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Khupe reveals new cancer fight
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe has implored parliament to exercise its influence on government to channel more resources towards cancer treatment and awareness programmes as she went de...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:43hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for major medical breakthrough
ZIMBABWE is earmarked for another major medical breakthrough as it is set to conduct a minimally invasive thoracic surgery today.The development is the first of its kind in the country and foc...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russian flight paramedic instructors Zimbabwe - bound
Russian flight paramedic instructors are expected in the country this week to start training local air ambulance personnel, paving the way for the launch of Zimbabwe's first national air ambulance ser...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 10:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secure cancer treatment machines
The GOVERNMENT has purchased a set of new advanced radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer, which will soon be installed at two major public hospitals.Funding has also been secured to procu...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza: Ireland's first female paediatric neurosurgeon
Tafadzwa Mandiwanza says that growing up in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, she always wanted to be a doctor.Having just been appointed as the first female paediatric neurosurgeon in Ire...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's herbalists, doctors unite thwarting non-communicable diseases
HARARE - With government's research confirming that 80 percent of Zimbabweans consult herbalists prior to visiting hospitals, the country's Ministry of Health has shifted to partnering traditional hea...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 16:56hrs | 1 | by Ropafadzo Mapimhidze
Rare skin disease hits Zimbabwe
SYMPTOMS upon first exposure to sunlight: Freckling on sun-exposed areas. Dry skin. Pimples resembling blisters develop into spider web-like vessels and eventually dark brown tumours.If your c...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 18:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
26 trafficked gorillas from DR Congo recovered in Zimbabwe
At least 26 great apes illegally removed from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been seized in Zimbabwe, where four suspected traffickers have been arrested, authorities in both countries said Fri...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 21:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa demands lifting of sanction - crying shame, one so powerful is hopelessly wrong
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political mess and there are many who have taken to shouting "Don't panic! Don't panic!" only to help spread the panic!"Ideally, the key thing is to establi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 20:59hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mixed views on Schweppes sweeteners
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited has added three artificial sweeteners to the Mazoe concentrated drinks which are feared to cause cancer and brain cell damage among other diseases, if consumed in large quan...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2018 must, first and foremost, deliver free elections - forget ED's dogma saying otherwise
"Mhembwe rudzi inozvara mwana eneruzhumu!" (Each individual buck species has its own distinct marking!) so goes the Shona adage. Ever since President Mnangagwa took over from Robert Mugabe he has cert...Published: 19 May 2018 at 18:22hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
If MPs cannot nail blundering Chivayo what more Macavity, 'bafflement of Scotland Yard'
Watching these parliamentary committee hearings of Wicknell Chivayo, Minister Obert Mpofu, ZESA management, etc. is comparable to listening to the childhood stories of "Tsuro naGudo" (The hare and the...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 18:06hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'We have $98m instead of $146m for elections,' complains ZEC - proof ZEC is compromised and useless
Zimbabwe is in economic mess; with unemployment soaring to 90% plus, ¾ of our people living on US$1.00 or less, etc., etc.; because for the last 38 years the nation has been stuck with a regime that ...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 19:06hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe 'prisons are not fit for human habitation,' says First Lady - please, spare us the insufferable arrogance
New brooms sweep clean! President Mnangagwa and his wife are certainly trying very hard to give credence to that maxim. "First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa took a swipe at prison authorities and th...Published: 26 Dec 2017 at 22:01hrs | 8 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Seek ye first political kingdom' said Nkrumah - one thing Zanu PF tricking us into giving up
In his classical tale Animal Farm, George Orwell has the witty and sharp –shooter, the pig Squealer, telling the other animals black is white today and the exact opposite tomorrow and the latter bel...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe to divert Aids levy to cancer treatment
Government will be diverting part of money collected for the Aids levy to bankroll cancer treatment, Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa has said.Aids levy - introduced in Januar...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet clashes with prostitutes
A LOCAL church leader, prophet Lazarus Mashavave, is headed for a clash with hookers at Tobacco Sales Floors who accuse him of disrupting their business.Prophet Mashavave of Life Giving Sp...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 16:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
After phony factional war Zanu PF gets rude welcome to reality with bond notes fiasco!
