© FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube’s efforts to borrow US$1,9 billion from world economic giants in Group of Seven (G7) will not yield anything, economic analysts have said. [GoogleAd] This comes after Ncube said Zimbabwe would get cheaper credit lines from the wealthy nations, which include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States…
© CASSAVA Smartech, an Econet subsidiary, has launched an e-health application for medical practitioners and their patients in an effort to ensure that Zimbabweans have access to good quality health services at affordable costs. [GoogleAd] The application, Maisha Medik, is both a digital healthcare network and personal health care assistant that will enable patients to…
© ZIMBABWE, which is bearing the brunt of severe food shortages, is facing a bleak 2019-20 farming season as many farmers and players in the agriculture sector are financially hamstrung due to the intensifying liquidity crunch and a persistent El Nino-induced drought. [GoogleAd] The situation is so bad that most farmers are failing to budget…
© GOVERNMENT is struggling to revamp district hospitals due to the prevailing economic challenges, hence has resolved to look for both local and international investors to come in. [GoogleAd] This also comes after legislators recently complained that district hospitals are in a terrible state due to old infrastructure and inadequate equipment. Health minister Obadiah Moyo,…
© VIMBAI Pasipanodya (not her real name), 13, left home together with her two younger sisters and mother. They are now living on the streets of Harare’s Central Business District (CBD). Their father died in 2014 after a long battle with chronic tuberculosis. [GoogleAd] Their mother found the going tough and could no longer afford…
© MDC has reignited demands for electoral reforms after Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya raised the motion in Parliament. [GoogleAd] Chikwinya said elections in Zimbabwe have been highly contested since the 1990s, hence divisive and a source of polarisation and conflict in the country. “We are determined to provide a permanent solution to the challenge and…
© MOST parts of Zimbabwe are experiencing acute water challenges as government and local authorities have failed to step in and provide lasting solutions to this problem that has often ended in calamities due to outbreak of diseases such as cholera and typhoid. [GoogleAd] The current water situation for the City of Harare and outlaying…
© GOVERNMENT has authorised Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) to increase subscriptions by 80 percent for its members so it can survive the prevailing economic crisis. [GoogleAd] This comes as the medical aid society earlier this month sent a request to Health Service Board (HSB) to review contributions as prices of most health services…
© THE recent spate of abductions, assaults of political and human rights activists as well as civil society players has tainted the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration’s image, threatening to derail re-engagement efforts that are an important cog in the overall revival of the country’s fortunes. [GoogleAd] In the run-up to the MDC demonstration on Friday August…
© A HARARE man was yesterday sentenced to an effective 15-year jail term after he was convicted of raping his eight-year-old niece. [GoogleAd] The 28-year-old, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the minor, raped his niece while they were staying under the same roof. Harare regional magistrate Jessie Kufa initially sentenced the…
