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Darryl Pietersen, Head of Southern Africa, WorldRemit Harare, Zimbabwe…Like many countries in the world, Zimbabwe has over the last two-and-a-half years suffered the worsening effects of the Covid pandemic, which has adversely affected economies through border closures and limitations on trade activities. Zimbabwe’s economy is driven by agriculture, and while Covid pandemic restrictions have…
By Ayanda Holo (SA Government Communications Director – International media Relations) Since the start of democracy, the government has sought to advance women in our country. We have ensured that both gender equality and women’s empowerment are at the heart of our work. We continue to be on the lookout for initiatives and ideas…
By Lloyd Rabaya The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has so far expropriated above 300 metric tonnes (MT) of grain from farmers who were intending to side-market their grain. This came out on Tuesday when Minister of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa was addressing the post-cabinet briefing. In her address, Mutsvangwa urged farmers to…
By NJ Ayuk ( Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org) As I’ve mentioned before, when it comes to competing to be one of the European Union’s new natural gas suppliers, Senegal and Mauritania have several advantages. One, they have geography on their side. Their location should make it easier and more efficient to deliver liquefied…
Zimbabwe has launched the project on migration statistics and recognition of migrants’ skills, a programme being funded by the United Nations under the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) initiative. In his remarks, Hon Kazembe Kazembe, the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, who was represented by his Deputy in the same ministry, Hon Ruth…
By Staff Writer The Community Democracy Engagement Organization has launched a Constituency and Parliament Participation Index that has seen Hon Marian Chombo, the legislator for Zvimba North, coming on top of the list. The organisation said a decision by Treasury to introduce a constituency visit allowance is set to encourage legislators’ constant interaction with communities…
The program aligns with Morocco’s human development objectives and the Bank’s High 5s strategic goal to foster sustainable and inclusive growth on the continent The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) approved an €87 million loan to implement the Support Program for the Generalization of Social Coverage in Morocco. The primary…
BY Clayton Masekesa MUTARE – Community-based Organizations (CBOs) in Manicaland have put in place a committee that will monitor local authorities on accountability and transparency on the use of public resources and provision of adequate service delivery. The committee was formed last Friday at a community formative meeting to launch the Social Accountability Project…
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has embarked on aggressive customer engagement programmes countrywide. The objective is to engage, update and conduct awareness programmes to address pertinent issues affecting stakeholders, especially in rural areas. On Saturday, ZETDC was at Gokwe Centre and the Commercial Director Engineer Ralph Katsande spoke to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting…
State-owned mobile telephony giant, NetOne, has partnered with Albino Charity Organization of Zimbabwe (ALCOZ) in an initiative that supports people with albinism as part of its corporate social responsibility. Netone Group Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Raphael Mushanawani, in a speech read by the Netone Matebeleland Regional Manager Ms. Elmah Dube at the belated International…
Staff Writer Chinhoyi – The Mashonaland West Provincial capital town, Chinhoyi Municipality has postponed to 31 December 2023 a ban on farm brick use. Initially, in December 2021, the local authority had set June 30 2022 as the deadline for the farm brick usage for building in the provincial capital in a move that saw…
By Elvis Dumba Banket – Efforts to scuttle Zimbabwe’s efforts to clinch the Pan Africa Parliament (PAP) Presidency fell by the wayside after a Southern African country delegate was paid to contest for the same post at the last minute despite initially agreeing to rally behind Zimbabwe’s delegate Chief Fortune Charumbira. ZANU PF Chegutu East…
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches through the General Assembly has elected Bishop I. Makumbe as the new President and Bishop K. Sibanda as the new Vice President of the Council. The elections were part of the critical governance processes of the ZCC General Assembly which was held from the 6th to the 9th of July…
By Sowell Chikwari Government should formalize enterprises in the so-called informal sector to stimulate job-inclusive economic growth, labour and business experts contend. The call comes as Zimbabwe’s economy is failing to create sustainable employment with the formal unemployment rate fluctuating around 90 percent. The rapid economic growth experienced in most African economies has also failed…
Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany released the Twelfth Episode of their TV program “Our Africa by Merck Foundation” on Saturday, 2nd July 2022 on KTN, Kenya, repeated every Wednesday at 6:30 pm and on Sunday, 3rd July on NTV, Uganda, repeated every Thursday at 4 pm. The TV program also airs on GH One TV in Ghana, every…
