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Mnangagwa guarantees media reforms
THE raft of media reforms that the Second Republic is undertaking have been President Mnangagwa's long-held dream that is now coming to fruition.Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and B...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:00hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 1702 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa and James Manyika demonstrated that leadership is not a method but an attitude
Bulawayo - The Gates Foundation, one of the world's most powerful philanthropic organisations, has appointed Zimbabwean billionaire businessman Strive Masiyiwa to its board of trustees while Google Ap...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 18:07hrs | 1421 | by Enos Denhere
Strive Masiyiwa net worth jumps 125%
The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), F...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Board
THE Gates Foundation is adding four new members to its board of trustees: its CEO Mark Suzman; Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa; Thomas Tierney, the co-founder of Bridgespan Group, one of the no...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Continuous lockdowns to hit Zimbabwe's literacy rate'
REPEATED lockdowns due to COVID-19, leading to continuous closure of schools, is impacting education in a hard way in landlocked Zimbabwe.On the eve of International Literacy Day, which is bei...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moderna starts human trials of experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
United States pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna last Wednesday started trials of its experimental mRNA HIV vaccine.Moderna has enrolled 56 healthy adults without HIV to test the...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 10:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need
Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself. Western science and technolo...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 22:58hrs | 1 | by Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe
Afrobarometer opinion is it is flawed and manipulated
Zimbabwe woke up to a report by Afro Barometer which was so negative to the efforts being made in the democratisation of Zimbabwe and positive on the fight against COVID-19. The mixed bag from Afrobar...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 17:27hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bill Gates divorces Melinda
Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world.In i...Published: 04 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 123 | by AP
Frank Buyanga's prized properties up for sale as legal woes mount in SA
South Africa-based tycoon Frank Buyanga has put one of his mansions in Hyde Park, an exclusive neighbourhood of Johannesburg, up for sale for a princely R18 million (US$1.23 million).Buyanga d...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Contract workers petition Chiwenga
CONTRACT workers employed by the Health and Child Care ministry are complaining of unfair labour practice, saying they are being subjected to abuse, discrimination and non-payment of salaries....Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:05hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Man demands lobola back as a ransom to 'release' wife
A Bulawayo man demanded his lobola back as ransom to "release" his wife from their matrimonial home after she threatened to divorce him for being violent.Prosper Mshangwe (26) from Sunnyside s...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
SARS seizes US$40 million gold coins from Frank Buyanga
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) seized gold coins weighing over 565 kilogrammes, personal jewellery, watches and cellphones during a raid at the home of the girlfriend of a Sandton-based busi...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Injectable HIV drug once every 2 months 89% more effective than daily pills
A long-acting injectable antiretroviral drug administered once every two months is "safe and superior" to daily pills taken by women to protect them from contracting HIV, a new study conducted in seve...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Khupe recalls
Harare and Bulawayo residents say they have been caught in the crossfire in the ongoing opposition power struggles after the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T engineered the mass recalling of councillors in M...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man up for torching neighbours' huts
A CHIRUMANZU man last week appeared before the courts on allegations of torching huts and destroying property worth thousands of dollars belonging to his seven neighbours in a dispute over payment for...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Rugby Union announces women's national team to face Zambia
Zimbabwe Rugby Union has announced the squad for the Women's national team that will face Zambia Women tomorrow at the Machinery exchange Stadium at Harare Sports Club.The squad features 10 pl...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions on Zimbabwe not to blame, says USAID chief
Zimbabwe is creating a straw-man by blaming sanctions for the lack of investment and a failing economy, a top official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says....Published: 07 May 2019 at 08:38hrs | | by ZimLive
Call to declare Mungoshi national hero
The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA), through the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), has petitioned government to declare the late prolific and multi-award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi a n...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Mutambara pays tribute to 'literary giant' Mungoshi
Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has been paying tribute to "literary giant" Charles Mungoshi who died aged 71 on Saturday....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwas donate $60m to fight cholera
The family foundation of Econet founders Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa has committed an additional $60 million towards the cholera response in Zimbabwe.The commitment comes on the back of an init...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa flies out to Ethiopia
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has left Harare this Friday afternoon for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he will join other heads of state and government from the continent for the 32nd Ordinary Session of ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bill Gates honours Zimbabwe's Edzai Zvobwo
Zimbabwean born entrepreneur Edzai Zvobwo has been invited by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the inaugural Goalkeepers event in Africa, which will take place in Johannesburg, South ...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 11:39hrs | 4106 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Going big on a wrong idea
