By Nhau Mangirazi HURUNGWE – Christians have been challenged to fight gender-based violence (GBV), and drug and substance abuse that is ‘diabolical’ and against uniting families, and communities. United Apostolic Faith Church Archbishop Busani Sibanda made the remarks during a women’s conference at Kasimure business centre, Hurungwe East at the weekend. Sibanda said gender-based violence…
Econet Wireless is back in full force at the Zimbabwe Agriculture Show (ZAS) this year, after not being able to fully participate at the popular trade event over the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The leading telecommunications company did participate at ZAS with limited staff and a scaled-down exhibition in October last year, due…
The Buhera Residents Network Trust has raised concerns over poor human excreta disposal in some parts of the Buhera District. According to the latest statistics, 63% of Buhera residents practice open excretion which poses potential cholera and typhoid outbreaks, especially during the rainy season that is 2 months ahead. This was revealed at a disaster…
The African Governance Architecture (AGA) Project in partnership with the Pan African Parliament (PAP) held a capacity-building workshop for African journalists, drawn from several African Union member states in a bid to improve reporting of parliamentary activities. The main objective of the workshop, the first of a series to be held by the continental Parliament,…
Global warming is likely to boost crop yields in some countries, helped in part by higher carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, which increases plant growth and helps them become more efficient in using water. The results may seem hopeful, given the current surge in food prices globally. But there’s a catch – despite higher yields, future global…
By Baboloki Semele The Pan African Parliament (PAP) has been oriented on the AU Theme for 2022: “Strengthening nutritional resilience and food security on the African continent: strengthening Agri-food, health, and social protection systems for the acceleration of the development of human, social and economic.” Held on 24 August 2022 at the headquarters of the…
By Charles Dhewa That food systems are more than agriculture is no longer debatable. However, what is worrying in most countries that depend on agriculture is the extent to which biodiversity and natural ecosystems are being destroyed in favor of agriculture. Conversely, the past few years have seen an increase in the volume of wild…
By Hillary Munedzi Farmers are being urged to venture into integrated farming and the planting of local varieties that are self-producing in their natural regions, in adjusting to the new normal of record high fertilizer prices. With Africa faced with a fertilizer crisis, supply chain woes, and climate change impact, experts in the agricultural business…
By Elvis Dumba Domboshava – First Lady Dr. Auxilia Mnangagwa has called upon the church to be at the forefront of peaceful national development programmes. She also called upon the church to join in the fight against drug abuse by young people. In her message to church members of Johane Masowe Wechishanu Church in Domboshava…
By Wallace Mawire Rural farmers in Mutasa district in Manicaland province are elated following the resumption of agricultural shows which had taken a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The ward 20 Mutasa 2022 District Agricultural Show which attracted at least 23 exhibitors, mostly women and other interested stakeholders held at Mutasa Primary School…
By Own Correspondent The state-owned mobile telephone company, NetOne’s corporate social responsibility initiative ushered in a glamorous Mr and Miss Albinism pageant show. The prestigious event was held yesterday at the Marina Casino at the famous Long Chen Plaza in Harare. NetOne was represented by officers from its public relations department and joined hands with…
The East African Business Council, COMESA, and SADC Business Council have officially launched and formed the African Tripartite Business Council to spearhead the inclusion of private sector policy proposals into the negotiations of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and the African Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). This is one of the resolutions from…
By Lovemore Chazingwa In the month that we celebrate our heroes and heroines as a country, there stands out one living fire-fighter hero whom we very much celebrated at the beginning end of last year but whose reverence is fast fizzling into thin air. When a Beta Bus collided with a Pandela Fuel tanker and…
By Elvis Dumba Muriel Mine, Zvimba – The Pan Africa Mining-operated gold mine of Muriel Mine is expected to help the Mashonaland West province’s gross domestic product (GDP) output through the establishment of a new dump re-treatment plant currently being set up. The plant is constructed on a 50-hectare piece of land and is expected…
