© RELINKING Communities Through Culture project’s singular general objective seeks to enhance empathy and build social cohesion between the main ethnic groups of Zimbabwe through the provision of safe and inclusive enabling platforms for meaningful conversations on ethnic identities. This general objective finds expression within a national context where there are efforts by various stakeholders…
© MOTTLED cow hide stretched over a massive, intricately decorated drum carved from the trunk of a huge tree lies in the dust, facing the burning sun of a Binga afternoon. Five similar drums, diminishing in size, face the same direction, while a seemingly aimless crowd mill around, sharing stories and maybe a smoke. [GoogleAd]…
THE lion of Gutu, Stephen Joel Chifunyise, Shumba Sipambi is no more! The creative and cultural industry in Zimbabwe is left poorer with the passing on of the legendary playwright Chifunyise, aka Uncle Steve, who died on Monday. Condolence messages from across a cross section of Zimbabweans continued to pour in for the former permanent…
© GOVERNMENT has widened its two percent tax bracket to include the movements of money between mobile money agents and recipients. In October last year, Treasury reviewed the intermediated money transfer tax from five (5) cents per transaction to two (2) cents per dollar transacted “to expand the tax collection base and ensure that the tax…
© FINANCE ministry secretary George Guvamatanga says the country’s power crisis is expected to improve after Zimbabwe paid off part of its debt to Eskom and is in continuous engagements with suppliers. However, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) also indicated on Monday that the electricity situation in the country may worsen next month due to…
© INFORMATION and Communication Technology minister Kazembe Kazembe says Africa must rapidly develop a new set of public policies for a single pan-African digital market that fosters accelerated digital transformation and innovation. Addressing a ministerial round table at the India- Africa ICT Expo 2019, which is currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, Kazembe said there…
© ZIMBABWE is among the top six countries with a high HIV drug resistance rate particularly among women, with the rising levels of resistance to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) risking undermining promising progress against the global epidemic. [GoogleAd] The World Health Organisation (WHO) 2019 Drug Resistance report says Zimbabwe is among 12 nations whose HIV drug…
© THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s decision to suspend the publication of annual inflation creates a void in the economy, leaving room for speculators to manipulate inflation data. Ncube last week said year-on-year inflation publication will only resume after February 2020 as adoption of the new currency was distorting…
© DANCEHALL music star Winky D and songstress Gemma Griffiths took their duet MuGarden to England were they performed at the 2019 edition of Zimfest. Winky D has been performing the song at his shows alone and usually inviting his female fans to play the Gemma role. The previous week he had a radio presenter playing…
© Zimbabwe must build a pharmaceutical plant that will provide drugs to treat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases in a move set to lower the cost of the medicine, people living with HIV have said. [GoogleAd] Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+) — a national umbrella body with a membership of over …
