STAKEHOLDERS have voiced concern over the calibre of councillors that sit in the assembly of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), with the majority of them questioning their suitability to make informed decisions. But few know the extent of the damage these 58 councillors inflict on the beautiful game of soccer by their lack of knowledge…
By Joyce Mukucha Signs of Hope Trust a Zimbabwe held a meeting with persons with disabilities to teach them on the importance of participating in the electoral processes. Speaking during the occasion to celebrate women with disabilities held on the 9th of March 2018 in Harare, Samantha Sibanda, the founder of Signs of Hope said…
Join forces to launch Elevate youth initiative at top varsity in Manicaland Econet’s youth empowerment programme, Elevate Club, this week partnered with Africa University to launch the Elevate Youth i5 Club at an eye-opening and activity-packed event on the university’s main campus, about 17 kilometers northwest of the city of Mutare in Manicaland. The launch…
By Byron Mutingwende Civil society organisations have voiced concern over government’s silence on the whereabouts of missing human rights activist and journalist Itai Dzamara and urged authorities to account for him. Amnesty International urged Zimbabwean authorities to honour the promise they made to investigate “all the leads to establish the whereabouts” of Dzamara, on Friday 9…
By Byron Mutingwende Women are making great strides in trying to break the social norms, stereotypes and religious beliefs that are hindering efforts to bring about gender equality and equity. Speaking during the commemoration of International Women’s Day held at the National Art Gallery in Harare on 8 March 2018, Isabella Matambanadzo, a…
By Joyce Mukucha Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) on the 6th of March 2018 commissioned Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP) machine that will be used to diagnose women with pre-cancerous lesions in Gutu. Gutu is the only rural district in the country that has more…
By Joyce Mukucha Music industry is one of the profession which many artists in Zimbabwe are failing to nurture and achieve in it. It requires passion, courage and optimism for one to prosper and yield fruitful results. Nowadays in Zimbabwe, there has been much talks concerning the death of music industry. Young artists are well…
By Patricia Mashiri The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology had announced that attachment or teaching practice fees has been slashed by 40% with immediate effect. This policy abolishes circular number 6 of 1997 which requires students on attachment to pay full tuition fees. Professor Amon Murwira, Minister of Higher and Tertiary…
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) will further enhance its partnership with the Pan African Parliament in a bid to ensure that significant numbers of youths on the continent are engaged in efforts to achieve ‘zero hunger.’ In July 2017, (FAO) launched its Global Internship, Volunteers and Fellows Programmes (IVF) to mobilize youth to achieve…
Chairperson of the PAP Committee on Trade, Customs and Immigration, Hon Dr. Tapiwa Mashakada says there is need for enhanced regional cooperation to tackle the issue of migration. An estimated 34 million people in Africa are migrants and Libya currently plays host to 621 706 of this figure. Of the 621 706 migrants in Libya, 575 569…
By Patricia Mashiri SnapTech International, a change management consultancy and training firm, said Zimbabweans need to treat their change their approach to business as announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to ensure economic success. Dakarai Kuhlengisa, SnapTech’s Country Director said they were seeking to build capacity and promote the best practice standards in business as they…
By Joyce Mukucha The Government of Zimbabwe is geared at ensuring that awareness on the need and importance of women’s economic empowerment is raised with the aim of promoting and networking them as well as celebrating their achievements. Speaking at a press conference about the International Women’s Day on the 7th of March in Harare,…
Staff Writer The Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry (MOTHI) together with the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will lead the tourism industry to promote Zimbabwe at the leading world tourism fair, International Tourism Bourse (ITB) Berlin slotted for 07 – 11 March 2018. This year marks the country’s 36th participation at this show, which is…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Byron Mutingwende FreeZim Congress is a political party with its root deeply seated in the traditional cultural values, Philippa Jaya has said. The remarks come following kneeling by the party women upon the arrival of their leader Joseph Makamba Busha at a rally held at Freedom Square in Harare on 3 March 2018….
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…
By Staff Reporter The young South African Afro-soul artist popularly known as Donald is in the country with two performances lined up for him. He is performing tonight at Solomon’s Lifestyle Cafe in Glenview 8 and the other performance is tomorrow in Kwekwe. Donald was born in Rustenburg and moved to Johannesburg for school where…
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…
By Farai Chirimumimba MDC-T maybe on course to lose the presidential race and scores of seats at the next election if leadership squabbles persist beyond the 1 March National Council decision to elevate Nelson Chamisa as the substantive party leader at the expense of congress elected Vice-President Thokozani Khuphe. It may not end there….
By Byron Mutingwende School levy is exorbitant. Why should parents take three years to pay $100 for a school bus levy every term? That’s the money students of the 80s and 90s used to pay for school fees every term. The schools are offered teachers for free by the government. Paying teachers is…
By PatriciaMashiri The FreeZim Congress party tommorow the 2nd of March 2011 will avail itself to the people at the Freedom square at 11am. The President of the party, Joseph Busha, a well known business man will address the nation at the event. He will give the way forward of the party, the plans they…
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…
By Byron Mutingwende Migration should be looked at through the lens of the common good and not as a problem since it is a tool for development. That appeared at the international conference on migration that was organised by the Catholic University of Zimbabwe and held in Harare from the 27th of February…
Old Mutual have launched the Old Mutual Schools Quiz 2018 in a bid to empower youth afro-centric study. Mr Isaiah Mashinya, the Old Mutual Group Chief Executive said they decided to rebrand and be active full throttle to the initiative. He said this at the launch held in Harare today. “The role of the youth…
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…
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…
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…
By Patricia Mashiri Katswe Sisterhood has launched a sanitary bank in which they will be collecting sanitary wear for the young girls and women in schools. This follows the demonstration done on 16 February that was called the #HappyFlow campaign/petition which they hope to submit to the government with the support of the Honourable Member…
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…
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….
The world’s best footballers on the world’s best sports broadcaster! This is the promise from SuperSport, which will broadcast an unprecedented offering of World Cup football, beginning long before the event itself in June. In mid-April, the switch will be flipped on a 24-hour World Cup channel (SuperSport 13), allowing fans an appetiser of the…
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…
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…
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…
By Joyce Mukucha The Harare City Volleyball Club (HCVC) women’s team will be leaving the country to Egypt to represent Southern Africa in the Continental Championship to be held at E1 Sports Complex in Cairo, Egypt from the 4th to 15th of March 2018. They were seen off by Councillor Panganayi Charumbira, the Chairperson of…
By Patricia Mashiri The Harare City Council has distanced itself from the ban of kombis in the CBD and the violent shoot out by the polite late yesterday which led to the death of two civilians at the Seke Road Flyover. The Harare Deputy Mayor, Enock Mupamawonde, said the Ministry of Local Government gave a…
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…
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…
