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ARVs shortage hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), with patients saying the COVID-19 lockdown period had worsened the situation.Some of the patients, who spoke to Southern Eye...Published: 7 hrs ago | 498 | by Staff reporter
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 3781 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
Mob assaults Harare cop
A Harare detective was recently attacked by an angry mob in Mufakose for arresting two suspected drug dealers. After the two were arrested, a gang of eleven suspects emerged and demanded the release o...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2735 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 won't be defeated by empty political rhetoric, says Biti
Zimbabwean former Finance minister Tendai Biti, also main opposition MDC Alliance deputy president, says the virulent Covid-19 pandemic, surging and killing more people, won't be defeated by empty pol...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1265 | by Staff reporter
A staggering number of Zimbabweans dying outside hospitals
A huge number of Covid-19 victims in Zimbabwe are dying outside health institutions with half of the casualties in Matabeleland South succumbing to the respiratory disease before accessing treatment, ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 22:48hrs | 896 | by Nokuthaba Dlamini
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
Zimbabwe's ex-Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance deputy leader Tendai Biti says the fact that the country's key political leaders and their business cronies are under Covid-19 siege locally ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:15hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
About 600 die while Mnangagwa holidays
Just as Covid-19 was bouncing back at the beginning of the new year with ferocity after a relatively mild and contained first wave in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa was going on leave.He left co-Vice-Pre...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:11hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Mediclinic justifies ties to apartheid era 'Dr Death'
Private hospital group Mediclinic South Africa has come under fire after it emerged that Dr. Wouter Basson is still practicing at its Cape facilities.Dr. Wouter Basson was the mastermind behin...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 17:02hrs | 853 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 home remedies gain popularity
TRADITIONAL herbs and steaming have become popular home remedies against Covid-19 which has killed 772 people in Zimbabwe. Social media platforms are daily awash with messages on the efficacy ...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:53hrs | 756 | by Staff reporter
Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers
A Belgian minister has blown the lid off a sensitive and commercial secret – the price that the EU has agreed to pay for the leading Covid vaccines.Belgium's budget state secretary, Eva De B...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:05hrs | 1649 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hospitals run out of oxygen
MEDICAL practitioners have called on government to urgently intervene and put measures in place to ensure adequate supply of oxygen as most health institutions in the country are constantly running ou...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:39hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
Zinatha warns of fake, harmful Covid-19 herbs
THE Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) has cautioned the public not to buy, from the streets and other undesignated areas, traditional medicines sold by unregistered and "igno...Published: 16 Jan 2021 at 19:11hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Robber breaks into bedroom, forces couple to be intimate, records video
A DARING robber, who broke into a couple's bedroom at night and forced them to be intimate while recording a video, has been dragged before the courts and charged with robbery and possession of danger...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:54hrs | 3309 | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2555 | by Samantha Power
Nurses demand risk allowance
NURSES have accused the government of depriving them of the COVID-19 risk allowance several months after they were promised the stipend.Government offered to pay allowances for health workers ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 08:02hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Funds missing at Mzingwane High
MZINGWANE High School in Esigodini is in the eye of a storm after foreign currency incentives mobilised by parents for teachers late last year failed to reach the intended beneficiaries with parents t...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 07:50hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Mafume allowed to see doctor
Suspended Harare mayor Jacob Mafume, remanded in custody for abuse of office, obstruction of justice and corruption charges, can now be attended to by a medical doctor of his choice, the court ruled y...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:45hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza COVID-19 isolation centre lies idle
A CHITUNGWIZA health facility set aside last year as a COVID-19 isolation centre is lying idle after work to transform it into a treatment hub was stalled due to lack of funds.In April last ye...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:23hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
CIO operative nabbed for careless discharging of firearm
A 25-year-old Chitungwiza man appeared in court yesterday facing charges of reckless discharging of a firearm and possession of dangerous drugs.Tanfany Chadomunhu appeared before Harare magist...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 09:19hrs | 1947 | by Staff reporter
Man commits suicide in front of son
A 29-year-old Pumula South man committed suicide by hanging himself from a roof truss in front of his three-year-old son, police have said. Neighbours were awakened by the screaming boy who was found ...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe regime crippled by fear more than us, we're more powerful together
Zimbabweans have borne the brunt of unflattering worldwide ridicule over our perceived cowardice and fear in boldly standing up, and speaking out, for our God-given rights to a dignified and respectab...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:48hrs | 1575 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19
The World AIDS Day is marked every on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV in...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:37hrs | 768 | by Zipporah Musau
Magistrate gets $5 000 bail in corruption case
MAGISTRATE Morgan Nemadire, who is alleged to have leniently fined a Venezuelan $700 for carrying 5kg cocaine worth US$469 000 in her luggage from Brazil into Harare, was yesterday freed on $5 000 bai...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 17:16hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
'2020 marks death of public health system'
In the midst of severe economic unrest, the Zimbabwean healthcare system has been disintegrating and coming apart at the seams over the years and 2020 took it a notch higher with the advent of COVID-1...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 117 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appeals for divine help against new COVID-19 strain
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appealed for divine intervention to protect the country against a new COVID-19 strain that has been confirmed in some countries, including neighbouring South Afr...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:29hrs | 1417 | by Staff reporter
Police recover expired drugs after raid on clinic, surgery
A private clinic and a surgery in Gweru were raided by the police leading to the recovery of expired drugs and others which are not registered by the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) wor...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 984 | by Staff reporter
2020: The year Zimbabwe opposition was decimated
The year 2020 put Zimbabwe's democracy to the test as many political activists were arrested for trying to exercise their rights to demonstrate while others were allegedly abducted.Political a...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe magistrates now zombies very afraid to practice their legal knowledge as police now review their judgements
Zimbabwean judicial officers are feeling the heat of total disrespect and unreasonable interference by the police and Prosecution. To think that the prosecutors are supposed to be lawyers is a farfetc...Published: 26 Dec 2020 at 08:58hrs | 1856 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Who has destroyed Zimbabwe?
