© Government has extended $72,3 million to 16 local authorities in an effort to ensure provision of clean water and avert a potential health crisis. [GoogleAd] The funding was availed days after government initially allocated $37,4 million to Harare City Council (HCC) after it ran out of water treatment chemicals. As a result, HCC was…
© THE Arcadia Community Centre in Harare will on October 26 host MoTown Magic, an annual musical from the heart of Arcadia, featuring a colourful line-up of singers, musicians, actors and dancers. It follows the career of the legendary Berry Gordy and the creation of his musical empire MoTown Records and the music that moved…
© A priest asked God to take pity on Robert Mugabe, pictured, as the family of the longtime Zimbabwean leader buried him Saturday at his rural home. [GoogleAd] They chose a private farewell for one of Africa’s most divisive figures after a weeks-long dispute with the administration that forced him from power. “This man lives…
© BARELY 24 hours after a special United Nations human rights envoy issued a damning assessment of Zimbabwe’s democratic credentials, the country’s notoriously partisan police force tried to ruin the MDC’s 20th birthday celebrations in Harare yesterday, the Daily News on Sunday reports. [GoogleAd] The capital city woke up to a sea of cops in…
© NAMPAK, Africa’s largest diversified packaging manufacturer, says it is adopting hyperinflation accounting for its Zimbabwean operation in light of the hyper-inflationary environment plaguing the economy. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwean companies are currently facing even tougher times ahead as the cost of doing business keeps soaring — driven by rising inflation and interest rates, as well as…
© ON NOVEMBER 4, 2012 the Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) announced that they had appointed top business executive Tendai Madziwanyika as the new chief executive as it sought to return to profitability in the next financial year. [GoogleAd] Until Madziwanyika’s appointment, RTG finance director Paschal Changunda had been acting since the departure of Chipo Mtasa…
© THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has called on the country’s monetary authorities to rein in runaway inflation and the fall of the local currency against major currencies as local companies are once again headed for closure. [GoogleAd] Industry has been struggling to operate due to foreign currency shortages, an unstable economic environment, inconsistent…
© CORRUPTION has over the past two decades decimated the country’s economy. [GoogleAd] Ordinary folks have bore the brunt of corruption with those in positions of power diverting resources to benefit a few individuals and perpetuating inequalities and vulnerability, subjecting the weak to poverty and stripping them of their dignity. While corruption will never disappear…
© GOVERNMENT ministers had a torrid time in Parliament last week as opposition legislators grilled them over rising abductions of political activists. [GoogleAd] In the Senate, MDC Senator for Manicaland Douglas Mwonzora was the first to raise the matter, asking the government what it was doing to end the abductions. “My question is directed to…
© The health sector has been dogged by a myriad challenges, including shortages of drugs, equipment and foreign currency which have translated into exorbitant fees, with footprints of bad economy written all over. . . [GoogleAd] TAURAI Ncube (not his real name), a thin, wiry, middle-aged man gazed into the horizon after the doctors handed…
