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By Purity MarungisaAmidst reports of the continued presence of a polio outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) will from today (Tuesday) commence a door-to-door polio vaccination programme aimed at protecting children under five years of age. The mass vaccination exercise targets to jab …

High ranking sex pests within the Ministry of Health and Child Care are sending female employees on financially rewarding workshops in exchange for sex, a workers’ union has said. In a 16 May 2023 correspondence to the Acting Health Secretary, Zimbabwe Health Workers Union general secretary L. Sarai also accused …

RESIDENTS of Mbare’s New Lines and Annex Flats have resorted to using buckets and shovels to get rid of human waste from their blocked toilets as living conditions continue to deteriorate in most Harare suburbs. Women, who brunt most of the burden of cleaning the non-flushing toilets without protective clothing …

At least five people die everyday in traffic accidents across the country, Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona has said. “Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with around 1,3 million people killed, and as many as 50 million people injured each year,” Mhona …

Marry Mubaiwa has undergone her second operation, some seven months after her right forearm was amputated last year as a way of dealing with lympoedema, a condition that left her arms and legs badly swollen. The former wife to Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s latest health battles were revealed by her …

An Air Force of Zimbabwe trainer aircraft which crashed on February 2 killing two experienced pilots was not fit to fly after it crash-landed in bad weather just hours earlier, ZimLive can reveal. A top Air Force official has now been discharged over his role in the fatal decisions that …

The government’s abrupt withdrawal of a gazetted notice which had controversially decreed official secrecy on public procurement deals in the health sector is a reflection of chaotic governance fuelled by internal political struggles and rampant corruption. This week, Zimbabweans were stunned by the gazetting of General Notice 635 of 2023 …

Zimbabwe has combined forces with Mozambique to tackle regional energy deficits which stand at over 35 000 megawatts, with the two countries paying particular focus on sharing surplus and developing new power sources, President Mnangagwa said yesterday. Like a host of SADC nations, Zimbabwe has been saddled with power deficits …

Government is in the process of reviewing the Continuous Assessment Learning Areas (CALA) which has seen parents involuntarily assume the burden of performing the compulsory assignments for their children. Plans to review the contentious programme were revealed in parliament this past week by Primary and Secondary Education deputy minister Edgar …

GOVERNMENT has lifted all restrictions on the importation of basic commodities to boost market supplies and granted 100 percent retention of domestic foreign currency earnings, with a further fine-tuning of the official foreign exchange auction system expected to tackle resurgent price madness and stabilise the economy. In addition, Treasury will …