The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has condemned the recent press proclamation by the Government of Zimbabwe that placed the Civil Service Commission (CSC) under the Office of President and Cabinet (OPC). The teachers’ union said the move undermines principles of good public administration as set out in the constitution and added that…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said a free press is one of the pillars of a constitutional democracy and an essential means of public participation in decision making and urged the political leadership to guarantee it to be enable citizens to make informed decisions. “The People’s Democratic Change is aware of the fact that…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the FCI and the University of Malta today in Cairo announced the opening of registrations for the 2018 cohort of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT). Stephen Kauma, Afreximbank’s Director & Global Head of the Human Resources Department, said that COFIT 2018, which is open to banking and…
By Byron Mutingwende Seven poachers suspected of hunting for a Rhinoceros where arrested at the Save Valley Conservancy. On the 19th day of December 2017 Godfrey Makechemu (47), Joel Matuku (42), Ignatious Maiga (30), Farai Chauno (27), James Makumba (33), Jevas Mauto (39) and Celestino Shate (39) appeared before Masvingo magistrate Takawira Mugabe charged with…
By Farai Chirimumimba and Byron Mutingwende A toast to another year coming to an end, and what a year it has been. There can be no doubt that 2017 will be remembered as one of the most eventful years in modern Zimbabwean history. From the coup and surprise exit of Robert Mugabe, downfall and ascendency…
By Byron Mutingwende For Magna Mudyiwa, the Member of the House of Assembly for Mudzi West Constituency leadership is a natural calling and the legislator is using sport to unite people for peace and development. The hardworking legislator is the brain behind the annual Magna Mudyiwa Sports Tournament ever since coming into office…
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a multilateral financial institution established by African governments and institutional investors, have signed a US$100-Million agreement and a EUR 50-Million agreement with the aim of facilitating and financing exports amongst African countries and between…
By CiZC Information Department On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa made a State of the Nation Address (SONA) which was his first since the military coup. The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition notes with reservations the SONA delivered by interim President Mnangagwa. It is our considered view that the President’s…
By Byron Mutingwende In a quest to improve the quality of education and consolidate Zimbabwe’s status as the leading country on literacy levels in Africa, a Cabinet minister has proffered a cocktail of measures to improve the sector. Speaking during the official handover of the Zimbabwe-China Friendship High School in Harare on Thursday…
By Farai Chirimumimba As Emmerson Mnangagwa navigate the last 8 months of his predecessor, Mr Robert Mugabe, he gave himself a “damning” report card on Wednesday — and a to-do list before the 2018 harmonised elections slotted for July/August. Delivering his maiden State of the Nation address in Harare, Mnangagwa was not expected to give…
By Byron Mutingwende Africa has a youth bulge and there is need for the continent to harness the demographic dividend so as to guard against future potential socio-economic crisis and disharmony, it has emerged. The sentiments were expressed on 20 December 2017 on the occasion of the official signing of a memorandum of…
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, the country’s largest telecommunications and technology company, has integrated employee wellness into its business strategy and adopted employee wellness programmes across the group. This follows a recent call by the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Douglas Mboweni, for organizations to take employee wellness seriously by developing wellness KPIs (key performance indicators). Speaking…
By Byron Mutingwende Mazvita Jacob (not real name) relives the emotional experiences of the day she was raped by her uncle last year when she was 17 years old. When left alone, she cries and says she sees visions of the perpetrator coming to abuse her all over again. Her auntie Patience says…
Egypt can be a front runner in transforming intra-African trade and boosting innovation and industrialisation on the African continent, Kanayo Awani, Managing Director of the Intra-African Trade Initiative at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), said today. Speaking in Cairo during the opening of a one-day workshop on intra-African trade, organised by Afreximbank, Ms. Awani said…
By Jacob Mafume On the 8th of December President Biti presented the MDC Alliance’s alternative national agenda towards a transformative democratic developmental state. We challenged the myths around growth projections of 4.8 percent presented in the fiscal policy statement for 2018. We argued then as we do now that the Macroeconomic framework was a fiction, we…
