ZWPC launches Women’s Manifesto

By Patricia Mashiri and Joyce Mukucha The Zimbabwe Women’s Parliamentary Caucus (ZWPC) has launched a 50/50 Advocacy Campaign and Manifesto which seeks to spell out their situation and build on the earlier progress made towards gender equality. The manifesto calls for recognition of women’s demands and government’s accountability in advancing gender equality in line with…

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New dispensation sets Zimbabwe on economic recovery trajectory: Mupfumira

The new political leadership has set the tone for the economic recovery of Zimbabwe, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Priscah Mupfumira has said. Mupfumira was addressing delegates at the United Kingdom tour operators engagement reception at the Zimbabwe House in London. “The 100-day period brought new developments and investments into Zimbabwe. To mention a few,…

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Miners indiscriminately destroying the environment

By Byron Mutingwende   The Marange Development Trust has bemoaned the indiscriminate destruction of the environment by miners in the diamond area of Manicaland.   “Before the discovery of diamond, families used to depend on crop cultivation, breeding goats, cattle and chickens, selling wild fruit, charcoal and gardening. However with mining, there is widespread water…

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Harare City Council working tirelessly to meet 100- day targets

Harare City Council is tirelessly working on its 50 remaining days of the implemented 100 –day project targets aiming at improving the water quality in the city, rehabilitate collection of refuse as well as implementing some prospects on traffic management. The project’s main thrust is to meet the residents’ expectations as they require quality service…

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Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa’s first 100-days: what has the government actually done?

By Farai Chirimumimba Emmerson Mnangagwa was recently all over social media telling everyone who cares to listens the achievements that his government has made since taking over on 24 November 2017.  But with his administration reaching its 100-day in office on Sunday 4 March, what has it actually achieved? It has been implementing his inauguration…

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Diaspora market critical asset to promotion of Destination Zimbabwe

The Diaspora market is a critical asset to the promotion of Destination Zimbabwe, Honourable Prisacah Mupfumira, the Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry has said. She made the remarks while addressing the overwhelming,  positive and well invigorated multitude in the diaspora in London on the evening of 4 March 2018. “Your presence indeed makes me…

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School feeding programme an essential tool for development: Mohadi

By Byron Mutingwende   School feeding is an essential tool for development since it fosters food and nutrition security, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said.   Vice President Mohadi made the remarks on the occasion of the third edition of the African Day of School Feeding that was officially opened on 1 March 2018 in…

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ICAZ Fundraising Golf Tournament targets the less privileged

By Byron Mutingwende   The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) had a fundraising golf tournament as a sign of its commitment to the charity cause.   “Through the Fundraising Golf Tournament, ICAZ ploughs back to the community. With proceeds from last year’s similar event, we were able to respond to an appeal raised…

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Zimbabwe strengthens business relations with the world

By Byron Mutingwende   The Zimbabwe Trade and Investment Conference and Expo underway in Harare is meant to strengthen the country’s business relations with the rest of the world.   The event comes at a time when the government is activating, developing and reinforcing business relationships through engagement of both the local, regional and international…

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Harare Polytechnic launches Online Journalism programme

By Joyce Mukucha Harare Polytechnic School of Journalism and Media Studies with the support from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has launched the Mass Communication Online Journalism and Digital Broadcasting programme aimed at scaling up the institution’s highly competitive technopreneurial skills.. A programme with the theme ‘Train the Trainer’ has been…

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Pay tax to realise development, churches urged

Gideon Madzikatidze and Byron Mutingwende Apostolic and Zionist indigenous churches have been urged to pay taxes in order to realise development, Advocate Charles Maunga of St. John Apostolic Church has said. The remarks were made on Sunday at the church’s assembly in Hatfield. Maunga said paying tax contributes towards economic development and transformation of livelihoods…

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More women, little change in SA Cabinet: Gender Links

By GenderLinks While President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new cabinet has taken South Africa to within a whisper of gender parity at the executive level it has failed to inspire a new vision for gender equality, according to an analysis conducted by Gender Links. In his own changes that involved 30 ministers and six deputy ministers (see…

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Econet rewards its channel partners in Mashonaland West

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe – the largest mobile network operator in the country – has stepped up its channel partner engagement programme by taking its top-performing Brand Ambassadors awards ceremony to Mashonaland West province. The company today hosted a lively event at Chinhoyi town’s CUT Hotel, about 115km northwest of Harare, at which it handed out…

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Mupfumira begins re-engagement series tour

Spiked Correspondent The Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Hon. Priscah Mupfumira (MP) is leading a delegation comprising of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), the tourism industry and media on her second international re-engagement series tour across major tourism source markets – South Africa, United Kingdom and Germany. This series is scheduled to kick off…

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US Embassy, JTIP offer training to persons assisting victims of human trafficking

By Byron Mutingwende   The United States Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP) and the US Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe are offering support to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) mission for the implementation of training for both state and non-state shelter management staff to assist victims of trafficking….

