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Mnangagwa revives canteens at Zimbabwe police stations
The Zimbabwean government has revived canteens at police stations, providing officers with improved meals, including English breakfasts with fried eggs, sausages, and baked beans, as part of efforts t...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 16:01hrs | 1357 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's education sector saddled with billions in debt
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe is grappling with significant financial challenges, with debts running into billions of Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency, revealing the deepenin...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:39hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa takes SADC's begging bowl to UN General Assembly
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the urgent plea for assistance from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), seeking support to combat th...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:30hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zimta commends govt feeding programme
The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has praised the government's new school feeding program, highlighting its potential to improve student concentration and reduce dropout rates.In an in...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 09:02hrs | 65 | by Staff reporter
Embrace nutrition education amongst schools; SIRP appeals
The government should fully embark on implementing nutrition education amongst young learners to realise behavioural changes and sustainable development countrywide, Smallholder Irrigation Revitalisat...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 21:42hrs | 13 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Malema urges BRICS leaders to boycott upcoming summit in solidarity with Putin
EFF leader Julius Malema has urged prime ministers from the BRICS nations not to attend the upcoming summit in South Africa in solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Malema was addre...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 19:54hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife invited to Iran
IRAN's First Lady Dr Jamileh Alamolhoda on Saturday rolled out the red carpet for her counterpart Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, where the two exchanged notes on various issues including education, health, wo...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs lament paltry ECD budget
MEMBERS of Parliament said paltry funding for Early Childhood Development in Zimbabwe was cause for concern and will push to ensure the sector is capacitated.Speaking during a meeting organise...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Stakeholders tackle poor pass rate in Matabeleland North
POOR pass rates in Matabeleland North schools took centre stage at an ongoing workshop where stakeholders are crafting a Provincial Economic Development Plan, amid concerns that the province's main ch...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to continue exposing graft
TENDAI Biti has effectively been using his position as the chair of Zimbabwe's parliamentary public accounts committee and his legal and financial skills to expose billions of US dollars of taxpayers'...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife launches school feeding scheme for Harare
ZIMBABWEANS should unite in fighting hunger in schools and ensure every learner acquires education regardless of social standing, the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa, has said.Speaking at ...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:37hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere writes on the Education Bill
The Education Amendment Bill is currently before Parliament. The proposed law introduces some important changes to the Education Act which governs education policy in Zimbabwe. Given the far-reaching,...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 10:37hrs | | by Fadzayi Mahere
Mnangagwa's govt to register food insecure families
Government has started registration of all food insecure families and school children in need of food assistance ahead of the launch of an expanded food aid scheme countrywide in the wake of drought i...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns cyclone donations looters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned against those bent on looting donations mobilised for Cyclone Idai victims, saying the long arm of the law would catch up with them.Addressing a r...Published: 11 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The truth that eludes Rebuild Africa Initiative
As Rebuild Africa our heart is bleeding for betterment of Africa. Africa once dubbed the black continent continues unabated its trend of not satisfying needs and aspirations of its especially the yout...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 13:31hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Mnangagwa launches supplementary feeding programme in Matabeleland North
FIRST Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday launched a supplementary feeding scheme aimed at curbing malnutrition and stunting in children aged between 6 and 59 months in Matabeleland North province....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chombo flew close to the sun but survived
Chombo flew close to the sun but survivedMarian Chombo flew close to the sun but survived Marian ChomboFortunate Gora Mash West CorrespondentLike the Greek mythical character Icaru...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 13:59hrs | | by Fortune Gora
Pupils expelled for failing to bring food to school
A school headmaster in Insiza South is reported to have expelled pupils from school because they failed to bring food for the feeding scheme at the school.Zimbabwe Peace Project reported that ...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 09:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The height of political oppression in Zimbabwe
The situation in Zimbabwe need people to unite and take action, there should be a change or reshuffle in the Governance. Besides changing the President, some ministers must be changed too. Not changin...Published: 05 May 2017 at 20:25hrs | 13 | by Belinda Chowa
More questions than answers as Kruger Park continues shooting buffalo
Confused explanations at a public meeting in Skukuza on Saturday are concerning stakeholders as the Kruger National Park forges ahead with its program of shooting buffalo as part of a sustainable offt...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:08hrs | 3 | by Adam Cruise
4,500 pupils in early marriage, drop out
OVER 4 500 minors dropped out of school countrywide this year because of early marriage and Government is weighing the possibility of strengthening law enforcement to contain the challenge. In an ...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Secondary school pupils to start getting meals
SECONDARY school pupils will start receiving meals at their learning institutions after the government secured sponsorship.Speaking at a pre-budget seminar in Bulawayo last week the Minist...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
18 teens drop out of school due to pregnancy
EIGHT pupils aged between 14 and 16 at Dula Secondary School in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South have dropped out of school since the beginning of the year after they fell pregnant.The devel...Published: 23 Oct 2016 at 11:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kruger animals becoming meat for starving neighbours
This is a story about too much hippo poo in the Kruger National Park, hungry neighbours and rain that just won't fall. It's also about culling, but the park doesn't like the word and prefers harvestin...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 16:56hrs | 4 | by Don Pinnock
Binga villagers compete for wildfruits with baboons
Starving Binga villagers are reportedly competing for wild fruits known as African Ebony fruit or Nchenje in Tonga for survival.The fruit is said to be in abundance during the dry season and h...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by Thobekile Zhou
When hunger is the king, poverty is the prince - We are the Elnino generation!
