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Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw GOVERNMENT says it will install 1 000 free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country in order to bridge the digital divide and boost socio-economic development. This comes after authorities are targeting to train 1,5 million coders who will specialise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and developing applications and software in order to…

TAKUDZWA DHAMBUStaff Writers IT WILL take some time before the country’s ailing economy can be restored to its levels of yester-year, when it was relatively stronger, as there is no magic wand to fix Zimbabwe’s myriad challenges. So says top economist, Prosper Chitambara, who also adds that countries which have dollarised, like Zimbabwe did, have…

TAKUDZWA DHAMBUStaff writer THE Gonarezhou Conservation Trust has made a move to put back white rhinos in the Gonarezhou National Park after almost a century of absence. This comes as there had been isolated records of individual white rhino in Gonarezhou up to 1992, with the last viable population dating back to the early 1900s,…

RUTENDO NGARASenior Staff Writer ZIMBABWE is experiencing a decline in desired fertility rate as educated and affluent women are making a bold choice, no to more babies. In a report released last week, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) noted that although the use of contraceptives was also a major contributor to low birth-rate, most…

RUTENDO NGARA THE minister of Agriculture, Anxious Masuka, says there is a lot of overfishing happening in Kariba and plans are underway to regulate fishing in the area. This comes as the country has been putting in place several programmes to improve fish production in the country, which saw a slight increase in fish production…

BRANDON JOSPHATCHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES have issued a warning against the illegal sale and use of Ozempic, a diabetes medication, for weight loss purposes. The Medicines Control Authority Zimbabwe (MCAZ) and the Health Professions Authority Zimbabwe (HPA) on Friday cautioned against the dangers of using this medication without medical supervision. “Recent reports indicate an increase in…

Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s long-running power crisis will start easing noticeably from next year onwards, when new electricity plants that are under construction come on stream. So says prominent economist and chairperson of the Intensive Energy User Group, Eddie Cross, who added yesterday that the new plants by independent power producers (IPPs)…