai that tackled the stigmatisation of women...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Disabled sidelined in HIV information dissemination
Thirty-year-old Chenai Murimbika of Dunzvambeva village under Chief Kazangarare, 60km north of Karoi, looks older than her age.She has endured untold suffering, marked by stigmatisation couple...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mukupe goes after Mnangagwa's aide
Under-fire Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has accused one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's closest aides of being behind an alleged plot to tarnish his image after the Zanu PF politician lat...Published: 27 May 2018 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Is Tendai Biti HIV+?
Knives have been drawn out against deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe after he made remarks live on radio that exposed the stigmatisation that still runs deep in the officialdom towards people li...Published: 26 May 2018 at 18:38hrs | 20 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe education system is in a mess
In yet another low for the education sector, some schools are demanding that enrolling students should bring their own desks, chairs and mattresses, in a development that has stretched their already b...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Harmony Agere
Struggle on my beloved country
I wanted to title this article Cry My Beloved Country. After all we recently had cholera outbreaks and our political parties are competing to demonstrate proximity to the West. It does not seem to mat...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt closes squatter camp school
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has closed an informal primary school at Ngozi Mine Squatter Camp in Bulawayo with almost 200 pupils being reintegrated into the formal education system...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo faces backlash over HIV remarks
THE Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) yesterday criticised Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo for "recklessly" insinuating that prolonged intake of anti-retrov...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 11:04hrs | | by Staff bReporter
Child marriages a major cause for concern in Zimbabwe
A research by an international HIV and AIDS awareness think tank, has revealed child marriages are still a problem in Zimbabwe and stigmatisation attitude among school going children, prompting stakeh...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 17:31hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
More children in Hwange dropping out of school, child marriages
SEVERAL children in Hwange District are dropping out of school owing to early child marriages and lack of school fees.The Chronicle last week visited Luseche village, one of the worst affected...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Report
Children missing ARV treatment
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care is worried that 2,022 children in Midlands province who should be initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART) are not on the data base, raising fears about their he...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 07:04hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Teenagers increasingly experimenting with sex
HARDLY a week passes by without the Chitungwiza Magistrates Court dealing with a case of a man who would have engaged in sex with a minor.Magistrate Rekina Dzikiti last week convicted 25-year-...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Reconsider decriminalising abortion'
SADC governments should reconsider decriminalising public health challenges like abortion, drug use and transmission of HIV and AIDS as use of the law does not help in curbing a vice, Sadc Parliam...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
HIV-positive woman barred from work
Some colleges training students for the hospitality sector, especially food handlers, have allegedly stopped recruitment of those who test HIV-positive.Sunday Mail reported that the revelation...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MPs, councillors accused of pestering students for sex
Four female child MPs in Masvingo have made chilling allegations against three Zanu-PF MPs and some councillors in Masvingo Province who are pestering them for sex.Some of the accused MPs are ...Published: 07 Sep 2015 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangomas claim to be entitled to medical aid remittances
Zimbabwe National Practitioners Association (ZINPA), an organisation which represents the interests of traditional healers, herbalists and faith healers, wants its patients to start using medical aid ...Published: 27 Jun 2015 at 08:18hrs | 4 | by Lovemore Zigara
New HIV organizations for Lobengula residents
Lobengula residents have formed two organisations to help people living with HIV in a bid to stop stigmatisation and enable them to feel free like everybody.This came amid people living wi...Published: 13 May 2015 at 09:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Women empowerment the answer to Zimbabwe's corruption problems
"The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any" - Alice Walker.As corruption in Zimbabwe continues to escalate to shocking proportions,its contagiousne...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:56hrs | 18 | by Minenhle Gumede
HIV+ students suffer discrimination
Despite years of hard work by government agencies, NGOs and community groups, youths living with HIV and Aids are still stigmatised at school and in their communities.HIV positive youths who s...Published: 18 Sep 2014 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by Pamenus Tuso
Illegal ARVs flood Zim black market
ILLEGAL imports of the latest generation of anti-retroviral (ARVs) drugs from neighbouring South Africa and Zambia have flooded the local black market, exposing people living with HIV to health compli...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Biti is sick and I have cancer... So?
