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Smart cities, devolution summit on cards

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By Beaven DhliwayoGroup Features Editor TO accelerate the development of smart cities initiative and develop a roadmap to match international standards, Global Renaissance Investments (GRI) will host the Smart Cities and Devolution Master Class 2024 in Nyanga next month. This comes as Zimbabwe strives to become an upper-middle-income economy by 2030, and smart city development…

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EcoCash widens merchant channel partnerships

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ECOCASH, Zimbabwe’s leading financial technology platform, says it has further widened its merchant strategic channel partnerships with nation-wide supermarket chains, pharmacies, service stations, formal and informal retail outlets, to offer multicurrency mobile transactions to customers across the country. In a move it said is designed to provide public convenience and improve the customer experience of…

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THERE has been a huge outcry over authorities’ decision to evict thousands of citizens across the country for allegedly occupying state land. The move, spearheaded by the ministry of Lands, has seen thousands of villagers in Masvingo, Manicaland, Mashonaland East and Matabeleland South provinces being notified of their imminent eviction. In Masvingo alone, 22 000…

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Business

Delta funds US$25k Bikita projects

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THE country’s largest beverage maker, Delta Corporation, is funding US$25 000 worth of projects, including a US$10 000 solar-powered borehole to help provide the Bikita community with access to safe drinking water. In a statement yesterday Delta’s general manager Corporate Affairs Patricia Murambinda said the Bikita water project was driven by the need to provide…

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Sport

Bosso relish DeMbare date . . . giants keen to make early statement-of-intent when PSL comes alive

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By Nash Mkokwayarira SPORTS WRITER BULAWAYO giants Highlanders have spoken for the first time since the release of the 2024 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League fixtures which saw them pitted against fellow giants Dynamos on the opening weekend of the campaign. Traditionally the biggest match of the local football season, the famed ‘battle of Zimbabwe’…

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Man arrested for possessing lion heads

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A HARARE man Patson Ndlovu has appeared before magistrate Ruth Moyo for allegedly possessing five lion heads worth US$10 000. Ndlovu was charged for contravening the Wildlife Act and was granted US$200 bail yesterday. Prosecuting, Belinda Chimuka said Ndlovu and his three accomplices, who are still at large, were selling lion heads in Harare and…

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Government puts a halt to land evictions… after wide criticism of ‘inhumane’ blitz

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By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE government has suspended with immediate effect the mass evictions of families who settled on State and local authorities’ land around the country. Speaking to the Daily News last night, after a meeting of the inter-ministerial committee that was spearheading the evictions, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi confirmed that they had…

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1 000 malaria cases recorded in one week

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By Brandon Josphat josphatb@dailynews.co.zw THE ministry of Health says the country has recorded more than 1 000 malaria cases and one death in a week across the country. This comes as the government is currently battling a cholera outbreak that has so far claimed the lives of several people across the country. In its weekly…

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Zimbabwe needs more cholera vaccines

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By Rutendo Ngara ngarar@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE requires more cholera vaccines to further curb the spread of the acute diarrhoeal disease in the country. In a recent report, the United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) confirmed that the nation needed more vaccines to deal with cholera, as authorities had almost exhausted all the stocks they had received. “Unicef,…

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