Jeffrey Muvundusi THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has approved a 20 percent critical shortage areas allowance (CSAA) for its medical officers to stop a crippling brain drain. This comes as the local authority has revealed that in the past few years it had experienced a high staff turnover in the medical department owing to poor…
THE European Union (EU)-funded Transforming Zimbabwe’s Dairy Value Chain for the Future (TranZDVC) project will this Friday hand over 153 in-calf heifers worth US$223 074 to 134 smallholder dairy farmers. The heifers would be distributed directly to small-scale farmers as follows: 45 percent to existing small-scale farmers, 45 percent to new farmers aligned to…
WOMEN and young girls in Bulawayo are being sexually-abused at water points, as water woes continue mounting in the city, Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) coordinator Khumbulani Maphosa has said. Maphosa said according to a survey carried out by his organisation in Mzilikazi, Sizinda, Tshabalala, Pumula South, Cowdray Park, Old Luveve and Lobengula suburbs, a…
ZIMBABWE plans to list a bond on the local exchange for the first time in 20 years to raise funds for the expansion and upgrade of a main highway that links the country to its largest trading partner, South Africa. The US$250 million listing by the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe will be the first…
By TAMARI CHKIWA in Bulawayo THE government has called on the private sector to take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (Afcfta) to invest in infrastructure and set up own industries in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is part of the 55-member states of the Africa Union (AU), who established the Afcfta to create a single…
By BLESSINGS MASHAYA AND MUGOVE TAFIRENYIKA JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says Zanu PF is not itching to decimate the country’s brawling opposition and neither is the former liberation movement trying to create a one-party State. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Ziyambi also rejected claims that recent changes to the country’s Constitution were meant…
THE Hwange Local Board (HLB) has begun rehabilitation works on the damaged road network after receiving $2,2 million from the government under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP). This comes as the government recently declared all roads a national disaster, before setting aside $33 billion for the second phase of the rehabilitation process, being spearheaded…
TRANSPORT challenges in the capital and other towns across the country continue to put commuters at risk from robbers with the police urging the public to desist from boarding unregistered vehicles. This follows a series of incidents in which commuters have been robbed by motorists, who would have offered them transport at night mostly in…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza says investment in science, innovation and technology is key in sustainable economic development. Nzenza said this on Friday while delivering her keynote address during a three-day virtual Atlas Convention 2021 that ran under the theme: “Innovation-driven and private sector-led economic transformation bridging industry and academia. Narrative of the private sector-led…
ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans Association chairperson and Zanu PF politburo member Christopher Mutsvangwa was on Friday involved in a road accident in Harare. Mutsvangwa survived the accident unhurt. The accident reportedly happened between Airport and St Patrick’s roads around lunch time after an oncoming vehicle failed to observe a red traffic light. Mutsvangwa was…
