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Media should drive progressive socio-economic and democratic agenda in the country: Parajuli

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago014 mins

By Byron Mutingwende The media plays an important role in defining common denominator in promoting national interest and setting progressive socio-economic and democratic agenda in the country, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Zimbabwe has said. “The role of media, including the newsprint, electronic and online/digital entities, cannot be over-emphasised in national development, which involves advancement…

Research Council of Zimbabwe to hold surveys

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi The Research Council of Zimbabwe (RCZ) announced in Harare today that it will hold national surveys in all the country’s provinces on research and development for the small to medium enterprises as well as cooperatives. RCZ, which falls under the Office of the President and Cabinet feels the survey will better inform…

Youths play key role in development: TheSpace

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

The media should capture stories to do with youths and development, a representative of TheSpace has told journalists attending a workshop organised by the United Nations in Zimbabwe. TheSpace is a youth led organisation which worked in partnership with UN in conceptualising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) to young people. They worked with 120 youths (10…

Siemens partners with Plan International to deliver humanitarian aid initiatives in Sudan

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

The partnership will start by addressing educational and infrastructure needs of communities in the White Nile state Siemens (www.Siemens.com) and Plan International Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on future humanitarian projects to assist marginalised populations across Africa, with initial emphasis on Sudan, specifically displaced communities affected by conflict in neighbouring…

How banks and mobile money platforms are robbing farmers and citizens

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago012 mins

By Charles Dhewa Mobile money continues to be touted as a solution to the financial exclusion of many people in developing countries. However, examples in Zimbabwe are showing the need for cautious optimism. As an economic hub, Mbare mass market in Harare has more than 500 mobile money agents and the number is increasing. Why? …

Media making UN goals and aspirations a reality: Major Mutambudzi

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago08 mins

Dr Major Anywhere Mutambudzi, Director of Media Services in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services has underscored the importance of the media in making the goals and aspirations of the United Nations a reality. He made the call during a UN Media Workshop at the Great Zimbabwe Hotel running from Sunday 7…

ZPP bemoans discrimination in food distribution

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago07 mins

The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has bemoaned discrimination prevalent in the distribution of food assistance as the inputs and food aid are channelled through local and traditional structures. ZPP said it has over the years documented numerous cases of destitute and marginalised citizens of Zimbabwe being unlawfully denied social welfare assistance, solely on the basis…

Gondwe, Chitoshi triumph at the 2019 Econet Victoria Falls Marathon

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

Zimbabwean Christopher Gondwe has won this year’s Econet Victoria Falls Marathon which was run on Sunday, with Zambian Felistus Chitoshi taking the women’s top honours at the same 42.2km race. Gondwe crossed the finish line at Victoria Falls Primary School in a time of two hours, 25 minutes and 36 seconds, ahead of Zambia’s Costern…

TEF-UNDP Sahel Youth Entrepreneurship Programme Set to Empower Entrepreneurs in 7 Sahel African Countries For 10 Years

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago010 mins

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have launched a youth entrepreneurship programme for the Sahel region of Africa. The TEF-UNDP Sahel Youth Entrepreneurship programme will train, mentor and financially support 100,000 young entrepreneurs in Africa in 10 years . The goal is to contribute to the overall target to…

ZTA, City of Harare partner to drive community tourism

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has partnered with the Harare City Council to venture into township tourism and market Zimbabwean townships. “We are indeed delighted and honoured to have you here, to participate, discuss and share in this Township Tourism Workshop under the theme ‘Unlocking & Empowering township communities through Tourism,” ZTA…

Women Shaping Global Economic Governance

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

New book on how to restore trust in globalisation and democracy This week’s nomination of Christine Lagarde to be the next President of the European Central Bank is the latest example of women in top positions in economic policymaking around the globe. A new book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the European…

2018-19 Summer Agricultural Season one of the driest since 1981: FEWSNET

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago03 mins

By Byron Mutingwende The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) under the auspices of the SADC Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate has said the 2018-19 Summer Agricultural season was one of the driest since 1981. This was revealed by Dr. Tamuka Magadzire, the FEWS NET Regional Scientist for Southern Africa during…

