Zimnat recently assisted St Christopher’s Children with Disability Centre in Hatcliffe. This was through the provision of clothing, shoes, and accessories. The timing coincides with the start of the winter season making the donation timely for keeping the parents and children warm. The gesture is part of Zimnat’s continued support for the communities through various…
Zvimba Rural District Council in Mashonaland West has received more than a million Zimbabwean dollars under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Program 2,(ERRP2) which they are using to rehabilitate about 297,7 km road network in rural and urban areas of the district. ZRDC Chief Executive Officer Aenas Chidakwa said they have already started the road rehabilitation…
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…
Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP) – a four-year project funded by the World Bank, in response to the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai in nine target districts in three provinces: Bikita, Buhera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, Chikomba, Gutu, Mutasa, Mutare Urban, and Mutare Rural, as well as locations with internally displaced populations (IDP’s) and refugees, is bearing…
His Excellency Mr. Edward Kallon, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator has said the launch of the Renewable Energy Fund was a significant milestone for Zimbabwe’s journey toward a sustainable and prosperous future. He made the remarks at the launch of the Renewable Energy Fund on 20 September 2024 at the Old Mutual…
Ecoethics Global Movement, a non-governmental organization founded by US-based young climate activist, Madhvi Chittoor, on Saturday spearheaded an awareness tree planting programme that incorporated persons with disabilities. The International Day for Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on the 3rd of December on annual basis and this merely coincides with Tree Planting Day which is commemorated…
Zimnat, one of the country’s leading insurance groups, yesterday rewarded students from the Harare Institute of Technology who took part in a hackathon that the company organised. A hackathon is a competitive event where people work collaboratively in groups on software or even hardware projects with the aim of creating a functioning product by the…
Another attempt to control the news regarding African football affairs In another attempt to control the news regarding African football affairs, the journalist Nazim Bessol, working for Algerian newspaper Botola, has seen his accreditation for the African Cup of Nations revoked. Initially Bessol received a confirmation approval letter with accreditation number 1206. However yesterday Bessol…
A grand-scale international peace summit, hosted by Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), unfolded in South Korea from September 18 to 20. This significant event, themed “Implementation of Multidimensional Strategies for Institutional Peace,” ran smoothly , thanks to the devoted efforts of 2,000 volunteers. The HWPL World Peace Summit brought together over 800 global…
With this acquisition, Fidelity Bank can birth a new pan-African financial institution capable of providing correspondent banking and offshore banking services to banks in Africa African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) has announced the disbursement of a US$40-million Intra-African Investment Facility to Fidelity Bank Nigeria Plc (“Fidelity”) to support Fidelity Bank’s acquisition and recapitalization of…
By Anyway Yotamu In Beitbridge District, 2 250 households are receiving supplementary subsidized livestock feed from the Program for Growth and Resilience (PROGRESS) under the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) in the wake of the drought being experienced in the country. The intervention is being implemented as part of adaptive programming to the resilience-building efforts…
Cassava Smartech’s Maisha Health has unveiled a new partnership with Cancerserve Trust which seeks to assist Zimbabweans living with Cancer. Through the partnership, Maisha has committed a portion of its monthly revenue to supporting cancer treatment of patients in Zimbabwe’s public hospitals through the Cancerserve Trust. Announcing the ground-breaking partnership, Cassava Smartech CEO Mr Eddie…
H.E. President of Senegal Macky Sall has inaugurated the world’s largest purpose-built hospital ship and committed to accelerating access to surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic care for the nations of Africa. Ceremonies commemorated more than 30 years of service in Africa. International humanitarian organization Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.africa) and its partners in Africa used the opportunity to…
By HE Tamer Almassri (Palestine’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe) The State of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms, Israel’s forced invasion and continued aggression against Al-Haram Al-Sharif, this time by Israel’s new right-wing Minister and supremacist, Itamar Ben-Gvir, in gross violation of international law and the historic, legal, and political status quo of Jerusalem and the…
