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Bulawayo’s medical Dr Nhlanhla Mgodla has died.

Posted on November 3, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

ONE of Bulawayo’s top medical doctors, Dr Nhlanhla Mgodla has died. Dr Mgodla died on Sunday morning at Mater Dei Hospital after a short illness. He will be buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo on Sunday. A service will be held at Selbourne Park Seventh Day Adventist church just before his burial at 730AM. His daughter Miss Lindelwe Mgodla expressed sadness at her father’s death. She said he was…

United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has suspended elective surgery due to a countrywide shortage of pethidine,

Posted on October 15, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THE United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has suspended elective surgery due to a countrywide shortage of pethidine, a potent painkiller used during and after an operation. The hospital has with immediate effect, started attending to emergency surgical procedures only. Elective surgery is when a patient chooses to be operated on in a matter that is not life threatening to avoid pain or possible complications in future. In a circular signed by UBH Clinical Director…

Squatters fighting off eviction by Deputy Sheriff’s Office, destroy police vehicle and leave Nyamandlovu Farm owner in (ICU)

Posted on September 24, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

A NYAMANDLOVU farmer is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital while two cops and officials from the Deputy Sheriff’s Office have also been hospitalised after nine illegal settlers allegedly set upon them with axes, logs and stones. The squatters, a court heard, were protesting over the execution of an eviction order issued by the High Court for them to leave Mr Luke Siziba’s farm. Prosecutors said the squatters barricaded a road by standing…

Three people die in three trucks pile up in massive fireball on Victoria Falls highway

Posted on September 5, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THREE people died and one of them was burnt beyond recognition in a horrific accident involving three haulage trucks at the 82km peg along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road in Insuza. The accident occurred on Saturday at about 7PM and by 8PM last night, the road was still closed to traffic and there were fears that a gas tanker that was involved in the accident could explode. Vehicles were using a detour through the bush…

Three Bulawayo Wedding Bridesmaids, Injured In Accident Along Old Khami Road

Posted on August 8, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

TRAGEDY struck a wedding party in Bulawayo yesterday when three bridesmaids sustained injuries after a vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and plunged into a ditch. The bride, who was meant to be travelling in the same vehicle, was somehow persuaded not to board the ill-fated car at the last minute. A woman, who declined to talk to The Chronicle, cried uncontrollably at the accident scene. The wedding was slated for today. The three…

Fourteen People, Three Founders Pupils And 11 People Injured After Kombi Minibus Overturned On Masiyemapambili Road Tshabalala

Posted on July 21, 2016July 21, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

FOURTEEN people, three of them Founders High School pupils were today injured in Bulawayo’s Tshabalala suburb when a commuter omnibus they were travelling in veered off the road and overturned. The kombi driver, who allegedly sustained head injuries, refused to be taken to the hospital. The accident occurred along Masiyemapambili Road near the Grain Marketing Board at about 641AM and the kombi was travelling from New Magwegwe suburb headed for Belmont industrial…

Masked Bulawayo Gunman Strikes Thrice In An Hour

Posted on June 30, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

A BULAWAYO man was rushed to hospital after a masked gunman shot him on the shoulder in a failed robbery attempt. Police sources believe the balaclava-clad robber struck at two places in Njube suburb before the shooting at a shopping centre in neighbouring Iminyela on Tuesday night. The crimes were committed within a space of an hour. The robber left Charles Tshuma (44) sprawled in a blood spattered TeleCash kiosk after failing to grab cash at…

Bulawayo Man ‘Steals’ Stillborn Baby From Mpilo Mortuary And Buries The Corpse At Luveve Cemetry

Posted on June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

IN a bizarre case, a man from Bulawayo misrepresented himself as the father of a stillborn child before taking the body from and burying it at Luveve Cemetery. Tineyi Machipanda pleaded guilty to supplying false information for a stillbirth when he appeared before magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure yesterday. He was remanded in custody to June 3, 2016. Machipanda told the court that he committed the offence just to “assist” in the burial process. The man is…

Five Ambulances Race 37 Manondwane Pupils To Hospital After Ingesting Toxic Jatropha Fruit

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THIRTY-SEVEN Grade 2 pupils were yesterday rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital after some of them started vomiting, apparently from food poisoning after eating poisonous Jatropha fruits. Sources at Manondwane Primary School in Bulawayo’s Nketa 7 said 16 pupils ingested the toxic fruits at the school playground at around 10AM and the rest of the class was taken for treatment as a precaution. “They were playing in their enclosed place where there are swings and slides. The…

‘Five Members Of Same Family In Bulawayo’s Nketa 6 Suburb Die In House Inferno’

Posted on May 6, 2016May 6, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

FIVE members of the same family from Bulawayo’s Nketa 6 suburb were burnt to death while three others escaped, one with serious burns, after their rented house caught fire yesterday. Bulawayo’s chief fire officer Richard Peterson said arson could not be ruled out. Musafare Chidembo, 41, survived the fire after he raced out of the house to save his vehicle parked outside, neighbours said. As he did so, his wife, Ester Mazidziwa, 29, his son Brian,…

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