All set for Disabilities Expo

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago03 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi All is set for the National Disabilities Expo scheduled for the Bulawayo City Hall from the 31st of July to the 2nd of August under the hashtag disability is open for inclusive investments. Zimbabwe Disability Expos were introduced in 2012 “seek to explore the untold stories of people with disabilities and we…

ZTA shot in the arm for Zimbabwe Gems

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority has donated training kits to the country’s netball team ‘The Gems’ who are scheduled to leave for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool in the United Kingdom. The donation comes at the right time as the team was facing shortages to best meet their preparedness ahead of the…

Zimbabwe’s mixed energy fortunes

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi The second edition of the renewable energy conference held in Harare yesterday explored the mixed fortunes characteristic of the Zimbabwean energy sector. The key challenge in the energy sector was inaccessibility of energy to the majority of the population which left non-renewable energy as the only option. “Latest figures from ZIMSTATS indicated…

Humanitarian aid: €7 million for disaster preparedness in Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago07 mins

As natural disasters threaten the most vulnerable people in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region, the EU is providing €7 million in humanitarian aid to increase the capacity of communities and authorities to prepare for and respond to disasters. This aid is in addition to the approximately €17 million in EU humanitarian assistance given…

Africa’s Small-Scale Fisheries Critical to Food Security

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago06 mins

Fish accounts for more than one-fifth of the protein intake of African south of the Sahara and provides a livelihood to millions of people Africa’s small-scale fisheries play a critical role in global food security and must be supported with greater research and investment, say international and African experts. Industry, NGO, government and academic representatives…

Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) highly vulnerable to climate change

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago013 mins

Mauritius is one of the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS), that is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its smallness, remoteness and exposure to natural hazards. This was revealed by Dharamraj Deenoo, the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Security, Environment and Sustainable Development in his presentation at the Vulnerability Assessment…

SADC countries present dire vulnerability assessment and analysis results: A Focus on Zimbabwe

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago024 mins

By Byron Mutingwende Across a number of counties in Southern Africa, vulnerability assessment and analysis results for the 2018/19 agricultural season paint a gloomy picture but with relevant interventions there is light at the end of the tunnel. This write-up will focus on Zimbabwe. Addressing stakeholders during the Windhoek Regional Vulnerability Assessment and…

Resilience Building Programme in Zambezi valley to help community withstand shocks

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago06 mins

ActionAid Zimbabwe (AAZ) in partnership with Zimbabwe Environment Lawyers Association (ZELA), AfroSoft Private Limited and Africa Breeders Services Total Cattle Management (ABS TCM) has launched the Second Phase of the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) Programme in the Zambezi Valley reaching 45 105 households. Phase 1 of the ZRBF Programme ran from July 2016 to May…

Frontline AIDS welcomes Lois Chingandu as New Director of Evidence and Influence

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago05 mins

Frontline AIDS was delighted to welcome leading Zimbabwean HIV specialist Lois Chingandu as the organisation’s new Director of Evidence and Influence. Lois brings more than 20 years of hands-on leadership experience on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender activism and civil society engagement to the position. In her most recent role…

SADC Stakeholders root for strengthening the mainstreaming climate change into vulnerability assessments and analysis

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago08 mins

Meeting to consolidate the regional food and nutrition security outlook for 2019 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis (RVAA) programme’s annual dissemination meeting has opened in Windhoek, Namibia with a call to strengthen and prioritise the mainstreaming of climate change into vulnerability assessments and analysis. The meeting that took…

ZTA to develop Joshua Nkomo Heritage Trails into tourism product

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority remains committed to working with relevant partners in developing the Joshua Nkomo Heritage Trails into fully-fledge tourism product, an official has said. Speaking today at the 20th anniversary Joshua Nkomo Day Commemorations – Joshua Nkomo Legacy Walk and Umdala Wethu Dance held in Bulawayo, ZTA acting chief executive Mrs Rita Likukuma…

