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Top Zimbabwe official sorry over medical assassins slur Four cabinet ministers and numerous state officials from the ruling Zanu-PF party have died from the coronavirus as Zimbabwe s decrepit health system battles a new wave of infections. Nick Mangwana. Picture: Twitter/@nickmangwana 55 days ago HARARE - A Zimbabwean government spokesperson who accused doctors of being medical assassins after four ministers died of coronavirus has sparked outrage in a country buckling under the COVID pandemic. The government s information secretary, Nick Mangwana, on Sunday claimed on Twitter that doctors in public hospitals were political assassins hiding behind medical qualifications . Four cabinet ministers and numerous state officials from the governing Zanu-PF party have died from the coronavirus as Zimbabwe s decrepit health system battles a new wave of infections. ....
Harare, Zimbabwe – Since New Year’s Day, Thomas Rasauka , a gravedigger in Zimbabwe’s capital, has had very little rest. “We are digging 10 to 12 graves daily now,” he said, describing the past few weeks as one of the most tiresome and busiest periods in all his 12 years in the profession. It is mid-morning on Monday and Rasauka and seven of his colleagues at Warren Hills Cemetery, one of the oldest graveyards west of Harare, dig the semi-dry ground, forcefully tossing the loose red sand and heaping it on the side. It is the fifth grave the team has dug since they started work. ....