The country is troubled to the borne marrow. It is so disheartening that those who destroyed the country through nepotism, corruption, poor governance and thieving are telling the people that they sho...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1621 | by Leonard Koni
Is the MDC burying its head in the sand?
The piece by former Zanu-PF elections strategist Jonathan Moyo chronicling the missed opportunities by the opposition in the political history of Zimbabwe has once again raised debate on the state of ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 07:21hrs | 502 | by Karsten Noko
Zimbabwe to resume manufacturing ARVs
ZIMBABWE will now resume local manufacturing of Antiretrovirals (ARVs) and other drugs using local pharmaceutical companies as the country has been losing millions of foreign currency by procuring the...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:47hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
How South Africa can nudge Zimbabwe toward stability
What's new? As Zimbabwe's political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1968 | by crisisgroup
'No medical drugs in Zimbabwe prison'
An HIV-positive inmate at Harare Remand Prison yesterday told magistrate Judith Taruvinga that he was not accessing medical treatment due to unavailability of drugs at the prison clinics. The ...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 07:04hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo records increase in Covid-19 admissions
MPILO Central Hospital has recorded an increase in the number of admissions at its Covid-19 isolation ward with reports that some of the patients are dying either waiting to be tested or waiting for t...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 06:50hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
10 new mini-factories for Matebeleland North Province
A TOTAL of 10 mini-factories will be shortly established to manufacture high-value leather products in rural Matebeleland North province following the handover yesterday of brand-new equipment sourced...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 06:05hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Minister blames COVID-19 for spike in drugs prices
HEALTH stakeholders from the pharmaceutical industry have called on the country to seriously consider local production of medicines as medical costs and drugs continue to skyrocket.This came o...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:15hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Repentant nurses reinstated on payroll
More than 1 000 nurses removed from the monthly pay sheets for not working standard hours are being reinstated after apologising to the Government and reverting to normal duty shifts. Last mon...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:08hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Covid-19 patients resort to home remedies
Clara Tandi felt feverish. Worried she was sick with the coronavirus, she grabbed handfuls of lemon, guava and mint leaves from her garden and boiled them into a liquid.Then Tandi (59) strippe...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:14hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
ZACC probes Judiciary, churches
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has opened investigations into judges, magistrates and church leaders over a slew of graft allegations.ZACC chair Justice Loyce Matanda-Moyo said...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:57hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
378 Zimbabwean women die during child birth
A TOTAL of 378 women died while giving birth in Zimbabwe since January this year which translates to a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of about 127 per 100 000 births. Of these women, 66 died at home w...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:54hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Zacc recovers 501 cars, seizes US$5m properties
More than US$5 million worth of corruptly-acquired property, including 501 vehicles, have been seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission in the past 18 months as Zimbabwean authorities intensi...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Entumbane residents take initiative to fix road
ENTUMBANE residents yesterday took up the initiative to fix a section of the only tarred road that connects the suburb with other areas after it developed terrible potholes, becoming a nightmare for m...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:43hrs | 880 | by Staff reporter
Chegutu hospital in sorry state
A freak accident near Mupfure River on Sunday in which two people died has exposed the shocking condition at Chegutu District Hospital with reports that survivors were left in pain and bleeding as the...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:30hrs | 442 | by Staff reporter
Stolen vehicles smuggled into Zimbabwe every week
SMUGGLING syndicates are said to be illegally bringing vehicles stolen from South Africa into Zimbabwe through the porous Mozambican border entry points.The reports come soon after two notorio...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Woman sells baby for US$179 to buy drugs
Kenyan woman Faiza Wanjiru has told the Nation newspaper that she sold her son for Sh20,000 (US$179,68) to buy drugs. Wanjiru who left her home because her mother had arranged a forced m...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 09:13hrs | 2931 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Sanctions hampering prosperity' said Mnangagwa didn't stop US$2 b Blue Roof, Parthenon to greed
Ever since Zimbabwe gained her independence in 1980, 40 years ago, the nation has been on a quest for freedom, justice, peace and economic prosperity for all. "Gutsva ruzhinji!" as Robert Mugabe never...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:10hrs | 579 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mthuli Ncube crafts debt control plan
Government has formulated a framework for evaluating, monitoring and managing publicly guaranteed and on-lent loans as they contribute to significant debt accumulation in the event of default by the p...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Heroine Nyaradzai Gumbodzvanda: Her speech at Amnesty International on Gender-based violence was heroic!
"Our language use perpetuate violence: we must refrain from language use that does not provide power to communities" said Madam Gumbodzvanda.Amai Gumbodzvanda made one of the most powerful spe...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 22:12hrs | 759 | by Nomazulu Thata
CID team investigating Mnangagwa ally arrested
Alleged Covid-19 procurement corruption mastermind Delish Nguwaya could walk free after criminal proceedings against him all but collapsed on Tuesday when a court removed him from remand.Magis...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 09:26hrs | 7117 | by Staff reporter
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