Using community to combat online violence against women

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago013 mins

By LUISA ORTIZ PÉREZ in JOURNALIST SAFETY This article, written by Luisa Ortiz Pérez, is second in a series from Chicas Poderosas (“Powerful Girls” in English), a global community that promotes female leadership and generates knowledge. Read the first article by founder Mariana Santos, and follow Chicas Poderosas on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. After writing an editorial on her experience with sexual harassment…

Empowering communities to appreciate and conduct research

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago014 mins

By Charles Dhewa If developing countries are going to only recognise and respect research results from formal research institutes and universities, they will continue excluding diverse voices and stifling ambition. While formal institutions in Africa are doing their thing, ordinary people in farming communities, fishing villages and informal markets are creatively shaping their own future…

Tanzania unlikeliest saviour in SADC maize crunch

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

Tanzania, which will export maize to some countries plagued by inclement weather and droughts, has emerged the sole shining light in the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) corn crisis. The country is set to sell 700 000 tonnes of the staple maize food to Zimbabwe, which is enduring reduced yields after the Cyclone Idai ravaged…

Zimnat and Sanlam assist another cyclone affected school

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago05 mins

Zimnat has provided roofing materials for yet another school hit by Cyclone Idai, which lifted and blew away the roof of two classroom blocks at Buwu Primary School, leaving pupils having to share classrooms that still have their roofs intact. The hot seating arrangement to accommodate the pupils whose classrooms were no longer safe has…

Becoming drought resilient: Why African farmers

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago08 mins

By Esther Ngumbi The latest UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s annual Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition Report highlighted drought as one of the key factors contributing to the continuing rise in the number of hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa. And in South Africa, the Government’s Crop Estimates Committee announced that the country would harvest 20…

Does the “ hike”of medical fees by private physicians make people die at home?

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago09 mins

As I see it by Dr Brighton Chireka I have been following the debate going on since the banning of multi-currency in Zimbabwe. Of particular interest is the proposal by our physicians to have their medical fees paid as RTGS to comply “with the law”. Prior to this some of the physicians were being paid…

NBA and Agence Française de Développement expand Jr. NBA program in Morocco as part of Multiyear Partnership

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago09 mins

2011 NBA Champion Ian Mahinmi Attends Jr. NBA Clinic and Unveiling of New Basketball Court in Zenata, Morocco The National Basketball Association (NBA) (https://www.NBA.com/) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), France’s inclusive public development bank committed to financing and technical assistance for projects that improve the lives of people in developing and emerging economies,…

Joshua Nkomo’s legacy lives on as Bualawayo City hosts “Umdala Wethu Dance”

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago09 mins

By Farai Chirimumimba The late Vice-President Dr. Joshua Nkoma is being remembered, as July 1st 2019, marks 20 years since the popular national liberation hero died at a local hospital aged 82 .His death shocked the country and triggered a flood of grief. Joshua Nkomo’s family have created a foundation in his owner and on…

Youths Amplify Fight for Government’s Attention

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago02 mins

Founding President of Youth Voice Mass Movement and the Young People’s Program Zimbabwe Youth Association, Tinashe Nyagunzu has said youths remain unperturbed in their efforts to be engaged in the governance of affairs and fight against anything that is hindering the country’s progress. Addressing a press briefing, Nyagunzu lamented the lack of peace of mind…

Informal Economy Matters: An Alliance of Workers in the Informal Economy

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

Associations representing workers in the informal economy throughout Zimbabwe have formed an alliance under the theme “The Informal Economy Matters”. The associations under the alliance are the Bulawayo Vendors’ and Traders’ Association (BVTA); Vendors’ Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET); Women Alliance of Business Associations of Zimbabwe (WABAZ); Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA);…

A new digital solution to waste collection sweeps across town

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago04 mins

In recent weeks a new Econet business has “swept” the city of Harare — quite literally. Clean City is a digital platform used by private waste collection companies to collect rubbish bins from homes. It uses a franchise business model and is simply providing a digital platform that links companies that collect waste with private…

Ecofarmer: Technology playing a powerful role in empowering women

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago011 mins

Econet’s innovation, Ecofarmer, a mobile-based insurance services programme epitomises the important role that technology can play in achieving gender equality. Ecofarmer is a mobile technology solution, which delivers weather-based insurance, real-time, location-based weather information and farming tips via cellphone, that is helping producers to combat the effects of climate change. Statistics show that Zimbabwe is…

