AUTHORITIES say Harare’s relations with Washington are improving despite the recent extension of sanctions on Zimbabwe by President Joe Biden’s administration. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, David Musabayana, said the government is happy with the signals coming from Washington. “They are warming up to us and relations between…
GOVERNMENT says it is committed to supporting persons with hearing impairments by ensuring they have access to adequate healthcare services. Speaking at the World Hearing Day commemorations yesterday, Bulawayo provincial medical director Maphios Siamuchembu said the government is working with several partners to support persons with hearing impairments although no information is available in the…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT LEGISLATORS have called on the government to reserve seats for the country’s veterans of the liberation struggle in Parliament ,as a way of honouring their contribution to the country’s independence. This comes as the liberation veterans have been complaining that the government has been neglecting them by not giving them substantial recognition…
GOVERNMENT has constructed 14 reservoirs in Matabeleland South Province to stop livestock from Zimbabwe from crossing into neighbouring Botswana in search of pastures and water. The construction of the water reservoirs will also curb trans-boundary diseases such as foot and mouth. This comes as local villagers living along the Botswana-Zimbabwe border are reported to drive…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is reviewing its development plan in a bid to revive the city’s once vibrant industries and create local employment. Bulawayo used to be a major hub for vehicle assembly, tyre production, textiles production, manufacturing of construction equipment and material, electronics and furniture, food processing and manufacturing of leather products. Speaking…
BY RUTENDO NGARA WITH a substantial number of Zimbabweans food insecure owing to climate change-induced poor harvests in some parts of the country, almost one million people have had to do with assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP) in the last two months. In its latest report that was published on Friday, WFP said…
By NYASHA KUNYISWA APOSTOLIC women and their children are resorting to seeking primary healthcare nicodemously, for fear of admonishment from their husbands, who strongly believe in divine healing, Masvingo Province community health workers say. This comes amid fears that the denial of women to access primary healthcare would result in the spread of various diseases…
By Ashley Moyo RISING gospel musician Hilary Kuchinani, simply known as Hilary in the entertainment circles, has roped in Mathias Mhereon a new single titled Areka. The single which is set to be dropped on Wednesday is a remix to Mhere’s original hit Areka off blockbuster album Anoita Minana. “I look up to Mhere and…
THE football fraternity has reacted vehemently against Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry’s utterances in parliament during the week, with some England-born Zimbabwean players revealing they were bearing the brunt of the country’s suspension by Fifa. It’s now exactly 400 days since February 24, 2022, when Zimbabwe were suspended from international football for third-party interference, after the…
GOVERNMENT says Zimbabwe has become an international training hub for specialised nurses with foreign students from the African continent and beyond coming to learn at Parirenyatwa hospital in Harare. This development comes at a time when more than 4 000 health workers have left the country for the diaspora in search of greener pastures as…
