AFRICAN cities are experiencing devastating water shortages as their populations continue to grow. These water shortages have led to sanitation problems, which can contribute to the incidence of diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. [GoogleAd] The African Development Bank estimated last year that it would require as much as $66 billion (R950 million) to provide…
The Daily News on Sunday’s Jeffrey Muvundusi sits down for a wide-ranging interview with Affirmative Action Group (AAG) regional president Reginald Shoko. Below are excerpts of the interview Q: What is AAG all about, what is your mandate? A: AAG is socioeconomic organisation which focuses on the empowerment of the ordinary people who were previously…
FOR many, the mere mention of Divine Ndhlukula brings to mind Securico Security Services — the award-winning company she formed close to two decades ago — and most probably the fact that she is the immediate past president of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce. Not many, though, know that Ndhlukula is a hard-nosed farmer…
IT was recently reported that the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has travelled to New York to attend the United Nations 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). One cannot help feeling that our immediate history is repeating itself. [GoogleAd] After Grace Mugabe’s graceless fall from grace, it did not take long for the State…
HOW much more embarrassingly ridiculous can it get? How much more arrogant and nauseating can it get? Please God, how much more shall we suffer in pain, agony, and in fear of both the fury of nature and the battery and neglect from our wretched rulers? Dear Mbuya Nehanda, how much more will you allow…
CANCER is one of the silent killer diseases claiming lives worldwide with 8,8 million people dying from the disease every year. The number of cancer deaths is projected to increase to 13,2 million per year by 2030. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe is recording over 7 000 new cancer cases and over 2 000 deaths per year. It…
GOVERNMENT has launched a new Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Strategy which will be in force until 2021. The new strategy replaces the Accelerated Strategic Costed Operational Plan (ASCOP), first official VMMC Strategy, which ended in December last year. [GoogleAd] At a dissemination meeting of the new VMMC strategy held in Harare on Thursday, VMMC…
GOVERNMENT, through the ministry of Health and Child Care, will next week administer the second dose of the Oral Cholera Vaccine (OVC2) amid reports that no new cholera cases have been recorded in Harare since November 2018. [GoogleAd] The initiative, being undertaken with support from the World Health Organisation and other partners, follows the first…
CRACKS in the late superstar Oliver Mtukudzi’s family appear to be widening over his music legacy, with his daughter Selmor seemingly on the receiving end of planned attacks. Although she refuses to speak ill of her stepmother, Daisy, the songstress sheds tears when she speaks of her father. [GoogleAd] Mentioning her family politics or Daisy’s…
Most people know 45-year-old Lazarus Boora as Gringo, a small-screen character from 1990s television. Gringo, the titular character of one of Zimbabwe’s popular comedy series, was good at two things: landscaping and playing pranks on the people who hired him. Boora played Gringo’s character for the duration of the show’s run. [GoogleAd] In between seasons,…