Government, European Union, UN launch Spotlight Initiative to end violence against women, girls

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago07 mins

The Government of Zimbabwe, the European Union and the United Nations today launched a multi-year Spotlight Initiative to assist women and girls realise their full potential in a violence-free, gender-responsive and inclusive Zimbabwe. Delivering a keynote at the launch, President Mnangagwa in a statement read on his behalf by Hon. Minister Prof. A Murwira said,…

Zimnat and Sanlam continue to assist cyclone victims

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago03 mins

Zimnat, together with Sanlam, with which Zimnat is associated, last week donated roofing materials to yet another Chimanimani school affected by Cyclone Idai, Muchadziya Primary School in Ngorima. This follows a similar donation to Gatsi Primary School in Tamba village in Mutasa District barely a week earlier. The cyclone lifted the roof off a classroom…

AfDB approves USD 24.7 million for Water and Sanitation Development in South Sudan

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago05 mins

The Strategic Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project will support the rehabilitation of approximately 50km of the Juba town distribution network and related works The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on June 20, 2019, approved a proposal to commit $24.7 million to finance the South Sudan Strategic Water Supply and Sanitation…

Gendered Corruption Mostly Affecting Women: TIZ

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) is engaging in a research on the implications of corruption from a gender perspective. This emerged at a breakfast meeting the organization held today in Harare. The gendered challenges of corruption are argued to be affecting mainly women as the patriarchal nature of Zimbabwean society guaranteed male participation…

Pregnant girls should be allowed to re-enter school: Katswe Sistahood

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago04 mins

By Tatenda Mujeyi Non Governmental Organisations led by Katswe Sistahood, at their Harare office, have lobbied for the institution of an education policy that considers re-entry of impregnated students to school. The NGOs argue that education is a human right that is guaranteed by the constitution and sustainable development goals that should be guaranteed. “Recognising…

Zimbabwe Makes Better Strides In Up-Lifting Nutrition Management

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago04 mins

By Nevson Mpofu Zimbabwe has been encouraged and pushed forward to increase its National Budget on Nutrition from 0, 45% to 3%. An Expert in Nutrition Kudakwashe Zombe of Zimbabwe Civil Organisations Society Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (ZCSOSUNA) speaking in Harare highlighted the need to consider Nutrition Health as the only way-forward to eradicate or…

How consumers use their buying patterns to signal priorities

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago08 mins

By Charles Dhewa As buying patterns signify ordinary people’s priorities, developing countries should invest more in finding pockets of opportunity from micro-markets than pursuing mega deals. In most African countries, much of the overlooked growth is within open food markets from which the majority get food and income. An outside observer may see open markets…

Positive step taken: Misheck Gondo told on launch of ‘The Terrible Heatbreak’

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago09 mins

By Byron Mutingwende Eminent Zimbabweans have heaped praises on human rights defender and peace advocate Misheck Gondo on the launch of his inaugural novel, “The Terrible Heat-break” at a colourful event in Harare on Thursday. Prominent businessman and President of FreeZim Congress party, Joseph Makamba Busha, who was Guest of Honour at Gondo’s…

Conditions of protection: life inside or outside a displacement camp

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago013 mins

The smell of sweet ginger coffee being prepared in a little tin hut manages to waft above the putrid smell of green sludge – it’s the smell of life going on. It lingers in the air, and somehow, just like the people here, manages to rise above the suffocating conditions of a Protection of Civilians…

Zimnat and Sanlam bring relief to Cyclone Idai affected school

Byron Adonis Mutingwende6 years ago6 years ago05 mins

Zimnat, in association with Sanlam, has donated roofing materials worth more than RTGS $60 000 to Gatsi Primary School in Chimanimani, which was left reeling with an accommodation crisis after Cyclone Idai swept through the area. Zimnat donated 60 roofing sheets, 320 units of roofing timber and 30kg of roofing nails to repair the roof of teaching…