By Elvis Dumba Banket – There are still more things to be done to allow community inclusiveness of people with disabilities, an expert in disabilities has said. Dr. Jabulani Mpofu, a Zimbabwe Open University Lecturer in Disability and Special Needs said Zimbabwe is one of the countries which has made tremendous efforts of coming up…
By Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) was established in 1989 with the primary mandate of providing sustainable social security schemes for civil servants and employees in Zimbabwe, governed primarily by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) Act of 1989, Chapter 17: 04. Following, NSSA was established to…
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced its execution of a project preparation facility financing head of terms with UTM Offshore Limited (UTM), under which the Bank will part-finance activities designed to progress a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FNLG) project in Nigeria to bankability. This deal marks Afreximbank’s ongoing support in leading UTM’s fundraising efforts to…
By the Financial Times Editor Hello from our very busy newsroom in London. Boris Johnson has agreed to step down as UK prime minister after a dramatic few days in which more than 50 members of the government quit. At the time of writing, Johnson plans to remain as caretaker prime minister until the Conservative…
MTN Cameroon announced the adoption of a new data analytics and AI platform to drive its digital transformation plans. The new solution unifies and correlates mobile operator and subscriber data into a single 360-degree view and enables real-time decisioning with LigaData’s Data Fabric and Flare products. MTN Cameroon becomes the thirteenth MTN Operating Company to implement the…
By Andrew Chibanda (Acting Spokesperson of PAZ) The Passengers Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) acknowledges all the attempts and measures the government is putting in place to protect its citizenry from the mishaps of the shrunk transport delivery system. In its endeavor to do that the government is fairly failing because the implementation process lacks the…
A call has been made to responsible authorities to swiftly react and attend to water crises faced by learners and teachers at Mashavhi Secondary School in ward 22 of Bikita. Bikita Residents and Ratepayers Association (BIRRA) has raised concerns over the matter saying that there is a great potential for an outbreak of waterborne diseases…
Global Center on Adaptation Chief Executive Officer, Professor Patrick Verkooijen welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta as the Global Champion for the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) at the Leaders Dialogue on Adaptation Action in Africa in Nairobi on Thursday 07 July 2022. President Kenyatta has been a key driving force behind the AAAP, an Africa-led,…
The launch of the national disability coordination committee marks a milestone that will facilitate the operationalization of the National Disability Policy and move forward the agenda of inclusion and rights of persons with disability, United Nations Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator for Zimbabwe, Mr. Edward Kallon has said. He made the remarks at the official launch…
BY Clayton Masekesa MUTARE – Mutare-based community organization – Conscious For Development Trust (CODET) – has engaged the Mutare City Council to increase youth participation in development processes in the city. The initiative is part of CODET’s recently launched Youth Engagement For Accountability in Zimbabwe (YEAZ) programme that is aimed at engaging youths to fully…
Staff Reporter South African businessman Dr. Mandla Lamba is on the path to possibly become the second richest man in Africa after Aliko Dangote, following plans by his electric vehicles (EVs) company Agilitee Africa to issue a US$20 billion Initial Public Offering on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Interestingly, the IPO is set to create massive…
The book is a collection of all IIFA resolutions on leasing, with the resolutions arranged, classified, and explained along with the evidence backing them The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) has released a new book on the Islamic jurisprudential resolutions related to the leasing contracts, as part of a series of contemporary financial fatāwa in light…
Meta is using the modelling techniques and learnings from the project to improve and extend translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia Yesterday, Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced that it has built and open-sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200 (https://bit.ly/3yJo7KS), a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages…
The Adam Molai Foundation, a private non-profit organization with a pan-African focus that seeks to improve community livelihoods, is launching a sewing project in Marondera. The aim of the project is to foster self-sufficient entrepreneurial income-generating projects that will benefit the underprivileged and vulnerable people that are part of their feeding scheme. Through this initiative,…