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Ministry of Tourism intensifies stakeholder consultations

By Patricia Mashiri   The Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality industry continues with Consultative Conferences for Tourism Sector Strategy on how to improve the sector in Zimbabwe as a global economic game changer.   Speaking at a stakeholder consultative meeting in Chinhoyi, Webster Shamu, the Minister of State for Mashonaland West Provincial Affairs said tourism…

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PAP seeks increase of parliamentary ownership of international arms control instruments

The Pan-African Parliament,  in collaboration with the Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons will host the regional seminar “Connecting the dots: Supporting 2030 Agenda, the Arms Trade Treaty and the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms implementation through increased parliamentary engagement and action in international processes” on March 2-3 2018 at the PAP Headquarters…

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VMCZ awards celebrate investigative journalism and professional excellence

By Byron Mutingwende The awards by the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) seek to promote the highest ethical and professional standards as well as to recognise and celebrate excellence in journalism.   Speaking during the Media Professionalism and Investigative Journalism Awards ceremony held at Holiday Inn Hotel on 23 February 2018, Alec Muchadehama, the…

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Police shootings of civilians blamed

By Byron Mutingwende Worker representatives, political activists and the generality of Zimbabweans have roundly condemned police brutality that led to the shooting of civilians as the Harare City Council was effecting a ban of kombis in the capital’s central business district (CBD). The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) condemned the police brutality witnessed yesterday…

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Coal India report finds renewables will ‘substantially decrease’ coal demand

By Megan Darby for Climate Home News Coal India, the state-owned monolith that produces almost all of the country’s coal, sees a slowdown coming, according to an internal prognosis. That’s despite government efforts this week to open up India’s coal mining sector to competition. Entitled Coal Vision 2030, the report – which has been circulated to stakeholders for consultation – warns…

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World Bank presents nutrition feedback to help Zim reduce stunting growth

In trying to reduce the stunting growth of children and understand the current nutrition context in Zimbabwe that would lay the future advocacy, resource mobilisation and analytical work under the Trust Fund, the World Bank has presented the feedback of the research it carried out. For the past five years, World Bank has been moving…

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Youths hold indaba on NPRC consultation processes

By Joyce Mukucha The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) is going around the country conducting consultations creating the strategic plan which provide an opportunity for youth to participate on peace building as contained in the Declaration of Youth Agenda Document. The commission’s aim also focuses on influencing the outcome of the process given by…

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ACCZ seeks to be peace ambassadors: Chitope

By Byron Mutingwende   Conflicts are often escalated in the period immediately prior, during and after elections but the church should preach peace, Archbishop Lameck Chitope of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) has said.   Chitope’s sentiments followed the violence, harassment and hate language against MDC-T Deputy President Dr. Thokozani Khupe and Secretary…

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PAP holds March Committee Sittings

The March Sitting of the Permanent Committees of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) will take place in Midrand, from the 2nd to the 09th at the PAP precincts located at 19 Richards Drive, Gallagher Estate. At least 200 Legislators representing various African countries are expected to convene and work on this agenda under the theme “Winning the Fight…

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Second National Customer Satisfaction Index Survey Underway

By Correspondent   THE Chartered Institute of Customer Management (CICM) in collaboration with Select Research (Pvt) Limited will this month launch the second edition of the National Customer Satisfaction Index.   The launch is scheduled for February 23, in Harare. The NCSI essentially measures the quality of economic output as a complement to traditional measures…

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Adrian Munyoro among Zimbabwean youths for BULEMAZI

Following his proven leadership skills, Adrian Munyoro, the Chairman of the Young Voices, a department of Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe (LCDZ)  was chosen to participate in a project started in 2017 by FK Norway in collaboration with Parents of Disabled Children Association of Malawi (PODCAM) and the Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped Children Association (ZPHCA). The…

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ACBF to work as a specialised agency of AUC for capacity development

By Patricia Mashiri The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has been mandated as specialised agency for capacity development by the African Union Commission (AUC) through the signing of the cooperation agreement. The partnership provides a platform for joint resource mobilisation to finance a better coordinated capacity development effort across the continent in line with Agenda…

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Mutsvangwa appeals for airport in Manicaland

By Byron Mutingwende   Minister of State for Manicaland, Monica Mutsvangwa has said the province is losing out on potential tourism benefits despite being endowed with many attractions because of lack of transport connectivity including an airport.   “Manicaland Province is a unique and scenic landscape renowned for Mt Nyangani, Mutarazi Falls; the 2nd highest…

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Nutritionists call for increase in budget allocation for health

By Byron Mutingwende   Nutritionists are calling for the National Budget to allocate the threshold prescribed in the Abuja Declaration to the health sector if the country is to realise positive economic development outcomes.   “The National Budget should allocate at least 15% to healthcare in line with the Abuja Declaration target. Empirical evidence has…

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