Australia-based Zimbabwean socialite Mukoma Masimba rues the day he dared challenge the power of famous and rich traditional healer Sekuru Banda as the world seems to crumble around him in the foreign land where he has since become destitute and is resorting to prostitution. Misfortune is haunting Mukoma Masimba who is now complaining of being…
By Byron Mutingwende The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are among the strategies aimed at addressing the challenges associated with climate change. Climate change has the potential to impact negatively on almost all sectors of the economy. Zimbabwe like other African countries has been experiencing impacts of climate change which includes severe floods, frequent…
Writes Peter Churu On 27 November 2023, Robert Malcolm Kavanagh Mshengu celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary surrounded by those close and dear to him. The celebrations were in Marirangwe in the heart of Mhondoro. The sun shone brightest and hottest but there was going to be a party there. His bride was dashing in a…
New research: From elites to subsistence farmers, policies must be inclusive New research reveals the significant diversity of palm oil smallholders in Indonesia and provides essential information to help better target policies around producer compliance to sustainability standards. The study: Certification, good agricultural practice and smallholder heterogeneity: Differentiated pathways for resolving compliance gaps in the Indonesian…
South Africa A – 273-7 in 50 overs (Andile Phehlukwayo 87, Heinrich Klaasen 58, Theunis de Bruyn 32; Donald Tiripano 4/57, Tendai Chatara 2/39, Sikandar Raza 1/47) Zimbabwe XI – 266-6 in 48.5 overs (Sikandar Raza 59, Prince Masvaure 49, Milton Shumba 45*; Reeza Hendricks 2/24, Lizaad Williams 2/29, Gerald Coetzee 1/43) Zimbabwe XI…
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is offering an animal food safety course. The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) for Animal Food training, will be held July 28-30 at the Inn at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, US. Registration for the course is now open and closes June 19. The course is one way to…
President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea has received sincere congratulatory messages from prominent persons and African leaders upon his country’s normalisation of diplomatic relations with Ethiopia. The development was much appreciated by all Africans of goodwill. They wrote to him in their capacity as citizens of Africa to pledge their unequivocal solidarity with all the people…
Writes Ronnie Chisamba Bindura – The Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry and the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), successfully launched the ZimBho domestic tourism campaign for Mashonaland Central Province last weekend. Dubbed ‘Holiday in Zimbabwe, Holiday at Home’, ZimBho is meant to spearhead and promote the growth of domestic tourism during the forthcoming festive season….
By Joyce Mukucha The UN Climate Change Secretariat recently announced Regional Climate Weeks in 2021 and 2022, key meetings that will help build regional momentum for the annual UN Climate Change Conferences and drive forward regional implementation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Regional Climate Weeks are open to all stakeholders as a ‘go-to’ hub…
The Green Climate Fund is positioned to achieve sustainable transformation through resilience building across the agricultural and environmental management value chain. The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, and Rural Resettlement, Climate Change Department, and UNDP Zimbabwe yesterday launched the Green Climate Fund (GCF) ‘Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe project. …
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) were in Durban, South Africa, to participate in the very first Joint Retreat from 19 – 21 December 2021. The Joint Retreat is co-chaired by H.E Ambassador Tesfaye Yilma Sabo, the Permanent Representative of the Federal Democratic…
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are racing to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the more than 70 countries where we run existing programs, while opening projects in new countries as they become outbreak hotspots. MSF’s response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, focuses on three main priorities: Supporting health…
World leaders have pledged an additional US$ 8.8 billion for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, far exceeding the target of US$ 7.4 billion. The funding will help immunise 300 million more children in the world’s poorest countries against diseases like measles, polio and diphtheria by the end of 2025. It will also support health systems to…
Fremiro Investments Private Limited, a Zimbabwean firm, which acquired a 15 percent stake in the Blanket Mine under the previous government’s indigenisation programme, has sold its stake to majority shareholder Caledonia Mining Corporation. The original MOU between the two partirs was signed in November 2018 with the price US$16.7 million. As a result of the…
As the council continues its demolition of houses in the capital city’s residential suburbs, the leadership of ZANU (PF) Harare Province is unequivocal in its condemnation of the move by the municipality and land barons and called for a stop to the actions which they said are violations of human rights. This was revealed by…
