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Used pads cause major sewer blockages in Bulawayo
Bulawayo residents are frequently frustrated by burst sewer pipes, often blaming the local authority for failing to maintain infrastructure. However, a recent revelation from the city's environmental ...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 15:53hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Shots fired after thieves target Mnangagwa's private residence
Shots were fired after thieves broke into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's private residence in the exclusive Hellensville neighbourhood in Harare on July 6.It is the third break-in targeting th...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 08:09hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Evicted Zimbabwean families brace for winter without shelter
With just a month ahead of the start of the winter season in Zimbabwe, the harsh reality of survival is hitting hard for Gogo Esther and other displaced families in Harare's Retreat and Waterfalls are...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's new tax regime to trigger price hikes
The recently proposed tax regime by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is anticipated to lead to significant price increases, with the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) forecasting a potential U...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Teachers criticise Mthuli Ncube
Teachers' unions criticized Finance Minister Mthulisi Ncube for not addressing the challenges facing the education sector and demanded that the 2024 budget should focus on resolving long-standing issu...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council proposes US$263 million budget
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday proposed a standstill US$263 million gender-responsive budget for next year while prioritising service delivery and predicting a stable economic environment in 20...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:37hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe passport, ID applications go online
The Civil Registry Department (CRD) in Zimbabwe is set to launch an online platform for passport and national identity card applications this year to enhance access to these essential civic documents....Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:55hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
'Nothing wrong with CALA'
THE new Primary and Secondary Education minister, Torerayi Moyo has said there is nothing wrong with learners doing the Continuous Assessment of Learning Activities (CALA) adding that the way they are...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Two Botswana journalists arrested in unexplained circumstances
Two Botswana journalists were on 20 July 2023 detained by the country's security services in as yet unexplained circumstances.The two, Mmegi newspaper editor Editor Ryder Gabathuse and senior ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 18:56hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa launches ZimAfro T10
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the hosting of the historic Zim Afro T10 on Zimbabwean soil for the first time was a step in the right direction as it fits into Government's thrust to remodel the s...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
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Mahere demands answers over Russian helicopters
Citizens Coalition for Change spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, has taken to Twitter to demand answers over the purchase of Kazan Ansat helicopters by the Harare regime.The helicopters, w...Published: 24 May 2023 at 18:35hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean glitterati and Nigerian husband wanted for drug trafficking
THEIR marriage ceremony at The Nest, an upmarket and exclusive venue in Harare, was dubbed wedding-of-the-year in Zimbabwe last year.It was attended by the who-is-who in the local social scene...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 15:25hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs to conduct Gukurahundi hearings in only 3-months
CHIEFS expect to conduct Gukurahundi hearings within a three-month period with the training of 144 rapporteurs underway in Bulawayo, after Government started disbursing funds for the national healing ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 9 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Cheeky thief steals Bible from motor vehicle
A CHEEKY Harare thief broke into a motor vehicle and stole a Bible, among other valuable items.Shepherd Madaka (31) yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi charged with thef...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Treasury allocates $1,5bn on sanitary wear to public schools
The Treasury has allocated $1,5 billion towards the procurement and distribution of sanitary wear to public schools.This is contained in Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube'...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
$1,2 billion sanitary wear 'vanishes'
SANITARY wear worth $1,2 billion bought by government for distribution to rural schools cannot be accounted for, a Parliamentary probe has revealed.The Parliamentary Committee on Primary and S...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean truck driver arrested at SA border post over illicit cigarettes worth R1.5m
A 45-year-old truck driver who was arrested for possession of illicit cigarettes worth R1.5 million has been released on bail.According to North West police spokesperson Brigadier Sabata Mokgw...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube has failed us'
WOMEN's organisations have decried failure by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address "menstrual poverty" among girls and women who are failing to access affordable sanitary wear.Ncube last w...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare youths get drunk on sanitary pads powder
Zimbabwean youths grasping to survive the prevailing harsh economic conditions have turned to drinking sodium polyacrylate to get high and forget their problems. sodium polyacrylate is found in di...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 11:50hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's wife urges Zimbabweans to pray hard for sanctions to be removed
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa says God can cause Western powers to lift sanctions they imposed on Zimbabwe if the country's citizens pray hard enough.She said this on Tuesday while addressing ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife blames unemployment on sanctions
FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has blamed the collapse of industries in the country and high unemployment rates on sanctions, saying the nation should pray hard for their removal.She said this ...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank donates sanitary wear to school girls
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has donated reusable sanitary pads to 775 primary and secondary school girls from across the country worth ZWL 1 426 000.00 as part of its commemoration of women's month. ...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 14:17hrs | 5 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF Youth League to elect new leadership
