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/ 23 January 2009
More than 50 000 are infected with cholera in Zimbabwe’s epidemic, which has killed 2 773 people, the WHO said on Friday.
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/ 23 January 2009
Never mind apartheid South Africa, for many of our compatriots, rural life is still feudal life.
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/ 22 January 2009
The cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has soared to 2 755, according to latest World Health Organisation statistics published on Thursday.
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/ 22 January 2009
About a thousand bottles of water-sterilising solution will be donated to people suffering from cholera in Limpopo.
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/ 19 January 2009
Community members attacked their mayor over cholera deaths in the Greater Tubatse Municipality in Limpopo, police confirmed on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2009
Up to 60 people had been hospitalised for cholera treatment in Mpumalanga by Saturday afternoon, the provincial health department said.
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/ 16 January 2009
The death toll from cholera in Zimbabwe has reached 2 201, the UN said on Friday, warning that prevention measures were not working.
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/ 16 January 2009
Awareness campaigns have been accelerated in Limpopo as dozens of new cholera cases are confirmed daily in the province.
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/ 15 January 2009
Mpumalanga has recorded its first cholera death, a health spokesperson said on Thursday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has killed more than 2 100, it was reported on Wednesday, as neighbouring states sounded the alarm over rising cases.
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/ 14 January 2009
Floods in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 lives since December, officials said in reports on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2009
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in SA has risen to 15, with more than 2 100 cases registered, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s Attorney General on Wednesday branded detained human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko a threat to society.
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/ 13 January 2009
Cholera deaths in Zambia have reached 28 as the nation battles to contain about 2 000 reported cases of the disease, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Seventy-seven new suspected and confirmed cholera cases were reported in South Africa on Monday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Zimbabwe doctors in public hospitals have vowed to maintain their strike until their demand for better pay is met, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 10 January 2009
Eskom shut down the construction of its Medupi power station in the country’s Limpopo province after a cholera scare, a spokesperson said on Friday.
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/ 10 January 2009
Agencies fighting cholera in Zimbabwe say they are working well with a government that once viewed them with suspicion.
Sixty-eight new cholera cases have been reported in Limpopo, the Department of Health said on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic is picking up speed, with a total of 1 732 deaths out of 34 306 cases, the WHO said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
The number of confirmed cholera cases in Gauteng stands at 21, a health official said on Monday.
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/ 31 December 2008
The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe’s worsening cholera epidemic.
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/ 28 December 2008
In the blazing midday sun, Fungai Lindlela watches as her baby pushes a sticky ball of maize meal into her mouth in a makeshift refugee camp.
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/ 27 December 2008
The United Nations says the cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has risen to over 1 500 and case fatality rates are increasing.
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/ 27 December 2008
Thembelihle Tshabalala goes to Musina and listens to Zimbabwean refugees suffering as they wait for asylum.
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/ 23 December 2008
Two more people have been admitted to hospital with suspected cholera in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
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/ 22 December 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will have to step down if any power-sharing government deal is to succeed, Britain said on Monday.
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/ 21 December 2008
The US has declared the Zimbabwe facilitation led by former president Thabo Mbeki as a failed process that has now run its course.
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/ 21 December 2008
President Robert Mugabe again dismissed demands that he step down on Saturday, saying he would not go to his "political death".
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/ 19 December 2008
Two more people have died of cholera in Limpopo, the provincial health department said on Friday.
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/ 19 December 2008
President Robert Mugabe on Friday told his Zanu-PF party that "Zimbabwe is mine", adding he would never surrender.