A LEADING financial institution in the country, Stanbic Bank, has donated two haemodialysis machines worth US$50 000 to Marondera Provincial Hospital in Mashonaland East Province. The machines are advanced medical equipment used for blood purification in patients with kidney problems and are set to make a lasting impact on the hospital’s ability to provide life-saving…
THE government says the peaceful environment that characterised last month’s general elections led to a boom in the country’s tourism receipts. Addressing the media in Harare on Monday night to mark World Tourism Day, Tourism minister Babra Rwodzi said the confidence in destination Zimbabwe arising from the government’s engagement and re-engagement efforts, as well as…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has challenged the church to work with the government to ensure peaceful co-existence of citizens for the well-being of Zimbabweans. Speaking in Gokwe, Midlands Province, over the weekend during the episcopal ordination of Reverend Eusebius Nyathi as the fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Church’s Gokwe Diocese, Chiwenga said the government’s…
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) says sustainable solutions for the country’s myriad challenges can only come from invested citizens, not outsiders. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, ZCC president Ignatius Makumbe said while outsiders could assist the country, it would ultimately take Zimbabweans themselves to resolve the nation’s decades-long political and economic…
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has announced that by-elections for four local authorities will be held on November 11 in different wards and one parliamentary seat, a month after the holding of the 2023 harmonised elections. This comes as the contesting candidates died before the polls were held on August 23 and 24.In a statement…
DESPITE numerous efforts by different stakeholders to ensure an increase in women’s representation in positions of leadership, the number of women elected to Parliament continues to deteriorate.The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) says it is going to hold an annual national gender forum on women’s participation in politics on October 31 in Bindura, Mashonaland Central Province.The…
THE Rural Electrification Fund (Ref) says it has so far installed electricity at over 10 000 public institutions countrywide. Ref is a statutory body created by the government through an Act of Parliament with a mandate to facilitate provision of energy infrastructure in rural communities for socio economic growth and the general development of rural…
POLICE yesterday said they are targeting some middlemen who are being used by unregistered public transport operators to thwart efforts to crack down on non-roadworthy vehicles, and then seek protection payments. This comes as authorities have intensified their blitz on errant driving in the country by extending their clampdown on kombis whose drivers are reported…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration is committed to improving the country’s health delivery system as evidenced by the increase in annual budgetary allocations to the health sector. Speaking at a high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, he said there is a need…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, using the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) Act, has made provisions for the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) to be named Mutapa Investment Fund. The SWF is a State-owned investment fund established from the balance of payment surpluses, official foreign currency operations, the proceeds of privatisation, government transfer payments, fiscal surpluses…
