Shocking Statistics Reveal 47 % Voluntarily Tested UZ Students Are HIV+ve

ALMOST half of University of Zimbabwe students who recently underwent voluntary HIV testing were positive, a revelation which has forced the institution to limit inter-residence visits between male and female students. The shocking statistics came out during a recent exercise conducted by the country’s oldest university where 47 percent of students who underwent testing and counseling tested HIV positive. This follows recent reports that Midlands State University students’ reckless sexual behaviour had been singled out…

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Lost Girl (4) Found Safe, 35 Km Away After Two Cold Nights Alone In Forest Full Of Dangerous Animals & Snakes

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl from Mangwe, who got lost on her way home from school, miraculously survived two cold nights in an animal infested forest. A search party comprising about 100 villagers, seven police officers and two sniffer dogs found Ntokozo Mabhena, a pre-school learner, asleep under a tree on Sunday evening. Ntokozo had wandered about 35 kilometres from the school in Macingwane Village on Friday afternoon, to Kwite, a neighbouring Village. Villagers said the little…

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Court Clears MDC-T Bulawayo For Demo Against Economic Decline, Poverty & Corruption On Saturday (28/o5/16).

Opposition MDC-T Bulawayo province planned demonstration has been given a green light by the High Court to go ahead. The demo is set to Saturday (28). More than 10 000 people are set to participate. “Our demo is going ahead on May 28. The courts have said reasons given by the police to block it are insufficient and baseless”, James Sithole, the party’s organising secretary for Bulawayo province said this evening. The party had taken…

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Ex-Zipra Combatant, Mthwakazi Leader, , John Gazi’s , Honey Bird Kop Farm Seized By Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime

Ex-Zipra Combatant, Mthwakazi Leader, , John Gazi’s , Honey Bird Kop Farm Seized By Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime

A top Zipra ex-combatant, John Gazi, has been evicted from his 1 400 hectare Honey Bird Kop Farm ostensibly because he does not deserve land from a government he wished to topple. Gazi, Paul Siwela and Charles Gumbo – all members of the Mthwakazi Liberation Front, a secessionist Matabeleland pressure group – were facing treason charges arising from designing and planning the distribution of pamphlets viewed by the State as agitating for a public uprising…

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Alleged Land Baron, Bulawayo Deputy Mayor ‘Gift Banda’ Begs Kasukuwere For Leniency

Bulawayo Deputy mayor Gift Banda, who stand accused of being a land baron in the city is allegedly begging Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere for ‘leniency’ Banda, a MDC-T Bulawayo provincial chairman is said to have engaged ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa ‘to talk to Kasukuwere’. Banda, together with Chiyangwa’s campaign manager in the December Zifa election race, Eddie Chivero are said to have meet Chiyangwa in Harare on Wednesday. “Banda is panicking, he is in…

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Businessman And Former Boxer, John ‘Bonyongo The Destroyer’ Mutema (61) Has Died.

Businessman And Former Boxer, John ‘Bonyongo The Destroyer’  Mutema (61) Has Died.

ZIMBABWE’S renowned businessman and former heavy weight boxer, John ‘Bonyongo the Destroyer’  Mutema (61) has died. Also affectionately known as ‘Bombamupani’, Mutema suffered a stroke at his Dulibadzimu home in Beitbridge Thursday morning. Bonyongo quit boxing in 1999 after the death of the Man Mountain, Proud Chinembiri also known as Kilimanjaro since there no longer was a heavy weight boxer to fight him at that time. Bonyongo is famed for being the last man to…

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‘International Failure To Reign In Mugabe Over Gukurahundi, Gave Him A Sense Of Impunity’-US Envoy

‘International Failure To Reign In Mugabe Over Gukurahundi, Gave Him A  Sense Of Impunity’-US Envoy

PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan’s government did not just fail to fully appreciate the extent of the Matebeleland killings but White House simply did not want to know what was happening, a senior US envoy has said. William M. Bellamy, who was a junior US embassy staff in Harare at the time, said this during a panel discussion with David Coltart on his book The Struggle Continues: 50 Years of Tyranny in Zimbabwe, at the The Cato…

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Harare Police Arrest Kuwait Embassy Official And Three Suspects Over Zimbabwean ‘Sex Slaves Scandal’

Harare Police Arrest Kuwait Embassy Official And Three Suspects Over Zimbabwean  ‘Sex Slaves Scandal’

POLICE in Harare have arrested a Kuwait embassy official and three suspects as investigations into the human trafficking saga deepen. Brenda Avril May (62), a secretary at the embassy, was re-arrested after fresh charges emerged. May has pending similar charges before the courts. She recruited Joyleen Muchengu on the pretext that she was going to work as a nurse aide for former Kuwaiti Ambassador to Zimbabwe Ahmed Al-Jeeran’s brother, Bader Khaled. On reaching Kuwait, Muchengu…

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BREAKING NEWS: Egypt Air Flight MS804 Paris-Cairo Dissappears , 10 Miles Into Egypt Airspace

BREAKING NEWS: Egypt Air Flight MS804 Paris-Cairo Dissappears , 10 Miles Into Egypt Airspace

BREAKING NEWS: Egypt Air Flight MS804 Paris To Cairo Disappears From radar 10 Miles Into Egypt Airspace. The flight which departed from Paris at 0911 local time from Paris  disappeared from radar at 0245 Egypt time in the early hours of this morning just 10 minutes into Egypt airspace, with 66 people on board including 10 crew including 3 security officials or air marshals and 56 passengers including 1Briton. Egyptian Air civil aviation authority say its…

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Health Services Board Orders UBH CEO To Advertise Director of Operations Post In ‘National’ Not Regional Papers

Health Services Board Orders UBH CEO To Advertise Director of Operations Post In ‘National’ Not Regional Papers

  United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) and the Health Services Board are at odds over the vacant Director of Operations post. The health facility has been operating without a substantive head since December. The Health Services Board is understood to have queried  the recruitment procedure employed by the hospital. Former director of operations Elliot Mashingaidze retired in December. This writer understands the health institution advertised for the post in October and conducted interviews  in January. Three…

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