HARARE – Over 2 000 bottles of anointing oil are distributed on a daily basis by Prophet Walter Magaya’s Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries. Prophet Magaya speaking through the church administrator Talent Mango said on a normal day at least 2 000 bottles of anointing oil are distributed while on big Sundays the figure surges…
MASVINGO – Over 100 school girls at Masvingo’s Chingwizi camp between the ages of 10 and 12 are believed to have fallen pregnant in the recent past. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has blamed the alarming pregnancies of the young girls at the transit camp on the terrible living conditions at the facility. The…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday called for internationally-brokered efforts across the political spectrum to pursue dialogue to move Zimbabwe out of a deepening economic crisis. Tsvangirai was speaking at a meeting at Chatham House in London, and called for help, both financially and with expertise, to improve Zimbabwe’s long-term economic development. The MDC…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must have “okayed” Information minister Jonathan Moyo’s Thursday interrogation by the Zimbabwean police, it has emerged. Although presidential spokesperson George Charamba has skirted the issue by saying law enforcement agents did not need anyone’s blessings to interview people of interest, those familiar with such cases insisted that State protocol demanded…
MASVINGO – Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is mooting plans to unfurl worker protests over deepening economic hardships. ZCTU president George Nkiwane told a Labour forum here on Thursday night that the state of the economy and the status of workers was getting worse by the day. “We are facing a doomed future with…
HARARE – Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda has read the riot act to Cabinet ministers and their deputies who are in the habit of absenting themselves from Parliament. He said all members of the executive were fully accountable to Parliament and must fulfil their constitutionally-mandated roles in this respect. He said the executive…
HARARE – William Mutomba, Zanu PF legislator for Buhera North, has castigated government’s indigenisation policy saying it needs to be revised because it is retarding efforts to revive the economy. Mutomba told the National Assembly on Thursday while debating the motion to revive the economy, that the policy was spooking investors. Mutomba called for the…
HARARE – A director in the ministry of Health and Child Care yesterday blamed her employer for facilitating her being swindled by businessman Energy Mutodi. Portia Manangazira, the director of epidemiology and disease control in the Health ministry, testified before Harare magistrate Hosea Mujaya during Mutodi’s trial continuation. Mutodi is answering to charges of swindling…
HARARE – Paul Chimedza, deputy minister of Health and Child Care, has admitted that the country’s hospitals are facing severe drug shortages which have compromised the treatment of patients. He made the admission in the Senate on Thursday during ministers’ question time. MDC Senator Misheck Marava quizzed Chimedza on the stock levels of drugs in…
EDITOR — Government should act on the issue of hospitals running out of drugs as a matter of urgency. I read with sadness your article entitled “Hospitals run out of drugs” and believe that if the government is concerned about its people, it should solve this problem without delay. It was disheartening to know that…
