ANESU MIRISAWU SOMETIMES, it takes watching someone else chase their dream to remember your own. For newly crowned Miss Universe Zimbabwe Roseanna Hall, serving as a judge at last year’s Miss Universe Zimbabwe pageant reignited a dream she had long convinced herself was over. “I did serve as a judge last year and that experience…
KUDZANAI GEREDE ZIMBABWE’s National Quality Policy is in its final stages and will be tabled before Cabinet in the coming weeks as the government moves to strengthen product standards and industrial competitiveness, Industry minister Mangaliso Ndlovu has said. Speaking at the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) annual congress in Victoria Falls this week, Ndhlovu…
THE National Blood Services Zimbabwe chief executive officer, Lucy Marowa, says the organisation is pioneering innovative community and corporate partnerships to stabilise the country’s blood stocks to address sharp seasonal shortages and a heavy historic reliance on school-aged donors. Speaking to The Financial Gazette Deputy Editor, Tendai Kamhungira, one widely followed news and current affairs…
THE police’s establishment of a 24-hour dedicated Cyber Laboratory within the CID Forensic Science Directorate is a commendable and long-overdue intervention. For too long, our rapidly expanding digital marketplace has resembled the Wild West. Law enforcement’s decisive step to create a specialised crack unit acknowledges a harsh reality: cybercrime is no longer a peripheral nuisance….
BRANDON JOSPHAT AUTHORITIES have given the ministry of Health and Child Care the green light to recruit 8 785 health workers in 2026, as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s healthcare workforce and improve service delivery.The move comes as Zimbabwe continued to grapple with a shortage of health professionals, largely driven by the migration…
BRANDON JOSPHAT LEADING opposition voices have petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to withhold his assent on Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 3 (CAB3).Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, they reiterated that the electorate must approve the draft legislation through a mandatory national referendum.At the same time, CAB3 opponents say they are considering their next steps…
TAPIWA CHIRUME MORE than 200 young people from Hopley, Harare, have graduated with vocational skills under a new ActionAid empowerment programme.Development partners have urged them to use their newly acquired skills to create jobs and transform their communities.Speaking during the graduation ceremony on Friday, ActionAid country director Selina Pasirayi said the event represented more than…
BRANDON JOSPHAT ZIMBABWE is intensifying its drive for foreign direct investment, leveraging the current calm macroeconomic landscape in the country and the enduring stability of the ZiG to attract global capital.So says an upbeat minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, who confirmed to journalists during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in…
HAZEL MARIMBIZA POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two men following the fatal stabbing of a 52-year-old man in Old Magwegwe.The suspects, identified as Zibusiso Sibanda, 22, of Old Lobengula and Zibusiso Zivanai Sibanda, 49, of Mabuthweni, are facing murder charges following the death of Mlimisi Ncube of Pelandaba West.Bulawayo provincial police spokesperson Nomalanga Msebele yesterday…
BIGHTON MURONZEREYI GOVERNMENT has reaffirmed its commitment to ending Aids as a public health threat by 2030.Speaking in New York during the general debate of the High-Level Meeting on ending HIV and Aids on Friday, the deputy minister of Health, Sleiman Kwidini, said the world possessed the scientific knowledge, tools and experience required to achieve…