Media is an indispensable partner and vehicle through which the Pan African Parliament (PAP) will be able to carry out its functions and deliver on its mandate, the continental body’s president, Chief Fortune Charumbira has said. Chief Charumbira made the remarks today in his keynote address during the second and final day of a capacity-building…
The Minister of Women’s Affairs, Hon Sithembiso Nyoni has commended an interdenominational organisation, Council for Churches in Africa (CCA) for leading various initiatives that promote gender equity and equality. She was the guest speaker at CCA’s National Women’s Conference in Kwekwe on Friday. Addressing hundreds of women drawn from the country’s 10 provinces, Minister Nyoni…
With one of Africa’s powerhouses, Kenya, encountering challenges in the promotion of peace, especially among its diverse cultural and ethnic people as witnessed in the aftermath of the 2007 elections, the KALYA initiative is a panacea towards the promotion of food security and peace. Kalya M.D who works for Kabarak University in Kenya as a…
By Hillary Munedzi Young farmers in the East and Southern African region (ESAR) walked away with mentorship and coaching opportunities totaling $30 000 in the Nestlé Needs Youth Initiative held in Johannesburg, South Africa recently. In celebrating International Youth Month, the Nestlé Needs Youth Agri Competition, which ran from June to July 2022 received over…
The Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) has urged the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to consider setting up a benchmark for Parliamentary Openness as a model framework to be adopted by African Parliaments towards an Open Parliament Agenda. This was one of the three recommendations made by the Executive Director of PNAfrica, Sammy Obeng, when he presented a…
The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) will play a key role in the eighth edition of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) taking place in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, this year as Japan—a long-time development partner of Africa—continues to lend its economic weight to the continent’s progress. Running from 27 to 28 August,…
As the umbrella organ playing the oversight role over the way Zimbabwean local councils discharge their mandate for service delivery, the Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations of Residents Trusts (ZNOART) has registered great concern over the way most local authorities have abrogated their national mandate of service delivery and now use their privileged positions to…
By Hillary Munedzi Despite Zimbabwe’s ambitious revised plan to clear all landmines by 2025 being handed a heavy blow by the removal of funding for undetonated landmines by the United Kingdom government, three nonprofit organizations are going against the odds by clearing dense zones of landmines laid by the Rhodesian regime. The overwhelming majority of…
By Hillary Munedzi Fertilizer companies call for more funds for the procurement of raw materials on the auction floor, with the United Nations predicting that food prices will rise by an additional 8,5% by 2027. Speaking to Spiked Online Media, Dr.Richard Dafana, the Managing Director of Zimbabwe Fertilizer Company said there has been a 300…
In pursuit of alleviating food insecurity in the country, Turkish organisations have partnered with the Government of Zimbabwe in agricultural projects in Mashonaland West Province. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in conjunction with Islamic Information Bureau Trust represented by Mr. Adam Wadi and the Dost Eli executed a successful agricultural project at the…
By Dr. Richard Munang Today, about 660 million are without access to electricity and over 930 million are without access to clean cooking in sub-Saharan Africa. These are not just mere statistics. These human faces feel the brunt of the lack of energy access and clean energy. We cannot take this as a footnote but dig…
By Elvis Dumba Harare – Turkiye’s new Ambassador to Zimbabwe Her Excellency Berna Kasnakli Versteden presented her credentials to President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House on Wednesday morning as a witness to the two countries’ continued cordial bi-literal relations. The Ambassador takes over from His Excellency Hakan Kivanc at Zimbabwe’s Turkiye Embassy. She was accompanied…
South Africa-headquartered electric vehicles manufacturer, Agilitee Africa has unveiled plans to roll-out 20 000 electric delivery scooters by December, with Zimbabwe set to receive part of the consignment. Zimbabwe is set to receive its allocation of the motorbikes in the next few weeks after a test run was conducted in Harare in May this year….