By Joyce Mukucha The business community from different sectors voiced concerns over persistent challenges they face in implementing the ease of doing reforms and pleaded with the Government to come up with best policy intervention options in the 2020-2021 Ease of Doing Business Reform Programme which was launched in Harare on the 5th of September…
By Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) 1. INTRODUCTION In the wake of the declaration by the World Health Organisation of COVID-19 as a global pandemic and in keeping with section 27(2) of the Civil Protection Act Chapter 10:06, the Government of Zimbabwe declared the COVID-19 a state of disaster to facilitate the enactment of a…
The leaders of the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD), comprising the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ), Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC), Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), and Union for Development of Apostolic and Zionist Churches in Zimbabwe (UDACIZA) have added their voice on the upcoming by-elections set for the 26th of March 2022. The…
By Staff reporter In a significant development for Zimbabwe’s electoral landscape, the National Electoral Reform Agenda (NERA), a prominent organization advocating for electoral reforms, successfully convened a meeting attended by representatives from various political parties and civil society organizations. The meeting aimed to discuss and strategize ways to bring about essential changes to the country’s…
By Anyway Yotamu Zimbabwe received a consignment of Covid-19 aid equipment from Egypt as part of the help it is extending to 30 African countries. The Egyptians joined other well-wishers of the leading foreign partners to come to the country’s aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking upon the arrival of the consignment at Robert Mugabe International…
LitFest Harare, the annual international literature festival, has announced the theme and dates for the 2020 edition of this extravaganza. Running under theme, “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis – Art is Long, Life is Short,” this year’s festival will run from 25 to 28 November. The festival will be held mostly virtually, but with a few…
The President of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), the Rt. Hon. Roger Nkodo DANG has arrived in Havana, Cuba on a week-long official visit at the request of the Speaker of the Cuban Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Esteban Lazo HERNANDEZ. PAP President kick-started the engagement by paying homage to Cuba’s National Hero with a wreath-laying at the Jose…
A partnership between the leading mobile telephony company, Netone, and power utility Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETC) has seen the rollout of smart meters across the country in the quest to entrench digital innovation and transformation. In his address during the rollout of the programme at the NetOne High-Value Customer Centre in Harare…
By Joyce Mukucha The Confederation Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has highlighted it is illegal for Zimra to enforce the collection of value-added tax (VAT) on rice in retrospect since the current law does not provide for it. The organisation made the statement following the article which was published in the edition of The Standard on 20…
A tripartite partnership comprising the government, civil society, and development partners has resulted in positive health outcomes for Ward 9 in Vungu Rural District Council of Gweru in Midlands Province. In 2017, as Jointed Hands Welfare Organization (JHWO) was complementing government efforts in Gweru under Vungu Rural District Council, guided by the National AIDS Council…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa Chipinge – Popular church leader, Dr Bishop Phillip Pferedzai has made a clarion call for a peaceful plebiscite as the election fever grips the country. Zimbabwean elections have often been characterised by violence and bloodshed. Already there have been reports of pockets of political violence perpetrated by activists across the political divide…
The report provides an assessment of the progress and performance of Africa’s development between 2013 and 2019 The African Development Bank (http://www.AfDB.org/), the United Nations, and the African Union on Saturday acknowledged the significant progress made in implementing Agenda 2063 and urged African countries to go further to fast-track economic transformation. The call was made…
Community Information Centres are key infrastructure that enables local communities to have access to Information Communication Technology (ICT) services, Minister Jenfan Muswere told delegates at the launch of the Sanyati Community Information Centre today. The launch comes as the Government has identified ICTs as one of the pillars and cornerstones for economic development. “The Government…
Mike Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg LP, three-term Mayor of New York City, has been announced as a keynote speaker at the inaugural Leadership Summit on Tobacco Control, to be held virtually from May 6-7 2021. Bloomberg will be joined at the event by heads of state and national and subnational governments, prominent global…
Multi-talented Nigerian musical sensation Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, better known by his stage name D’banj, has announced that he will collaborate with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) for the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2020) scheduled to take place in Kigali in September 2020. D’banj, who visited the Afreximbank headquarters in Cairo on Thursday, was a key figure…