By Baboloki Semele The 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) officially opened this week with a call to action from Collen Kelapile, President of ECOSOC and Permanent Representative OF Botswana to the United Nations, to overcome the challenges facing the global community, outlining many reasons for optimism regarding sustainable development. A press statement…
By Baboloki Semele The Government of Japan announced that TICAD8 will be hosted by the Republic of Tunisia from 27 to 28 August in Tunis. TICAD will take place in Africa for the second time after Kenya hosted one in 2016. In light of the outcomes of TICAD7 held in Yokohama in August 2019, Japan…
The High-level Child Budgeting Dialogue by stakeholders held in Harare today has brought to the fore the importance of Child Protection Financing in Zimbabwe. This dialogue led to the exchange of knowledge and generated recommendations that contribute towards shaping and improving national and subnational policy interventions and investment in the Child Protection sector including the…
By Elvis Dumba Raffingora – Women in Raffingora contend that they have become financially independent through the internal savings groups commonly referred to as “mukando”. A group of 125 women regularly contribute money to the group’s financial pool weekly which they used to purchase groceries and household utensils shared amongst members. “The programme has helped…
Winters are unforgiving when it comes to the cold. The less privileged and homeless are mostly affected as they don’t have access to shelter or warm clothing and often depend on handouts to survive the cold. Since 2020 TM Pick n Pay has donated over 5000 blankets to 50 charities in need. The TM…
By Elvis Dumba Harare – Various established and upcoming entrepreneurs have received business management skills and opportunities for markets from the Affirmative Action Group (AAG). One of the recipients of the management skills training, Nyasha Mhonda, who undertook an intensive goat rearing business management training, hailed the initiative. “I am thankful for a great initiative…
By Mike Robuck US President Joe Biden named late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest bestowal for civilians which recognises their contributions to the nation, world peace and more. Jobs is one of 17 people set to be awarded the medal on 7 July, almost…
By Charles Dhewa Besides consuming a lot of money and other resources, many water bodies like dams are under-utilized across Africa. Several dams that were built to support food production have ended up being used for recreational purposes and touristic ventures which do not benefit the majority. Before building a dam, it is critical for…
The exhortation from Africa’s premier development finance institution’s chief was matched by the Irish authorities’ publicly expressed enthusiasm about Ireland-Africa cooperation Since joining the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) as its 81st shareholder in 2020, Ireland has shown steadily increasing interest in strengthening its economic ties with Africa. That mission received a strong boost last week…
Largest ever country-led exercise to determine realistic education ambitions for 2030 shows that most countries will not meet Sustainable Development Goal 4 of universal access to quality education With less than eight years remaining to meet Sustainable Development Goal 4 of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030, governments are forecasting that,…
By Paul Sinclair, Vice President of Energy & Director of Government Relations, Africa Oil Week (www.Africa-OilWeek.com) and Green Energy Summit Africa. The continent is making policy and legislative progress towards a new dispensation where firms from the region can exploit and develop its own resources for the benefit of its people. Key to this is ongoing…
By Staff Writer Raffingora – Zvimba North Constituency legislator and Ministry of Local Government Deputy Minister, Hon Marian Chombo has urged young people living with HIV to continue having a positive outlook on life and support each other in treatment adherence for healthy living. Donating winter shoes to various HIV+ children and adolescents members of…
The 2022 Econet Victoria Falls Marathon lived to its billing on Sunday, attracting over 4 500 local and foreign athletes as the event made a strong return to the racing calendar after a three-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The popular marathon, this year attended by athletes from over 30 countries, saw Moses Tarakinyu,…
By Kevin Samaita South Africa-based businessman and Agilitee chief executive Dr. Mandla Lamba is angling to transform the global electric vehicles industry after announcing a US$20 billion Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The US $20 billion IPO will see the company selling US$ 2 billion (10 percent) of the stake. In…
Hon Temba Mliswa, the independent legislator for Norton has called on the government and critical stakeholders to put the youth at the centre of sustainable development programmes. He was contributing to the motion moved by Hon Mathias Tongofa on 21 June 2022 who had encouraged youth to be well acquainted with youth-centred policies, especially the…
The growing customers of leading state-owned mobile telephony company NetOne have hailed the telecommunication giant for its recent system upgrade that has led to an enhanced user experience. Roseline Chisveto, the NetOne Head of Marketing and Public Relations attributed the success to a number of deliberate measures taken by the mobile telephony company that gives…
