© NURSES, who recently declared incapacitation, have resolved to report for duty once a week, a situation that will worsen further service delivery at public hospitals that were also deserted by doctors 47 days ago. Until recently, the nurses have been going to work two or three times a week, but Zimbabwe Professional Nurses Union…
EDITOR — The water situation in Harare has become so critical that many people are turning to boreholes for clean water. We all know Harare City Council’s inability to supply us with adequate water, but even with the best will in the world and adequate funding, resolving this matter is going to take years. [GoogleAd]…
© THE battle for shares in Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited between a war veterans organisation Magamba Echimurenga Housing Trust and businessman James Makamba and nine other entities, has been set down for hearing today. High Court judge Edith Mushore is set to preside over the application, which was filed sometime last year. [GoogleAd] In the…
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) Bill gives the Information minister too much power and the minister must be totally removed from running its affairs, journalists and other media stakeholders have said. This emerged at a public hearing by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Media, Information and Broadcasting Services in Bulawayo on Tuesday. [GoogleAd] The Bill,…
© Like any other non-state organisation, the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) is entitled to its own opinion on the state of affairs in the country. Except that its opinion is generally expected to be considered. Its most recent one is borderline ridiculous and evidence of a misplaced messianic streak of undemocratic political overreach….
EDITOR — Finance minister Mthuli Ncube must not make a mistake of continuously borrowing from the outside world. Right now we are told the country owes lenders money running into billions of dollars, but if we are to introspect what that money was used for, we might never find any answers. [GoogleAd] So we must…
© GOVERNMENT has reportedly docked the salaries of some striking doctors who downed tools 47 days ago and refused to go back to work even after the Labour Court declared their job action unlawful. Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) secretary-general Tawanda Zvakada yesterday said while some striking doctors received their monthly pay, most of them…
© THE government seems to be shooting itself in the foot in the way it is dealing with the strike by doctors and other personnel in the health sector. For almost 50 days now, the doctors have been on strike and there seems to be no end in sight to the industrial action. The medical…
EDITOR — I get disturbed whenever I walk through the streets of Harare and see youths’ rowdy behaviour. It hurts me more to see them indulge in activities that they know are deviant to our society and in some cases behaviour which puts their lives at risk. Excessive consumption of drugs has become a habit,…
© CIMAS medical aid society will no longer be covering over-the-counter drugs for its members following the worsening economic crisis, which has led to exorbitant medication prices. Unlike some medical aid societies, Cimas has been paying for over-the-counter drugs using medical aid subscriptions but will not be doing so as drug prices have continued soaring….
