PARLIAMENTARIANS have called on authorities to temporarily suspend the ongoing evictions of illegal settlers around the country saying this could expose them to rains and cholera. The government is currently on a blitz to evict people illegally settled on State land countrywide including urban local authorities. Raising a point of national interest in the National…
OVER 18 million girls are missing school in Africa while the continent loses US$29 billion in education funding through tax abuse, the Tax and Education (TaxEd) Alliance and its partners have revealed. In a report released yesterday, the organisations said the statistics were worrying. “A staggering 18.846,517 girls are out of primary school. This is…
THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says the growth of fish farming in Zimbabwe remains low due to numerous challenges faced by thousands of local farmers. This comes after the government recently partnered with the international aid organisation and launched a US$500 000 fishery project in three districts as part of the initiative to produce…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) councillors have urged the city’s engineering services department to be innovative and look for investors to assist in road rehabilitation. They also feel that the government’s two phases of the emergency road rehabilitation programme (ERP) failed to have any meaningful impact. Speaking at a full council meeting yesterday, Bulawayo deputy…
THE secretary general of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula, made a surprise visit to Harare last week, where he met his Zanu PF counterpart, Obert Mpofu, and other top ruling party officials. This comes as the ANC is facing a tough general election mid this year, with many polls and political…
FAST-GROWING independent national television station, 3Ktv, is continuing to score major achievements. This comes after the trailblazing, two-year-old local broadcaster signed a…
THE Rural Electrification Agency (REA) says limited funding from the Treasury is seriously hampering its national rural electrification programme. REA, a subsidiary of Zesa, was created by the government to provide power infrastructure in rural communities. Giving oral evidence before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy in Parliament yesterday, the agency acting chief executive officer…
By Ketty Nyoni AUTHORITIES say it is now mandatory for every child to undergo early education development (ECD) from the age of four years. This was confirmed by senior Education ministry officials at the launch of the Zimbabwe Early Learning Policy (ZELP) launched in Kadoma yesterday. The policy, according to the officials, applies for the…
THREE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters who murdered a man during the violence that broke out in Mbare, Harare, in October 2022 have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Eallah Chinodya, Brian Tongowasha and Tongai Chinodya, who were on trial for the murder of Onisimo Mavhungire, were found guilty recently by High…
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabweans are praying that Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will work together with urgency to calm down runaway prices and the slumping local currency. This comes after Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube reiterated during a Zoom press conference yesterday that authorities were planning to introduce new policy measures to stabilise the country’s…