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations partnership is working tirelessly to address food security and nutrition challenges on the continent. During the ongoing sixth ordinary session of the fourth parliament in Midrand, South Africa, various stakeholders, including Members of the Pan-African Parliamentary Alliance for Food…
By Lovemore Chazingwa in Kadoma Two juxtaposed musical genres, Zimdancehall and Jit meet at the imposing home of entertainment in the City of Kadoma, The Odyssey Lodges and Restaurant when giants Winky D and Baba Harare clash today in a crunch gig. The musical show arguably comes to deodorize a city dogged by what many…
The day June 13 marked International Albinism Awareness Day. This year, the world commemorated under the theme, Strength Beyond All Odds, as persons with albinism rise and defy social hurdles. Around the world, people living with albinism demonstrate their talents and shine in all domains of life. We celebrate your gifts, skills, and personhood. Let…
An award ceremony is scheduled for 6 March 2024, and will include keynote lecture by the honouree
BancABC Zimbabwe, the local banking subsidiary of Pan African group, Atlas Mara has today launched the City Hopper Service, a smart local remittance service which allows customers to send foreign currency between cities throughout Zimbabwe instantly and safely .The service is available at all 18 BancABC branches countrywide and through the BancABC kiosks in Pick…
Writes Tafadzwa Muranganwa A local observer mission, Civil Society and Churches Joint Forum (CSCJF) national coordinator, Abigale Mupambi, has come guns blazing against some foreign observer missions for unsubstantiated reports. Speaking during the presentation of CSCJF’s 2023 elections preliminary report, Mupambi said there was a need for foreign observer missions to declare where they were…
Switzerland should bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his delegation from entering their country, actor and human rights activist Silvanos Mugova has said. The Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his delegation will be arriving in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, amid torture, abductions, brutality by state apparatus (military, police, Central Intelligence Organisation…
Now more than ever our world is vastly less accessible than it was pre-COVID-19, and this will continue to be a reality well into the future. A future that is still going to be stay-at-home and work-from-home. In this new reality, a good smartphone is a no-brainer. In addition to this, an app that can…
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…
Elizabeth Njoroge recounts her poverty-stricken upbringing in Ting’ang’a village in the Central part of Kenya, growing up on a diet heavy on Amaranth and pumpkin. The 45-year-old speaks about the shame of neighbours finding out the frequency with which her family consumed foods associated with poor and extremely food-insecure households. “Terere (Amaranth) grew just like weed….
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) joined other organs and institutions of the African Union (AU) for the virtual commemoration of the 4th African Anti-Corruption Day slated for 11 July 2020. In this regard, the legislative arm of the AU held a deferred webinar on 13 July 2020 under the theme: ‘Sustaining the fight against corruption in Africa in…
Staff Writer Prevail Group International (PGI) has taken its borehole drilling scheme to rural Plumtree to provide villagers desperate for portable clean water. Plumtree, a district in Matabeleland South province is facing a grave water crisis worsened by an El Nino-induced drought. Several water sources have since dried up, with villagers walking long distances to…
The Zimbabwe Civil Society Organisations Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (ZCSOSUNA) is calling on the government of Zimbabwe to make attainable and measurable commitments in preparation for the 2020 Japan Nutrition for Growth Summit. “As the country’s Civil Society Alliance in Scaling Up Nutrition, we applaud the government of Zimbabwe for making a commitment during the…
The Palestine national football team made history by advancing to the final round of World Cup qualification for the first time. Palestine played their match against Lebanon in Qatar due to security concerns in Gaza. The team secured a 0-0 draw, which was enough to secure second place in their group and advance to the…
Zimbabwean youths have joined hands with youths across the world to stand against human rights violations and the discrimination of vulnerable groups through penning a joint support letter to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General and the UN affiliates. Among the 155 youth groups from 62 countries were the Young Peoples Program, Zimbabwe United Nations Association…
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) (www.TonyElumeluFoundation.org), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on www.TEFConnect.com. African entrepreneurs with business ideas or existing businesses under 5 years, are encouraged to apply now for $5000 seed capital, mentorship, business management training and more on the…
