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Women suffer brunt of Harare’s water woes
By Melody Chikono Rita Tawona is a 34 year old mother who lives in Glenview, a Harare high density suburb, with her husband and four kids. Her day starts as […]
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Chamisa threatens radical action
By Brenna Matendere Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday vowed his party will not surrender the MDC Alliance name to the rival MDC-T led by Thokozani Khupe warning that they would […]
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Land hunters: App matches Zim farmers with vacant plots
By Farai Shawn Matiashe HARARE — For more than a year, Lionda Mhonda searched for a plot of land to buy in northeastern Zimbabwe, but struggled to find anything that […]
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Covid-19 weighs down Zimbabwe’s beef industry
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI THE number of cattle slaughtered in Zimbabwe decreased by 16% to 103 451 in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year, […]
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MP stalking saga in new twist
By Everson Mushava OK Zimbabwe was forced by the courts to release video footage of Harare West MP Joana Mamombe doing her shopping amid concerns the authorities violated the young […]
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Khupe drops Chamisa party name bombshell
BY EVERSON MUSHAVA/MOSES MATENGA Former deputy prime minister Thokozani Khupe’s MDC-T yesterday said it is now known as the MDC Alliance in yet another dramatic twist in the battle for […]
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Southern Africa: Identity, behaviour change communication and Covid-19
Most of us are by now aware of the basic facts about the Covid-19 pandemic and its bewildering socio-cultural and economic impact across the world. (more…)
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Land hunters: App matches Zim farmers with vacant plots
By Farai Shawn Matiashe HARARE — For more than a year, Lionda Mhonda searched for a plot of land to buy in northeastern Zimbabwe, but struggled to find anything that […]
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Khupe gets millions from govt purse
The government on Friday gave MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe $7,4 million, insisting that she is the legitimate leader of the main opposition in Parliament despite ongoing court disputes about her […]
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PSL coaches desperate for football restart
BY MICHAEL KARIATI A NUMBER Castle Lager Premier Soccer League coaches seem a frustrated lot and desperate for the resumption of football activity in the country seven months after everything […]
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American medical support and its consequences
SINCE the beginning of the Covid -19 coronavirus pandemic, the United States (US) government has repeatedly announced an increase in assistance to African countries to combat the consequences associated with […]
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Alarm over blood shortages
The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) is fretting over its depleted blood stocks amid revelations that the Covid-19 lockdown has complicated efforts to collect the blood from traditional donors, who […]
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Lupane has no resources to fight Covid-19
by Lizwe Sebatha LUPANE — A week after Lupane’s Covid-19 response team made an appeal for blankets and emergency food aid to feed hungry quarantine inmates, reports have emerged that […]
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ED planned visit to Matobo riles Gukurahundi victims
By NQOBANI NDLOVU Survivors of Gukurahundi residing in Maphisa, Matobo district in Matabeleland South, feel insulted over reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will visit the area to kick-start the process […]
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Pasture depletion adds misery to Matabeleland South
By NQOBANI NDLOVU A serious shortage of pastures for livestock has brought more misery to villagers in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are already affected by the socio-economic impact of the […]
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Elections, electorate and parties: Who stands where?
By Desmond Muchadei Sharukai and Tonderai Dombo Recent political developments in Zimbabwe have triggered debate on whether elections are indeed about the electorate or are more about the person being […]
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Mobile gambling on the rise in Zimbabwe – with zero income for the country
Of 16 million Zimbabweans, many are gambling as land-based casinos are legal. As more than 50% of nation’s population now has access to Internet and mobile phones are usually the […]
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Livestock farmers should consider index-based insurance in the face of drought
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI A highly technical, scientific and competitive agricultural environment is causing an increased number of farmers across the world to become more aware of the need to protect […]
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Covid-19 spurs digitisation of the informal sector
BY FIDELITY MHLANGA SCROLLING through her phone gallery, Tinotenda Chitima (26), an informal trader in Harare, selects the best photos of her clothing products before posting the catalogue on her […]
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It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (Cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and […]
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Demystifying the Cyber Bill
This past week I was among those that were observing the Zimbabwean parliamentary public hearings on the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, gazetted on May 15 2020. These public […]
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Time to align laws to constitution, not to make amendments
Heal Zimbabwe welcomes the report by the Portfolio Committee on justice, legal and parliamentary affairs on the recent public hearings on the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No 2 Bill. Before […]
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Caution needed in re-opening schools
The lockdown to control the spread of the novel coronavirus has disrupted Zimbabwe’s education system to an extent that it may take years to recover. (more…)
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Cyber Bill requires wholesale changes
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill gazetted by the Zimbabwean government in May 2020 makes very difficult reading and is all over the place. Most provisions in the Bill […]
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Women suffer brunt of Harare’s water woes
By Melody Chikono Rita Tawona is a 34 year old mother who lives in Glenview, a Harare high density suburb, with her husband and four kids. Her day starts as […]
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Alarm over blood shortages
The National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) is fretting over its depleted blood stocks amid revelations that the Covid-19 lockdown has complicated efforts to collect the blood from traditional donors, who […]
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Food Shopping In The New Normal- Expect The Unexpected
As the world is no longer the same, consumer habits have changed drastically. The concept of eating-in has taken over dining-out for safety reasons. The impact is visible as a […]
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Has the capitalist model failed for the welfare of the global community?
We observed decades of the cold war for the progression of two ideologies that were communism and capitalism. The latter one was being successfully embedded in the global systems in […]