By Byron Mutingwende The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have established an interactive network to ensure strategic partnerships to tackle development challenges on the continent. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the African Partnership Coordination Platform in Harare on 18 December 2018, Emmanuel Nnadozie, the ACBF Executive…
By Byron Mutingwende Caregivers and members of the Zimbabwe Parents of Handicapped Children Association (ZPHCA) held a meeting to highlight challenges faced by persons with disabilities and proffer solutions that lead to sustainable and resilient solutions to this marginalised group. Speaking at a belated commemorative workshop to observe the International Day of Persons…
“ZanuPF is not the party of its leader, but the party of its members. As your First Secretary, I am the first among equals.” Mnangagwa says,”the biggest task at hand is rebuilding the country and to improve the livelihoods of all those that call Zimbabwe home.” “The principle of taking back our land, cannot be…
By Byron Mutingwende The girl child is the most vulnerable in the community due to a multiplicity of factors, chief among them gender based violence. In an effort to create safe zones for the girl child against this menace, the Zimbabwe Community Health Intervention Research (ZICHIRe) behaviour change project has introduced sporting activities targeting…
By Byron Mutingwende The failure to pay fees should not be an excuse for keeping children out of primary school, civil society otganisations (CSOs) have said. Speaking to journalists in Harare on Thursday 14 December 2017, a consortium of CSOs advocating for the rights of children took a dig at the government for…
Elton Gomori In one’s quest for success and ultimate greatness, failures and falls are inevitable and quite unavoidable at one point or the other. Indeed and in fact, every success narrative since time immemorial to posterity is and will always be punctuated by failure, set back, scandals, blunders and falls of different shapes, forms…
By Farai Chirimumimba The governing ZANU-PF party top officials will gather in Harare on 15 December for the extra-ordinary congress, a political meeting that is likely to see president Emmerson Mnangagwa further bolster his position in the party weeks after last months coup that rejuvenated his political fortunes and led to the resignation of long…
By Byron Mutingwende and Patricia Mashiri In a bid to shun donor dependence and create home grown interventions that build resilience among communities, the Zimbabwe Community Health Intervention Research project (ZiCHIRe) has extended a giving hand to an orphanage in Marondera. In his address while handing over the donation of an assortment of goods sourced…
Zimbabwe will welcome the support of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) as it seeks to re-engage with the international and business communities, Emerson Mnangagwa, the country’s new President, has said in Harare. Speaking yesterday while receiving Bank President Dr. Benedict Oramah, who led an Afreximbank delegation on a courtesy visit to him, President Mnangagwa expressed…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has refuted allegations that the trip to the United States (US) by the MDC-Alliance was to call for the extension of sanctions, specifically those contained in the Zimbabwe Democracy Recovery Act (ZIDERA). The MDC Alliance has deployed a team which includes PDP President Tendai Biti, Prof Welshman Ncube, Hon Adv…
For the first time in the history of the World Trade Organization, WTO members and observers have endorsed a collective initiative to increase the participation of women in trade. In order to help women reach their full potential in the world economy, 118 WTO members and observers agreed to support the Buenos Aires Declaration on…
By Mukasiri Sibanda Introduction If you want to know government’s priorities, don’t be swayed by eloquent speeches from politicians, take a close look at the budget. Plans on how government intends to generate, allocate and spend public revenue in a manner that can hurt or protect the poor are revealed publicly. As Zimbabwe is endowed…
By Reason Dube GOVERNMENT has committed US$52, 1 million for the rehabilitation and expansion of irrigation schemes throughout the country with 14 irrigation schemes set to benefit in Masvingo province. In his US5,1 billion 2018 National Budget Statement presented in Harare last week Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa underscored the need for…
By Byron Mutingwende Livestock contributes immensely to food and nutrition security as well as to foreign currency generation and economic growth, hence the importance of managing it properly, it has emerged. In his address at a meeting of the Inclusive Policy Dialogue for Social Development (IPDSD), Abdul Nyathi, the President of the Zimbabwe…
By Staff reporter A telecom industry report last week revealed that Econet Wireless Zimbabwe had the highest Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of $8,57 between July and September this year, ahead of its main industry rivals Telecel, whose ARPU was $2.63, and NetOne, whose ARPU was $1.86 in the same period. ARPU is a key…