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has condemned in the strongest possible terms, “the unjust conviction and corrupt detention of its president”, Obert Masaraure. A statement from the ARTUZ information desk said the move was a blatant miscarriage of justice and a direct attack on the union and the fundamental freedoms of the…
By Byron Mutingwende Members of the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) have said that there is still a long way to go for them in owning and controlling land in comparison to their male counterparts. The sentiments were revealed at a policy dialogue meeting organised by Women and Land in Zimbabwe (WLZ) held at Mandel…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said his administration is investing in emerging industries such as the multi-billion dollar biotechnology industries as a way of expediting the achievement of an upper-middle income economy by 2030. He made the remarks while officially opening the Great Zimbabwe University Innovation Hub during the institution’s 17th Graduation Ceremony, held under the…
Members of the business community in Chitungwiza’s Tilco industrial area have constructed a police base there for the Zimbabwe Republic Police in an effort to combat increasing crime within the area. The Officer Commanding Police in Harare Province, Commissioner Bernard Dumbura, officially opened the base at a ceremony on December 6 attended by representatives of…
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease expressed its disappointment at the almost total absence of European Heads of State attending the first ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in New York on Wednesday 26 September. “Ahead of the HLM we’ve seen tremendous leadership from Japan, sub-Saharan Africa and philanthropist Bill Gates in…
By Elvis Dzvene (Economy, Banking and Financial Analyst (EBFA) Monetary and fiscal policy measures are not only irrelevant but also invalid in curbing Zimbabwe’s current economic problems. Actually, they worsen the situation and make the “Zimbabwe is open for business” mantra a toothless dog. Allow me to express unbiased economic facts which are for the…
By Tafadzwa Muranganwa The Zanu PF government has no desire to implement devolution, a residents’ group leader has said. Speaking on Saturday at a belated World Press Freedom Day commemoration organised by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Harare Chapter, Harare Residents Trust director Precious Shumba exposed how the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration has not…
By Elvis Dumba Banket – Representatives of people with disabilities have called upon various stakeholders to make considerations of this special group in service delivery provision. The call was made by Kind Matope, the chairperson of the National Council for Disabled People of Zimbabwe, for the Banket District Chapter. Matope made the call during the…
By Nhau Mangirazi The majority of Zimbabwean women face challenges in accessing better services delivery. Of late some of the women and girls in most outlying rural communities have faced the worst challenges but it has been a sad reality affecting the urban setups. They are facing a constitutional crisis in service delivery. Women and…
MultiChoice and M-Net facilitated a few firsts on Sunday October 27 with the launch of Trackers, the eagerly-awaited adaptation of Deon Meyer’s international bestselling crime thriller of the same name. The five-part series, which is a co-production of M-Net, HBO’s sister channel Cinemax and the German broadcaster ZDF, made its worldwide debut across Africa in…
State-owned mobile network operator, NetOne has recently been accredited as a Gold Partner and Approved Employer by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for their Trainee Development Programme. This milestone makes NetOne the first Public Sector and State Owned Enterprise, in Zimbabwe, to attain this world class status. As part of Government’s focus on…
By Ryan Orgera, Global Director, Accountability.Fish Who controls the world’s oceans? Even though this is a massive question, the answer is problematic, to say the least. It’s problematic in that the only bodies with any meaningful say in what happens to the oceans are 17 obscure organizations that are heavily focused on the management of…
The 28th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is being commemorated by the launch of a television channel that focuses on the tragedy and more importantly, the aftermath and the search for reconciliation in a country torn apart. Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said the Kwibuka 28 channel would run on…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa The ravaging Covid-19 virus caught many countries off-guard and Zimbabwe is no exception. In this country, disaster risk management and preparedness were put to the test as thousands of people lost their jobs and incomes. Urban hunger and many other hazards rose, especially among peri-urban settlements like Epworth. To help in building…
On 24 February 2022, The International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) hosted the ‘Only Peace Dialogue’, an annually held global event aimed to promote IWPG’s activities. Various aspiring women that have a common aim of contributing peace to society attended the event whose theme was “The importance of mental health as we advocate for sustainable Gender Equality”. The…