In an age where people fight against pedestrian diagnosis in regards with medical health, we expect exemplary action from political leaders. To have a politician speak in public over another's health ...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 19:30hrs | 6 | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
HIV+ woman sues hospital
AN HIV positive woman is suing her former employer, St Anne's Hospital, for $30 000 after she was allegedly forced to disclose her status before being arbitrarily fired.The woman, who cannot b...Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 11:11hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Uganda to criminalizing intentional transmission of HIV
Kampala - Lawmakers in Uganda are set to pass a measure criminalizing the intentional transmission of the virus that causes Aids.Lawmaker Betty Amongi, who sits of the health committee of Ugan...Published: 02 May 2014 at 20:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
HIV+ pastor slated pastors & prophets who claim to heal HIV and Aids
ONE of the country's first clerics to confess to being HIV positive, Reverend Maxwell Kapachawo, has slated pastors and prophets who claim to heal HIV and Aids for derailing the country's efforts in f...Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's HIV prevalence rate rises to 15%
ZIMBABWE'S HIV prevalence rate has risen to 15 percent, a 0,74 percent increase from 14,26 percent recorded last year, statistics from National Aids Council (NAC) show. The statistics also rev...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 02:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
HIV infection rises to 15%, condom usage hits 100 million - NAC
THE country's HIV prevalence rate has risen to 15 percent, a 0,74 percent increase from 14,26 percent recorded last year, statistics from the National Aids Council (NAC) reveal.The statistics ...Published: 08 Nov 2013 at 02:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
WMA condemns portrayal of homosexuality as a disease
The persistent portrayal of homosexuality as a disease has been condemned by the World Medical Association (WMA) along with attempts to treat it using so-called √¢‚Ǩ≈ìconversion" or √...Published: 21 Oct 2013 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by WMA
Gay men in marriage of convenience to beat stigma
Steve is a 43-year-old gay man who for seven years was married to a woman. But then things - because of his sexual orientation - never gelled and now he is caught in a love triangle.Scared of ...Published: 27 May 2013 at 06:15hrs | 5 | by Gugulethu Nyazema
Sandra Ndebele launches new album in style
Sandra Ndebele-Sibindi showed the world why she deserved to be up there with the country's best when she launched her sixth album in style on Friday. The top-drawer event, which was attended b...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 04:57hrs | 1 | by Arts reporter
When the unintended so damages!
There is something I don't understand about our Government and our leaders. This Wednesday we had the Prime Minister's spokesperson telling Minister Chinamasa off for pointing out that the Prime...Published: 13 Jan 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Shooting at Sikh temple in USA leaves at least 7 dead
A massacre on Sunday at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin marks the grisliest attack yet against members of the faith in the United States, where they have faced persistent abuse.Seven people, includ...Published: 06 Aug 2012 at 03:56hrs | | by AFP / FoxNews
"Morning After" pills out selling condoms in Bulawayo
A snap survey conducted by ZimKasi news in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe has concluded that abortifacient drugs are out sel...Published: 25 Jun 2012 at 05:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'General populace should stop the stigmatisation of ex-inmates' says Rev Pashapa
Zimbabwe Prison Ministries chairperson, the Reverend Dr Noah Pashapa, urged society to complement ZPS efforts by embracing former offenders. He spoke at The Walk of Crime Reduction, which w...Published: 28 May 2012 at 06:31hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Police thwart Tsikamutandas
THE use of supernatural powers to either cause harm or to heal has always been part of our culture as Africans.As such, over the centuries, society has come to accept the existence of people w...Published: 22 Jan 2012 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MP mobilises over 300 prostitutes to form commercial sex workers' union
Bulawayo East House of Assembly Member Ms Thabitha Khumalo says she has mobilised more than 300 prostitutes in Bulawayo with a view to making them join a representative union under which their activit...Published: 07 Jan 2012 at 23:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Love and respect people with albinism: Pastor Mushonga
Pastor Rachael Mushonga, the founder of Wailing Women's Trust called on the Zimbabwean society to treat people with albinism with the love and respect they deserve, ZBC News reported on Monday....Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
People living with HIV-Aids urge govt to give them land
People living with HIV and Aids have urged the government to allocate them land so that they can start income generating projects and stop relying on donors, The Standard reported.Stanley Taka...Published: 10 Aug 2011 at 11:20hrs | | by J Dube
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