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Sex workers in Mashonaland hit hard by economic crisis
Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic has left sex workers across the country in a quandary with some contemplating quitting the oldest profession for good.S...Published: 4 hrs ago | 640 | by Staff reporter
Lack of IDs haunts Matebeleland youths
After dropping out of school because of financial constraints, 20-year-old Cephas Dube from tsukuru village in Bulilima district decided to seek employment in the informal sector.Without money...Published: 4 hrs ago | 147 | by Staff reporter
Comair resumes Victoria Falls flights
THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has expressed joy after over the resumption of flights into the country by the British Airways, saying the resurgence of the tourism industry was now in full force...Published: 4 hrs ago | 201 | by Staff reporter
2 drums a day water limit for Bulawayans
THE Bulawayo City Council has with immediate effect suspended water connections to vacant, incomplete stands and some areas outside the city in a bid to save water as the local authority fears high co...Published: 4 hrs ago | 171 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal price to go down
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has welcomed Government's position to stop issuing maize and mealie-meal import permits with effect from end of the month, as the country is on course for a m...Published: 4 hrs ago | 197 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi exhumations inch closer
GOVERNMENT will soon convene a meeting with traditional leaders from Matabeleland and Midlands provinces to finalise plans to begin the exhumation and reburial of victims of the post-independence dist...Published: 4 hrs ago | 58 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records no Covid-19 vaccine side effects
Zimbabwe has not recorded severe side effects of Covid-19 vaccines since mass inoculation began nearly four months ago.More than 571 000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine by ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 272 | by Staff Reporter
FAO: Agriculture will make or break Africa's free trade
Transforming agri-food systems can unlock Africa's potential.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food...Published: 6 hrs ago | 46 | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel
Let's mend Zimbabwe's battered image together, says Shava
FOREIGN Affairs minister Frederick Shava has rallied the media to play a critical role in the country's quest to improve its "battered image".In a first of its kind engagement between the Fore...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:51hrs | 1212 | by Staff rpeorter
Unicef red flags spike in child marriages
EARLY child marriages have reportedly shot to alarming levels across the country since the imposition of COVID-19-induced lockdowns from March last year, with civil society groups demanding an urgent ...Published: 15 May 2021 at 09:47hrs | 198 | by Staff rpeorter
Mthuli Ncube pushes walls to save Victoria Falls Stock Exchange
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube this week pumped up fresh incentives to attract companies to list on the United States dollar-denominated Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX), which has entered it...Published: 14 May 2021 at 08:41hrs | 1985 | by Staff Reporter
Millers mobilise $20bn for maize procurement
Senior Business Reporter THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has mobilised $20 billion under a pre-payment arrangement with Government to bankroll maize procurement by the Grain Marketing...Published: 14 May 2021 at 08:37hrs | 644 | by Staff Reporter
Mid-term budget stakeholder consultations underway
TREASURY in the process of consultations on the upcoming mid-term fiscal review and the 2022 Budget Strategy paper (BSP) from key stakeholders. The mid-term fiscal policy review statement will...Published: 14 May 2021 at 08:26hrs | 160 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa to officially open country's first free orthopaedic hospital in Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today set to officially open the country's first free orthopaedic hospital, Cure Children's Hospital and a Covid-19 designated treatment and isolation centre at the United Bulaw...Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:07hrs | 1943 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's ghost torments Chief Zvimba and Grace Mugabe
The late president of Zimbabwe cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe has refused to exit the lime light. Now he has ignited a huge traditional problem for the nation and the world. Mugabe has proved to be a sourc...Published: 13 May 2021 at 21:54hrs | 3700 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chiyangwa appoints Delish Nguwaya
Affirmative Action Group (AAG) founding president Dr Phillip Chiyangwa has appointed Mr Delish Nguwaya as a consulting advisor responsible for security to the organisation's presidium. The appointment...Published: 13 May 2021 at 18:07hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Minister explains Zupco strategy
The decision to compel all urban transport operators to ply their trade under the control or oversight of Zupco derives from the National Development Strategy 1 where it is noted that public transport...Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:45hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Makandiwa robbed
UNITED Family International Church (UFIC) founder, Emmanuel Makandiwa's Christ TV studios were recently broken into with thieves getting away with footage of prophecies which were yet to be fulfilled ...Published: 12 May 2021 at 10:45hrs | 3395 | by Staff reporter
Locusts invade Chilonga
VILLAGERS in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi have said that their small grain crops have been ravaged by locusts, leaving very little to fall back on.This development adds to their woes after go...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Phutheho: The decisive Matabeleland Initiative
The Phutheho Convention, a Matabeleland all-stakeholder gathering (Imbizo) which brings together the people of Matabeleland from all walks of life is arguably the best initiative Matabeleland has ever...Published: 11 May 2021 at 22:53hrs | 752 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zupco monopoly: State capture or another Chimurenga?