While we can only commend the government for looking to leverage technology in order to grow its tax revenue via formalisation, the reasoning and application is massively flawed.For a policy t...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:56hrs | | by Kelvin Moyo
Chiwenga win prestigious African Awards
UNITED Kingdom based Zimbabwean and female football agent Ellen Chiwenga has been named the Best African Woman making a difference in Sports Category at the Africa Virtuous Women Awards (AVWA) 2018....Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demolition of Matapi hostels not a solution
CALLS by Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa for the Harare City Council to demolish the densely populated Mbare's Matapi hostels in order to decisively deal with the perennial typhoid o...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
US officials forced to pull down American flag in Zimbabwe
Officials from a United States development agency were last week forced to pull down an American flag in Marozva Village in rural Murewa, in Mashonaland East, following protests from their hosts....Published: 21 Oct 2017 at 15:02hrs | 2644 | by Staff reporter
Katswe Sistahood calls for arrest of paed0philes, as 54 girls rescued from child sexual exploitation
FIFTY-FOUR girls have been rescued from sexual exploitation for survival and placed into statutory care following a prominent exposé of underage commercial sex work in Epworth, Hopley and Caledonia b...Published: 18 Sep 2017 at 00:39hrs | 1325 | by Staff Reporter
Under-age sex scandal in new twist
FIFTY-FOUR girls have been rescued from sexual exploitation and placed into statutory care following a prominent exposé of underage commercial sex work in Epworth, Hopley and Caledonia by Katswe Sist...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 13:27hrs | 2430 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya attends IMF, WB Spring meetings
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya is in Washington DC, United States of America attending the 2017 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Ban...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diagnosing Africa's medical brain drain
Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa's health workers Dressed in full medical gear and clutching a folder, Folu Songonuga, a physi...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 21:59hrs | 259 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Zimbabweans banks under siege from mobile money adoption
Banks are under threat from a surge in mobile money adoption, as telecommunication firms behind them are pushing more financial products on the market, a new report has shown. A detailed r...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
2015 Winners of UN Climate Solutions Awards
Sixteen game-changing initiatives from around the world were honoured as winners of a prestigious United Nations climate change award at a special ceremony at the United Nations Climate Change Confere...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 17:46hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
ICFJ and Gates Foundation launch HIV Prevention Reporting Fellowship
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will relaunching a fellowship which will include Journalists from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Afr...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 09:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Billionaire prince to donate $32bn to charity
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has said he will donate his entire $32bn (£20bn; €29bn) fortune to charity, BBC reported.Prince Alwaleed, 60, is one of the world's rich...Published: 01 Jul 2015 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF denying Mbare needed investment
Mbare residents have been denied investment deals worth more than $100 million that could have turned the populous suburb into an uptown area and a world class centre had it not been for Zanu-PF v...Published: 10 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF mob chases investors
ROWDY Zanu rowdy youths yesterday blocked investors from the United Arab Emirates who want to pour in $45 million to build the Shawasha multi-purpose business complex in Mbare, forcing Local Governmen...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ebola: This catastrophe must never happen again
Following the Ebola virus outbreak, the United Nations set up its first-ever public health mission – the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to deal with the pandemic. In this inte...Published: 24 Dec 2014 at 17:59hrs | | by Africa Renewal
Ebola: This catastrophe must never happen again
Following the Ebola virus outbreak, the United Nations set up its first-ever public health mission – the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to dea...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 15:27hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
'I urinate in my hubby's tea'
Help me please imba yangu isati yaparara. I love my husband so much but ndaingotyawo kuti angaitewo sevamwe varume vanonetsa. Ambuya vangu, mukadzi wasekuru, hanzvadzi yaamai gave me this tip kuti if ...Published: 22 Jun 2014 at 22:05hrs | 14120 | by Mai Chisamba
'GMO' banana to 'save' Africa
Sydney - A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Austr...Published: 17 Jun 2014 at 12:43hrs | | by AFP
Breaking the glass ceiling: Women agricultural scientists
They are selected because they are - or could be - as good as agricultural scientists anywhere. They are groomed in leadership, and conduct research into problems facing their individual countries...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:35hrs | 2664 | by Munyaradzi Makoni
Prostitute kills client
A PROSTITUTE from Zvishavane allegedly connived with a boyfriend and fatally struck a rival suitor while a fellow tenant was charged with trying to help the pair conceal the crime.Melinda Musw...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 06:26hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Gendering Agriculture - Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a repo...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Bill Gates donates to Kuwadzana
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday gave $140 000 worth of vehicles and waste bins to Kuwadzana community.It is just the latest donation after the American-based charity extend...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 14:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
African children being used as lab rats in medical experiments
NaturalNews - Parents of dozens of African children severely injured by a combination meningitis vaccine known as MenAfriVac are demanding answers following a recent declaration by government officia...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 15:55hrs | | by Jonathan Benson,
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