By Elvis Dumba Banket – Traditional leaders have expressed concern over the high incidence of uncontrolled veld fires, a situation that has seen property and human lives being destroyed. Last week an elderly man was burnt to death in Banket and property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed in the Darwendale area on Sunday. Chief…
Climate change could have more of a negative impact on low-latitude countries than on high-altitude countries, further widening the gap between the fortunes of wheat farmers in developed countries and wheat farmers in developing countries, according to research from China published Aug. 19 in the journal One Earth. The researchers developed a climate-wheat-economic ensemble modeling approach in which…
The Southern Africa region’s investment opportunities and prospects for economic growth are encouraging despite recent headwinds of a global pandemic and food crisis, the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Senior Vice President Swazi Tshabalala has said. Tshabalala attended the 42nd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which…
Zimbabwe left for Australia on Tuesday morning with a squad of 15 players including the fit-again Blessing Muzarabani. The fast bowler, who has fully recovered from a thigh muscle tear, is the only addition to the side that faced India in the just-ended one-day international (ODI) series in Harare, with Tanaka Chivanga and John…
By Charles Dhewa Every income stream associated with African food commodities has unique socio-economic flavors, according to farmers and traders who have been participating in African mass food markets for many years. Farmers and elders with different sources of income tend to have diverse tastes and fulfillment nuances compared to those who depend on…
Hon Chief Fortune Charumbira, the President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) has underscored the need to involve youths in developmental initiatives in order to address the continent’s challenges. He was speaking at the Capacity Building Workshop for the members of the Pan-African Parliament that got underway on Monday 22 August 2022 in Midrand, South…
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-idb.org), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, in collaboration with the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Cameroon and the Commonwealth Secretariat, organized a digital boot camp to build the capacity of women-owned MSMEs in the areas of digital trade and e-commerce/online sales. Capacity-building…
Initial farm-level cultivation of Golden Rice is underway on 40 hectares during cropping season in the Philippines as part of a nutrition initiative by the global research partnership CGIAR. This project is part of the expansion of seed production in partnership with the Philippines’ PhilRice branch stations, partner seed growers, regional Department of Agriculture research…
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) in an aggressive drive to create awareness of Meetings Incentives Conferences Exhibitions (MICE) tourism, held a luncheon for the country’s top corporate executives in collaboration with the Marketers Association of Zimbabwe (MAZ) yesterday to engage on incentive travel in Harare. The objective of the event was to educate corporate executives…
By Richard Zimunya For a sport that had suffered from the effects of Covid 19 which saw the beautiful game going to a halt for two years, the country’s suspension from the international football family by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was salt added to an open wound. This has thrown a spanner into…
By Lovemore Chazingwa The city of Kadoma is coming out of its shell on the plight of ratepayers after it had effected tight US dollar demands on service charges owing to Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube’s mid-winter pronouncement that the greenback is legal tender in the wider economy. Since then, however, the chiefs at Town…
By Elvis Dumba Mutorashanga – Young girls in the rural and farming community of Mutorashanga have hailed their local member of parliament for ensuring they have access to sanitary wear. The girls received an assortment of sanitary wear from Deputy Minister of Local Government and Public Works Marian Chombo who is also the lawmaker for…
By Hillary Munedzi Community nutrition gardens have the potential to transform urban communities and increase local opportunities to eat better and fight poverty caused by soaring food and fuel price inflation imposed by the war in Ukraine. Community nutrition gardens are mostly found in rural areas as they have ample space. Implementing the concept in…
India – 289-8 in 50 overs (Shubman Gill 130, Ishan Kishan 50, Shikhar Dhawan 40; Brad Evans 5/54, Victor Nyauchi 1/48, Luke Jongwe 1/49) Zimbabwe – 276 all out in 49.3 overs (Sikandar Raza 115, Sean Williams 45, Brad Evans 28; Avesh Khan 3/66, Axar Patel 2/30, Kuldeep Yadav 2/38) India won by 13…
By Lovemore Chazingwa A statutory window opened by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube mid-year allowing councils to charge for services in foreign currency has brought perceived relief to them ostensibly, forcing ratepayers to scratch their heads for the elusive greenback. Under the prevailing socio-economic dynamics, Chegutu Municipality has employed a vehicle to ease the burden…
The African Network of Parliamentary Budget Offices (AN-PBO) is aimed at human and institutional capacity development and strengthening by providing useful insights to Members of Parliament into how the budgets impact economies and societies’ development on the continent by driving development towards attainment of the Agenda 2063. This was revealed by Dr. Dumisani Jantjies, the…
Zimbabwe is hosting the 5th African Network of Parliamentary Budget Offices (AN-PBO) which will be exploring the different roles played by African PBOs in supporting their Parliaments’ fiscal oversight over the Executive. In his keynote address during the official opening of the workshop today, Mr. Kennedy M. Chokuda, the Clerk of Parliament of Zimbabwe said…
A Gutu businessman Mutonho Mutonho is leading developmental projects and philanthropy works in the Gutu West constituency, in the process benefitting thousands of households, this publication can reveal. This Thursday, the astute businessman is going to donate bicycles to village heads and there will be a music gala to cap off this gesture. Speaking to…