BEGINNING January 21, 2019, the government of Zimbabwe has been making a series of declarations reinforcing the apparent principality of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) in the provision ...Published: 11 May 2021 at 18:35hrs | 1719 | by Discent Collins Bajila
Zimbabwe records 14 new Covid-19 cases
THE country has reported 14 new Covid-19 cases and no deaths in the last 24-hours bringing the total number of cases to 38 433. The vaccination programme is continuing countrywide with 690 653...Published: 11 May 2021 at 16:40hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is delusional,' claims former MDC heavies
Former MDC Alliance members who recently defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party last week took turns to attack their former leader Nelson Chamisa whom they accused of being ignorant and delusional, Tell...Published: 11 May 2021 at 09:04hrs | 4278 | by Staff reporter
Potraz moves to license omalayitsha
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says it is working on a legal framework to license local and cross-border service providers in a bid to formalise their oper...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 1998 | by Staff reporter
Emergency roads rehab starts ko Bulawayo
THE first phase of roadworks in Bulawayo under the Government-funded US$400 million Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) recently launched by President Mnangagwa, has started. Bulawa...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:37hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Put Zimbabwe first to help re-engagement efforts
IT is the role of the media to put Zimbabwe first when reporting to complement Government's re-engagement efforts meant to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The media when disseminating...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF takes indigenisation to people
Zanu-PF is set to launch a nationwide programme to educate the public and businesses on the revised Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act to ensure the inclusion of everyone in the country's eco...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:34hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Portugal to send troops to its Mozambican colony
Portugal will send a further 60 troops to Mozambique as part of a new cooperation agreement aimed at helping the country tackle an Islamic State-linked insurgency in its north, Portugal's defence mini...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Headmaster wins Zanu-PF primaries
A school headmaster at Avhunga Secondary School, Master Makope has won the Zanu-PF primary elections in Mwenezi East where a parliamentary by-election is looming.Makope (44),who is also the Za...Published: 10 May 2021 at 17:29hrs | 1477 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF seeks to reclaim all MDC Alliance seats'
Zanu-PF is planning to make inroads and reclaim all parliamentary and local council seats in the MDC Alliance-dominated Hwange district.For years, Hwange and Binga districts in Matabeleland No...Published: 10 May 2021 at 08:16hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Experts call for Kazungula-style strategy as Beitbridge expands
COMPANIES must utilise inland clearing facilities to reduce congestion as Beitbridge Border Post enters a US$70 million expansion programme this year to avoid congestion, trade experts said yesterday....Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:30hrs | 1750 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF policies attractive to MDC-T'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday claimed that its policies were attracting MDC-T legislators who voted for the passage of Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill, which was signed into law by President E...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:27hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa embroiled in ugly wrangle over school
THOUSANDS of pupils at Southlea Park, a community primary school in Harare South, face a bleak future after a controversial decision by a dodgy consortium to turn the learning centre in the low-income...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:18hrs | 4348 | by Staff reporter
Construction at Nust to resume this year
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) in Bulawayo will this year commence construction work after Government reached an agreement with previous contractors to terminate their contra...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:11hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Wheat production to increase by over 100 000t
WHEAT production for the forthcoming winter cropping season is set to increase by over 100 000 tonnes to 360 000 tonnes on account of decisive interventions by Government and private financiers to sup...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:10hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
90% of Zimbabwe's forex in formal market
ABOUT 90 percent of the country's foreign currency is now circulating in the formal market thereby stabilising the exchange rate and stimulating economic growth, Finance and Economic Development Minis...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in vaccination milestone
MORE than half a million Zimbabweans have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, marking a key milestone in the country's quest to achieve national herd immunity by year-end, Vice President ...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tramples on indigenous people's rights
THE lack of laws protecting indigenous people's rights in Zimbabwe is exposing rural communities to human rights abuses, it has been established, with the African Commission on Human and People's Righ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:52hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
BCC needs $15m per month to cover roads shortfall
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) requires $15 million per month to cover government funding shortfalls for the city under the nationwide emergency road rehabilitation.Government declared roads in t...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:07hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Airstrip rehabilitation to boost Binga tourism
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating Binga airstrip and others countrywide, a move aimed at improving accessibility, especially in tourism areas so that they contribute to the national economy. ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Register to vote, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has called upon its members to register to vote ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections as failure to vote is a disservice to the revolutionary party. The call comes after the party has...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa swears in Gut and NPRC commissioners
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday capped a busy day by swearing in six new commissioners to the Zimbabwe Peace and Reconciliation Commission (ZPRC) at the State House.The six commissioners, who ar...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:01hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
'Only vote for rich political candidates'
MUTARE: Businessman and aspiring Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Dangamvura/Chikanga constituency, Esau Mupfumi has urged the electorate to only vote for candidates with strong financial muscles t...Published: 07 May 2021 at 11:09hrs | 1645 | by Staff reporter
Tharisa buys Great Dyke chrome asset in Zimbabwe expansion
THARISA, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed platinum and chrome producer, has acquired Salene Chrome Zimbabwe for US$3 million as part of its growth strategy in the country.Salene Chrome i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:40hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Matutu, Bredenkamp's son in turf war over mining grant
AN investment vehicle fronted by former Zanu-PF youth leader Lewis Matutu is locked in a turf war with Gavin Bredenkamp after it was allocated a 450 hectares mining grant on the latter's Thetford Esta...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1137 | by Staff reporter
CSC in bid to recoup US$34m debt
COLD Storage Company (CSC) corporate rescue manager Vonani Majoko is planning to institute legal action against the parastatal's debtors to recoup an estimated US$34 million owed it by mostly Zanu-PF ...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:35hrs | 402 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe oil project takes shape
ZIMBABWE'S ambitions to produce oil and gas along the Zambezi basin in Muzarabani is taking shape with Australian Stock Exchange (ASE)-listed firm Invictus Energy set to commence a seismic programme i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Govt identifies land for new Batoka City
THE GOVERNMENT has identified land where a new city will be built as part of the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project outside Victoria Falls, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Power Dev...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:27hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
20 000t grain delivered to GMB
Over 20 000 tonnes of grain have been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by farmers, with indications that national maize production was dominated by the communal sector. Most farmer...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:25hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
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