Let me say from the onset, I am really pleased that Zanu PF's phony factional wars are now over and the regime can finally focus its attention on the nation's BIG ISSUE - the worsening economic meltdo...Published: 07 May 2016 at 18:38hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Chinamasa admitted' sanctions are NOT the cause of Zim economic meltdown said US Ambassador!
The American government imposed targeted sanctions against Mugabe and a select few in his inner circle for the regime's bad human rights record and failure to hold free elections. I applaud the succes...Published: 05 Nov 2015 at 16:26hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
One Minister say no worker will be laid off the other says Gvt is broke - something will have to give here
Labour Minister tells the civil servant that no one will be laid off."As far as I am concerned, there will not be a single job loss in government as long as there is no disciplinary issue. Rat...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 13:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukuri
In April Mugabe rebuked Chinamasa for bonus or 8% wage cut now he accepts a 50% - 'penga udzoke!'
In his Mid-Term Fiscal Review in Parliament Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, told the house the regime is planning to cut the public sector wage bill to 40 percent of total revenue from the curren...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 15:17hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe arrested Dzamara to avoid regime change - it is the path we choose to avoid our destiny that leads to it!
Sometimes one meets their destiny by the path they chose to avoid it! "Regime change" has been the one curse Mugabe and Zanu PF have left no stone unturned to avoid. And the regime has successfully a...Published: 14 May 2015 at 18:02hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
There is nothing to celebrate on 35th Independence anniversary but plenty to reflect on!
Today is the 18 April 2015, Zimbabwe is 35 years old! There will be no celebrations or fanfare across the land because there is really little cause to celebrate. Let it be the day of deep reflection....Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 16:42hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu PF will rule forever because of MDC's 'detrimental decision' - reverse psychology to save Zanu PF demise!
"The Herald Editor Caesar Zvayi has assured Zanu PF that it will govern until donkeys grow horns as the only opposition political party that claim to have massive support, the MDC-T take detrimental ...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 12:51hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Medical appeal for Shaleen Zivumbwa
Dear EditorI am helping Shaleen Zivumbwa a girl from Zhombe, Sidakeni to make an appeal for funds to pay for medical attention. Find attached her story, for any further information do not he...Published: 22 Feb 2015 at 14:02hrs | | by Hlaleleni Karanda
VP Mpoko says able bodied should not be vendors - of all the stupid marks that is top
"I have got my own views regarding vending where you find an able-bodied man seated selling tomatoes. There are better things to do for someone who I fit except for those who are indisposed and physic...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 16:07hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
It is the 'Economic Meltdown, Stupid!' that is finally going to force Mugabe out of office!
The economic meltdown, stupid! To paraphrase a twisted to fit version of the President Clinton catch phrase. It was the strength of the American economy that secured President Clinto...Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 22:04hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
A grim Christmas to all Zimbabweans and a grimier 2015 - want a merry one, earn it!
"Politics is a dirty, especially Zimbabwean politics with corrupt and ruthless tyrants like Mugabe, Mnangagwa and Mujuru on one side and corrupt and blundering village idiots like Tsvangirai, Biti and...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 17:10hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chinese pleased Mnangagwa is next VP - Zimbabweans must never forgive Chinese treachery in this!
The Chinese are very pleased their man, Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now set to be Zimbabwe's next president after Mugabe. "We are aware that China has already congrat...Published: 10 Dec 2014 at 10:00hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zanu-PF is as hungry for power as ever
The country's economic meltdown remains the greatest challenge facing the nation. The Zanu-PF congress has come up with nothing concrete to address this problem.The congress was held under the...Published: 08 Dec 2014 at 09:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe has the mother of nightmares, his spokesman reveals
R G Mugabe spokesman, George Charamba, inadvertently, explains that sleeping during the day is the cause for nightmares and his boss is in the middle of the mother of all nightmares!"Unless Ma...Published: 18 Oct 2014 at 18:32hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Ken Mufuka it is Mugabe's no regime change nonsense we should be concerned about
I used to read Ken Mufuka's "Letter from America" in the Chronicle; I stopped because they became tediously monotonous - starting nowhere and going nowhere else. I can see that things have not changed...Published: 11 Oct 2014 at 18:08hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Grace has her legs twisted in her designer knickers, regime change is in her bed!
