© ZIMBABWE’S health sector has slipped into the intensive care. The sector has been facing serious challenges, ranging from obsolete and non-functional equipment, shortages of drugs, low staff morale and understaffing. [GoogleAd] Recently, doctors in public hospitals pointed out that their employers barely afford to buy gloves for surgeries. Because of government’s failure to improve…
© I HAVE said it before and I say it again here: Zimbabwe is definitely a meat-eater’s country. [GoogleAd] So although more and more dining venues offer meat-free dishes and increased numbers of people are becoming vegetarians and vegans, most Zimbabweans are still more likely to choose a meat option when dining out. Restaurants specialising…
© WHEN retrenchment knocked on Roselyn Musarurwa Charehwa’s door more than a decade ago while she was comfortably working for the Southern African Development Community (Sadc), she was devastated. [GoogleAd] Jobless and with no soul to turn to for help, Charehwa an independent woman at heart, began to think of her retrenchment as a blessing…
© GOVERNMENT is considering an upward review in electricity tariffs to enable power utility Zesa Holdings to operate viably. [GoogleAd] Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that Zimbabwe’s power is currently the cheapest in the region and is not cost reflective. “We need the charges of power…
© I HAVE said it before and I say it again here: Zimbabwe is definitely a meat-eater’s country. [GoogleAd] So although more and more dining venues offer meat-free dishes and increased numbers of people are becoming vegetarians and vegans, most Zimbabweans are still more likely to choose a meat option when dining out. Restaurants specialising…
© IN the absence of a national safety net coupled with the current prohibitive cost of healthcare services, it is imperative that Zimbabwe sets up a national health insurance scheme that caters comprehensively for every citizen to ensure the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). [GoogleAd] UHC refers to a situation where all people receive…
© GOVERNMENT officials are sending conflicting messages on the availability of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in the country. [GoogleAd] Just this week, the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health Ruth Labode told the National Assembly that the country was fast running out of ARVs. Earlier, Health minister Obadiah Moyo had told the parliamentary thematic committee…
© ARTS Watch this week brings you the second and last edition of State sponsored songs, jingles. [GoogleAd] In 2003, Professor Jonathan Moyo coordinated the recording of the album Come to Victoria Falls down in Zimbabwe, sung by Ruvhuvhuto Sisters comprising among others well known musicians Ivy Kombo-Moyo and Plaxedes Wenyika. The album was aimed…
© AS THE economic situation in the country continues to deteriorate, opposition legislators are now putting more pressure on government to deal with the issue of partisan food distribution. [GoogleAd] MDC legislators who have persistently accused Zanu PF of using food aid as a political tool are upping the ante in the current ninth Parliament….
© THE ruling Zanu PF has continued to dither on finalising its Bulawayo provincial elections under unclear circumstances. Initially, the provincial elections — which took place mid last month — could not be completed, leading to their postponement by a week. [GoogleAd] However, since then they were further postponed indefinitely and according to George Nare,…
