The Government has rolled out a comprehensive national strategy to curb drug and substance abuse, including the distribution of testing kits to police posts, clinics, and hospitals - while abolishing...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2025
The government is considering amending the law to introduce mandatory drug testing for learners and employees and empower inspections in schools, Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has reveale...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 October 2025
Bulawayo councillors have blamed the alarming rise in drug and substance abuse among youths on the city's failure to effectively implement empowerment programmes and create sustainable economic oppor...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 October 2025
In a decisive move to curb rising drug abuse and trafficking, the government has issued a stern warning, signaling the imminent implementation of severe consequences for those involved in such activi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 October 2025
Former President Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Mugabe Jr. (33), is expected to appear in court in Harare today following his arrest earlier this week.Mugabe Jr. was taken into custody on Wednesday afte...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2025
ZIMBABWEANS are being urged to remain vigilant following growing reports of a dangerous drug known as "devil's breath" (pictured), a substance capable of stripping victims of free will, memory, and re...
By Jacob Mutisi | Published: 15 September 2025
HARARE Metropolitan Province urgently needs at least US$500 000 to build and equip rehabilitation centres for drug addicts, as authorities warn that substance abuse has reached crisis levels.With a p...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 September 2025
The Government has approved the National Drug and Substance Abuse Control and Enforcement Agency Bill, a landmark development that will establish a specialised body to spearhead the fight against drug...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2025
Members of Parliament have raised grave concerns over Zimbabwe's disjointed and under-resourced response to the country's escalating drug and substance abuse crisis, citing a lack of coordination, ina...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 July 2025
A 24-year-old man from Mutare, Brendon Leeroy Munyama, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for selling unregistered medicines, but was given the option to pay a fine of US$240 to avoid jail...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2025
A new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is set to be constructed in Mt Hampden, about 20km north-west of Harare, in a development expected to cut reliance on foreign drugs and create more jobs for ci...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2019
THE pharmaceutical sector in Zimbabwe owes foreign suppliers more than $39 million for imported raw materials as well as finished products, resulting in supplies to the southern African country being ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 January 2019
Government has concluded a $25 million deal for medical equipment, medicines and surgical sundries with India to ease drug shortages and deal with price distortions. This comes as junior doctors at pu...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 December 2018
CERTIFIED herbal medicines manufacturer, Musimboti Traditional Science and Technology Institute (MTSTI), has over the past two months experienced a surge in business as patients resort to traditional ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it intercepted dangerous drugs worth $10 million last year, after increasing its footprint at ports of entry. This comes as the tax collector, together with...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018
Government has deferred the national roll-out of Dolutegravir - an anti-retroviral drug for adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age - following reports from Botswana that the drug is associate...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018
GOVERNMENT has deferred the national rollout of dolutegravir, an anti-retroviral drug, to adolescent girls and women of child-bearing age, following reports from Botswana that the drug was associated ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 June 2018
Government has floated a drug tender worth $59 million from the Health Levy, amid revelations that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has increased its foreign currency allocation for the procurement ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 June 2018
PRICES of vital drugs in Zimbabwe have gone up by about 15 percent over the last few months, health care industry players have disclosed.The surge has significantly affected patients and insurance com...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018
The association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) on Tuesday hit out at pharmacies for the recent arbitrary increase in drug prices by between 30 and 70 percent.Late last month, Zimbabwe...
By Agencies | Published: 17 October 2017
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has allocated an unspecified amount of foreign currency to the pharmaceutical industry in a frantic move to avert a potentially devastating drug shortage...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 September 2017
A critical shortage of drugs is looming in Zimbabwe as pharmacies struggle to stock due to biting foreign currency challenges, which have forced them to hike prices to essential medicines. Zimbabwe is...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 September 2017
Government is looking for an investor to inject $6 million in once Zimbabwe's and southern Africa's biggest drug manufacturer - CAPS Holdings - which has been teetering on the brink of total collapse ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2017
The country's national drug stocks are expected to improve in a few weeks following an injection of $4 million every month by Government, specifically for drug procurement, Health and Child Care Mini...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 August 2017
Thirty-five percent of people on antiretroviral drugs in Zimbabwe are on second line treatment either because they are not recovering on first line treatment or they are reacting to treatment, Health ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 August 2017
Zimbabwe announces strict enforcement of axle load limits 
SA decry 'non-existent' Beitbridge border post security 
Millions celebrate Diwali festival in India 
Zimbabwe's dollar stock exchange surges 45% 
Gold edges up as traders await guidance 
Karo Platinum Project capex rises to US$546m 
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