Pharmacists Jerome Kanyika has shared his opinion on the disturbing rise in suicide cases. He strongly believes the ease with which prescription drugs can be accessed is partially to blame for the rise in suicides and attempted suicides. This is because prescription level drugs strong enough to kill a fully grown human when taken in…

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UNFPA East and Southern Africa (Johannesburg) Mongu — “Growing up in a remote village, I witnessed my grandmother, a traditional birth attendant, assisting women and girls to deliver babies. She would perform these deliveries at home, using local herbs to try and address complications,” said Michelle Simukayi, a student at Lewanika College of Nursing and…

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TINASHE MAKICHI/SYDNEY KAWADZA THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is gunning for financial institutions, bank treasury employees and commodity brokers accused of manipulating the foreign currency auction as illicit deals taint the  platform. The indiscipline, according to sources who spoke to the Zimbabwe Independent this week, has seen bank employees, dribbling systems to illegally access the greenback.…

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Op-Ed by Robert Fellner The Canadian government is now freezing the bank accounts and personal assets of those who donated to support the Freedom Convoy, which is an organized political protest of the vaccine mandates. The deputy prime minister announced that they will retain these so-called emergency powers permanently going forward and will also seek to implement additional measures…

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SHAME MAKOSHORI THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has approached banks to inject ZW$5 billion (US$40,3 million) to revamp the country’s crumbling roads, new chairperson George Manyaya said, as he undertook to “revolutionise” a network that has been grounded by mismanagement and plunder. Manyaya took over the hot seat this January with a mandate to…

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