© GOVERNMENT has authorised Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) to increase subscriptions by 80 percent for its members so it can survive the prevailing economic crisis. [GoogleAd] This comes as the medical aid society earlier this month sent a request to Health Service Board (HSB) to review contributions as prices of most health services…
© MDC has reignited demands for electoral reforms after Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya raised the motion in Parliament. [GoogleAd] Chikwinya said elections in Zimbabwe have been highly contested since the 1990s, hence divisive and a source of polarisation and conflict in the country. “We are determined to provide a permanent solution to the challenge and…
© GOVERNMENT is struggling to revamp district hospitals due to the prevailing economic challenges, hence has resolved to look for both local and international investors to come in. [GoogleAd] This also comes after legislators recently complained that district hospitals are in a terrible state due to old infrastructure and inadequate equipment. Health minister Obadiah Moyo,…
© CASSAVA Smartech, an Econet subsidiary, has launched an e-health application for medical practitioners and their patients in an effort to ensure that Zimbabweans have access to good quality health services at affordable costs. [GoogleAd] The application, Maisha Medik, is both a digital healthcare network and personal health care assistant that will enable patients to…
© PARLIAMENT is pushing government to abolish the death penalty saying it violates human rights. [GoogleAd] MDC MP Dorcas Sibanda raised a motion on death penalty arguing that every human being should enjoy the sanctity of the right to life. “Some innocent people are given a death penalty after they fail to defend themselves and…
© URBAN Councils Association of Zimbabwe president Hosiah Makombe told practitioners from South Africa, Zambia, Lesotho, Botswana and Kenya, 10 from various Zimbabwean municipalities and four municipal experts from Germany who were attending a workshop that some of the challenges being faced in Zimbabwe have to do with revenue collection as Zimbabwe’s councils are not…
© MEDIA Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) is concerned at the increased cases of violations against the media, with the latest reports being that of Bus Stop TV comedian Samantha Kureya, popularly known as Gonyeti and journalist Leopold Munhende. [GoogleAd] Gonyeti was reportedly abducted by unidentified armed men from her Harare home on the August…
© Eddie Cross, the former secretary of economic affairs in the main MDC, looks like he is on a mission. [GoogleAd] A little bit of background would suffice! Before the country regained independence in 1980, the father of two had served the minority regime of Ian Douglas Smith in many capacities. In his CV, Cross…
© THE Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) fears that jailed Ntabazinduna traditional leader, Chief Felix Ndiweni, will be killed in prison if he remains there. Ndiweni, 54 a rabid critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government was last week jailed for an effective 18 months after he was convicted by Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove…
© AS POLITICAL tensions in the country continue to rise, amid the worsening economic rot, there is a growing feeling within President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration that some insiders are working to scupper his re-engagement efforts with the West, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] Among the bigwigs who have alluded to this are secretary for…
