CBOs

COVID-19 sinks community-based organisations

Farai Mabeza Community based organisations and foundations across the country face closure due to dwindling resources and support in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report reveals.
Sydney Gata

UPDATED: Gata back at Zesa Holdings

Shamiso Ngwena  Zesa Holdings executive chairman Sydney Gata’s suspension has been lifted after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) cleared him of four corruption charges. He resumes work with immediate effect. President Mnangagwa suspended Gata, who was facing...
Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross rubbishes re-dollarization

Farai MabezaReserve Bank of Zimbabwe Monetary Policy Committee member and former MDC parliamentarian Eddie Cross has rubbished suggestions that Zimbabwe should re-dollarize saying the country cannot throw away advantages and gains made...
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Student activists arrested

Xolisani Ncube Nine student activists who had besieged the Harare Magistrates’ Court protesting against the arrest of their leader, Takudzwa Ngadziore have been arrested. Ngadziore was arrested for allegedly protesting at Impala Car Rental offices demanding...

TelOne launches new vehicle tracking system

Farai Mabeza Government-owned telecommunications company TelOne has launched a new vehicle tracking and fleet management system dubbed TelTrack. The system will be used to provide tracking services for all government vehicles, ICT, Postal and Courier Services...
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Manicaland hardest hit by child poverty – UNICEF

Simba Rushwaya Despite being endowed with some of the best natural resources, a latest UNICEF report has named Manicaland as the hardest hit with child poverty in Zimbabwe, The...
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Hwedza South gets PPEs for schools

Tawanda Marwizi Hwedza South legislator Tinoda Machakaire has sourced Protective Personal Equipment (PPE) for children and teachers ahead of schools opening this month as he assists government in fighting...
Gordon Addams

Tourism industry mourns veteran hotelier Gordon Addams

One of the most respected travel and tourism operators in Zimbabwe, Gordon Addams, has died in the Eastern Highlands city of Mutare after suffering a heart attack, aged 60.
UNICEF

Plumpy Nut critical for mitigating against Severe Acute Malnutrition

For Chiedza’s 20-month-old daughter, Caroline, the urgent provision of Plumpy Nut was the fine line between life and potential death after she was screened and found to have Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). SAM is the...
Eight ZIMRA workers test positive of the COVID-19 virus at the Beitbridge Border Post

Zimra ditches abused food imports pre-payment facility

Sydney Kawadza The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been forced to revert to physical border searches leading to congestion at the country’s border after discovering rampant falsified declaration submissions under...