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Zimbabwe excluded from US funding

Zimbabwe is set to miss out on funding under the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) after a new report declared the country ineligible to receive foreign assistance, NewsDay reports.The development comes under the Millenn…

Published: 08 Sep 2025 at 13:20hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter

Funding cuts threaten decades of HIV progress in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's hard-won gains in HIV care are under serious threat as funding cuts from the U.S. and other donor nations disrupt critical treatment and support services. Community advocates, including Angela Jambo, who has spent over 20 years …

Published: 03 Sep 2025 at 08:45hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter

Funding delays teacher recruitment in Zimbabwe

The government's ambitious plan to recruit 8,000 new teachers to address Zimbabwe's critical teacher-to-student ratio has hit a major snag, with delays in the disbursement of funds from the Treasury stalling progress.The Ministry of Primar…

Published: 02 Aug 2025 at 19:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa orders monthly funding to revive Gwayi-Shangani dam project

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has instructed the Finance Ministry to ensure a monthly disbursement of USD 5 million toward the completion of the long-delayed Gwayi-Shangani Dam, government spokesperson George Charamba confirmed on X (former…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 19:12hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter

Funding gap leaves 1,6m at risk of humanitarian shocks

About 1.6 million people in Zimbabwe who were targeted for urgent humanitarian assistance have been left vulnerable due to significant funding gaps in critical sectors such as child protection, education, health, and shelter.The emergency …

Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter

Gwayi-Shangani dam stalls due to funding delays

The delayed construction of the critical 10MW mini-hydropower plant at the Gwayi-Shangani Dam is threatening to derail Zimbabwe's long-term plans to supply water to Bulawayo through a 251km pipeline, amid slow government funding and wideni…

Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 18:12hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter

Trump funding cuts major blow for Zimbabwe LGBTIQ+ rights

The recent reduction in US government funding for LGBTIQ+ programmes has dealt a severe blow to public health and human rights services in Zimbabwe, leaving vulnerable communities exposed to heightened health risks and social exclusion, lo…

Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:06hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe misses â‚¬150 billion conditional funding from EU

Europe and Africa's strategic partnership has entered an exciting new phase, with both continents reaffirming their commitment to deepen economic cooperation and promote global peace. However, Zimbabwe continues to miss out on the benefits…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:14hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe assures steady ARV supply amid US funding cuts

Health and Child Care Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora has moved to dispel growing fears over antiretroviral (ARV) drug shortages, assuring the nation that Zimbabwe has adequate supplies to meet national needs until the end of 2025.His remar…

Published: 17 May 2025 at 12:20hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter

EU withdraws funding after Zimbabwe signs PVO Bill into law

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to sign the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill into law has sparked widespread condemnation, most notably from the European Union (EU), which has now cut its planned s…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:48hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter

Biden mulling LGBTIQ programmes funding in Zimbabwe

THE new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has questioned why the Joe Biden administration is attempting to send millions of dollars of taxpayer money into international programmes irrelevant to national security, including Lesbi…

Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 08:40hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube unveils ambitious infrastructure funding overhaul

Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has announced plans to restructure the sinking fund and expand the e-tolling system to secure sustainable revenue streams for road and infrastructure d…

Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:44hrs | 1030 | by Staff reporter

Goat production gains traction in drought-hit Zimbabwe

As Zimbabwe continues to battle the effects of an El NiÃ±o-induced drought, goat farming is emerging as a resilient and economically viable solution for farmers facing increasingly harsh climatic conditions. Agricultural experts and farmer…

Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:50hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter

Google invites Black founders in SA to apply for startup funding

Google has officially opened applications for the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa: Black Founders program, specifically targeting Black-owned startups in South Africa. The program is designed to support innovative startups that are …

Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 13:19hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe seeks high-net-worth partners for startups fund

Deputy Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion Minister David Mnangagwa has announced that the Treasury is seeking strategic alliances with high-net-worth individuals to operationalize the National Venture Capital Fund (NVC…

Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:09hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter

AfDB to fund a $250 million gold mine in Zimbabwe

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has shown great interest in funding Caledonia Mining Corporation's planned $250 million gold mine in Zimbabwe.The information was relayed by the company's chief executive officer, Mark Learmonth.Accordin…

Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 08:16hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Funding stalls Old Bulawayo rehab

A SERIOUS shortage of materials has stalled the rehabilitation of Old Bulawayo after stakeholders who pledged to assist in the project failed to show up, National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) deputy director Darlington Munyikwa…

Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa sneaks into SA

CHAMISA SNEAKS INTO SA TO SEEK FUNDING AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT FROM THE EU AMBASSADORS FOR HIS EMERGENCY CONGRESS NELSON CHAMISA has today quietly sneaked into South Africa to meet with and seek urgent diplomatic, financial and logistic sup…

Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 14:12hrs | 17 | by Jonathan Moyo

Devolution to get more funding

The Zanu-PF Government, under the leadership of President Mnangagwa, is committed to ensuring the timely completion of all projects initiated under the Second Republic. Additionally, the government aims to expedite the modernization and in…

Published: 30 Oct 2023 at 05:17hrs | 278 | by Staff reporte

It's wrong for ZEC to accept foreign funding

The EU's notification of its suspension of support for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission [ZEC] is an unacceptable use of donor funds to seek to influence and control an independent Chapter 12 constitutional body, and it is the clearest ugl…

Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 21:17hrs | 21 | by Jonathan Moyo

Zimbabwe faces renewed HIV funding burden

ZIMBABWE is facing a renewed HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) funding burden, health officials have said.Speaking at a regional workshop recently in Harare, chief director for human resources and administration i…

Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mwonzora's party says ZW$2,5 billion Govt funding not enough

OPPOSITION parties have described the ZW$2,5 billion funds allocated to them by treasury under the Political Parties Finance Act as too little to fully capacitate them ahead of the 2023 general elections.The parties also called for the scr…

Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

ZLHR receives funding from US to fund subversive activities?

A senior official with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), Mr Macdonald Moyo, yesterday allegedly admitted that the organisation receives direct funding from the United States government to fund subversive activities meant to adv…

Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF leans on parastatals to fund congress

THE ruling Zanu-PF party has reportedly ordered struggling State-owned parastatals to sponsor its congress this week by buying exhibition space that cost between US$3 000 and US$6 000.State enterprises and parastatals are statutory bodies …

Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Aspiring MP accuses Binga investor of funding opposition

AN aspiring Zanu-PF Binga North Member of Parliament, Kudakwashe Munsaka, has allegedly threatened an International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) investor he accuses of funding the opposition party in the area.It is alleged that the Bing…

Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Underfunding irks Nyoni

SITHEMBISO Nyoni, the Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) minister, is one of Zimbabwe's longest serving Cabinet ministers. But she has the hardest assignment in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government â€“ picking millions of the country's w…

Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 16:40hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans need to alienate themselves from celebs that support the regime

For the last few years Zimbabwe has seen quite a rapid infestation of so called â€˜celebs' and like with all celebrity culture, a lot of these people are famous for being famous, an example being people who talk about their sex lives on so…

Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 16 | by Deborah Harry

Funding grassroots to register and guard the 2023 votes remains key

You can never do anything in politics so long as you don't have the funding. This is a statement uttered by many political observers. In party politics, in order to get public endorsement, a political party needs to ensure their message re…

Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 13 | by Deborah Harry

'Banks troop back into Zimbabwe agric funding'

GOVERNMENT has announced a fresh plan to attract banks into funding agricultural production, with draw-downs from the recently released International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) being used to help them manage lending risk.F…

Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:57hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter

Funding the grassroots will make the difference in the 2023 elections

2023 is around the corner and if we do not start organising ward, town and city in Zimbabwe, we will heard into a shocking election just like what happened in 2013. Let's not be overconfident that people will vote for us. The votes need to…

Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:55hrs | 15 | by Deborah Harry

Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed

THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown.Party-state conflation has partly helped …

Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter

Zapu at crossroads

THE discord in Zapu continues to rage on with the opposition party's South Africa-based youth wing attacking the party leadership over alleged ineptitude and poor organisation ahead of its elective congress.The youths also rapped the party…

Published: 12 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Shun donor dependency: Govt

GOVERNMENT has urged citizens to shun donor dependency saying over-reliance on donors had led to infiltration by the country's detractors.Women Affairs, Community and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Minister Dr Sithembiso Nyoni sa…

Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter

Political crowd funding: A new fleece

When author and Irish nationalist, Jonathan Swift, established the first recognised crowd funding in the early 1700s as a way of providing loans to the poor, but creditworthy people in Dublin, little did he know that some unscrupulous poli…

Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 10 | by Innocent Mujeri

$10bn for dam projects

The GOVERNMENT has poured in over $10 billion into the development of 10 major dam projects across the country this year - three of which will be commissioned before year-end - in a programme aimed at boosting the country's water harvestin…

Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:45hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo tycoon unveils funding for entrepreneurs in SADC

Entrepreneurship activity is on the rise in Southern Africa. The Covid-19 pandemic has also exacerbated the need for multiple streams of income for most households. This has subsequently grown the entrepreneurship figures. Most entrep…

Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 22:53hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu

John Nkomo Museum stalls due to funding challenges

FUNDING challenges have stalled the completion of the John Landa Nkomo Museum located in Bulawayo City Centre despite work having started in earnest in 2016.The museum, which is situated along Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Street and 12th Avenue, i…

Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

New funding round launched for Zim startups at FasterCapital

On the 11th July 2019; more than 20 African countries bring into effect what is going to be the largest Free Trade Area in the world. A free trade area means an agreement between several countries to allow the free movement of goods and se…

Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:47hrs | 7 | by Tawanda Mutukwa

Funding for Zimbabwe's healthcare now dire

The country's healthcare system has become unsustainable in the face of serious funding challenges and for the umpteenth time, Zimbabweans have to brace for yet another gruelling round of increases in subscription fees for medical aid.With…

Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Teachers question TPC source of funding

THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) has welcomed the proposed Teachers Professional Council (TPC), but questioned how the body would be funded and operationalised.The establishment of the TPC will, among others, see te…

Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:07hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube sweats over funding

NEWLY-MINTED Finance minister Mthuli Ncube this week set sail for the United States, together with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for the United Nations General Assembly in New York where he will engage potential funders and investors on th…

Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

EU to cut funding to Zesn over positive report on Zimbabwe election?

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn), an independent electoral watchdog, has been under tremendous pressure from European Union (EU) donors, particularly Britain, to doctor and alter its reports on the country's electoral process a…

Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:51hrs | 4777 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa govt hunts for $2bn funding

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is frantically negotiating a critical US$2 billion bailout package with a top Chinese bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and other financial institutions in a desperate b…

Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 16:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe agricultural sector gets $7 million from EU

ZIMBABWE'S ailing agricultural sector has received a timely boost after the European Union (EU) availed over $7 million towards funding the training of agricultural extension workers, as part of efforts to improve sustainable farming.In a …

Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 06:00hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter

Who funds Mugabes' lavish lifestyles?

First lady Grace Mugabe's shameful behaviour in South Africa where she allegedly assaulted a model she found in a hotel room with her wayward sons, inadvertently helped bring back to the fore the first family's extravagant lifestyle.Grace …

Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's 'pro-democracy' groups fight over demo funding

Zimbabwe's pro-democracy groups have started to fracture, with anti-President Robert Mugabe civic groups crossing swords with an opposition political party over last week's failed anti-bond notes demonstration.In a development that bodes i…

Published: 23 Nov 2016 at 13:45hrs | 636 | by Staff reporter

New U.S. funding to boost Zim adherence to new WHO guidelines

The United States Global AIDS coordinator, Ambassador Deborah Birx, says Zimbabwe is among countries that are receiving additional funding from the new US$150 million commitment by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as…

Published: 05 Dec 2015 at 07:18hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes

Seven political parties appeal for govt funding

Seven political parties outside the inclusive government have presented a petition to Vice President Joice Mujuru for President Robert Mugabe demanding to get funding under the Political Parties Financing Act.The parties' leaders, led by Z…

Published: 18 Jun 2013 at 12:48hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter

Zimbabwe Development Party sues Treasury for funding

The Zimbabwe Development Party has filed a lawsuit seeking an order to compel Treasury to release funding to political parties. In a matter filed on Thursday at the Consitutional Court under case number CCZ27/13, ZDP represented by its pre…

Published: 08 Jun 2013 at 05:40hrs | 706 | by Court Reporter

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