By Byron Mutingwende Born and bred in rural Marondera where farmers used organic farming to grow crops, Clive Nyapokoto experienced the hard and intense labour involved in the daily farm activities which sometimes he had to do before going to school in the morning. That background motivated him to come up with innovations to…
Young Zimbabweans have been called on to enter this year’s DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition, an international essay-writing and poster-designing contest that has in the past been won by Zimbabwean students. Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said the organisers were calling on entries from students aged between 14 and 19…
By Byron Mutingwende The Global Community is living no stone unturned in their endeavour to develop sustainable community responsive strategies to ensure adaptability and resilience in the wake of extreme hunger and severe poverty. Zimbabwe Parents of the Handicapped Children joined the Global Community in making frantic efforts to ensure grassroots women particularly mothers…
African countries must move their economies away from commodity dependence in order to move their people out of poverty, Dr. Benedict Oramah, President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) said today in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Africa 2017 Forum organized in the Egyptian resort city, Dr. Oramah said…
By Byron Mutingwende Renowned economist, Prosper Chitambara has said the 2018 National Budget contains pragmatic measures to cut unproductive and wasteful recurrent expenditures while scaling up social and capital expenditures, a situation that provides a solid foundation for medium term development if implemented. Chitambara was analysing the health implications of the 2018 National…
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, the country’s largest mobile network operator, says it welcomes the third quarter (Q3) telecom sector report published by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) on Thursday 7 December 2017. The report, published on a quarterly basis by the industry regulator, shows Econet extending its mobile market leadership and…
Women overcome poverty through food and nutrition security programmes By Byron Mutingwende Ward 9 and 19 of Chipinge District are role models of successful small-scale farming under the land reform programme. The Food and Nutrition Security Committee (FNSC) initiated programmes saw women in the wards running successful banana, cassava, poultry, dairy and value…
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), today in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, entered into an agreement with the Export Development Bank of Egypt (EBE) to collaborate on a $500 million scheme aimed at supporting exports and investments by Egyptian businesses to other African countries. The Export Credit Support Scheme (ECSS), signed by Afreximbank and EBE on…
By Patricia Mashiri Women are often looked down upon and perceived as people who do not add no value to the society but this is a different case with Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvada, the Founder and Chief Executive of Rozaria Memorial Trust which has helped hundreds of young girls in Murehwa and Shamva. Nyaradzai grew up in…
By Vimbai Kamoyo and Patricia Mashiri Women and youths have suffered a lot of exclusion in policy making as their decisions and aspirations are looked down upon by a society that values elderly men, the civic society has said. Policy making in Zimbabwe seems to focus more on men than women and the youth. The…
By Milton Kamwendo It is not enough to drive you must be able to park. Simply moving a car is not driving. A few wise quotes are not greatness. Grand posturing without purpose is a waste of resources. Impressing a few by-standers is not greatness. Impressions are not success. Skin is not bones. It is…
By Patricia Mashiri The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is in pursuit of maximising profits and economy revival through public-private partnerships. That emerged at a multi-stakeholder workshop of event planners and organisers, airlines, government departments and educational institutions on how to market Zimbabwe as a tourist destination, increase tourists stay in the country and improve…
By Byron Mutingwende The drive through Hippo Valley Estates from Chiredzi Town heading towards the south is panoramic and breath-taking. There is a hive of activity as sugar-cane cutters are ferried by huge tractors to and from work. Huge piles of molasses bags are heaped at the Tongaat Hullet Sugar Refinery and in the…
By Elton Gomori Anyone of rational, logical and fair mental function would concur with me that, it is nether open to doubt nor close to ambiguity that everything on this spinning planet we call earth rises or falls on leadership. Leadership is, therefore, beyond any shadow of doubt one of the greatest imperatives to the…
By Byron Mutingwende It is just nine o’clock in the morning but despite the air conditioner, everyone on the Toyota off-road vehicle is sweating profusely. We drive past the fence bordering the Marirangwe Game Park along the Chiredzi-Tanganda Highway in the hot Lowveld area and head straight to Village 3 of the Chizvirizvi area…
