Tag: bulawayo

Amid Diaspora Parenting and Child-Headed Families, Comprehensive Sexuality Education Comes To The Rescue in Bulawayo

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisain Bulawayo A few years ago, Vuzu Sex parties made headlines in Bulawayo Metropolitan province as young people of school-going age engaged in various forms of indecent behavior including sexual orgies, drug and substance abuse amongst other ills. For Simangalisiwe Ndlovu* (19), from Gwabalanda in Bulawayo, attending these parties was easy since both her parents stay out of the country and there was no parental supervision at home. Her parents work in South Africa and Simangalisiwe lives with her two siblings, her younger brother who is 15 and…

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Vuzu sex parties invade Harare

Kuda Pembere

A famous Bulawayo frenzy of wild sex parties monikered ‘vuzu’ parties, has now entered Harare’s Hatfield suburb, HealthTimes has learned. By Kudakwashe Pembere Vuzu parties are indoor gatherings common in Bulawayo mostly held by teenagers where they engage in beer, and drug binges as well as illicit unprotected sex. This was revealed in an interview by a Hatfield resident Tapiwa Chandavengerwa, a recovered addict who is working with some organisations in the reduction of drug and substance abuse. Chandavengerwa said there is a house in Hatfield which hosts these vuzu…

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Harare Tells Residents To Disinfect Both Borehole And Tape Water, As Cholera Closes In On Big Cities, Eight Provinces Record Deadly Diarrhoeal disease

Michael Gwarisa

WHAT started as a single suspected Cholera case in Chegutu a month ago, could soon become a full blown epidemic in Zimbabwe, amidst indications that only two out of the 10 administrative provinces in the country are yet to record confirmed cases of Cholera. By Michael Gwarisa According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), eight provinces so have recorded cases of Cholera since the beginning of 2023, with cases in the eight provinces having no epidemiological link to each other. However, only Harare and Bulawayo have no…

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Bulawayo Has Highest TB Death Rate In Zimbabwe…Overcrowding In Cowdry and Squatter Camps Fertile breeding ground for TB

Michael Gwarisa

…Parliament appeals for more funding for to end TB in Zimbabwe THE City of Bulawayo currently has the highest TB death rate of 16 percent, which is higher than the nationally set target of less than 5 percent, due to a myriad of risk factors chief among them being the high TB/HIV co-infection, delayed presentation at health facilities and rampart overcrowding in some of the city’s settlements. By Michael Gwarisa recently in Kadoma From the death audits carried out by the Bulawayo City council quarterly, the incidents of deaths are…

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Health Ministry Dismisses Viral Video Of Woman Claiming She Reacted To Vaccine

Michael Gwarisa

THE Bulawayo Metropolitan Provincial Medical Director (PMD),  Dr Maphios Siamuchembu has poured water on a video currently making rounds on social media of a 27 year old woman, Cleopatra Ncube from Cowdry Park in Bulawayo who claims to have developed an adverse reaction that led to her fingers and lower limbs drying up soon after getting jabbed with the Sinovac, a Chinese manufactured vaccine being administered in Zimbabwe. By Michael Gwarisa According to the viral video, Cleopatra took the vaccine on July 27, 2021 when health officials were conducting inoculations…

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How Tragedy Birthed Mpilo Hospital’s Pediatric Cardiac Care Unit

Michael Gwarisa

A Cardiac ward for children experiencing heart related complications was recently launched at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo, marking the beginning of a journey that will see the country reducing morbidity and mortality in children due to cardiac health conditions. By Michael Gwarisa The Cardiac ward at Mpilo was established by an organization called the Brave Little Hearts in Zimbabwe (BLHZ) that was founded by a young woman, Tendai Moyo. However, many might not know the story behind the birth of Brave Little hearts an organization that saw the pediatric…

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#JUSTIN: Bulawayo Teenager Succumbs To COVID-19

Michael Gwarisa

A 19 year old Bulawayo male has become the latest victim of COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths in Zimbabwe to 24. By Michael Gwarisa According to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) daily COVID-19 update, 58 cases tested positive for the virus today and these include 10 from South Africa and 48 local cases. 32 of the local cases are contacts of known confirmed cases. Investigations are underway to establish the source of infection for the other cases. “13 recoveries were reported by the following…

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Mystery Shrouds Zim’s Second COVID-19 Death…Doctors Want Urgent Probe Into Matter

Michael Gwarisa

CIRCUMSTANCES leading to the demise of Zimbabwe’s 11th COVID-19 case has opened a can of worms, further exposing  the fissures and  the country’s lack of preparedness in dealing with the raging pandemic which has infected  more than a million people globally and claimed 70 000 lives. By Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe yesterday recorded its 11th case of COVID-19 which also turned out to be the country’s latest fatality from the virus, this time a 79 year old Bulawayo man who succumbed to symptoms of the virus over the weekend. The latest…

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