Tag: Government of Zimbabwe
Government abandons health workers as Covid-19 allowances debacle deepens
Nhau Mangirazi
Zimbabwean government has allegedly abandoned frontline health workers over Covid-19 risk allowances with some disgruntled primary health counselors, data entry clerks and microscope...
COVID-19 decimates lives, livelihoods along Zimbabwe’s busiest highway
Sydney Kawadza and Nhau Mangirazi
For many years, Karoi, a small agricultural town, was just but a small business centre along the busy Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway.
It...
Authorities bemoan rot at DDF
Staff Writer
The District Development Fund has lost approximately 90 percent of its tractor units affecting its vital tillage services to resettled farmers.
The DDF’s mandate...
Zim sets aside $33.6b for roads rehabilitation
Sydney Kawadza
Government has set aside $33.6 billion for the rehabilitation of approximately 10 000 kilometres of Zimbabwe’s roads which have been severely dilapidated over...
Tax holidays for investing in growth points
Sharon Chikwanha
Government will provide tax holidays among other incentives to promote the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises sector which is expected to...
COVID-19 brings new narrative to GBV
Herzel Mushayabasa/Sharon Chikwanha
An increase in child marriages and teenage pregnancies during the global COVID-19 pandemic has brought another twist to gender-based violence, it has...
One million COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Zim
Nyasha Kunyiswa
Zimbabwe is today expected to receive at least one million doses of the Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines bought by government to fight the...
ED responds as land debate rages on
Sydney Kawadza
President Mnangagwa has reiterated that Zimbabwe’s land reform programme, estimated to have benefited 300 000 Zimbabweans, was...
Kasukuwere appeals to Sheriff to enforce farm High Court order
Farai Mabeza
Former cabinet minister and Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasusukuwere has approached the Sherriff to execute a High Court order recently granted in his...
US$13.7m boost for Zim’s health system, anti-COVID-19 fight
Sydney Kawadza
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $13.7 million grant to finance the COVID-19 response in Zimbabwe.
According to...