Zimbabwe has a mobile penetration rate of 102.7 percent (according to PORTAZ January 2018) meaning over 100 percent of the Zimbabwean population has access to the internet, which is the biggest source of information. There is now a need for every sector of our government to have a web presence. The flagship ministry of our…
It has been brought to my attention that the villagers of Chakohwa all the way to Mutambara will soon be moved to pave the way for the new diamond field that have been identified during the recent explorations for diamonds. There has to be some truth following the publication of the herald of 17 March…
Lets empower the people of Zimbabwe and allow them to trade in gold and diamond. I have travelled throughout Zimbabwe, and some of my family members are geologists and miners.I have seen some of them either buying from small-scale miners or simply delivering their minerals to Fidelity Printers.Statistically the small to medium miners are the…
Three independent power producers have applied to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) for licences to establish solar power plants that will add about 100MW to the national grid. The three include Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited, which seeks to establish a 1MW photovoltaic rooftop power plant at its premises in Harare; Lumigar Solar (Private) Limited that…
Google has opened an Artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory in Accra, Ghana – the first of its kind on African soil. The new lab will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop solutions in healthcare, education and agriculture and according Moustapha Cisse, who will head the centre says Artificial Intelligence could improve lives and reduce inequalities….
Liquid Telecom will serve as Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) outreach partner for Africa in this year’s edition of the inclusive innovation challenge (IIC). Through the partnership, Liquid Telecom will be encouraging African-based start-ups, innovators and technology companies to take part in various challenges. The 2019 IIC has four categories; technology access, financial inclusion, skills…
As Zimbabwe battles shortages of essential medicines and drugs in hospitals, one of the gallant children of the soil, Prof Jacob Mufunda is devoting his time and expertise to improve the health outcomes for the people of his area in Chikuku in the Bikita District of Masvingo Province. Spiked Online Media has been tracking the…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has been awarded the mandate to serve as the exclusive financial adviser and mandated lead arranger for the $130-million bauxite mine expansion project by Sierra Mineral Holdings 1 Limited (Vimetco) in Sierra Leone. The mandate was announced in Freetown on 4 April during a working meeting hosted by Sierra Leonean…
One of biggest television events to date in Zimbabwe takes place this month (April) with the launch of Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe, the first local version of this internationally-successful reality television series. Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said the show would launch on Zambezi Magic(channel 162) at 9.30pm on Thursday April 18,…
Econet Wireless has started piloting mobile games on 100 000 randomly selected customers, ahead of full commercial launch at the end of the month. The pilot follows the successful launch of Elevate Gaming, unveiled at the inaugural Elevate Gaming Tournament two weeks back. “We are pleased to announce this new phase in our rollout of…
By Veritas The Education Amendment Bill The parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education is currently holding public hearings on the Education Amendment Bill, which was published earlier this year. In this Bill Watch Veritas analyses the Bill in order to assist the Committee and interested parties debate it at the public hearings. Education…
By Lovemore Chazingwa KADOMA – A robust initiative unpacking soft skills for ethically proper business management, leadership and customer retention is the engine revIving sustainable businesses, a workshop on customer orientation techniques has revealed. Floating on the apt theme ‘Sustaining Businesses through Customer Orientation’, the workshop headlined by Premium Business Network International (PBNI) Founder…
Campaign targets nearly 500,000 people in Chimanimani and Chipinge An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign targeting some 487,825 people began Tuesday in Zimbabwe in the two districts most affected by Cyclone Idai. During the campaign all residents of Chimanimani and Chipinge districts aged 12 months and older will receive the vaccine to protect them against cholera….
