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COVID 19-SADC health ministers in crisis meetings

XOLISANI NCUBE Sadc health ministers are meeting in Tanzania to find a solution to tackle the highly contagious Covid-19 outbreak which is now within its borders. South Africa, the regional economic hub, has recorded at least...
Glen View residents thronged the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society Clin during the International Womens Day commemoration on Sunday

Women’s Day with a difference courtesy of Red Cross 

Tawanda Marwizi It was an International Women’s Day commemoration with a difference when the Zimbabwe Red Cross Clinic offered free medical services to residence in Harare’s High density of Glenview. The International Women’s Day, an annual...

US$86m required for 2022 census

Farai Mabeza The 2022 population census is set to gobble US$85.5m, finance and economic development minister Mthuli Ncube has said. Ncube told a resource mobilisation meeting for the 2022 Population and Housing Census that a multi...
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Millers pleads with Parly over US$43m debt

Xolisani Ncube The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has pleaded with Parliament to assist its members settle a US$43m owed to wheat suppliers for 2017-2018 period. In letter penned by Tafadzwa Musarara after his recent...
AfDB staff meet with women smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe

Women form backbone of Africa’s economy

Dr. Jennifer Blanke, Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development takes stock and answers three questions about African women and agriculture and gives us results from the ground in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Sudan ...
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No cheer for imbibers as Delta beer prices go up

 Cynthia Chitombi Beer drinkers will now dig deeper into their pockets to enjoy the wise waters after Delta Beverages hiked its wholesale prices effective today. This is the second increase in as many month after beer...
Baboons

Long Read:  A nation’s demise?

HARARE - A long time ago, a thriving agricultural village named Chibagwe existed. Chibagwe was renowned for the huge quantity of maize it produced. With the surplus it replenished its reserves before selling the rest to...
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Mamombe application dismissed

Munyaradzi Doma Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa has dismissed MDC legislator for Harare West Joanah Mamombe’s application for refusal of further remand. Mamombe who is facing allegations of subverting a constitutional government argued that there had been...
Budget

Treasury in $3.2bn budget deficit in 11 months to Nov

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro HARARE – Government’s expenditure for 11 months ending November 2019 exceeded actual budget of Z$15.1 billion by 21% against Treasury’s Transitional Stabilization Programme objectives. Expenditure shot to Z$18.3 billion although the government’s economic blueprint...
Zimbabwean courts are handling emergency cases only during the Level 4 national lockdown

MDC councillor arrested for demo

Munyaradzi Doma Mabelreign councillor Denford Ngadziore, who is said to have been part of the protestors that participated in an unsanctioned demonstration which turned violent, was on Thursday dragged to court for public violence. The MDC...