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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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Tuku, Marley deserve statues in Zim
If Mbuya Nehanda, Oliver Mtukudzi and Bob Marley were alive today, I would persuade the government to create a platform on which they would all be awarded the highest honours […]
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Cornered Khupe makes U-turn
MDC-T interim leader Thokozani Khupe is trying to stop the party’s organising secretary Abedinico Bhebhe from washing the outfit’s dirty linen in public by blocking his participation in a court […]
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Mpandare under the spotlight
AFTER the chaos that characterised the lead-up to the Warriors’ trip to Malawi, the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) have finally seen sense and appointed Wellington Mpandare as the full-time team […]
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Chiwenga poll ban takes new twist
Parliament is backtracking on its stance that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s suspension of by-elections to fill vacant parliamentary and municipal seats was constitutional, saying the pronouncement was a mistake. BY MOSES […]
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Gunmen leave police puzzled
A spike in shooting incidents across the country has left the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) searching for answers amid indications that there has been a proliferation of unregistered guns. (more…)
International
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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Tobacco buyers fail to pay for deliveries
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI TWO companies, Pamuka Leaf and Interol Trading, are struggling to pay farmers for tobacco deliveries made between May and July this year, a situation that has affected […]
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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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Minding the mind games
school of sport:with TIM MIDDLETON MANY years ago, the newly-appointed first team hockey coach of a very successful sporting school, recently retired from a full and successful playing career, called […]
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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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Top cop’s woes mount
BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Suspended Zimbabwe Republic Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Crispen Charumbira has been charged with defeating the course of justice after he allegedly ordered the release of […]
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Snail-paced implementation of Gwanda solar project leaves a lot to be desired
environment:with Kennedy Nyavaya Women and children — mostly girls — carry bundles on top of their heads while men either push wheelbarrows or sit inside donkey-drawn carts loaded with firewood […]
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Solar-powered irrigation schemes transform lives in dry region
news in depth:BY EVERSON MUSHAVA Dropping out of school at a tender age has not extinguished Rosemary Nkala’s dream to send her children to school and one day buy a […]
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Trade experts call for swift implementation of African Continental Free Trade Area
GENEVA/DAKAR – African trade experts have called for the swift implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to lift Africa out of an economic downturn caused by COVID-19. […]
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Nitrogen emissions from rising fertiliser use threaten climate goals
ROME — Growing use of nitrogen-based fertilisers for food production is increasing emissions of a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, threatening efforts to keep global warming […]
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Employers seek social contract
BY KUDZAI KUWAZA THE Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) has agreed to initiate the process of developing a new social contract to address the country’s economic and political crisis. This […]
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Banks wary of govt’s $18bn stimulus
BANKS are treating state guarantees extended under the government’s Covid-19 stimulus package with caution, business revealed last week, warning the country to brace for extensive de-industrialisation in the absence of […]
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State firms crumbling
Fresh data detailing the rot in state-owned firms has emerged, with experts pointing out that their contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has plummeted from a high of […]
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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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Top cop’s woes mount
BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Suspended Zimbabwe Republic Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Crispen Charumbira has been charged with defeating the course of justice after he allegedly ordered the release of […]
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Minding the mind games
school of sport:with TIM MIDDLETON MANY years ago, the newly-appointed first team hockey coach of a very successful sporting school, recently retired from a full and successful playing career, called […]
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Marvelous Nakamba still an Aston Villa player after transfer window slams shut
SOURCE: Photo Zimbabwean international midfielder Marvelous Nakamba remains an English Premier League (EPL) player after his employers Aston Villa opted against selling the 26-year-old in the October transfer window. Nakamba, […]