The National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO) has said it is perturbed by the continued crackdown on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs); Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Journalists, activists and human rights defenders; most of whom are youth. “The crackdown has seen unlawful suspension of NGOs as in the case of COTRAD in Masvingo; targeting of NGO leaders…
Former Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries overseer Richard Kuipa has started his own ministry known as, Light World Embassy. The ministry has a strong presence on the social media microblogging site, Facebook, where postings such as pictures and videos show that Apostle Kuipa has been holding services for several months now, and these include…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is working, with the support of African Union (AU), to create a digital ecosystem that will eliminate the major bottlenecks to trade finance flows within Africa, Bank President Prof. Benedict Oramah has announced in Washington D.C. Delivering an address on 11 April at the IGD Frontier 100 Forum organized by the Initiative…
By Farai Chirimumimba The world is used to trailing behind Zimbabwean political drama. The Government of National Unity (GNU) helped bring Zimbabwe the best years since the the turn of the century, when it was the breadbasket of Africa. Those heydays had been followed by nearly two decades of decline and political instability. Between 2000…
An independent pathologist on Friday 12 April 2019 conducted a post-mortem examination on the body of Witness Mashereni, who died last month under mysterious circumstances after his family’s lawyers successfully petitioned the High Court to be granted access to conduct the autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. Witness’s father Christopher Mashereni, engaged the services…
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has sent a salary increment reminder to the government demanding a living wage for enhanced production. The union said Zimbabwean workers have been hailed globally for being highly competent and hard working but in a sharp contrast back home, they are scorned by their own government and…
Zimbabwe, led by the Honourable Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry is part of the 38 countries participating at the Second Ordinary Session of the Africa Union Specialised Technical Committee on Transport; Transcontinental and Inter-Regional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism, currently being held in Cairo, Egypt from 14-18 April 2019. The session, running under the…
By Charles Dhewa The formal education system in developing countries has not taken time to explain and justify colonial measurements that continue to be used in attaching value to agricultural commodities. Consequently, smallholder farmers wonder why some commodities are measured in kilograms and liters. In the absence of meaningful explanations, consumers and farmers surmise that…
By Byron Mutingwende Sekuru Banda is the African representative who is overseas to attend a line-up of conferences on herbal therapy on the continents of Europe, Asia and South America. The conferences will focus on Chinese, African, European and American medicine with particular interest in herbal therapy. Sekuru Banda is well known for practising magic…
By Courts correspondent Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi’s appeal against flamboyant Harare business Genius Kadungure’s acquittal on charges of fraud recently fell by the wayside after the top prosecutor’s application seeking leave to appeal was dismissed by the High Court. Kadungure was last year charged alongside Wicknell Chivayo on two counts of fraud but the later…
By Jacob Mafume (MDC Spokesperson) The proposed International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Monitored Program is an entry point for full support of the regime and it ignores the factors arresting the Zimbabwean economy. Zimbabwe has had a stolen election; it was disputed by most players including the biggest political party, the MDC. More importantly, the…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the FCI+IFG Union and the University of Malta today in Cairo announced the opening of registrations for the 2019 cohort of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT). Stephen Kauma, Afreximbank’s Director and Global Head of the Human Resources Department, said that COFIT 2019, which is open to banking…
Zimbabwe’s only Ultra-Marathon, the just ended PPC Matopos 33-Miler, has been hailed as a huge success by its organisers, PPC Zimbabwe Ltd. This year being its 7th edition, the cement manufacturers received much more in return for their investment that saw the total prize money being boosted by 300% to nearly $50 000. PPC Zimbabwe…
Statement from 64 civil society organisations and coalitions ahead of the second meeting of the Fair Pricing Forum, hosted by the World Health Organization and South African government April 11-13th in Johannesburg. The Fair Pricing Forum will ask what is a fair price for a medicine? We accept that different stakeholders will have different understandings…
By Veritas The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa is commonly called the Maputo Protocol as it was adopted in Maputo, Mozambique, in July 2003. It entered into force in November 2005 after 15 of the then 53 African States had ratified it. To date out…
Deploying new resources and actions for the progressive adaptation of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca and Formentera) to the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, is one of the main objectives of the agreement signed between the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the IMPULSA BALEARS Foundation. Its aim is to jumpstart the process of the strategic…