Zimbabwe is a nation not short of tragedy if not irony. Since 2000 which 16 years from now going backwards and 20 years after independence the country has faced a number of acute challenges that have ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 14:35hrs | 3 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Chinamasa mulls supplementary budget
THE government might consider crafting a supplementary budget to cushion the country from food shortages induced by drought.Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa hinted the possibility of a suppl...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Govt struggle to kick-start school feeding project
The much talked about Government sponored National school feeding scheme scheduled to kick start this second term did not materialise.On paper the project is primarily aimed at reducing school...Published: 04 May 2016 at 21:23hrs | 4 | by Thobekile Zhou
Greenlight for schools to expel pupils
BOARDING schools have been given the green light to bar pupils from entering their premises if they have not paid boarding fees to enable the learning institutions to run their day-to-day operations w...Published: 01 May 2016 at 07:35hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Hospitals serving expired baby formula
Some hospitals operating in hunger-stricken areas are administering expired feeding formulas to children suffering from acute malnutrition.Officials at Umzingwane District Hospital said the F1...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt restructures education curriculum
Government has strengthened the delivery of technical and vocational subjects, science, technology engineering and mathematics at all levels to build a firm foundation for human capital development, a...Published: 19 Apr 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Schools told to build huge storage facilities
THE government has instructed all schools in the country to construct huge storage facilities and prepare feeding points ahead of the roll out of a $200 million national schools feeding scheme next te...Published: 06 Apr 2016 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Nyemudzai Kakore
School children to get two meals daily
CABINET has approved a US$200 million National Schools Feeding Scheme to feed four million pupils when the second term of 2016 opens, as Government moves to ensure food security following an El-Nino-i...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Government to avail food for school children
School authorities in Matabeleland South province have been urged to start setting up infrastructure for the National Supplementary Feeding Programme.This comes as the government moves in to a...Published: 10 Mar 2016 at 19:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Urgent intervention needed to save dying cattle
The depressing news that thousands of cattle are dying in the country due to the drought is again a reflection of how the Zanu PF government is unwilling of putting in place proper support mechanisms ...Published: 22 Jan 2016 at 13:41hrs | | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Zanu-PF Congress update 6 December 2014 - Live
Congress update 6 December 20141000: Delegates are flocking in for the 5th day of the Zanu-PF congress. Among them are Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Biggie Matiza, David Chapfika, A...Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 16:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Non-Ndebele speaking teachers, Dokora passes the buck
Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora on Friday exonerated himself from blame over the thorny issue of teachers in Matabeleland who cannot speak Ndebele or other local languages ...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso declares estranged wife a 'fortune seeker'
Sungura icon Alick Macheso has declared his estranged wife, Tafadzwa Mapako, a fortune seeker who is demanding money which 'even Bill Gates would scratch his head if ordered to pay', court documents ...Published: 11 May 2014 at 21:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Obert Mpofu's empire
"AT the end the acquisition of wealth is ignoble in the extreme. I assume that you save and long for wealth only as a means of enabling you the better to do some good in your day and generation," wrot...Published: 23 Mar 2014 at 09:33hrs | | by Robin Muchetu
Government cancels grain loan scheme for Gwanda
The government has immediately stopped the grain loan scheme to all 23 wards of Gwanda District with immediate effect.Information received from the Gwanda Rural District Council is that the M...Published: 31 Jan 2014 at 17:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt to introduce schools feeding scheme
THE Minister of State responsible for Matabeleland North Province, Cain Mathema has said the Government will soon begin a schools feeding scheme in the province to address the problem of pupils droppi...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 02:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Many Zimbabweans struggle to survive in Johannesburg
TOO weak to sit, or even hold up his head, Prince Sibanda is slowly starving to death. The baby is almost two but his tiny body resembles that of an infant of five months.He is severely malno...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 12:01hrs | 2 | by Saturday Star
Hungry pupils drop school
EDUCATION minister Lazarus Dokora yesterday expressed fears that the number of school dropouts as a result of hunger could increase in the next months as Treasury has not yet provided money for suppl...Published: 25 Oct 2013 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South farmers selling cattle for $50
Matabeleland South province has reportedly been hardest hit by the drought following poor rainfalls this year a development that has seen farmers in the area selling their cattle for a song.Th...Published: 17 May 2012 at 20:09hrs | | by Ndou Paul
UNICEF says one in three Zimbabwean kids suffers from malnutrition
One in three children in Zimbabwe suffers from chronic malnutrition, according to a new study by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the country's public health authorities...Published: 25 Mar 2011 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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