Writes Michael Tichareva To build confidence in the sustainability of the recently introduced Zimbabwe currency, let us look at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) currency and how it is managed to illustrate how ZiG will likely move into the future. The UAE dirham (AED) is a managed currency, and it is pegged against the US…
The Pan African Parliament has embarked on the development of Model Disability Law (MDL) following the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disability by African Union (AU) Heads of state in January this year. The Pan African Parliament Permanent Committees are currently…
Which regarding the following had been found to be real about lying in on line dating pages? I, into the spirit that is same recognize while the true and legal King of England and my own pronoun which all (especially Canadians) must now make use of whenever handling me personally is the Majesty. Well, My…
NetOne’s Mobile Financial Services- OneMoney has increased its active subscribers by more than 49% as well as gaining mobile money market share. This was revealed by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe’s (Potraz) Telecommunications Sector Performance Report for 2018 first quarter, which was released yesterday. According to Potraz, NetOne experienced the biggest leap…
There is need for an all-stakeholder collaboration in fighting fraud rampant in the healthcare sector, it has emerged. In her welcome remarks at the Healthcare Fraud Indaba held in Harare, Shylet Sanyanga, the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFOZ) said fraud is best addressed when stakeholders collaborate in fighting…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and representatives from West African nations have converged on Abuja to explore diverse ideas to better handle flood risks affecting food security in the sub-region. The goal is to foster a collective approach towards more proactive flood risk mitigation with shared knowledge from different actors…
By Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Introduction and Background The Minister of Mines and Mining Development has in terms of section 403 of the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05] increased mining fees by over 800 percent quoting the fees in United States dollars[1] but payable at the prevailing exchange rate. This is highlighted in the…
By Abigail Mzimbawakhe (Midlands Correspondent) Wards in Shurugwi are facing a critical shortage of water as they are sharing water from the few boreholes with livestock. Farmers in most wards in Shurugwi are resorting to giving their domestic animals water from the borehole which is affecting most of the boreholes in those areas. Most of…
Harare based Policy Researcher and Zimbabwe Institute of Strategic Thinking Country Director Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo has published a book, “Try New Spanners” set to make significant inroads in the market with personal life-touching experiences that relate to our own situation as a nation. The book points out many areas that commonly affect society’s psychological and…
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has announced with regret, the loss of Hon. Elhadj Diao KANTE, a national of Guinea Conakry. Hon. Kante succumbed to death in the morning hours of 13 June 2019 in South Africa, after suffering from a cancer related illness that bound him on a hospital bed since the May Parliamentary Session that…
By Byron Mutingwende Global peace advocate and Special Envoy of the Federation for World Peace and Unification’s African Chapter, Archbishop Johanes Ndanga has said upholding peace creates one family under God. In his message, which called for peace and unification on the Korean peninsula last year, Archbishop Ndanga said there was need for…
Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PID) stakeholders are bracing themselves for 7th PIDA week slated for 28th February to 4th March 2022 in Nairobi Kenya. The 7th PIDA Week was scheduled to take place last December and was postponed due to the emergence of the omicron virus, which saw unfriendly stigmatization of most African…
Afghanistan – 131 and 135 all out in 45.3 overs (Ibrahim Zadran 76, Amir Hamza 21*, Asghar Afghan 14; Donald Tiripano 3/23, Victor Nyauchi 3/30, Blessing Muzarabani 2/14) Zimbabwe – 250 and 17-0 in 3.2 overs (kevin Kasuza 11*, Prince Masvaure 5*) Zimbabwe won by 10 wickets Captain Sean Williams and the pace…
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, a pan-African disaster risk management institution, organized a conference in Dakar yesterday during which the new Group Director-General, and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General (UN-ASG), Mr. Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, and the CEO of ARC Limited, Mr. Lesley Ndlovu presented the institution, its strategy, its areas of activity and its impact…
Jehovah Jaire Choosen Generation pastor Darlington Matarirano of Glenview 1 is scheduled to launch his first album this coming December. The young pastor-cum musician has been working on his first album since August 2020 and has finally succeeded regardless of all the odds. “I started working on this project in August 2020 during the course…