A lawyer and some aides for tormented opposition party leader and human rights lawyer Tendai Biti on Wednesday 10 April 2019 pleaded not guilty to charges of violating the country’s immigration laws when their trial commenced before Karoi Provincial Magistrate Sam Chitumwa. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human rights (ZLHR) reported that Hon. Biti’s lawyer Nqobizitha…
Sharing his vision on the leading role of the African Development Bank, Adesina urged American businesses to engage more with the continent Speaking at a high-level dialogue in Washington D.C. on the sidelines of the World Bank-IMF Spring meetings, the President of the African Development Bank (http://www.AfDB.org), Akinwumi Adesina, said “It is time to turn around the declining investments…
The Digital Lab Africa (DLA) call for projects #3 closed on the 31st of January 2019 with around 500 entries from over 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. The DLA digital content industry experts have chosenthe 30 finalists who will compete in the DLA online pitch competition. The startups, entrepreneurs and creators are all from the African…
By Byron Mutingwende Mr Cloffas Nyagumbo, the Green Innovation Hub (GiHub) Project Manager and Deputy Country Director of SNV Zimbabwe had a one-on-one meeting with Spiked Online Media wherein he laid out the advantages of the initiative to the youths and the economy. He said the GiHub seeks to address challenges around youth unemployment, climate…
Econet Wireless has commissioned a 466KW solar power plant at its Willowvale industrial complex in Harare, the largest commercial and industrial carport and roof mount installation of its kind to be deployed in the country. The solar plant was engineered and designed by Distributed Power Africa (DPA), Econet’s solar business in line with the company’s…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) airlifted supplies for refugees affected by Cyclone Idai. The consignment, which arrived yesterday at Robert Mugabe International Airport yesterday evening, follows on the first consignment of emergency relief earmarked for Zimbabweans, which arrived on March 31. The supplies from the first consignment have been distributed in Chipinge…
Last week Thursday MacKenzie Bezos announced the news of her own divorce settlement with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a Twitter post. The dissolution of their 25-year marriage will result in MacKenzie Bezos becoming one of the wealthiest women in the world after she announced that the settlement will leave her with roughly $35.6 billion in Amazon…
The National Transport Drivers’ Association has earmarked a familiarisation and interactive meeting with Mr. Oliver Chidawu, the Minister of Harare Metropolitan Province. Mrs Jotina Matanhire, the President of NTDA encouraged members of her organisation based in Harare to inculcate the culture and moral template of being law-abiding citizens with special focus on the commuting public…
The Zimbabwe International Film and Festival Trust (ZIFFT) has launched its ‘Narratives from Zimbabwe’ project to enhance Zimbabwe’s history and culture knowledge base, by recording on film Zimbabwe’s history, culture, and social foundation. Zimbabwe has a strong heritage that is being lost because we have tended to rely on oral and unrecorded transmission, thus putting…
The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have reported that Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Senator Cain Mathema and Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi risk serving a three-month jail term after they were convicted of contempt of court by the High Court for ignoring the court’s order for them to pay US$18 075 to pro-democracy campaigner Cynthia…
The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) hosted 11 sister institutions for the annual multilateral development bank (MDB) roundtable on trust funds and co-financing, held on 28-29 March, 2019. The aim of the roundtable was to enhance benchmarking across the development finance institutions (DFIs), raise awareness of emerging innovative approaches to resource mobilisation and of new…
African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) President Akinwumi Adesina is expected in Washington DC, on Monday, to take part in the IMF/ World Bank Spring meetings from 9-12 April. Dr. Adesina and a delegation of senior Bank officials, are expected to meet with US Congresswoman Karen Bass, who serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs where…
Company on-track to grow its portfolio by 45 percent through the end of 2023 with over 100 properties under development Marriott International (www.Marriott.com) today announced it expects to add 19 new properties and more than 3,000 rooms to its Middle East and Africa portfolio in 2019. Underpinning a strong demand for its diverse brands, the new…
By Charles Dhewa Contrary to the hype in which ICTs are presented as a panacea, ICTs-related costs in many African countries eroding the meagre promised benefits. Countless studies and articles (including this one https://www.techzim.co.zw/2019/03/cost-of-mobile-data-in-zimbabwe-should-we-even-compare/) show that the cost of data is increasing in Africa when such costs are decreasing in other parts of the world….
By Jacob Mafume At least six weeks after Mangudya presented a wishy wash, self-contradictory and retrogressive Monetary Policy Statement, Zimbabweans are paying the price. The exchange rate is collapsing every day, the price of the US dollar continues to firm against the fictitious RTGS dollar. It is fictitious both by definition and by reality; sadly…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has released its abridged audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018, showing strong financial and operational performance, with total comprehensive income for the year amounting to $285.4 million. The total comprehensive income reflects a solid growth of 24 per cent compared to the prior year performance of $229.8 million and…