Zanu-PF Youth league will hold the 7th National elective Youth Conference in May this year to elect its new leadership.The last youth conference was held in 2014.Speaking at a press co...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Church leader pays fees for entire school
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has left a sad trail of hopelessness in many poverty stricken communities around Zimbabwe.While some urban settlers are receiving some cushion against the...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Recent Supplies of Weapons to Ukraine by NATO Countries
Starting from the beginning of the year to the end of the second decade of February, nearly fifty military transport aircraft from various countries - USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and Lithuania...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Press Release by the Ambassador of Russia to Zimbabwe and to Malawi
Zanu-PF women donate to Mpilo Hospital
MPILO Central Hospital is in dire need of sanitary pads and diapers with reports that two abandoned children are taken to the public institution weekly.Officials said more than half of the hos...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Women in majority at ZOU graduation
More than half the 1 367 graduates from Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) who were capped by President Mnangagwa yesterday are women, showing their determination to make their mark and take up Government...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Dj Rabaaz officially unveils Gospel Mbirano
South African (SA) based Zimbabwean Gospel musician, Dj Rabaaz, real name Claud Rabson has officially released an EP and supporting videos for his new Gospel Mbirano project.The new releases a...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 13:23hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ICC give Zimbabwe thumbs-up in World Cup hosting
INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council representative, Sally Higgins, is confident the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, currently taking place in Harare, will be a huge success.Zimbabwe is host...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:49hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt fails to service stands for MPs, senators
GOVERNMENT has been failing to allocate stands to MPs because it has failed to service the identified land to ensure it has amenities such as sewage and water reticulation.This was disclosed b...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland youth to launch Bukalanga Foundation
Diaspora based Matabeleland Youth is said to launch Bukalanga Foundation, a non-profit organization that will help vulnerable people around the country....Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 13:15hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Parly urges govt to address challenges in schools
PARLIAMENT has implored government to, among other interventions, increase allowances for rural teachers to incentivise them to stay in marginalised communities as well as provide schools with ablutio...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
British spaceports under development
Two new British spaceports could be the catalyst to making Britain Europe's newest space superpower. If they can overcome planning challenges, the value to the UK's economy could be hard to measure....Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 20:37hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
#GodIsInIt an unscientific political lie
The worst experience of being a politician is that one's loss is always on public display. Architects and handlers who conceived the idea to challenge Zanu-PF's political establishment through the opp...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Churches cry foul over loss of cultural values in youth
CHURCH and youth have expressed concerns over young people losing their cultural values due to the new rising borrowed cultures they copy through the use of new technology.Minister of Gospel a...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 09:03hrs | 4 | by Stephen Jakes
MP in sanitary pads project
CHIRUMANZU legislator Barbara Rwodzi (Zanu-PF) has introduced a sanitary wear manufacturing project in her constituency to benefit poor girls and women.Rwodzi told NewsDay that the constituenc...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Steward Bank partners Kunashe Foundation to support underprivileged girls
HARARE - Zimbabwe's largest bank by depositors, Steward Bank, has joined forces with Kunashe Foundation to end period poverty in the country by supplying reusable sanitary wear to underprivileged girl...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 15:48hrs | | by Agencies
Man sets armed thugs on mum & sister
A BULAWAYO man bit the hand that feeds him when he connived with three men armed with machetes and knives to rob his mother and sister who had just arrived in the country from the United Kingdom....Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP engages Jena Mine
ZANU-PF legislator for Silobela constituency, Mtokozisi Manoki Mpofu, has engaged gold producer, Jena Mines over concerns raised by the community, Business Times reported.Some of t...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
First Tonga Amapiano song out
Amapiano is a hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterised by synths, airy pads and wide and percussive basslines, originally a South African genre.The genre has been accepted in ...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former students donate to Entumbane High
FORMER students of Entumbane High School in Bulawayo have donated a heavy duty printer to the school as part of helping the institution to meet its printing needs.The former students, who atte...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
PSL matches streamed by four networks
THE restart of domestic football saw the Premier Soccer League (PSL) celebrating a first when eight of the nine games played last Saturday and Sunday were broadcast live by four different entities....Published: 25 May 2021 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt, MPs clash over unserviced legislators' housing stands
THE government and lawmakers are at loggerheads after the state indicated to the legislators it had no funds to service housing stands allocated to the legislators recently with the MPs saying it was ...Published: 19 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Parly exposes Zinara tender scam
THE Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) unprocedurally awarded lucrative contracts to private entities to supply equipment and services that prejudiced the parastatal of huge amounts of mo...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa needs to rethink himself and his approach'
A RENOWNED academic and political analyst has advised punch drunk MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa to urgently rebrand and re-think his strategies if he is to salvage his waning local and internatio...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC devises new ways of milking Harare
The chicken thief does not listen to the chicken's prayer! This adage clearly brings out life at Harare City Council's Town House where the MDC-Alliance led council officials seem to have devised new ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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