Zimbabwe’s billionaire Strive Masiyiwa and the US’s End Fund are tackling neglected diseases that blind, disable and disfigure millions of Zimbabwe’s poorest people, but many are shunning treatment due to misinformation. [GoogleAd] More than 7 million people in Zimbabwe need treatment for painful infections, such as sleeping sickness and elephantiasis, with Masiyiwa and his wife…
Black people are four times more likely to develop kidney disease, a top kidney expert has said. Nephrologist Onismas Madzudzo — one of only five in the country — told a World Kidney Day commemoration gathering at Mutare Provincial Hospital yesterday that kidney sufferers were presenting themselves late for treatment. [GoogleAd] Madzudzo said blacks are…
WITH the memory of Cyclone Eline still fresh in everyone’s mind, it’s the right moment to point out that everyone in Zimbabwe needs to pay close attention to the fast approaching Cyclone Idai. Elsewhere in this edition, we report that heavy winds tore through Manicaland yesterday, bringing lightning and heavy rain, battering buildings with hail,…
EDITOR — Someone once said that it is never too late to turn back and do the right thing. What Zanu PF seems to be blind to is that in their exclusion of all and anything not perceived to be Zanu PF they are more and more isolating the very people they supposedly went to war…
EDITOR — Zimbabwe is my motherland. My heart bleeds when I see Zimbabwe in such a terrible state. Our elders took over the reigns from colonial masters and we all celebrated because we thought we are now in full ownership of our country. [GoogleAd] When some people in Africa hear names of their presidents they…
Churches yesterday met British head of Political and Public Affairs John Culley to follow-up on a petition against sanctions which they said were hurting ordinary Zimbabweans. [GoogleAd] The meeting was held at the British Embassy in Harare and was attended by Zimbabwe Amalgamated Council of Churches (ZACC) members, the African Union’s (AU) Economic Social and Cultural…
MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi was yesterday fined $200 after being convicted of disrupting electoral proceedings during the announcement of presidential election results. Harare magistrate Ruramai Chitumbura convicted Komichi — who was accused of invading the podium at the Harare International Conference Centre where he grabbed the microphone and announced that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission…
The Econet group has unveiled the OmniContact — a standalone “business process outsourcing” (BPO) unit — that will offer local and foreign businesses, both private and public enterprises, a wide range of specialised outsourced services, designed to free them to focus on their core activities as well as reduce their capital and operational costs. [GoogleAd] The…
INNSCOR Africa Limited (Innscor) recorded a 167 percent increase in profit to $64,011 million for the six months ended December 31, 2018 compared to a $23,963 million recorded in prior period driven by double-digit volume growth across all categories. [GoogleAd] Addington Chinake, Innscor’s chairperson, said revenue was up 61 percent to $489,893 million for the…
Beatrice based sungura musician Simon Mutambi is delighted after sungura maestro Alick Macheso offered to record his forthcoming album Hazvipere Mushe for free. [GoogleAd] The Cobra Kings frontman said he will have the sungura giant feature on one of the songs off the seven-track album. Macheso has helped and continues to help several upcoming musicians find…