It is a well-known Zanu PF tactic to blame everyone else but themselves when things are not going their way. Grace Mugabe is a slow learner by all account but she has clearly learnt this tactic now. S...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 15:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chinamasa set to real China mega deal - Chinese acupuncture will not cure of cancer
According to a report in New Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa has called the nation's leaders of industry and all other interested parties to the Harare International Confer...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 16:40hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe bluffing, trip to China wont stop economic meltdown!
The West imposed sanctions on Mugabe in 2002 and he countered by announcing his "Look East" policy. But as the Zimbabwe economy continued to go down the tube Mugabe reverted to the mantra of blaming t...Published: 08 Sep 2014 at 11:58hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Xeroderma' children seek assistance
A Harare couple from Epworth is desperately seeking about R240 000 to get their children aged four and nine to South Africa for urgent lifesaving operations.Doctors suspect the children are su...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 21:36hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
MDC-Renewal say Mugabe did not rig elections we must ignore the idiots and move on!
MDC Renewal Team spokesman and Harare lawyer, Jacob Mafume, now says Zanu PF won last year’s elections fair and square and that calls for fresh elections are "idiotic". To those Zimbabweans who stil...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 08:39hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe begging EU for FDI in a nonsensical cat and mouse game
The Zanu PF government has made a major climb-down and pleaded with the European Union (EU) to urge its members to bring in the much-needed foreign direct investment (FDI) to save the ailing economy,"...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 10:50hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Chinamasa says scraping Zimdollar damaged the economy; is he minister of nonsense?
Is Patrick Chinamasa the Minister of Finance or the Minister of Nonsense because to say the scrapping of the Z$ in 2008 damaged the economy is nonsense!"The migration from hyperinflation to mu...Published: 22 Jul 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Health disaster looms in Bulawayo
Bulawayo Municipality and industries are discharging 35 million litres of raw sewage and hazardous effluent directly into the Umguza catchment per year, which has been linked to the incidence of seri...Published: 07 May 2014 at 07:48hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
Pope Francis blesses sick man - Photos
Photos of Pope Francis embracing a sick man suffering from facial disfigurement have won the pontiff praise online.The images, taken during his general audience in the Vatican, have seen the ...Published: 07 Nov 2013 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Telecel fun run promotes awareness of cancer
Telecel Zimbabwe has organised a fun run on Saturday 26 October in support of the Cancer Association of Zimbabwe. Its purpose is to increase public awareness of cancer and raise funds for the Can...Published: 23 Oct 2013 at 10:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Heartbreaking story of Zim girl whose face is 'eating her alive'
My Face Is Eating Me Alive is a film about Tare and her struggle to survive and will be aired on Channel 5 in the UK on 17 June 2013.Her mum, Thandiwe sacrifices everything to save her daughte...Published: 15 Jun 2013 at 16:04hrs | | by Channel5
Aspirin once a month could reduce cancer risk: Study
Popping an aspirin just once a month could cut people's chances of developing cancer by almost a quarter, new research suggests.According to scientists at Queen's University in Belfast, a week...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse spots eye cancer from Facebook picture, saving toddler's life
A nurse saved a toddler from cancer after looking at her Facebook picture.Nicola Sharp was browsing through friend Michele Freeman's profile when she saw a flash photo of Michele's daughter Gr...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 14:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed by simple blood test: Research
LONDON - Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed using a simple blood test, according a new discovery published by British scientists on Tuesday.Early detection of lung cancer has been s...Published: 17 Oct 2012 at 15:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinese (40) woman disfigured by horrific tumours on her face promised to look beauty again
A 40-year-old Chinese mum-of-two disfigured by horrific tumours growing on her face has been told by doctors she will make a full recovery from her condition after the government said it would foot t...Published: 15 Jun 2012 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors successfully remove 20Kg tumour off man's back
Doctors at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, Zambia have successfully removed a 20Kg mass of tumour that had grown on the back of a 24-year-old man.UTH managing director Dr La...Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 07:26hrs | | by
Mugabe told me he now wants to retire: Tsvangirai
The Standards reports that Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday claimed President Mugabe last week told him he now wants to retire, but was being forced to stay by Zanu PF elements fearing his departure will q...Published: 31 Oct 2011 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government must strengthen cancer support systems: Tongai Moyo
SUNGURA musician Tongai Moyo — who is battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — has called on Government to strengthen the country’s can...Published: 16 Aug 2011 at 04:36hrs | | by .
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